Rae Jones is a 26-year-old writer based in Atlanta, Georgia focusing on intimate scripts with 2 to 3 characters in multi-genres as well as formats. She received her bachelor of arts in film and media with a minor in art history from Georgia State University in 2021. Growing up in rural north Georgia, one of her first achievements was an essay on Hamlet which gained her admission as well as an academic scholarship to a college preparatory school an hour away by car. The child of two 40+ people who had already lost a child, grief nor death was ever a stranger to Rae in her life. A born writer, she writes through all times, both good and bad. Reflected in her work is the balance mirrored in life, moments of joy as well as heart-aching sorrow or loss side by side, that is the riddle of life she wishes to convey in her work. Like the tides it gives and it takes, when her sister passed in September of 2019 she set to work doing the one thing she could control, her writing. On the first page, she wrote the end scene to her Grand Prize Winning screenplay in a compact notebook looking out at the snowy Utah landscape munching on vending machine food in between running to locations to try and barter for a ticket into Sundance premieres as a snow drenched college kid. This spirit applies to all aspects of her life, as her family’s motto, “swing the bat”, keeps her in a constant state of movement/creation. If you don’t swing the bat you’ll never hit the ball, so what if you miss? You just keep swinging until finally, finally, you’ll hit that grand slam home run, whether it takes 8 tries or 8 billion, and it will be worth it. This is the mentality that has fostered Rae’s approach to humanity as well including the support of activist causes, which she feels strongly about. Rae believes in classic Appalachian kindness, a spirit that understands there is no liberation for one without the liberation for all. True Southerners are radically accepting and generous to all, it is this tradition Rae identifies within both her life and her work. Her script "What's Left Of Us" is currently in development with a director attached to the project. She is also working on her second feature script, which examines the inter-generational relationships between LGBT+ people titled "The Stone Lion in The Garden".