Jess
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| Gender | Female |
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| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Location | Bella Bella, BC, Canada |
| Introduction | I am 24 years old, indigenous (Heiltsuk Nation), a resident of Bella Bella (Canada). I am pursuing my MA in English while I work in my community developing literacy and youth leadership initiatives. For more on my work, visit www.thistalalh.org and www.qqsprojects.org. For more of me, follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/fabliaux |
| Interests | being in the ocean; travel writing; indigenous ways of knowing the world; exploring new places; wild plants; loose tea; beachglass; photographing flowers; napping in meadows; smelling old books; huge wild spaces; dirt under my fingernails; open air markets; sharing cups of tea; teaching my 2 year old nephew to say things in anglo saxon |
| Favorite books | By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept; The Captain's Verses; Grendel; A Man for All Seasons; Under Milk Wood; The Truth About Stories; Maurice; The New York Trilogy; As For Me and My House; Paradise Lost; So Long See You Tomorrow; Wuthering Heights; A Tale of Two Cities; Bella Bella Tales; Far from the Madding Crowd; Stray Birds; A Moveable Feast; Mandeville's Travels; The Hands of Day; The Name of the Rose; Love Medicine; If on a winters night a traveler; The Art of Cartography; Rebsamen's translation of Beowulf; Cry the Beloved Country; The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana; At Swim Two Boys; Blood Meridian; The Old Man Who Read Love Stories; The Owl and the Nightingale; Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Letters to a Young Poet; Memories of My Melancholy Whores; Book of Mercy |