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Lillie Gardner is a writer of prose and screenplays from St. Paul, Minnesota. As a screenwriter, she’s been a Winner at Austin Film Festival of the Rooster Teeth Women & Animation Fellowship Award, Winner of Outstanding Drama Pitch at Catalyst Story Institute, and featured in MovieMaker Magazine's "25 Screenwriters to Watch" list. She’s also been a Top 3 Finalist in the Big Break Screenwriting Competition and a Finalist in ScreenCraft, Shore Scripts, BOLT, Roadmap, and other screenwriting and pitch competitions. Lillie has received grants and scholarships for her screenwriting projects from Sundance Collab, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council’s Next Step Fund, and Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy.
Lillie's stories often explore how women wield femininity in a patriarchal world and how our belief systems can both help us and hold us back. She’s the creator of the comedy web series VEGAN PLEASE; she co-wrote and co-directed You’ve Been Selected, a psychological horror short film about phone addiction (currently in post-production); and in the kids space she’s written episodes for the Wondery podcast Whose Amazing Life?
A devoted writer of literary fiction and creative nonfiction, Lillie has been published in Quail Bell Magazine, Delmarva Review, Long River Review, Funny-ish.com, and more. She serves on the essays reading panel for Hippocampus Magazine and she is working on her first memoir.