Rachael Krinks
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Writer, Artist, Photographer |
| Location | Tasmania, Australia |
| Introduction | Writer, Artist, Photographer, Communicator! :) |
| Interests | Writing, art, painting portraits, politics, fighting against Gunns Limited's pulp mill, fighting against Gunns Limited's power in poor old Tassie, interior design, wine, world cup soccer, badgering agents and publishers with my memoir, writing my next book, planning wild holidays with my partner Steve, learning more about managing my bipolar illness well, helping and encouraging others to manage living with bipolar well ltoo, playing with our beautiful dog Amber and Lily-belle our loving/bleaty child substitute cat. |
| Favorite movies | Capote, Goodbye and Goodnight, Modigliani, Narnia, The Rolling Stones Live in Concert, (1982 I think) |
| Favorite music | Emiliana Torrini, Leonard Cohen, The Rolling Stones (I like the older stuff), The Angels, early ACDC (Bon Scott era), Cold Chisel, Radiohead, Billy Bragg, Eric Clapton blues, the Smashing Pumpkins, Paul Kelly, Rage Against the Machine, The Waifs, Dido, John Butler Trio, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Annie Lennox, Sinead O'Connor, Beth Orten, jazz, classical, world music, ambient music, classic Australian pub rock, melancholy poetic lyrical folk music. |
| Favorite books | Biography of Truman Capote, The Conquest of Happiness, by Bertrand Russell, Still Life, by AS Byatt, David Lodge, Zelda & Scott Fitzerald, In Praise of Idleness, How to be Idle, How to be Free, Metamorphosis, by Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, On The Road, The Australian Writer's Marketplace, On Writing, by Stephen King, Elective Affinities, by Goethe, Nickel and Dimed, Among the Bohemians, The History of Art, Writers Dreaming, How To Get Your Book Off The Ground, Praise, The Crucible, The Vagina Monologues. |