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Theresa

kitchenwitch

About Me

Born in Windsor, Ontario, and raised in Hollywood, Florida. I now live in Helena, Montana, with my husband, Brand, and our two sons, Keegan and Tristan.My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in print and online journals including The Florida Review, Tar River Poetry, Poet Lore, Storyglossia, Rattle, Lynx Eye, Stirring, DMQ Review, Small Spiral Notebook, and others.
You can visit my web site right here .
My chapbook, Kitchen Witch, can be purchased by clicking on the legs: And my goodreads page (I *so* heart goodreads) is available here.

My Interests

Writing, fiction, poetry, small presses, mythology, reading, hiking

Music:

Aimee Mann, Frank Zappa, Death Cab for Cutie, Ani DiFranco, Regina Spektor, Dandy Warhols, David Bowie, Chili Peppers, Weezer, White Stripes, Cibo Matto, Bob Marley, Flaming Lips, Iron & Wine

Movies:

The Graduate, Amelie, About a Boy, Napoleon Dynamite, Cinema Paradiso, the Blues Brothers

Television:

Buffy, Veronica Mars, The Office, The Sopranos, Monk, Flight of the Conchords, House

Books:

Anything by Margaret Atwood; Lorrie Moore, Robert Olen Butler, Wally Lamb, Pam Houston, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Denise Duhamel, Beth Ann Fennelly, Amy Tan, George Saunders, David Sedaris, Kevin Canty, Mark Levine, Sherman Alexie, TS Eliot, Dave Eggers, Jhumpa Lahiri, Dan Chaon, Anthony Doerr

My Blog

kitchen witch

Lots of good in this past week, including my bestest little good of all: the chapbook is here. Well, okay, not literally here in my hands yet, but available for online ordering. In a momentary burst...
Posted by Theresa on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:14:00 PST

the rest of the pirate booty will probably be gone by the time I post this

Yesterday afternoon I slipped out to Costco with Tristan to buy Asian pears (which I've been craving since our weather has cooled somewhat), and walked out with the pears, a fat pack of genoa salami, ...
Posted by Theresa on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:34:00 PST

electric stream

This morning, the electrician paid a visit to attend to the hit-or-miss lights in the basement (sometimes they work, sometimes they don't), the crackly sound made by the light switch in the garage, an...
Posted by Theresa on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:54:00 PST

summer summer summer

Summer, so far, in chronological order = One week of 8-5 summer classes for T, during which they only lost my child once.  (lesson learned: in the future, avoid classes during that chaotic firs...
Posted by Theresa on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:07:00 PST

two tiny tidbits

If you were a fly on a wall in our house yesterday, you might have overheard either (a) or (b), not that you would ever want to be a fly in our house, onaccounta (b): a) from the husband:  "I kno...
Posted by Theresa on Thu, 10 May 2007 05:17:00 PST

neil gaiman in helena montana

The disappointing news first:  he didn't sign my books.  I didn't meet him.  Didn't have a chance (sorry Robin) to tell him anyone said hi.  I agonized over whether I should stick...
Posted by Theresa on Fri, 04 May 2007 08:44:00 PST

Freaks and Geeks and Clunky Guitar Squeaks

I'm going to skate over the fact that I haven't posted (again) in over a month and glide past the fact that as a blogger? lately?  I kinda suck. To make up for my lack of posting, I will employ a...
Posted by Theresa on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:40:00 PST

the fuzzy in-betweens

I'm ready (more than) for spring. For summer, even. For open windows, Red Stripe beer, barbecues, flotation devices, and reggae. I want to slather myself in suntan lotion that smells like coconut, I w...
Posted by Theresa on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:49:00 PST

3 months later . . .

Three months (yeesh) in easy-to-swallow capsule format:   Good things: ~Christmas in our new home.  Lots of happy, lots of joy, lots of cookies. ~An acceptance from Poet Lore, yowza. ~S...
Posted by Theresa on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:34:00 PST

chap-happy

I'm almost scared to say it out loud, because what if Kristy changes her mind or maybe she made a mistake and sent me the wrong letter, but I'll take a deep breath and whooosh it out: Dancin...
Posted by Theresa on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:48:00 PST