Josh Parkinson is a writer from Texas who received an MA in fiction from Johns Hopkins University. Over the last dozen years, he has written feature originals or rewrites for Warner Bros., Sony, Universal, Paramount, and MRC, as well as having held TV staff-writing positions on the HBO comedy Eastbound and Down and the AMC horror series The Terror. He has also during that time sold both hour-long drama and half-hour comedy pilots to NBC, CBS, AMC, USA, Showtime, Peacock, and, most recently, Netflix. He lives in Iowa City with his family and teaches a TV writing course through the University of Iowa’s Magid Center for Writing.