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Ever since Myung Joh Wesner was crowned the spelling bee queen of Rolla, Missouri, she's been obsessed with words.
As the only Asian kid in most of her classes, she believed that total mastery of the English language was the best way to prove that it was her first language, thank you very much. A love of writing carried her through high school, followed by undergrad at Harvard. She went on to earn her MFA in Fiction at the University of Virginia.
In recent years, MJ has switched her focus from prose to scripts: the first pilot she wrote (GRAY MATTER) was a semifinalist at the Austin Film Festival in 2018. Her first feature, MOUNTAIN MAN, was a 2019 Academy Nicholl semifinalist. APEX, a feature co-written with Aja Gabel, made it onto the 2019 Black List, was optioned, and is currently in development. She sold her pilot SAFE HOUSE to ABC Signature, where it’s also in development. She has staffed on shows for Apple, Lucasfilm, Hulu, and ABC. In 2023, she was named a fellow for K.Period Media and Blumhouse’s inaugural screenwriting lab, in partnership with the Sundance Institute, with her sci-fi horror feature LUNARIA.
MJ lives in New York with her husband, with occasional sojourns in Los Angeles. Her spelling is still perfect.