Salwa Meghjee is a writer originally from Orlando, Florida. Currently, she is an MFA student in Writing for the Screen and Stage at Northwestern University’s School of Communications, and teaches Introduction to Screenwriting in the Radio, Television, and Film department.

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Interested in creating within many disciplines, Salwa has written a number of plays, short films, television scripts, articles, mental health resources, and odes to her cats. Among other projects, she has written a column on mental illness for the newspaper The Daily Californian, a short film Love Letters featured in QWOCMAP’s Summer 2021 festival, and, with her twin sister Samah, a short film Therapist Speed Dating that had a limited premiere on Amazon Prime Video, and a children’s play The Mysterious Mystery of the Lost Letters published by Brooklyn Publishers.

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Salwa graduated with high honors with a Bachelor of Arts in English and minors in Theatre and Creative Writing from the University of California, Berkeley in 2020. While at Berkeley she founded and ran The Golden Theatre Company and curated the show Front Row at Cal Performances theatre, and wrote and directed Bear Pact, a play that 7,000 new UC Berkeley students watch every year on mental health, substance use, and sexual violence.

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In her free time, she loves baking blueberry pie, playing with her cats Dipper and Mabel, and crocheting hats.