M.E. Macuaga

Originally from Tokyo, M.E. Macuaga is a Japanese/Bolivian storyteller who fell in love with writing at age six. She now enjoys creating in a range of genres and formats: as a film editor, director and executive producer, M.E. crafts both narrative and documentary stories for international film and television audiences; as a writer, her credits include an issue of the anthology series Spider-Man: Unlimited, a Japanese post-apocalyptic piece in the Yukinomachi Short Story Collection, and winning 4th place overall in the 2023 NYC Midnight Short Screenplay Competition, along with Honorable Mentions in both the Flash Fiction and 100-word Micro Fiction categories. A Hedgebrook writer-in-residence and a graduate of Stanford University and the USC School of Cinema-Television, M.E. strives to capture the intensities of life through vivid contrast – death and (re)birth, transience and history, the elusive nature of “home” and the struggle to find and free one’s voice. A mother of two, she is currently working on a children’s book, a short story collection, two novels and a memoir.