Geri Ulrey

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

She writes fiction, creative nonfiction, and screenplays. Her work has 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. Her short fiction has also been showcased and performed as part of The New Short Fiction Series in Los Angeles. She has completed her first novel, Gladys in the Underworld, a road trip story set during the summer of 1994.

Her narrative short films include to the flame, The Break and Pink no.22, and have screened at festivals worldwide, winning many awards along the way. As faculty in the Cinema and Television Arts Department at California State University, Northridge, she received a Faculty Creative Activity Award and a Panavision New Filmmaker Grant to support her work.

Geri is 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.