Amalia Mathewson
- Writer
Amalia is a screenwriter, songwriter, and playwright from the rural flatlands of Illinois. She is a Merlefest Bluegrass Songwriting finalist, an Appalachian Trail thru-hiker, and a cross-country cyclist. Her drama feature Across the Country was a finalist in the Humanitas College Drama Fellowship (Top 4) and her half-hour comedy Tuckaway Park was a Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival. Amalia is a graduate of the University of Southern California's Writing for Screen and Television MFA program ('22). She writes about wanderers who find a home through adventure.