Nikki
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Sports or Recreation |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Schaumburg, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | I work for an amazing yoga studio called TriBalance as a writer. It's funny, I always assumed that you'd have to teach yoga to work at a yoga studio (lots of people assume I'm a yoga teacher because I work at a studio). I did some freelance work for the studio, they got to know me better, and hired me anyway. It's amazing to do what I love at a place I love. I'm a novelist and bellydancer. I'm going to grad school to get an MA in Clinical Counseling. I love to cook for people or go to new restaurants. I love sushi, Indian food, and cheese fries (though I rarely have the latter). I have a full back tattoo, which is how most people recognize me. I am happily married to an intelligent and extraordinarily patient man named Steve. We have 3 cats; Romer, Grimalkin, and Milo. Guess which one I named. |
| Interests | Writing, yoga, bellydance, cooking, reading, psychology, philosophy, mythology, alchemy, Tarot, Victorian era, ancient Egypt, the 20s, cheshire cats, prophecy, Buddhism, Hinduism, Bast, Odin, balance, Neil Gaiman, Siva, international punk, other bellydancers, sequins, jingly belts, stripes, burleqsue, vaudeville, pushing the envelope, criminal psychology, catwaxing, cute boots, in medias res, steampunk as literature and not an excuse, jewelry, hot pink with black, hair falls, bindi, cats. |
| Favorite movies | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Pi, V for Vendetta, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Nightmare Before Christmas, American Splendor, The Fisher King, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, O Brother Where Art Thou, Stardust, Up, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, District 9, Sherlock Holmes (Yes, the RDJ one), Iron Man, Love Actually |
| Favorite music | Murder by Death, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Rasputina, early Tori Amos, Siouxsie, Bauhaus, Muse, Concrete Blonde, Minstrels of Mayhem, Seelie Court, Loreena McKennitt, Dead Can Dance, David Bowie, the Cure, the Dresden Dolls, Beats Antique, the Prodigals, Gogol Bordello, Kaizer's Orchestra, the Pogues. I like music that is moody and complex, often brooding. I love strings and piano. I like anachronisms in music; rock with a cello, ragtime piano. I like gravelly voices. I like international punk because I love the different chord progressions. |
| Favorite books | Anything by Nei Gaiman (esp American Gods), Steven Brust, or Jeanette Winteson (esp Sexing the Cherry). The Time Traveller's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry ~ Niffeneger, A Series of Unfortunate Events ~ Snicket, Light ~ Harrison, Someplace to be Flying ~ de Lint, Ka ~ Calasso, Perdido Street Station and The Scar ~ Mieville, A Song of Fire and Ice ~ Martin, The Knight ~ Wolfe, Lolita ~ Nabokov, Harry Potter et al ~ Rowling, Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake. I also have a hell of a story about Volume One of the Third Cry to Legba and Other Stories by Manly Wade Wellman. |