Donna Laemmlen is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, and fiction writer who lives in San Francisco. As a co-writer and producer, her most recent collaboration, Tabula Rasa, won Best Dramatic Feature at the Big Apple Film Festival in NYC and the Audience Award at the Cinequest Film Festival in Silicon Valley. The short film, The Nature Girl, is currently on a festival run across twenty festivals, both domestic and international. It recently won Best Short Film at the Wales International Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Environmental Film at the Nepal International Film Festival. Her scripts have been recognized in the Nicholl Fellowships, the Austin Film Festival, Scriptapalooza, the Family Film Festival in LA, and the Urban Action Showcase in NYC (with Vonti McRae), among others.  She taught storytelling, script analysis, and screenwriting for several years in the School of Writing for Film, Television, and Digital Media at AAU. She previously worked as an independent story analyst for American Zoetrope and Zoetrope All-Story, as well as associate producer for Donald Van de Mark on the series “Great Leaders,” and researcher on “Great Entrepreneurs,” booking guests as varied as Bill Gates, Sherry Lansing, Richard Branson, and Howard Schultz.  Her work has appeared on Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube, GooglePlay, iTunes, and PBS. As a fiction writer, her work has been published in Tin House Online, Slice magazine, Fourteen Hills, SmokeLong Quarterly, Popshot, Penduline, the anthologies Flash 101: Surviving the Fiction Apocalypse and Burning Love and Bleeding Hearts, among others. She’s also a recipient of the Able Muse Write Prize for Fiction. She earned her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco.