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Rojé Augustin is a writer, producer, and content creator. She began her career at the New York Daily News, as an editor for BET Weekend Magazine. She then moved to television, first at CBS News Productions, working in cable documentary features, then to ABC News ’20/20' with Barbara Walters and John Stossel, ‘Primetime’ with Diane Sawyer, and ‘Good Morning America Weekend Edition,’ as a journalist and producer. In 2007, while living in London, Rojé began work on her debut novel, The Unraveling of Bebe Jones, which was self-published and won the 2013 U.S. National Indie Excellence Award in African American fiction. It was also a finalist in the National Black Book Festival. She was featured as a "writer to keep your eyes on" in Essence Maga Rojé Augustin is a writer, producer, and content creator. She began her career at the New York Daily News, as an editor for BET Weekend Magazine. She then moved to television, first at CBS News Productions, working in cable documentary features, then to ABC News ’20/20' with Barbara Walters and John Stossel, ‘Primetime’ with Diane Sawyer, and ‘Good Morning America Weekend Edition,’ as a journalist and producer. In 2007, while living in London, Rojé began work on her debut novel, The Unraveling of Bebe Jones, which was self-published and won the 2013 U.S. National Indie Excellence Award in African American fiction. It was also a finalist in the National Black Book Festival. She was featured as a "writer to keep your eyes on" in Essence Magazine's News & Culture Column, 'Patrik's Pics' (August 2013), as well as on NY1's morning books television segment.

In 2013 Rojé's script, The Weekly, was selected for the AWG’s Pathways Program for emerging screenwriters. Over the next several years, Rojé continued to write and produce, building a slate of projects for development. An early project was The Right Space, a podcast and visual web series called which explored the relationship between creatives and their workspaces. Rojé co-produced and co-hosted 23 episodes of the series in collaboration with Filthy Look Films. In May 2020 she published her debut poetry collection, Out of No Way, Madam C.J. Walker and A'Lelia Walker: A Poetic Drama, (Boukman Press) which tells the story of Madam Walker's phenomenal life story through various poetic forms and which she hopes to adapt into a stage production. That same year, Rojé was awarded funding from Screen NSW to develop her teen drama series, The Park. In August 2022, Rojé was one of four shortlisted for the national SBS Emerging Writers Incubator Program. In 2023 The Park was selected as a finalist in the U.S. based Diverse Voices Script Lab.

Rojé is a native New Yorker based in Sydney where she works as a writer, news editorial producer, and journalist. She is also an Australian citizen. She has studied in Paris and London and is a graduate of Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the Literature & Writing Program. ...more

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