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2008 Publications
"Messiah" - New Myths
"This is your last poem." - Grievous Jones
"Ginsberg's Howl as Counter Culture Spiritual" - Writing Center Review
"A Record of Things" - The Hiss Quarterly
"A Dream in which I'm Drowning" - Bakers Dozen
"Homesick Sestina" - kaleidowhirl
"The Brief Existence of Lainey O'Galeigh" - MiPOesias
2007 Publications
"Kairos" - Shine! Flash Fiction Journal (February)
"River Pirates" and "Words" - "Flight" issue of Ad Hoc Foxtrot Quarterly
"Cowgirl" - Brink Magazine
"Since we were Six" - Diddle Dog: A miscellany of Flash Fiction
"Fear" - The Blinks Magazine
"East Carson Street Parade" - Steel City Review (Fall)
"In Cedar" - Panamowa
"Our Normal Lives" - Arabesques (Women's Issue)
"Amsterdam, Ohio" - The Puddle Splashers
I am the founder of Amsterdam Press.
I am the Editor in Chief of Plain Spoke.
I am the series editor of the GobPile Chapbook Series. I am loosely considered the founder/1st chair of the Appalachian Square Table.
I am applying to grad schools.
I have some fantastic friends.
I am writing a children's book, and it is going to be illustrated by Edith Dinger-Wadkins.
Spanish is hard.
Yes, Jamie Barlow and I are still best friends. (See how I cleverly anticipated that you'd ask that).
I'd much rather be painting or writing:
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Other Random Stuff About Me
First: I am not a feminist writer. I want to be recognized for my craft, not my ovaries. I think that calling oneself a feminist is a little bit hurtful to the cause. Let's move on already.
Now that we have that out of the way, I have to say I hate these little mini-biographies. There is absolutely nothing mini about life. At least not about mine. Take that literally if you want. I am the editor of Plain Spoke, a sporadic literary publication of the Amsterdam Press. I don't know how people have time to watch television. Especially appointment television. I'm not country, but I'm from rural Ohio (Which, by the way, I've been told is cliche). I used to have short pink spiky hair. Obviously, it wasn't my natural hair color. That was back when I hated fake people. One day I realized I was being just as artificial, and I quit. Now I love fake people. They amuse me. I used to be someone who would fabulously get on my nerves now. I don't talk like my neighbors or the other people who live around here. They say things like yella=yellow, wensdee=wednesday, pixburg=Pittsburgh. No, I don't do that. But I do say crick=creek. I think it's charming. And I have some other weird regional peculiarities about me, too. But they've been self-extracted and readopted on purpose. So I think I'm absolutely justified in my selective Eastern-Ohio-River-Steel-Coal-Culture-ness. I think I'm the grammar police. Or, if you want to interpret it a little differently, I just believe I'm better at it than most people. But I only police people who annoy me, so maybe I'm a bit hypocritical about it. We all are, about something. Most people just don't admit it. I cut my hair myself. It makes me feel better sometimes. My left nostril is pierced, but I don't wear the jewelry. Sometimes I put it in for special occasions, or from time to time when I want to see what it looks like again. I write often. I am fascinated by cyberculture. I love futurism. I hate Internet Explorer. I'm a geek. I like being cold. I used to get in trouble for knowing how to read in kindergarten. My preschool teacher taught me to read and write at a 4th grade level before I started public school. I was bored until 7th grade and then I didn't care anymore. I have health problems, but I don't talk about them because people always treat me differently when they find out about them. I have a livejournal. I have several concrete journals as well. My biggest influences in writing are Tom Robbins, Richard Brautigan, Samuel Beckett, Raymond Carver, Adam Duritz, and Elizabeth Garver. Notice that only one of them is female. Like I said before, I am not a feminist writer. People love to talk about what I write in a feminist context, but it's not on purpose. I love Americana and Appalachia. I love language. I suck at learning foreign languages unless they're useless. I once learned how to speak some Twi, but then I decided I didn't want to get married and move to Ghana. I play the piano and the clarinet well. I want to write a musical. I am good with a paintbrush. I hate whistling. I can't whistle, and it grates my nerves when other people whistle. I don't think it's whistle envy, either. It just gives me headaches. I try not to let it bother me, but it does. I know how to use apostrophes. And I make fun of people who do not. I absolutely ABHOR comic sans. As a font, it sucks the most dick. I like it when people send me mail. Not email, real mail. I'm very blunt and sometimes that pisses people off. I pledged Zeta Tau Alpha. I won the "Hypocrite Award" at a cast party for that. I hate alphabetical order. I'm good at a lot of things: art, acting, crafts, writing, sewing, embroidery, pointing out the obvious, and winning arguments. I no longer have a 4.0 GPA at the moment. I blame having had to take Spanish and Math. I want to go to grad school. I am lazy and unmotivated.
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