Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Adjunct Professor
Location	Brick, NJ, United States
Introduction	I received my MFA from the University of Notre Dame, and I am adjunct teaching at various colleges in NJ. I write everything-- novels, screenplays, songs, poetry. Email me at openeyedprayer@yahoo.com
Interests	Movies, poetry, aromatherapy, the Bible, music, aesthetics, fitness, health, macrobiotic cooking, Yoga
Favorite movies	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Departed, Donnie Darko, The Constant Gardener, GATTACA, The Matrix, Children of Men, Girl with a Pearl Earing, American Beauty, The Painted Veil, Lars and the Real Girl, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Horton Hears a Who, Slumdog Millionaire, Legends of the Fall, The Edge of Love, At the Death House Door, Wolverine, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Cinderella Man, A Necessary Journey, Never Let Me Go, The Fighter
Favorite music	Johnny Cash, Wilco, Killers, Ben Folds, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay, Eva Cassidy, Sigur Ros, Chris Botti, Bon Iver, Glenn Miller, Stan Kenton, Enya, Astrud Gilberto, Imogen Heap, Mum, Ether, Jonathan Kingham, Iron & Wine, Radical Face, Melody Gardot, Sufjan Stevens, Brett Dennen, Ray LaMontagne, Andre Bird, Beruit, Grizzly Bear, Lykke Li, Arcade Fire
Favorite books	The Bible, Imitation of Christ, The Awakening, Nine Horses, Different Hours, Crime and Punishment, My Utmost For His Highest, The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, As in Every Deafness, Living Room, Pretty Young Thing, My Zorba, The Alchemist, Be Here Now, The Acne Cure, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach, How to Write a Movie in 21 Days, 10 Days to Faster Reading, Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics, Desert Wisdom, The Macrobiotic Way, Mind Over Body, Siddhartha, Great Gatsby, The Painted Veil, Going After Cacciato, The Tipping Point, Succeed and Grow Rich Through Persuasion, Bridges Of Madison County, The Diary of David Brainerd, I Can Read You Like a Book, How Successful People Win, How to Win Friends and Influence People, A Praying Life, The Last Lecture, Outliers, Made to Stick, Kite Runner, Chronicle of a Death Foretold