Jeanetta Rich is a poet and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, originally from Chicago’s South Side. Her work—spanning cinema, poetry, and video art—reveals the grit of womanhood while reimagining beauty, romance, and vulnerability. A graduate of the University of Nevada’s theatre program and a Meisner technique scholar, Rich crafts narratives rooted in emotional truth. Her short Desperate LA (2022), winner of the Indie Memphis Audience Award, blends screwball humor with lyrical realism. Its thematic successor, FEELINGS, deepens her focus on flawed, unapologetic women. Her work has been recently featured in Texte Zur Kunst, Polyester Zine, and her poetry collection Black Venus Fly Trap (Deluge Press).