About

Pallavi Yetur is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (CA)/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 and 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. She recently wrote a horror feature with producer Joshua Malkin for Voyage Media and a grounded genre feature for comic book studio Rogue Matter. 

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

While pursuing screenwriting, Pallavi was the Content Specialist and an Emotional Fitness Instructor for Coa, a mental health startup. She also co-hosted and co-produced a season of the women of color-led sports podcast The Bounce Off with her Coa colleague Dr. Vaneeta Sandhu.

When she's not in session or staring at a document-in-progress, Pallavi loves working through her TV queue, experimenting in the kitchen, and winning silver medals in amateur pole sport competitions. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.