Vanessa Flores (she/her) is a playwright, short story writer, screenwriter, and performer with an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts (2016). Her plays have been produced by SF Playground, SF Olympians, Double Backbone, and Aluminous Theater. In August 2018, her full-length play Where the Boys Are was produced by FaultLine Theater with a run at American Conservatory Theater’s The Rueff at The Strand. In 2019, her webseries Uneasy (now on YouTube) premiered to a sold out audience at Oakland’s The New Parkway. In 2020, Vanessa launched Other Hand, a creative current affairs mixed-media company intent on making content that gives people the information they need to make good decisions. She is currently the CEO of Kinda Shitty Things, as well as a writer, singer, and keyboardist for the San Francisco based funny-girl-band, Lentil.