Karen Walton

Karen Walton is a Canadian screenwriter best known for writing the film Ginger Snaps, for which she won the Best Film Writing Canadian Comedy Award in 2002. Her writing for the film received both critical scrutiny and academic analysis. Walton has since been recognised with multiple awards. and three episodes of the American version of Queer as Folk, for which she also served as executive story consultant. She appeared in the 2009 documentary Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror. In recent years, she has served as a writer and producer on a number of Canadian television series including Flashpoint, The Listener and Orphan Black, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide and airs on BBC America in the United States.

Early life Karen Walton was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and grew up in nearby Dartmouth. As a teenager, she moved west to the suburbs of Edmonton, Alberta.

Career Walton had experience in acting before she began to focus primarily on scriptwriting. She began her work in the film industry by assisting local film production companies in Edmonton. After she entered and won a CBC radio play writing contest in the early 1990s her early work in scriptwriting gained traction. Walton was recognized and given access to lessons in screenwriting at the Canadian Film Centre where she later graduated. Walton won the Margaret Collier Award for screenwriting in 2016, an award offered by the Canadian Screen Academy. and the Denis McGrath Award for her contributions to screenwriters. The Many Trials of One Jane Doe (2002) Queer as Folk (2002) The Eleventh Hour (2003–2004) Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004) (characters based on) The Human Kazoo (2004) Flashpoint (2011) The Listener (2012) Orphan Black (2013–2014)