Screenwriter

Information

Bringing Characters to Life

At 29, I enrolled in university while raising two kids and holding tight to my dream. Somewhere between papers and parenting, I began writing my first screenplay, Lupae.

I graduated college in 2010, the same year I typed “Fade Out” on the earliest version of Lupae. It was messy and magical and held every part of me. Over the years, I rewrote it five times, reshaping it from the ground up. At 42, I started gradudate school because I still believed in more. I graduated at 44 with a master’s degree in one hand and a thick stack of Lupae rejection letters in the other.

For six years, screenwriting contests passed me by. Still, I kept submitting, kept refining, and kept chasing the version of myself who refused to quit.

In 2024, Lupae didn’t get an automatic “no” from the Page International Screenwriting Awards. For the first time, a door didn’t slam shut. I took a deep breath, rewrote the ending one last time, and in 2025, I sent it everywhere. And this time, it started to land.

I’m now placing in contests, watching the story that once lived only in my head start to bloom out in the world. From the kid who couldn’t stop talking in class to the woman who won’t stop writing, this is the road to the winner’s circle. And I am just getting started.

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon