Tamuira Reid

Tamuira Reid is a writer, educator and single mother living in New York City. Over the past decade, she has been teaching in both traditional and non-traditional classrooms, from India to a state penitentiary and now full time at New York University. Tamuira’s first feature-length screenplay, Luna’s Highway, has been newly Optioned by Cynthia Phillips and Company (San Francisco/LA) and was a 2010 Finalist in Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenwriting Competition and a 2010 Semifinalist in The Nicholls Screenwriting Fellowship Competition, sponsored by The Academy of Moving Pictures. Tamuira is currently at work on a collection of comedic personal essays based on her experience as a new mom.