SJ Hodges began her writing career as a New York playwright, completing her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. In 2008, she won the LA Weekly Annual Theatre Award for Playwriting for How Cissy Grew. The play that launched her career, Old Woman Flying, debuted at The O’Neill, won the Norfolk Southern Foundation New Play Contest and went on to production at Mill Mountain Theatre, VA. 

During that time, SJ also worked as a ghostwriter and celebrity interviewer, writing for Interview magazine and A&E’s popular Biography series. Her first novel, Party Favors, a roman a clef co-authored with Nicole Sexton was published by Lyons Press. Her third book, a memoir co-authored with Animal Planet’s “Pit Boss” Shorty Rossi was purchased by Random House. It hit #36 on Amazon and went into its third printing six weeks after its release date.

After moving to Los Angeles, SJ’s TV career began as a staff writer on NBC's "The Player" then she was hired as the Executive Producer/Creator & Showrunner of Hulu's "Guidance" Season Two & Three. In 2013, she was named the sole female winner of the Humanitas New Voices in TV Award and in 2018, she created “Damaged Goods” a pilot for CBS TV Studios. SJ is a proud union member of WGA West and is currently developing a new TV pilot for Wise Entertainment and Kung Fu Monkey Productions. 

After losing her husband to brain cancer in 2019, SJ walked away from this nearly twenty-year career in entertainment to focus on grief and healing. Her studies in meditation, yoga, trauma recovery, plant medicine and energy alignment have taken her around the world from New York to Peru to Thailand to Bali to New Mexico and back to her home on O'ahu, where she teaches yoga to Marines, hikes, swims and digs holes in the sand with her daughter. They sometimes live with two cats. Depends on the cats.

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