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Struggling to become a filmmaker in the early 1970s, a young woman is set adrift by the promise of sexual freedom and equality.

I was born in Alaska, survived sexual assault at gunpoint, know what it’s like to be completely deaf, traveled to over twenty countries, and have taught screenwriting for over two decades. As writer/producer, my global feature documentaries won five Best Documentary awards and are available through Amazon Video Prime and Kanopy.com. My narrative short about pre-menstrual rage, “Blood”, was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times as “in its stream-of-consciousness way, more powerful than Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver.'”

My passion is writing adaptations. I was inspired to write this adaptation of my own novel as a way of reaching out to other women in hopes of sharing our stories and healing together in the process. My screenplay, “Floating Lessons,” is based on my novel, “A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman,” which my literary agent, Eric Lincoln Miller of 3iBooks, has recently sent out to publishers in New York and on the West Coast. (An earlier version entitled “Sex and the Cyborg Goddess” won the 2018 Irwin Award for Best #MeToo Novel of the Year.) As author of the book “Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling” (Routledge – 2nd Place Winner, 2019 International Writers Awards), I’ve been excited to apply the Heroine’s Journey to a story loosely based on my own life as one of the first women at Yale.