Jamey Hatley is a Memphian obsessed with stories in ruin, at the very edge of being forgotten. Her writing has appeared in the Oxford American, Memphis Noir, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. She was a Prose Fellow for the National Endowment for the Arts, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award Winner, and the inaugural Indie Memphis Black Screenwriting Fellow (selected by Barry Jenkins). She wrote, directed, and produced a short film based on her story-essay, “Always Open, The Eureka Hotel” which is an official selection of the 2019 Indie Memphis Film Festival and the Black Film Festival of New Orleans. She was a semi-finalist for the 2020 Sundance Episodic Lab. She is currently a Story Editor for Season 3 of the television show P-Valley. Ms. Hatley is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East.