Jimmy Mosqueda is a lifelong California resident, the son of two Mexican migrant workers and a graduate of Stanford University. From an early age he showed a fondness for writing, starting his first journal at the age of five, which developed into a passion for writing short stories, poetry and eventually screenplays. Today, he lives in Los Angeles and writes full-time. He was recently invited to take part in the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Intensive where he workshopped his high school dark comedy Valedictorian. His screenplays have placed in numerous contests, including as a finalist in the Austin Film Festival, Script Pipeline and TrackingB competitions and as a semi nalist in the Nicholl Fellowship.