About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Business Services
Occupation	Manager
Location	Filthadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Introduction	I'm everything your mama warned you about and nothing you want to take home to her: a modern kinda bratling with a penchant for wearing dangerous shoes and talking tons of jive. I wish my stomach were a lily and my tongue a rosepetal. Instead, I am a blur of awkwardness and mussed hair. Eat me with a spoon. Go ahead and underestimate me. You make me stronger that way. I'll sharpen my teeth on your bones. I'm a published writer and sometimes feel a little weird discussing my readership or publishing life. You can walk into a major bookstore and find an anthology or magazine with me in it most days. I've interviewed a lot of famous and not-famous folks like Isabel Allende, Ernie Barnes, Noam Chomsky, Fatboy Slim, Janeane Garofalo, Spike Lee, Yoko Ono, and Floria Sigismondi. I get into shows free as a press-person and I've hugged and chatted with Daniel Lanois and Lucinda Williams, exchanged bratty letters with Peter Gabriel, ran away from Tom Green and his camera, and danced drunkenly with Francis Ford Coppola. It sounds like a load of malarkey, but it's all true. Even my parents can't believe the life that I lead. I'm just trying to hang on and enjoy the bedlam that I call home.
Interests	Alison King, Arcosanti, Aveda, Blackfeet, blacksmithing, Boetia, boxing, Cab Calloway, calla lilies, cartouches, cello, ceramics, Christmas lights all year 'round, creation myths, Dionysus+the Maenads, driving+dancing barefoot, edible flowers, Ethel+Lionel Barrymore, falconry, feral storms, fighting for causes, fighting the dying light, finding my whale, fingerpainting, flying lessons, folktales, forensic anthropology, Fox turquoise, French chocolate advertisement art, glass-blowing, gravestone rubbings, hiking, humanitarianism, hyphenating words, Josephine Baker, Kainai, Kali Ma, kickboxing, Kore, Latin-America, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Loki, Londinium, lynxes, making out all sweaty, mandalas, Moctezuma Xocoyotzin II, mushroom hunting, Nina Simone, NPR, opium wars+poppies, ouroboros, Pablo Neruda, passion plays of Christus, pottery, Quai D'Orsay cigars, Ragnarok, raptor rescue+study, rebirth, rediscovering childhood, rising from the ashes, risking everything, Romanticism, sacred king myths, sacred prostitutes, Salem theories, Sanskrit, Sappho, sea-life+mermaidery, Selene+oracles, sex-goddess dancing, sexology, Sherman Alexie, sinopia frescoes, Sirenis, soul-nourishment, Steamboat Gothic, the Classics, the Harlem Renaissance, the Karnak Sphynx, the Trouvère, Thelonious Monk, thorns+thistles, thrift store bargains, traveling everywhere, Victoriana, violet flower jelly, Vladimir Nabokov, volunteerism, welding, wet clay, the windows rolled down+me driving, wishing for treehouses, writing until it bleeds.
Favorite movies	9 1/2 Weeks, Amélie, Aliens, Almost Famous, Amadeus!, American Beauty, Anne of Green Gables, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Babette's Feast, Batman, Beetlejuice, Better off Dead, Big Fish, Blue Velvet, Boyz N the Hood, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Breakfast Club, But I'm a Cheerleader, Casablanca, Chasing Amy, Chocolat, Dangerous Liaisons, Dead Poet's Society, Do the Right Thing, Donnie Darko, Drugstore Cowboy, Easy Rider, Eat Drink Man Woman, The Elephant Man, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Farewell My Concubine, Garden State, gasfoodlodging, Goodfellas, The Goonies, Grease, Heathers, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Higher Learning, I Shot Andy Warhol, Interview with the Vampire, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Volume 1, Kill Bill: Volume 2, La Dolce Vita, Labyrinth, Legend, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Life Is Beautiful, Like Water for Chocolate, Lord of the Flies, Lost in Translation, Magnolia, Mi Vida Loca, The Milagro Beanfield War, My Left Foot, My Own Private Idaho, Napoleon Dynamite, Natural Born Killers, The Nightmare Before Christmas, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Piano, The Pianist, Pretty in Pink, The Professional, Rabbit Proof Fence, Raise the Red Lantern, Risky Business, River's Edge, The Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, . . . Say Anything . . . , Saturday Night Fever, She's Gotta Have It, Sid and Nancy, Stand by Me, Stealing Beauty, Suspiria, Taxi Driver, Temptress Moon, Titus, Whale Rider, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Wild at Heart, Wildflowers, William Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet
Favorite books	Little Women [Louisa May Alcott], The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven [Sherman Alexie], Herzog [Saul Bellow], Black Elk Speaks [Black Elk], Dangerous Angels [Francesca Lia Block], The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett], Naked Lunch [William S. Burroughs], Alice in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll], My Antonia [Willa Cather], House on Mango Street [Sandra Cisneros], Ragtime [E.L. Doctorow], The Antelope Wife [Louise Erdrich], The Virgin Suicides [Jeffrey Euginides], The Great Gatsby [F. Scott Fitzgerald], The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love [Oscar Hijuelos], On the Road [Jack Kerouac], One Hundred Years of Solitude [Gabriel Garcia Marquez], Tropic of Cancer [Henry Miller], Lolita [Vladimir Nabakov], House of Incest [Anaïs Nin], Venus in Furs [Leopold Sacher-Masoch], Where the Wild Things Are [Maurice Sendak]