Rebecca

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Writer, Illustrator, Educator, Doctoral Student
Location Manchester, United Kingdom
Introduction A doctoral student at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing, I write poetry, fiction, and libretti and research Russian and Soviet literary fairy tales. In 2014-15 I was a visiting student on the MA in Opera Making at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Interests art, Baba Yaga, café society, Ceylon, collaboration, connections, creativity, dance, daydreaming, ephemera, fairy tales, fiction, icons, Japan, journals, literature, meditation, memory, mindful living, opera, pencils, people watching, poetry, Russia, (slow) travel, tai chi, tea, thinking out loud, train journeys, typewriters, trees, vegetarianism, walking, writing, yoga, zines
Favorite Movies Wings of Desire, Sita Sings the Blues, The Breakfast Club
Favorite Music Everything from birdsong to opera by way of Astor Piazzola and Boxcar Willie.
Favorite Books Fyodor Dostoevsky, Carson McCullers, Alice Munro, Tove Jansen, Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Willa Cather, George Elliot, Natalie Goldburg, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Basho, Arthur Ransome, John Berger, Pavel Florensky, Helene Cixous, Alice Oswald, Lynda Barry, Pavel Bashov, Vladimir Propp, Max Luthi