Writer & Director: The Punisher, The Rookie, Fresh, A Price Above Rubies, Death in Love, Prince of Persia, Safe, Now You See Me, Max, Boarding School, Aviva, The Harder They Fall // Producer: 2001 Maniacs, Hostel, Hostel- Part II, Bombay Beach

Caribbean fiction writer, poet, & essayist, born in U.S. Virgin Islands. Her debut collection of short stories, How to Escape From a Leper Colony, won endless praise & awards, & her first novel, Land of Love and Drowning, is out this month