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Meet Teresa

A Latina w/shoulder-length dark hair, glasses with red frames, silver hoop earrings, and a black jumpsuit.
(Photo credit: Kat Hennessey)

Teresa Jusino is a writer, producer, and director whose “happy place” is speculative fiction. Societal misfits are her specialty. Nuanced female characters come standard.

For over a decade, Jusino has been a pop culture journalist, her work appearing in outlets like Tor.com, Jezebel, Latina Magazine, Teen Vogue, and The Mary Sue, where she was an editor from 2015-18 and is currently a contributing writer.

Jusino has done development work at Topple Productions and is a member of the L.A-based theater company, Force of Nature Productions, through which she has produced, written, and directed several works.

In 2018, Jusino launched Pomonok Entertainment, a production company that aims to “save the world one story at a time.” Pomonok has produced theater, podcasts, filmed content, and interactive fiction.

Jusino was a Fellow in the Disability Belongs (formerly RespectAbility) TV Drama Writing Intensive 2024. She was a Finalist for the AMC One-Hour Pilot Competition at Austin Film Festival in 2022 and was a Fellow in the 2021 Disruptors TV Writing Fellowship.

She lives in Los Angeles with her wife. Her other great loves include Star Trek, The Last of Us, anything by Brian K. Vaughan, and her Level 5 android Paladin named Lal.