Mari SanGiovanni is the author of the comedy romance novels Greetings From Jamaica Wish You Were Queer, Camptown Ladies, and 80% Done With Straight Girls.  Published by Bywater Books, Mari is the winner of a Golden Crown Literary Award for Best Traditional / Contemporary Romance, and nominated for a LAMBDA award, and two Golden Crown Literary Awards. Her books received great reviews from Advocate magazine, AfterEllen.com, On Our Backs, and from radio personality Howard Stern.  Mari has produced two Audiobooks from the series. Her 4th novel, Liddy-Jean, Marketing Queen will be published in 2023. Mari has written multiple screenplays and her original screenplay THE SIBLING RULE was made into a micro-budget 52minute film by Love Is Love Productions, LLC, which Mari directed & produced. (Logline: Two women fake a gay marriage to keep their children in the same school together, but complications arise when the marriage becomes real.)The screenplay was selected by UK Film Festival, Best Script Award, and was a Semi-Finalist in the Big Apple film festival & Flickers RI, and a Quarter Finalist in Female Voices Rock. The film is now entering festivals for spring/summer 2023 and has been selected to be in the Independent Shorts Awards LA.  The screenplay version of her first novel, Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer was a finalist in Flickers RI film festival, selected for Toronto Lift-off, Austin Lift-off, Rome Prisma, and Rising Voices Film Festivals.