Fiona Sheehan

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Industry Environment
Location Seattle, WA, United States
Interests The life and experiences of American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), how intentional communities work, pedagogy, nonviolent communication, what is utopia/dystopia, folk tales, magical realism, plant pressing, nature, spirituality
Favorite Movies Dancer in the Dark, The Fall, The Fountain, Inside Llewyn Davis, Before the Flood, The Act of Killing, The Band's Visit, Kedi, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Like Water for Chocolate, The Price of Milk, Moonlight, Paterson, Jab We Met
Favorite Music Yann Tiersen, Michael Nyman, Rachmaninoff, Faure, Shostakovich, Bjork, Zoe Keating, Agnes Obel, Alabama Shakes, DAM, YACHT, The Fugees, Janelle Monae, Nina Simone, The Decembrists, hopeforagoldensummer, Rising Appalachia, The Weepies, First Aid Kit, Dengue Fever, Joan Baez, Sade, Natalie Dessay, Faure, Leningrad, Sigur Ros, Scissor Sisters, The Shins, Buena Vista Social Club, London Grammar, some Bollywood music
Favorite Books Welcome to the Monkey House, Demian, Never Let Me Go, The Rainbow Troops, IQ84, We (Zamyatin), American Gods, Sherlock Holmes, almost all poems by William Butler Yeats but particularly "The Stolen Child"; favorite poems by Bishop: Man-Moth, The End of March, Roosters, // Short stories: A Sound of Thunder and Last Night of the World (Bradbury), Dreamtigers and The Maker (Jorge Borges), Eyes of a Blue Dog (Marquez) and A Tiny Feast (Chris Adrian).