Jenna is a queer Armenian fiction writer, screenwriter, and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. She wrote and directed her first short film, Dust to Light, in 2023 and her second short, What is Going, (co-created with Mamie Heldman) in 2025. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Otis College of Art and Design in 2020 where she served as an editor at Otis Books. She self-published her first novella, You Holy Screaming Symphony, in 2016. Jenna was a writer-in-residence at Rivendell Writers’ Colony and a Los Angeles Review of Books/USC Publishing Workshop Fellow. Her work has appeared in Pub Lab, an annual journal of the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dime Show Review, Hippocampus Magazine, PERJUS Magazine, and others.

 

jenna@jcdorian.com