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Gender
Male
Birthday
May 19 1989
Location
Greenville, SC
About Me
Just your regular run-of-the-mill maladjusted, employment-seeking, post-graduate millennial. I was a navy brat; born in Charleston, South Carolina. Hurricane Hugo destroyed our home, and we moved to Kings Bay, Georgia, then Greenville, then parents divorced, then Myrtle Beach, then back to Greenville. Became a writer whenever my father moved to Colorado. We were pen pals; I learned the pen was my pal. I grew up, did ok in school, went to an ok college, majored in English.
Type of Writer
Biographer, mostly. Also love short stories, poetry, and writing about food. When I was 15, I wanted to be a food critic.
Writing Style
I strive to become the amalgam of Sedaris, Sandra Cisneros, Pat Conroy, J. M. Coetzee, Edwidge Danticat, and Sue Monk Kidd.
Interests
Organic food, ballet, online education, helping others, physics, marijuana (I write for Greenleaf Magazine), solar energy, the future of the book, starting over, music, the cosmos, art, hiking, doing what's right for you.
Favorite Genres
Open-minded.
Favorite Books
The Alchemist, The Velvet Rage, The Prince of Tides, On Bullshit, Bastard out of Carolina, A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Favorite Authors
Paulo Coelho, Deepak Chopra, Sandra Cisneros, Alice Walker, Pat Conroy, David Sedaris, J. M. Coetzee, Jamaica Kincaid, David Foster Wallace, Ken Kesey, Alison Bechdel, Dr. Seuss, Harper Lee, Jennifer Egan, Jeffrey Eugenides.
Favorite Poets
Rumi, Mary Oliver, Natasha Trethewey, A. Van Jordan, Rives, Dante Alighieri, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Oscar Wilde.
Favorite Quote
"The worst vice is advice" -A college professor of mine.
Favorite Music
Lotus, Bonobo, Kurt Elling, Amy Winehouse, Thievery Corporation, Kaskade, Louis Armstrong, Queen, Lauryn Hill, Miles Davis, Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Joni Mitchell, Trust, Orbital, Four Tet, Big Gigantic.
Favorite Movies
Cashback, Broken English, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Gilda.
Favorite Shows
Six Feet Under, Grey's Anatomy, Girls.
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