Berit Ellingsen

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About me

Introduction Berit Ellingsen is a Korean-Norwegian literary and speculative fiction author whose work has appeared in various online literary journals and print anthologies, most recently and forthcoming in Smokelong Quarterly, Metazen and decomP magazinE. Berit admits to pine for the fjords when abroad. The debut work, The Empty City, is inspired by the philosophy of nonduality, is available here: http://emptycitynovel.com. Print and ebook formats are forthcoming. For full list of publications, see http://emptycitynovel.com/short-fiction. Berit tweets at http://twitter.com/BeritEllingsen .
Interests Cats, film, music, photography, art, travel, books, writing, roleplaying games, online roleplaying games, literature, journalism, science, space, science fiction, fantasy, zen, urban decay, urban exploration, rural ruin, japan, korea, taoism, advaita, biology, zoology
Favorite Movies Stalker, Cache, Drowning by Numbers, Blade Runner, Seven Samurai, The Thin Red Line, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, The Brother's Quay Collection, Jacob's Ladder, Inland Empire, Event Horizon, Ran, Ju-On, Cowboy Bebop, Texhnolyze, Epidemic, Miller's Crossing, The 400 Blows, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alien, True Blood, CSI, Supernatural, Burn Notice, Castle
Favorite Music Dead Can Dance, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Knife, Midlake, Glay, Dinosaur Jr, Daft Punk, La Roux, Akira Yamaoka, Paul Oakenfold, John M. Keane
Favorite Books Neuromancer, Orsinian Tales, A Wizard of Earthsea, Maldoror, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Bonadea, Gullkronesmuget, Fru Sola, Gripandergarden, Mummi-trollet