Gretchen Ratcliff Sawyer

Gretchen Ratcliff Sawyer is a writer, screenwriter and essayist. She is the winner of the Abraham Polonsky Prize. In December 2020, her TV drama pilot is a Quarter-Finalist in the Emerging Screenwriter's Competition. Her critical essay on Raoul Peck's documentary on James Baldwin's was published in the literary journal KAPU SENS, and her essay on Hollywood: Leveling the Playing Field was published in the literary journal CAPTURED. She is a proud alumni of CSUN’s Mike Curb College of Cinema, Television and Arts [CTVA].

As a writer and screenwriter, Gretchen creates original works, does adaptations, rewrites, and provides outstanding script coverage. She writes comedy and drama for film, TV and web series. As a novelist, she writes compelling fiction and is working on her first romance novel entitled "Look For Me In The Sunset". Gretchen states, "Writing is like a symphony. It has highs and lows that peak and drop down deep into the belly of our imaginations and emotional psychology."

In 2016, with two college grads living independently, Gretchen stepped fully into her purpose by taking her writing to the next level. She boldly downsized and left Corporate America to return to CSUN as a full-time student. She is approaching the industry in a robust and diverse manner that demonstrates her ability as a wordsmith and creator of content for multiple platforms and audiences. She writes comedy for film and TV that features diverse and dynamic women heroines and super hero girls. She writes drama for film and television that tells compelling stories that focuses on Shakespeare’s flawed human. She will continue to explore storylines of friendship and betrayal, sickness and healing and sickness and death; trajectory climbs to power and devastating falls from grace, as these conditions make-up the synthesis of what it is to be human.

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