E. Amato’s (she/her/hers) pilot script Majority Rules is a Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices SciFi/Fantasy Genre Winner, shortlisted for Amazon Studios WriterSlam, Top 100 Table Read My Screenplay, Quarterfinalist Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition. During the pandemic, she edited Judith Weston’s 25th Anniversary Edition of Directing Actors (Michael Wiese Productions).
Her poetry has been included in Tia Chucha Press’ The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts of Los Angeles, Voices from Leimert Park Redux: Los Angeles Anthology and 1001 Nights: Twenty Years of Redondo Poets. She has published three full collections: Swimming Through Amber, Will Travel and Daughters of Invention. She has written for The Body Is Not an Apology and was featured in KCET’s LA Letters “Five Emerging Female Writers.”