Hilary Van Hoose

Writing children’s animation by day and speculative fiction by night, Hilary Van Hoose is passionate about telling aspirational, female-led stories featuring fish-out-of-water who find their place in the world by helping other people. She recently wrapped as a staff writer on Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues & You Nursery Rhymes, sold an outline to TeamTO, wrote freelance for an international animated YA series, and permalanced on an unannounced animated preschool show.

As a sci-fi/fantasy writer, she is a recent semifinalist for both NBC Launch TV Writers Program and Inevitable Foundation Accelerate, an AFF finalist, a Stage 32 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Contest grand prize winner, and a 1IN4 Writers’ Program mentee. Hilary is also a freelance journalist and RespectAbility Lab Fellow with an M.F.A. in Film & Television Production from USC.