Faculty and Staff

Jessica L. Folk is an Associate Professor at Western Kentucky University. Originally from New York, she holds an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from Chapman University. She primarily writes stories about queer women, identity, loss, and untold stories from history. Her screenplays have received various honors and awards at both national and international screenplay festivals and conferences, including the 25th Annual Beverly Hills Film Festival, the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival, the Austin Film Festival, Script Awards Los Angeles, the Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition, the California Women’s Film Festival, multiple ScreenCraft competitions, the Richmond International Film Festival, the Nashville Film Festival, the Big Apple Screenplay Competition, the University Film & Video Association juried screenplay competition, and others.