Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith
Bio
A writer who happily dabbles in many genres, Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith is best known as the screenwriter of such comedies as Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You, and Ella Enchanted. She began pursuing her first love, poetry as a teenager, and published her first book of poems, a novel-in-verse called The Geography of Girlhood, in 2006. Smith has been a writer-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony; attended the 1993 Breadloaf Writer’s Conference on fellowship; and received numerous prizes, including “Nimrod’s” Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Upon realizing she couldn’t exactly make a living as a poet unless she was dead, Kiwi turned her attentions toward her other love: movies. She has also written and published novels and graphic novels, including Trinkets, which was adapted for TV by Netflix.