Laurie Weeks

Who is Laurie Weeks?

Laurie Weeks is a writer and performer based in New York City. Her fiction and essays have been published throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including in Semiotext’s The New F*ck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading and most recently, Dave Eggers’s The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008. She was a screenwriter on Boys Don't Cry.

Weeks has taught at The New School in New York City and in 1996 was awarded a fiction fellowship by the New York Foundation for the Arts. She holds a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from New York University.