Laurie Weeks (writer)

Laurie Weeks is a United States writer and performer based in New York City. Her fiction and essays have been published extensively. She is best known as the screenwriter of Boys Don't Cry, and is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the novel Zipper Mouth.

Laurie Weeks
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksBoys Don't Cry, Zipper Mouth

Career

Weeks holds a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from New York University and has taught at The New School in New York City in the creative writing program.[1] In 1996, she was awarded a fiction fellowship by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Works

Weeks' writing has been included in The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e), 1995),[2] as well as in Dave Eggers's The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008.[3]

She was the screenwriter of the lesbian cult film, Boys Don't Cry (1999), which was a retelling of the Brandon Teena murder.[4]

Her debut novel Zipper Mouth was published by Feminist Press in 2011 and was awarded a Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction.[5]

Bibliography
  • Zipper Mouth, The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2011. ISBN 978-1558617483

Her name appears in the lyrics of the Le Tigre song "Hot Topic."[6]

References
  1. "33RD SESSION OF WINTER FELLOWS OCTOBER 2000 – MAY 2001". Fine Arts Works Center, Provincetown. Archived from the original on December 10, 2010. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
  2. "The New Fuck You". The MIT Press. Retrieved September 17, 2019.
  3. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593501544
  4. http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/kathleen_hanna.shtml
  5. Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (May 23, 2011). "24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved September 17, 2019.
  6. Oler, Tammy (October 31, 2019). "57 Champions of Queer Feminism, All Name-Dropped in One Impossibly Catchy Song". Slate Magazine.


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