ALVA J. ROWAN

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Stories about tension, loyalty, absence, and the quiet absurdities
of human nature.

ABOUT

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I’m a writer drawn to the unseen forces that shape our choices—
the loyalties that bind us, the silences that haunt us, and the absences we learn to live with.
My work explores psychological drama, tension, and the complexities
of human relationship in all their quiet contradictions.

NOVEL

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JOSHUA & MARIANNA

A slow-burning, long-form psychological drama about a family and two people from different worlds trying to build a life together while carrying the weight of loyalty, difference, and inherited ways of loving.

(IN PROGRESS)

SCREENPLAYS

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01

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Off The Record

A psychological thriller about two operatives drawn into a quiet game of personal and professional chess in a small French town. As one of them tries to put her past to rest, she must face the one person who may understand why she needed one more hour.

02

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The Prayer Wall

In an occupied town, in the shadow of the prayer wall, a woman is reunited with someone from her former life — and every gesture, loyalty, and place she held in the community begins to take on a new meaning.

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Robert & Theressa

An intimate psychological drama about a Texas patriarch trying to hold his home together during his wife’s illness, while he and his partner struggle with the same unspoken fear in profoundly different ways.

CONTACT: [email protected]

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