Donna Laemmlen is an award-winning screenwriter and fiction writer, whose 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, and has appeared on Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube, GooglePlay, iTunes, and PBS. She’s also a recipient of the Able Muse Write Prize for Fiction and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She earned her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco.

Donna lives in San Francisco, where 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 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. Her former students have won an Emmy, a Writers Guild Award, a Disney Fellowship, Sundance Lab mentorships, and multiple awards on the independent film festival circuit.