Pallavi Yetur is a licensed psychotherapist who has worked in mental health for fifteen years. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction & Screenwriting from UC Riverside, undergraduate degrees in Communication and Literature/Writing from UC San Diego, and an MA in Counseling from NYU. Her pilot Motherland was a 2023 Finalist at Austin Film Festival. Her feature Stone Age was a 2021 Semifinalist for The Writers Room 5050 BIPOC Writers Fellowship. Pallavi’s essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon, NBC News THINK, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She lives in Los Angeles.