Marygrace Navarra is a Los Angeles-based writer and filmmaker from New York. She was a nominee for the 2018 Tribeca Film Institute/Sloan Institute Student Discovery Award for her pilot episode for Dora, her dramatic miniseries about Ida Bauer. She was also a semifinalist for the 2021 Middlebury Script Lab for Dora. The script for her short film, Lunar Maria, was a Second Rounder in the 2019 Austin Film Festival Script Competition, and the film and was awarded Scribe Video Center’s Next Level Award Grant in 2021. She was recently awarded the UFVA Carole Fielding Award for her upcoming short film, Object of Affection. The project is sponsored by IFP. Object of Affection was also a Second Rounder in the 2020 Austin Film Festival Script Competition. She also writes fiction. Her short piece, "3:32 to Penn," appeared in the Fall 2018 print edition of Blue Earth Review. She received her MFA in Film & Media Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, where she concentrated in screenwriting. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.