Laurie Weeks is an American writer and performer based in New York City. Her fiction and essays have been published extensively. She is best known as the screenwriter of '' Boys Don't Cry'', and is the

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-winning author of the novel ''Zipper Mouth.''

Career

Weeks holds a

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in Performance Studies from

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and has taught at

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in New York City in the creative writing program. In 1996, she was awarded a fiction

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ship by the

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Works

Weeks' writing has been included in ''The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading'' (

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, 1995), as well as in

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's ''The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008.'' She was the screenwriter of the cult film '' Boys Don't Cry'' (1999), which was a retelling of the

Brandon Teena Brandon Teena (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen. His life and death are ...

murder. Her debut novel ''Zipper Mouth'' was published by

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in 2011 and was awarded a Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction.

Bibliography

In popular culture

Her name appears in the lyrics of the

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song "

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References

External links

The Rumpus Book Club interview, December 1, 2011.
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interview, November 8, 2011

"My Massive Feelings (fragments From The Diary Of A Young Girl)," fiction, ''Vice,'' December 1, 2007
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