About

Pallavi Yetur is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (CA) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (NY) with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction & Screenwriting from UC Riverside. She completed her undergraduate studies in Communication and Literature/Writing at UC San Diego, then her MA in Mental Health Counseling at NYU. 

Pallavi was a 2024 Film Independent Episodic Lab Fellow with her dramedy pilot Motherland, which was a 2023 Finalist at Austin Film Festival. Her feature Stone Age was a Quarterfinalist in the Screencraft Feature and Comedy Competitions and a Semifinalist for The Writers Room 5050 BIPOC Writers Fellowship. She recently wrote a horror feature with producer Joshua Malkin for Voyage Media and is currently working on a new feature for Rogue Matter. 

Pallavi's essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon, NBC News THINK, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Coachella Review. She has also served as the Nonfiction Editor and Lead Copyeditor for The Coachella Review.

When she's not staring at a work-in-progress document, Pallavi splits her time between producing episodes of her new women of color-led sports podcast The Bounce Off, practicing psychotherapy, working through her TV queue, and winning silver medals in amateur pole sport competitions. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.