J.P. Pressley is a writer, editor, and filmmaker with extensive experience across industries. The former homeschooler is an Editor at Manifest LLC, one of the nation’s leading content marketing agencies, where he helps create, cultivate, and curate multimedia content for a broad range of clients, such as Aflac and CDW (where he was previously a Web Editor for EdTech Magazine and is currently a Contributing Writer for BizTech Magazine). Prior to this, he worked at a small publishing company where he managed the marketing for over 200 authors worldwide.
On the film side, Pressley has worked in various capacities both in front of and behind the camera across a number of highly lauded (and not so lauded) feature films, television shows, and short films, ranging from Jon Chu’s In the Heights to Apple TV’s The Morning Show to Todd Komarnicki’s Bonhoeffer and more. He’s recently worked most closely with Daytime Emmy-nominated filmmaker Dui Jarrod.
Academically, Pressley has been guest lecturing at universities since he was in undergrad at The King’s College in NYC, where he played basketball and ran track before graduating with a BA in Media, Culture, and the Arts. After graduating from Lindenwood University’s MFA in Writing program, he returned to the Christian college as a Lecturer of Writing, teaching until the institution’s recent closing.
A storyteller at heart and in practice, Pressley’s fictional prose is published or forthcoming in 365tomorrows, Bright Flash Literary Review, Litbreak Magazine, and elsewhere. On the rare occasion he’s not writing or storytelling via another medium, Pressley can be found at church, at the movie theater, and enjoying life in Brooklyn alongside his wife, Atira.