Abdi Nazemian
“I approach every moment in life as an opportunity for creativity. Each classroom visit or speaking engagement is a chance to create connection, hope, and inspiration. Stories saved me and shaped me when I was a young queer immigrant, and it’s an honor to share my passion with a new generation.”
Biography
Abdi Nazemian is the author of Only This Beautiful Moment – winner of the 2024 Stonewall Award and 2024 Lambda Literary Award – and Like a Love Story, a Stonewall Honor Book and one of Time Magazine‘s Best YA Books Of All Time. He is also the author of the young adult novels Desert Echoes, The Chandler Legacies, and The Authentics. His novel The Walk-In Closet won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Debut Fiction.
Abdi’s screenwriting credits include the films The Artist’s Wife, The Quiet, and Menendez: Blood Brothers and the television series Ordinary Joe and The Village. He has been an executive producer and associate producer on numerous films, including Call Me by Your Name, Little Woods, and The House of Tomorrow.
He lives in Los Angeles with his husband, their two children, and their dog, Disco.
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