BIO
Kirsten was raised on a beef cattle farm
in western Georgia by two devout Catholic, retired Air Force fighter pilots. Naturally, those impressionable years formed the person she is today: an animal-loving lesbian with a liberal arts degree and a deep-seated fear of flying.
Now, she’s a Teamster in LA, working on movies like Top Gun: Maverick and Killers of the Flower Moon by day. By nights and weekends, she writes delightful, fish-out-of-water, coming-of-age or workplace comedies.
She's a Barnard College's 2025-2026 Athena Film Festival Writers Lab Fellow, ScreenCraft Screenwriting 2024 Fellowship finalist, two-time ScreenCraft virtual pitch semifinalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay semifinalist, and a second-rounder at Austin Film Festival.
In her free time, she and her wife enjoy recreating recipes from The Great British Bake Off.
Television and Feaure Samples
TELEVISION PILOT - Hour Dark Comedy
ST. CASTRO STREET
Against the Church’s orders, two closeted nuns jeopardize their livelihoods and risk exposing their love to support San Francisco’s queer community at the start of the AIDS epidemic.
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2025 -2026 Athena Film Festival Writing Fellow (Barnard)
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Semifinalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2022
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Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Virtual Pitch 2020
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Semifinalist, Industrial Scripts - The TITAN Awards 2021
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Official Selection, Script Summit 2021
TELEVISION PILOT - 1/2 Hour Comedy
PLAY ON
In the Deep South, a queer woman pursues her dream of becoming a professional soccer referee, starting from the ground up at a youth soccer league, where she encounters crazy soccer parents, unruly kids, and coaches who take their jobs way too seriously.
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2024 ScreencCaft Screenwriting Fellowship Finalist
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2022 Roadmap Writers Hammer Jaxx Prize Recipient
