Bonnie Neubauer

Bonnie Neubauer is an American writing teacher and creator of practical resources for getting words on the page. Based in suburban Philadelphia, she discovered her own creativity in her mid-thirties and has since spent decades helping other people find theirs through workshops, books, and the Story Spinner, an online and handheld prompt generator she invented that creates millions of unique writing exercises.

Her best-known book is The Write-Brain Workbook, published by Writer's Digest Books. The revised and expanded edition contains 400 illustrated writing prompts with 400 follow-up exercises, each on a designed full-color page with space to write. The book is built for a daily practice and is widely used in classrooms, writing groups, and at home by writers who need a way past a blank page. Her companion book, Take Ten for Writers, contains a thousand short exercises designed to be done in ten minutes a day.

Her later book 303 Writing Prompts collects shorter, more whimsical sparks: write a magical love story in which the image of Lincoln on a five-dollar bill winks at a woman, or write four opening paragraphs that each start with the same question. Her writing has been featured in Main Line Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Woman's World, Chicago Parent, Northwest Family Magazine, Writer's Journal, and The Marketing Minute.

Neubauer met her husband Gil in a writing group at a Borders Books & Music in 1997 and married him at the same store in 2000. They live in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. She continues to present writing workshops to writers of all ages and levels.