Eugene Ramos earned a degree in 16th-century British Literature from Northwestern University and an MFA in Film from Columbia University. He wrote and directed several shorts, including The Concoction and Dandelion Fall, both of which garnered awards at several film festivals. He has participated in CAPE New Writers Fellowship, Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, NATPE Diversity Fellowship Program, and Hamptons IFF’s Screenwriters’ Lab. His romantic-comedy screenplay Newton’s Laws of Emotion, reached the semifinals in the Nicholl Fellowships, won the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Prize and a Gold Prize in the PAGE Awards. Because of his love for the Bard and science fiction, Ramos has earned the nickname The Sci-Fi Shakespeare Guy.