Jule Selbo grew up in Fargo North Dakota. She is a Professor in the Radio TV Film Department at California State University, Fullerton and an award winning American screenwriter and playwright with work in feature film, television and animation. She has worked with filmmakers and producers such as George Lucas, Michael Newell, Aaron Spelling, Roland Joffe as well as with all the major Hollywood studios; produced credits include projects for Disney, Columbia Pictures, Paramount, Universal. She has also written for theater, with productions in New York and regional theaters around the United States). She has also created and penned graphic novels. She is co-editor of the successful "Journal of Screenwriting" (Intellect Press) and has written extensively on film history, screenwriting and film genre. She holds writing seminars around the world and is a script consultant for production companies and writers in Hollywood. She has written two books on Screenwriting Structure that include information on the business of screenwriting: SCREENPLAY: BUILDING STORY THROUGH CHARACTER (Routledge) and REWRITE: FIRST DRAFT TO MARKETPLACE (Gardner); her book is FILM GENRE FOR THE SCREENWRITER (Routledge) explores all the main film genres, their components and uses for film narratives. Her latest book is WOMEN SCREENWRITERS INTERNATIONAL GUIDE, co-edited with Jill Nelmes. It includes biographical information on female screenwriters from 1896 to 2015. She has been an invited guest lecturer on film genre and screenwriting at New York University, Moscow's film school VGIK, Oxford Bridges University in Oxford, England, Bournemouth University in the UK, Disney Writers Program, Emerson College in Boston and other venues and is a member of Screenwriters Research Network. She has earned her Ph.D. with her work in Film Genre, its historical components and how a knowledge of film genre can be used by the screenwriter in the constructive stages of a screenplay.