Anya is a TV writer for the Hulu limited series WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES, the Netflix series IN FROM THE COLD, and the ABC series HIGH POTENTIAL. She is also in development on her sci-fi project TAMINEX, which was selected for fellowships and labs at Film Independent, IFP, ScreenCraft, and the Black List/Women in Film.
Anya was born in the former USSR and immigrated to Columbus, Ohio as an asylum-seeking refugee when she was a child. She received a B.A. in Literature from Yale University and an M.F.A. in Film Directing from Columbia University, where her thesis film TEMMA won an Alfred P. Sloan Production Grant as well as Faculty Selects, before screening at numerous festivals, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Museum of the Moving Image.
Her short film BERATED WOMAN screened at over 20 festivals and was nationally broadcast on Out TV and the Logo Network as part of “The Click List: Best in Short Film.” She was commissioned by the Open Society Institute to make BALKA, a documentary on the HIV epidemic in Ukraine, which has screened for over 4 million viewers online and is used as a Harm Reduction teaching tool worldwide. Her short film THE PROFESSOR, starring Betsy Brandt from “Breaking Bad,” won Best Action/Adventure Short at Comic-Con International.
Meksin was commissioned by Gidden Media to write the sci-fi thriller script THE ALGORITHM and is currently developing several other original series and films. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and frequent collaborator William Gerrard and their son Neri.