User:Simi Singh Juneja/sandbox

Simi Singh Juneja is an award winning executive producer, writer, and creative. She was Executive Producer on the feature film Miss India America, which premiered in theaters in 2015, and went on to win best film at the Bentonville Film Festival and many others. The film can now be seen on Netflix and Amazon Prime. Her next film which she directed and produced is a documentary slated to release in 2021, filmed by Oscar-nominated director of photography Luke Geissbuhler. Simi graduated from NYU in Paris with an MFA in Creative Writing. Her debut short story, “How Doc Met Lady J,” was published by the Smithsonian Indian-American Heritage blog. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, and her first novel, a coming of age story set in Bombay is in its first draft. She served on the Advisory Board of the Virginia Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She is a member of the Authors Guild and a Voices of Our Nation alumna. She was born in India, raised in the American South, and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.