Aviana

I wrote the feature film, Murder in Fashion, about the killing of designer Gianni Versace by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. The film played at theatres and festivals and was reviewed in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/movies/22murder.html?_r=0

I collaborated with producer Don Murphy (Transformers, Natural Born Killers) on the script "Fast Fade" on the life of tragic film noir actress Barbra Payton.

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I wrote the feature film, Murder in Fashion, about the killing of designer Gianni Versace by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. The film played at theatres and festivals and was reviewed in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/movies/22murder.html?_r=0

I collaborated with producer Don Murphy (Transformers, Natural Born Killers) on the script "Fast Fade" on the life of tragic film noir actress Barbra Payton. I was a quarterfinalist in the 2019 Los Angeles International Screenplay competition (top 10% of 2000+ entries). I won 2nd Place in the American Gem competition and first prize in The Writers Place Competition; finalist in the Eric Hoffer fiction competition (over 2000 entries); my winning story was anthologized in Best New Writing.

My first novel, suspense thriller "The Remnant," was published in June 2020. My collection of short stories, "All I Can Take of You" was published by Adelaide Press in August 2020

My dystopian novel, Twisted Fate, about an epidemic of prion disease in America, was showcased in October 2019 in The Write Launch: https://thewritelaunch.com/2019/09/twisted-fate/

My short story, "Light Fingers," published in Cornell University's literary magazine, Epoch, is currently under option to Sony and director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer, The Infiltrator, and City of Lies w/ Johnny Depp).

My fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Gawker, McSweeney's, The Guardian, Epoch, Prism International, Cimarron Review, Hobart, Word Riot, Blunderbuss, Drunk Monkeys, Fiction Attic Press, Able Muse, The Furious Gazelle, Black Denim Lit, In Posse Review, Jonah Magazine and The Boiler. My novella, A Season of Turbulence, was published in The Conium Review. Two of my stories appear on journalist Nikki Finke's fiction site, Hollywood Dementia.

My short story, "A Journey From Which Many Do Not Return" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

My novella, A Season of Turbulence was published in The Conium Review: "Author Linda Boroff expertly braids well-developed plot, vivid setting, and exceptional lyricism by using utterly raw prose to echo the raw landscape." - Emily Wick, The Prick of the Spindle

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