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Malinna Liang

American Gospel

2020 TV Writing Contest - Runner-up

Malinna Liang pursued screenwriting for the fame and money.

Hah. Okay—Malinna Liang got into screenwriting because someone, somewhere, once read something she wrote when she was 10 and said, kindly, to be nice, “hey this could be a good movie.” She wasn’t interested in expectation management when she was 10, and she’s certainly not interested in it now that she’s 25, so here we are.

In 2018, she graduated from the University of Auckland (in New Zealand, Australia’s Canada) with a degree in Screen Production and 60% of a degree in law. Between screenwriting, she dabbles in prose and would not shut up about that book she’s definitely going to finish within the next 6 to 72 months. She watches way too much news and not enough TV. She’s really into Macedonian army logistics and 15th century Italian unification politics, but only if it’s sexy.

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