Stacey Parshall Jensen’s stories focus on dramatic tension and dynamic relationships of the flawed who find their strength, heal their wounds, and triumph. Examples include Rockheart, the story of a cop hunting a kidnapper but who’s own repressed memories get in the way, and Shipside where a young mother fights for her sanity and her son’s soul while being haunted in the projects of a big city. Parshall Jensen is Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara American Indian, French Canadian, and Black. She’s also a mom, a wife, a creative coach and a birth advocate. Children, families, finding nuggets of hope, and planting seeds for birth and rebirth fuel her suspense-filled screenplays. She holds an MFA in Screenwriting from USC SCA, and is a very proud 2011 Film Independent Project:Involve Fellow. She began writing in Minneapolis, MN, where she worked in theater as a playwright, program coordinator, and artistic director of a youth mentoring theatre program, while completing her first MFA in Creative Writing. She also holds a MLS in Interdisciplinary Child Social Policy and has years of experience as a counselor advocate working with women and children. When not writing, she enjoys movies, thrillers, cop shows, and romantic comedies from the 80’s, long walks through Silver Lake, novels and is learning to meditate. But her greatest joy is spending time with her daughter Lanee Bird, a sophomore visual artist at SFAI, and her screenwriting husband Peter. She looks eagerly to the future when they will make films together.