Tamuira Reid is a writer and educator living in New York City. Her first feature-length screenplay, Luna’s Highway, which she developed at Squaw in 2010, was recently optioned. The script earned her a 2010 Finalist placement in Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenwriting Competition and a 2010 Semifinalist placement in The Nicholls Screenwriting Fellowship Competition, sponsored by The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Tamuira taught screenwriting as a guest faculty member at the Global Social Change Film Festival and Institute in 2011, in Bali, Indonesia, and again in 2012 in New Orleans. The recipient of an NYU 2013 Creative Research Grant, she is now beginning work on a drama set in rural Oregon.