Val Bodurtha

Editor in Chief & Chief Humor Officer

Val’s writing career started at seventeen when her debut novel won the 2017 Young Writers' Publication Contest and a Silver Benjamin Franklin Medal. Since then, Val has moved to screen, humor, and copywriting, her scripts placing in the top ten of Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition and winning the Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition.

Her writing has been featured by McSweeney's, The AV Club, Vulture, Forbes, Buzzfeed, The New York Post, and Cheddar. She oversaw ad copy for all fifty-plus podcasts on the Lemonada Media network, working with Sarah Silverman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Samantha Bee, and more. She also consults and writes copy part time, working directly with CPG brands on humor-based marketing campaigns.