Sarah Porter
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | writer/ artist/ teacher |
| Location | Brooklyn, NY |
| Introduction | Literature has been vitally important to me since I was a kid; it seemed to offer a refuge for all those aspects of our secret selves that everyday life doesn't make room for, and I wanted to be a part of creating that refuge. I wrote adult fiction and poetry for years before turning to YA; I still hope to find a home for my novel Umber someday. I also VJ for clubs and parties, do other video/installation art with my awesome husband Todd and our friend Kevin as a collective called Fort/Da, and teach creative writing in the N.Y. public schools through Teachers and Writers Collaborative. My YA novel Lost Voices will be published by Harcourt next July; it's the first volume in a trilogy. I've just finished writing the second volume and I'm starting the third one now. Oh, and we have two cats, Jub Jub and Delphine. |
| Interests | Literature, art, psychology, travel, culture, music. |
| Favorite Movies | AfterLife, Sundays and Cybele, Tuvalu, Dumbo, Guy Maddin, In the Mood for Love, Raging Bull, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The World of Apu, Juliet of the Spirits, Let the Right One In, Pan's Labyrinth. |
| Favorite Music | Coco Rosie, The Smiths, Radiohead, Andrew Bird, Smog, Mum, Rasputina, Patti Smith. |
| Favorite Books | Chaos Walking and His Dark Materials for YA/ Middle Reader Fiction; Lewis Carroll, still, and the Harry Potters; King Matt the First, The Mouse and His Child; We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Diamond Age, Perdido Street Station, The Sound and the Fury, The Waves, The Member of the Wedding, The Master and Margarita, Thomas Bernhard's Woodcutters, Proust, Cesar Vallejo, and Gertrude Stein for adult literature; Lewis Hyde's Trickster Makes This World, Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams, Phillip Hoare's The Whale, and Melanie Klein for non-fiction. |