Rachel Kingstrom
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| Gender | Female |
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| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Location | Utica, MI, United States |
| Introduction | I am an aspiring writer currently living in the metropolitan Detroit area. I have ten years of experience in writing for newspapers, online publications, and newsletters. I have taken sketch comedy writing classes at Second City and am currently taking improv classes at Go Comedy! Improv Theater. I am also a proofreader, editor, and I provide assistance in resume writing and design. |
| Interests | framily (friends+family), people, comedy, creative writing, film, music, adventure, people-watching and other forms of analysis/observation, good conversation, making people laugh, current events, obscure facts, books, reading things from finish to start, art, sarcasm, spontaneity, wandering, decorating, thinking about the future, spoonerisms, words, simplicity, complexity, brushing up on my Spanish, Google image searches and Google maps, Youtube, laughing, autumn, animals, enjoying the outdoors, road trips, long walks, learning to love running again, losing myself in a good movie, good health, rabble-rousing, basketball, Pistons, connecting, having fun, cooking, feeling alive, LIFE. |
| Favorite Movies | The Princess Bride, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Harold and Maude, Annie Hall, It's a Wonderful Life!, Blood Diamond, Catch Me if You Can, This is Spinal Tap, The Royal Tenenbaums, About a Boy, White Oleander, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Citizen Kane, Puff the Magic Dragon, Amelie, High Fidelity, Office Space, The Fisher King, Sideways, The Dinner Game, and anything by the Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson, Christopher Guest, and Hitchcock |
| Favorite Music | The Black Keys, Neko Case, New Pornographers, Jim Croce, Neil Young, The Beatles, Andrew Bird, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Regina Spektor, Eels, The Shins |
| Favorite Books | anything by Jodi Picoult, One Child by Torey Hayden, The Time Traveler's Wife, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Good Omens, Siddhartha, Born Standing Up by Steve Martin, Daybreak by Joan Baez, Collected Stories of John Cheever, To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm, The Tortilla Curtain, Bastard Out of Carolina, Cash by Johnny Cash, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Canterbury Tales, Shopgirl, The Tetherballs of Bougainville, autobios/biographies, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, On Writing by Stephen King, and anything by Chuck Klosterman |