Malina Saval is an award-winning journalist and writer. Her anthropological analysis of teenage boyhood culture, The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens was published in 2009 (Hachette Book Group) and her essay on writing was included in the bestselling anthology series Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today’s Best Writers.
Saval previously served as Editor-in-Chief of Pasadena Magazine and staff writer at Los Angeles Magazine.
Saval began her career in Hollywood as a screenwriter for Touchstone Pictures and Tapestry Films.
For 10 years, Saval was Features Editor at Variety, the proverbial “Bible” of the entertainment industry. She has moderated panel discussions at film and music fests globalwide, shepherded the magazine’s Oscar coverage and overseen the magazine’s most influential feature sections such as 10 Screenwriters to Watch, 10 Comics to Watch, Entertainment Philanthropist of the Year and Writers on Writers. For her writing at Variety, Saval has won myriad Los Angeles Press Club and National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, including five first-place awards for her commentary on Jewish representation in Hollywood; the representation of autism spectrum disorder in television; the representation of teenage mental health in media; and her tribute to Oscar-winning nominated filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée.
She has penned award-winning profiles and articles on pop cultural giants such as Sean Penn, Colman Domingo, Robert De Niro, Lawrence Bender and Boy George.
Saval’s YA novel Jewish Summer Camp Mafia was published in 2012 and her articles and essays have appeared in Los Angeles Times, Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Newsweek, Tablet, Forward and Haaretz. Saval has appeared as a featured guest on CNN, NPR's "Talk of the Nation," the Patt Morrison Show, PBS and CBS Radio and CNN. For five years, she served as a board member of the Los Angeles Press Club.
Saval is a graduate of Cornell University and USC SMore...