Know Your Newlywed

Heather Taylor writes/directs TV, film, and audio projects about complicated family relationships. She cohosts Braaains, a podcast about how film/TV portray mental health and disability, cocreated the 2021 Gotham and Tribeca Festival official narrative audio selection Anomaly and wrote and directed an episode of iHeart and Overtones Media’s narrative podcast You Feeling This which premiered at Tribeca Festival 2023. Heather was an award-nominated story editor on The Hardy Boys (Hulu/Disney+) and is currently a coproducer on an upcoming drama series. Her second feature film, Lethal Love, is now streaming on Netflix. Heather started as a playwright, authored three poetry collections, and is a former journalist. She strives to destigmatize mental illness, disabilities, and poverty in her work. Visit her website HeatherATaylor.com.

Hillary Nussbaum is a writer, director, and producer. She is cocreator and director of Anomaly, an official narrative audio selection of the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and the Gotham Week 2020 Project Forum. Her background is in television development—she previously worked at the Emmy-winning production company, Lion Television, developing unscripted series for national cable networks like TLC, AMC, and A&E. Hillary’s personal essays have been published both online and in print, most recently in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and Eating Well magazine, and her photos have been published in National Geographic and Sports Illustrated. 

Elena Armas is a Spanish writer, self-confessed hopeless romantic and proud book hoarder. Now, she’s also the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Spanish Love Deception, The American Roommate Experiment and The Long Game. Her latest novel is The Fiancé Dilemma. Her books are being translated to over thirty languages—which is bananas, if you ask her.