A former high school English teacher, Aaron Levy is a Professor of Creative Writing,
and English Education and currently also serves as the Director for the Master of
Arts in Professional Writing (MAPW) program.
From 2016-2020, he served as Director of Academics for the Georgia Film Academy where
among several film/tv workforce initiatives, he was able to lead the creation of the
Dramatic Writing for Film, Television and Theatre 1, a new ELA requirement option
course for all Georgia high schools. Levy earned his MFA in creative writing (script
writing) and a PhD in curriculum & instruction from Arizona State University. His
first work for young adults, Pizza With Shrimp On Top (Dramatic Publishing), has enjoyed over 60 national and international productions,
and was nominated for the 2007 Distinguished National Play Award for the Middle and
Secondary School Audiences. His ten-minute play BOLT CUTTER MAN was last selected for production by Thespian Production Inc's for its 2014 Halloween
Play Festival at NYC's Joria Mainstage Theatre. Levy’s debut young adult novel, Blood Don't Lie, directly evolved from writing assignments he wrote alongside his methods students
at KSU, was published by Good Reads Press. Blood Don’t Lie received the GA Author of the Year Award for young adult fiction in 2018 and continues
to be taught at dozens of Georgia middle and high schools. His new work-in-progress,
The Student Body, a full-length play, placed as a semi-finalist at the Austin Film Festival. The Student Body debuted at The Galloway School in August 2024.
