Writer, The Garden

Lara Palmqvist is a screenwriter and fiction writer originally from New Mexico and currently based in Austin, where she earned her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. She is the winner of the 2023 Carol Mendelsohn Drama Prize from Humanitas Prizes, winner of the 2023 Sloan Student Discovery Prize, and a semifinalist for the 2023 Nicholl Fellowship. In 2024, her screenwriting was professionally staged at the First Look Film Festival. A former Fulbright Fellow in Ukraine and a Rotary Global Scholar in Sweden, she’s currently a 2024-2025 Sloan Science in Cinema Fellow with SFFILM.