Julianna Baggott

Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Julianna Baggott, who has published more than twenty books under her own name as well as pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode, is also the founder of the film and television production company Mildred’s Moving Picture Show.

While her novels Pure and Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders were New York Times Notable Books of the Year, her work has been optioned by Fox2000, Nickelodeon/Paramount, Warner Brothers, MGM, Sony, Disney, and Lionsgate. Her story Five Secrets is in development with Apple Original Films and Chernin, screenplay written by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. Collaborations with Finneas Scott are in development at Netflix and at Ryan Reynolds’ company Maximum Effort at Fox, to name a few. Julianna’s story The Hider landed at Universal with Robert Downey Jr.’s production company, Team Downey. Her story Baggage Claim was the first project to be chosen for development at Selena Gomez’s new production company Wondermind. Eddie Murphy and Eva Longoria are attached to star in her story Attachment Parenting, in development at Amazon. In the horror space, Baggott has had work in development with Atomic Monster, among others. Her novel Which Brings Me To You (co-written with Steve Almond) with BCDF directed by Peter Hutchings, starring Lucy Hale and Nat Wolff, debuted at #1 on Hulu. Many of her short stories in development are included in her collection I’d Really Prefer Not to be Here with You & Other Stories (Blackstone). Her love of a wide range of genres and genre mashups has led her to write spy thrillers, historical fiction, contemporary suburban realism, action comedy, romantic comedies, sci-fi and magical realism, post-apocalyptic dystopias, horror, and weird whimsy for kids.

Baggott’s literary curiosity also brought her to poetry, having published four collections of poetry with poems appearing in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and the anthology Best American Poetry, as well as nonfiction, with work in The New York Times Book Review and Modern Love column, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and on NPR’s Here and Now, Talk of the Nation, and All Things Considered.

She studied creative writing and French at Loyola University of Maryland and got her MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.

Her favorite moments on screen are often the collision of hilarity and heartbreak.