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Joseph Ross Angelella
Novelist & Screenwriter
BIO
Joseph Ross Angelella is an award-winning professor, screenwriter, and novelist. He is the author of the irreverent and twisted coming-of-age novel Zombie (2012). His award-winning short fiction has appeared in various journals, including Hunger Mountain, Sou’wester, The Literary Review, Coachella Review, and Southampton Review. His original screenplays have won numerous awards, most recently “Best Comedy Short Script” at the Houston Comedy Film Festival (2020) and “Best Characters in a Screenplay” at the Baltimore Next Media Web Fest (2022). He received an MFA in Creative Writing & Literature from Bennington College and teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland College Park where he directs Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House, a literary center for the study of creative writing across cultures and languages. He also serves as screenwriting faculty in the Electronic Media & Film department at Towson University. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, Kate, and two kids, Geno and Lily.
NOVELS
Zombie from Soho Press (2012)
SHORT FICTION
“Wheelwoman“ in Close to the Bone (2022)
“The Room of Ransom Black“ in MicroLit Almanac (2022)
“Light Like Gunshots” in Close to the Bone (2020)
“A Good Hour” in Failbetter (2020)
“The Hammer and the Flame” in Kelp Journal (2020)
“Does She” in Southampton Review (2019)
“Horse and His Fishermen” in Textshop Experiments (2019)
DRAMATIC WORK
Kill These Motherfucking Trolls! – Winner, “Best Characters in a Screenplay,” Baltimore Next Media Web Fest (2022)
Goon Squad Motherfuckers! – Finalist, “Best Unproduced Feature Screenplay,” Houston Horror Film Festival (2022)
Nemesis – Winner, “Best Dark Comedy Short Script,” Houston Comedy Film Festival (2020)
PODCASTS & DISCUSSIONS
LitHub’s Literary Disco | “With Violence All Around Us, What Does It Actually Mean For a Book To Be a Crime Novel? (51-minute mark)
University of California Riverside’s Lit Flicks Binge Fest: Bosch Season 6
AUTHOR COACHING & EDITING
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