Hi! My name is Emily and I'm a published author, poet, and a screenwriter. I'm currently traveling the country with my new book of poetry, Art Triumphant!

My bio:

I've worked as a writer for double-Emmy Award winning screenwriter, Simon Moore (Traffic, The Quick and the Dead, Gulliver's Travels), on his project "This Is the Frequency" and I re-wrote dialog with Director James P. Lay (Fight Club, Jeepers Creepers, Meet Joe Black) on an exciting TV show pilot called Voodoo Kitchen in 2015. Summer 2016 found me working as a screenwriter and actor in PinkCity alongside Kether Donohue (You're the Worst, Grease Live!, Pitch Perfect.)

I've been a featured artist at Beyond Baroque in Venice, SoHo in Santa Barbara, and T.U. Studios in North Hollywood,

My screenplay Missing Lunch, was commissioned by Producer Andy Samarasena. I also worked as a screenwriter on Inside the Grace, directed by Aleksandar Adzic. I've worked alongside Max Skrein of Skrein Productions on several commercial projects as a screenwriter, Unit Production Manager, Costumer, and Director. Some of these projects include: The Hunt, and Red Bull Gives Wings. My news and feature articles have appeared in: The Acorn Newspapers of Simi Valley and Camarillo, and The VCReporter.

My poetry has appeared in Sow's Ear Poetry Review, A! Magazine for the Arts, Sketches of Home, Ventura Arts Council's 40ish Around 40ish, and Askew Poetry Journal.

I love teaching creative poetry-writing workshops to local middle and high schoolers in Ventura County through California Poets in the Schools, one of the oldest and most established writer-in-residency programs in the country!
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The summer of 2016 had me learning a new skill as the publisher and editor of a new student anthology called Tasty Little Samples. This book features 70 of over 350 students that I had the pleasure of teaching during creative workshops at Balboa Middle School and Buena High School in Ventura, California.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm currently traveling the country with my new book of poetry, Art Triumphant!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spelunking
Working in government

What I Can Share with Hosts

Teaching workshops

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, England, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland