Brittany Menjivar

Brittany Menjivar was born in the DMV; she now works and plays in the City of Angels. She serves as a Short Takes columnist for the Los Angeles Review of Books; her journalism and cultural criticism can also be found in Coveteur, Document Journal, and V Magazine, among other outlets. She is the author of the poetry and prose collection Parasocialite (2024) and the co-founder of literary reading series Car Crash Collective. As a screenwriter (Fragile.com), she has been recognized as an AT&T Hello Lab Filmmaking Fellow.