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| Born | Bonnie Burton July 12, 1973 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, Writer |
| Period | 1991–Current |
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Bonnie Burton (born July 12, 1973) is a San Francisco-based author, journalist a Content Developer for Lucas Online, and a staff writer for both Star Wars.com and Star Wars Insider magazine, and maintainer of the Official Star Wars Blog. She goes by the handle "bonniegrrl" at those official sites. She's also written "Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How We Can Change" and "Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers".
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At StarWars.com, Bonnie maintains the kids section that includes drawing tutorials, original crafts and fun educational articles and she created the Star Wars Rocks section where she interviews bands, actors, authors and celebs about their love for the films.
Outside of the Star Wars world, she's the founder of Grrl.com and has written for such magazines as AuctionRover, Bust (magazine), Digit (magazine), Geek Monthly, Organic Gardening, Wired (magazine), Yahoo! Internet Life, and a myriad of zines.[1]
Burton has compiled an appealing discussion of relational aggression that amounts to more than the usual anti-bullying material in her 2009 book " Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How We Can Change". After exploring the physical and chemical explanations for the mood swings that often cause seemingly irrational behavior in teenage girls, she offers practical advice on how to manage situations involving ‘mean girls.’ Burton shares how readers can recognize these habits and behaviors in themselves and make changes to improve their relationships and stop perpetuating the cycle. Most importantly, she acknowledges that victims of these invisible, non-physical methods of bullying have a right to feel lousy about what is happening to them. She doesn’t really share her own stories directly, though, turning for insight to the likes of Go-Gos guitarist Jane Wiedlin, Mystery Science Theater 3000 writer and actress Mary Jo Pehl, tattoo artist Hannah Aitchison, Tegan Quin of the band Tegan and Sara, artist Elizabeth McGrath and singer/artist Jessicka from the bands Jack Off Jill and Scarling.[2][3]
Burton's 2004 book "Never Threaten To Eat Your Co-Workers" shows the virtual diaries of a cross section of the people who dwell online. This book features the Internet's most provocative writing, by unknown writers and underground celebrities.[4]