Jessica Gonzalez is a Cuban-American screenwriter and novelist from Miami, Florida. She writes horror, fantasy, and science fiction that grapples with the notions of beauty and monstrosity and explores what is possible when women and girls challenge those notions. She holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California, and her recent television credits include Peacock's upcoming KEEP THIS TO YOURSELF, and DIARY OF A FUTURE PRESIDENT (formerly on Disney+). Her drama pilot, DEAR MISS LEAVITT, won the 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Grant. She was also a Spring 2021 Las Musas Hermanas mentee to Zoraida Córdova (author of the Brooklyn Brujas series) for the manuscript of her first Young Adult Fantasy novel. In 2024, she was a fellow in the inaugural cohort of the Film Independent Imaginar TV Incubator for Fearless Latinx Creators.
