C.G. Kaleel

Writer
Essays, fiction, and reported work at the intersection of language, belonging, and the lives we inherit. Based in New York. | MFA, University of Virginia
Journalist
Deeply reported journalism, oral history, and nonfiction. Viva Studs Terkel.
Creative producer
Trust me to run writers rooms where creatives thrive and we deliver, connecting comedy and emotion to mission.
“Listen with curiosity and the world offers a guided journey. There is no life without story.”
A story, told truly, collapses the distance between any two lives. It is a language that can cross every border, including time. I am drawn to writers who understood that the personal and the political are inseparable: Studs Terkel, who let ordinary people speak in their full complexity; Audre Lorde, Walt Whitman and Khalil Gibran, who found the cosmic in the vernacular; Margaret Atwood and Emily St. John Mandel who show us that time is porous. I write to travel deeper and to pay attention — to the smallest details, what gets left out of the official version, to what persists anyway. I write to understand and challenge what I feel and what I think. And at times, to escape it.

Work

  • Miranda

    2019 | Short

    ExT/R

    2018 | Short

  • THEFT

    2019 | Short

    I REMEMBER

    2013 | Short