Gabrielle Burton is a writer and journalist. Her first novel, Heartbreak Hotel, received the Maxwell Perkins Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Burton’s non-fiction book, I’m Running Away From Home But I’m Not Allowed To Cross The Street, a comedic primer on the Women’s Movement, was the first book published by KNOW, and was subsequently picked up by Avon. Burton’s articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in national publications including the Washington Post, The New York Times, Family Circle, and Ms. Magazine. Online, she is a blogger on The Huffington Post and The Nervous Breakdown. She is also a member of peace and equal rights groups and has worked as a screenwriter. She attended the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. The same weekend Burton was attending the Equinoxe Screenwriters Lab in Bordeaux, France, she won the Austin Film Festival’s top prize for screenwriting. She has received grants from the Arts Council, and was selected to participate in the Independent Feature Project (IFP, now FIND) Screenwriting Lab. She was named a Nicholl Screenwriting Fellow by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Portrait by Maria Burton
