Michael Werwie is a writer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He worked as a bartender in West Hollywood for ten years until his original screenplay Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) won a 2012 Nicholl Fellowship and made the Black List. He followed it up by writing the adaptation of the New York Times bestseller Lost Girls (2019). He graduated from USC as a Renaissance Scholar, earning a B.S. in Business Leadership, and triple minor in Psychology, Spanish, and Film.