Lori Beth Crawford is a synchronized swimming, Christian erotica writing, preacher's kid from a small town in Ohio who devoured more television than was probably wise as a child. After high school, she left the small town for the semi-big city of St. Louis to study at Washington University. Once she graduated with a Bachelors in Psychology and Writing, Lori moved to the even bigger city of Los Angeles to chase her dream of writing television shows. Along the way, she took a tiny detour into the world of authoring romance novels and has published five books with Kensington and other publishers. Since Lori returned to TV writing, she was selected for the inaugural class of UCLA’s Professional Program in TV Writing. After completing the program with high praise, she advanced to the second round in AFF and the Fox Writer’s Lab. Most recently, she’s been contracted by an indie producer to write or rewrite three TV movie assignments. She’s always looking for the next opportunity to build on her career.