Esta Spalding

Esta Alice Spalding is an American author, screenwriter and poet who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2004 for Lost August.

In 1997, Spalding relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she worked as an executive story editor and writer on CBC Television's prime-time drama Da Vinci's Inquest.

She also worked as a writer and executive story editor on all three seasons of The Eleventh Hour, a prime-time drama about investigative journalists on CTV.

She and Tassie Cameron co-wrote the script for Would Be Kings, a movie of the week that premiered on CTV in 2008 to great critical acclaim and for which they were nominated for the Gemini award for Best Writing.

Her feature film The Last Letter from Your Lover (co-written with Nick Payne) based on the novel by Jojo Moyes will premiere on Netflix in July 2021.