• B.A., State University of New York
• M.F.A. Columbia University

Justine Hope Blau is the author of screenplays, books and articles. Her nonfiction has been published in Rolling Stone, Oprah, CBSNews.com, The Huffington Post and other magazines and websites. She has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Paramount Pictures and the Wallace Foundation, and she holds an MFA in screenwriting from Columbia University's School of the Arts. In recent years Justine has been teaching memoir at Lehman College.