Willa has a BA in English and Creative Writing from Barnard College. Her fiction is the recipient of the 2020 Axinn Foundation/Anna Quindlen Award for Creative Writing and has appeared in The Margins. 

 

She holds an MFA from USC's School of Cinematic Arts in Film & TV Production where she studied screenwriting, production design and editing.

 

She is currently a script reader for The Writers Lab and the Sundance Development Track.