Kim Merced Garland

Kim Merced Garland is a writer and director from Hell's Kitchen, NYC, of Puerto Rican descent, and grew up above her family's funeral home. She worked her way through college covering the night shift at her family's business and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Creative Writing. She began her career working in book publishing at Random House before transitioning to the entertainment industry. Kim has written and directed several films and has screened her work at film festivals and comic cons across the country. After relocating to Los Angeles, she was accepted into the prestigious The Black List x Women in Film Episodic Lab which led her into TV writing. Kim is a lifelong fan of genre film and TV with a particular love for Horror, Sci-Fi, and Thrillers.