Geri Ulrey

Geri Ulrey is a writer, filmmaker and educator living in Los Angeles.

Geri writes fiction, creative nonfiction, and screenplays. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Gulf Coast, The Carolina Quarterly and Cleaver. Her essay “13th & B” was selected as a notable in Best American Essays 2016 and “Swimming” was a finalist for the 2016 Gulf Coast Prize in Nonfiction. Also, several of her short stories were showcased and read out loud (performed) as part of The New Short Fiction Series in Los Angeles. Geri is currently at work on her first novel.

As faculty in the Cinema and Television Arts Department at California State University, Northridge, Geri won a Faculty Creative Activity Award and a Panavision New Filmmaker Grant in order to finance the short film to the flame. Geri’s narrative short films also include The Break and Pink no.22. Here short film work has screened at numerous film festivals worldwide, winning awards along the way.

Geri presently serves as the chair of the Film, Television & Media Arts Department at Glendale Community College where she teaches film and television production. She holds an MFA in film directing and production from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and a BA in drama from Vassar College.