Alexandra Anastasia Viets is a writer/screenwriter and journalist whose work focuses on women and displacement. Her first feature-length screenplay, Cotton Mary, won a New York Foundation for the Arts award and was produced by Merchant Ivory. Her most recent screenplay, Ask Me No Questions, received the award for best screenplay at the Auckland International Film Festival in 2018. Awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in South Asia, she has taught screenwriting internationally with a focus in India, where she grew up. Her international work includes collaboration on the award-winning White Sun, a feature drama produced in Nepal. Currently, Viets teaches writing in the MA in Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of the forthcoming memoir, After the War, Maryna A Memoir.