Discipline: Literature – poetry

Kirsten Smith

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993

Kirsten Smith is an American poet, screenwriter, and novelist whose credits include Legally Blonde and Ella Enchanted. She has written most of her screenplays with her screenwriter partner Karen McCullah. Most of the scripts seems to follow the girl power movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 2008 she wrote and directed a short film, The Spleenectomy, which starred Anna Faris and was financed and produced by Glamour magazine. Her first film as a non-writing producer, Whip It!, starred Ellen Page and was directed by Drew Barrymore, and she also produced American Virgin in 2009, starring Jenna Dewan and Rob Schneider. Having published more than 40 poems in various literary magazines in the 1990s, Smith published her first novel-in-verse, The Geography of Girlhood, in 2006. The coming-of-age story of a teenage girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest, it contains a smattering of the poems Smith wrote and published in her early twenties.

Studios

New Jersey

Kirsten Smith worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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