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 is forthcoming or 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. Geri is currently at work on her first novel.

Both of Geri's narrative short films, The Break and Pink no.22, have screened at numerous film festivals worldwide, each winning awards along the way. She is in post-production on a short film she wrote and directed for which she won a Creative and Research Grant from California State University, Northridge and a Panavision Emerging Filmmaker Grant.

Geri is the chair of the Media Arts Department at Glendale Community College where she teaches film and television production, directing and editing. Before teaching at Glendale Community College, she taught production courses in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Northridge. 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.