Keri Mabry is a screenwriter and enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. Born in Phoenix, she witnessed the Phoenix Lights and once touched Charles Barkley’s shoulder. Growing up in Dallas, Keri resided in the suburb that inspired Hank Hill’s neighborhood and spent a lot of time indoors watching movies borrowed from the library. Keri studied psychology and English at Harvard, where she also served as co-editor-in-chief of the satirical newspaper SatireV. After graduating, she moved to New York, where she earned a Master of Social Work from Hunter College, and more importantly, studied improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Keri has worked in the fields of child welfare, education law, and disability advocacy, and taught social work at Hunter and Lehman College. Currently a doctoral candidate at CUNY Graduate Center, Keri lives in Minneapolis with her husband and their dog, Mochi, where she hibernates and emerges in the spring as someone who really has it together this time, you’ll see.
Despite being a Gemini with too many interests, writing has been a constant throughout Keri’s life. In middle school, she posted an embarrassing number of parodies to the blink-182 community of FanFiction.net and once wrote a horror short story that earned her “is everything okay at home?” feedback. As a writer, Keri is drawn to creating things that make people laugh and characters who feel like outsiders in society and their own lives, an inexplicable inclination given that she is a very cool and well-adjusted adult.