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Alejandra Valera: Writer + Occasional Filmmaker
I'm a Chicago-based freelance writer and occasional filmmaker, and all around nice person⁠. Hi, hello!

Awards and Accolades:
  • Roszel C. Thomsen Fellowship Recipient, 2021 and 2022
    Johns Hopkins University
  • Women’s Voices are Important Fellowship Recipient, 2020
    Johns Hopkins University
  • Presenter, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association 2020 Conference for the paper:  "Making a House a Home: Black Queer History and Erasure in House Music."
  • Technically a Hugo-Award-Winning Writer, Hugo Awards, Best Related Work, 2019
  • Nancy Norris Fellowship Recipient, 2019 Johns Hopkins University ​
  • Winner: Best Writer, ​2016 Chicago Horror Film Festival 
My work has appeared in:
  • Chicago Horror Film Festival 
  • Los Angeles International Film Festival 
  • Louisiana Film Prize Festival
  • Hollyshorts Monthly Screenings
  • Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival
  • Chicago Parent Magazine
  • The Ann Arbor Film Festival
  • Gapers Block
  • Oyez Review
Thank you for stopping by and feel free to drop me a line with any questions. 
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."  - Jean-Paul Sartre
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