Author: Zoé Mahfouz

Zoé Mahfouz is a multi-talented French artist: an award-winning bilingual Actress, Comedy Writer, Screenwriter, and Content Creator, whose work spans fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. An alumna of the London Film School with a Master’s degree in Screenwriting, her style is often described as “very tongue-in-cheek,” “kookie,” and “random.” Her sitcom scripts have received praise from major international film festivals, including the Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards, Hollywood Comedy Shorts, and the Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, a Canadian Screen Award-qualifying event. Her other writing has appeared in more than 80 literary magazines and best-of anthologies worldwide, including Cleaver Magazine, Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, NUNUM, and respected Japanese publications such as Ginyu (avant-garde poetry) and The Asahi Shimbun (a major national newspaper). She is the author of the chapbook Borges Must Be Rolling in His Grave (Dancing Girl Press, 2025).

A Cover Letter from One Marginalized Soul to the Career-Making Gods of Hollywood

I am in pain. I am from an ethnically ambiguous background, an underrepresented community, and my mom was an immigrant from the Middle East. I mean, she is an immigrant. She’s not dead, but she did emigrate to France when she was seven. That’s still trauma. Trauma that passes down from ... Read More

Fiction / Zoé Mahfouz