Sarah Porter
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | writer |
| Location | Brooklyn, NY |
| Introduction | I'm a writer, artist, and freelance teacher. I teach creative writing workshops in the New York public schools via Teachers and Writers Collaborative; I've worked with kids in grades K-10, but I've focused on junior high and high school for the last several years. I don't think I would have written a YA novel if it weren't for that experience! Reading my students' intense, passionate poetry and stories recalled my own emotions at that age. Lost Voices was my attempt to write the book I most needed as a twelve-year-old struggling with what it means to be human: a book I never really found. I live in Brooklyn with my wonderful husband Todd, an artist and fabricator of electronic art, and our cats Jub Jub and Delphine. I have an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from City College. |
| Interests | art, literature, psychology, travel, music, film, video mixing, culture, nature |
| Favorite Movies | Afterlife, Sundays and Cybele, Let the Right One In, Encounters at the End of the World, all Guy Maddin, Dumbo, Pan's Labyrinth, In the Mood for Love, Raging Bull, Tuvalu, Juliet of the Spirits, The World of Apu, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| Favorite Music | Andrew Bird, Radiohead, Soul Coughing, Coco Rosie, The Smiths, bells, chimes, whistles, torch singers, Frank Sinatra, Patti Smith, A Silver Mt. Zion, Rasputina, Mum |
| Favorite Books | Gertrude Stein, Faulkner, Woolf, Cesar Vallejo, Patrick Ness, Proust, Bridge to Terabithia, The Hunger Games trilogy, An Explanation of the Birds, Arctic Dreams, Rebecca Solnit, Bolano, The Master and Margarita, Nadja, A Model Childhood by Christa Wolf, Sebald!, Kafka, Tolkien, Mieville, The Diamond Age, The Blue Bird, Prisoner of Love |