ABOUT ME

I live in Los Angeles where I write, produce, teach, and mother two kids. I am the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, LIGHT YEARS which I adapted for television with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment.

Currently, I’m in pre-production on LAST DANCE, a feature film I wrote and am producing for Fifth Season, Film Nation Entertainment, and the legendary Killer Films, based on my New Yorker essay ‘The Last Dance With My Dad,’ which is set to star Adrien Brody and Rachel Zegler with original music by Ben Platt; as well as the feature MORNING PERSON for Amazon Studios and Oscar-winning producer Cathy Schulman, based on my own short story.

My essays have appeared in The New Yorker, the LA Times, the Yale Review, Self, Culture Trip, Rookie, Refinery29, and beyond.

Formerly, I co-founded Cooper’s Town Productions with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, a company I ran for ten years. There, I developed and produced numerous projects, including the Oscar-winning CAPOTE and Hoffman’s directorial debut, JACK GOES BOATING.

I guest lecture frequently, and am the co-founder of the Industry Professional Mentorship Program at Cal State University, Dominguez Hills.

I have also run three marathons, very slowly, and hold a degree from Brown University in art-semiotics, the study of how images make meaning.