Hello! My name is Sarah and I am currently an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia studying creative writing and folklore. I graduated from Woodbridge Senior High School’s Center for the Fine and Performing Arts Creative Writing Program in 2007, and it was awesome.
Interests:Writing (Novel, Poetry, Short Story, Short Short Story, Children’s Literature, Creative Non-fiction, Pseudo-Journalism), Iowa, Michigan, Vermont, fairy tales, magical realism, Folio Society, spice racks, canonical texts, Home Depot paint samples, archetypes, the grocery store, the complete annihilation of Comic Sans and Papyrus, typography in general, interconnectedness, coloured staples, terry underwear, British spelling, incest, cough drops, Arthurian Legend, folklore, the monomyth, LRRH, sponges, hic haec hoc, Studio-Era Hollywood, silent films, talkies, fireplaces, Dada, the Beats, calculus, boko-maru, pi, M-Theory, the collective unconscious, the Dictionary, Andy Warhol, the electromagnetic spectrum, Tarot, the biomes, roller coasters, coasters, spiral staircases, clouds, synesthesia, glass slippers, Schrodinger’s Cat, Photoshop and InDesign, Eastern Philosophy, dream analysis, the Feminist Critique of literature, lyricism, Communism, cottages, the forest, dialogue, homemade crossword puzzles, shaking bottles of salad dressing, old typewriters, unicorns, dinosaurs, Moh’s Scale of Hardness, That’s What She Said, alchemy, childhood pop culture, ebay, cutting out laminated things, the Poetry Fair, Halloween, The Floor Socket that Symbolizes the Universe, World’s Fairs, architecture (especially WICs and car ports), Venn diagrams, T-charts, using “said” as the only dialogue tag even with questions, first person present tense, and the passive voice.
Enjoyable Music:Apples in Stereo, Band of Horses, the Beatles, Belle & Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cole Porter, David & the Citizens, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, the Decemberists, the Fiery Furnaces, the Flaming Lips, Frank Sinatra, the Jesus & Mary Chain, the Kinks, LCD Soundsystem, Los Campesinos!, M83, Neutral Milk Hotel, the New Pornographers, Of Montreal, Page France, Peter Bjorn & John, Pixies, Red House Painters, Sea Wolf, the Shins, Stars, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, Throw Me the Statue, Tilly & the Wall, Vampire Weekend, Voxtrot, Wolf Parade, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Favorite Films: Anything with: Grace Kelly, Robert Redford, Clark Gable, Audrey Hepburn. And: Adaptation, Almost Famous, Amadeus, Amelie, American Beauty, Amores Perros, Annie Hall, Atonement, The Aviator, Being John Malkovich, The Big Lebowski, Blue Velvet, Bonnie and Clyde, Bottle Rocket, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, The Breakfast Club, Casablanca, Charade, Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie, Un Chien Andalou, Chinatown, Chocolat, The Cider House Rules, Cinema Paradiso, La Cite des Enfants Perdus, City Lights, A Clockwork Orange, The Darjeeling Limited, Dial M for Murder, Doctor Zhivago, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Everything Is Illuminated, The Fall, Le Fantome de la Liberte, Finding Neverland, The Fountain, any Fred & Ginger film, Garden State, Ghost World, Gone with the Wind, The Good Girl, The Great Gatsby, Grosse Point Blank, Hamlet (1948), Heavenly Creatures, High Fidelity, I Heart Huckabees, The Hours, The Illusionist, Jeux D’Enfants, El Laberinto del Fauno, La Jetee, Juno, The Last Picture Show, Life Aquatic, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, Love Story, Moulin Rouge, Nosferatu, La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, The Princess Bride, Risky Business, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Royal Tenenbaums, Le Samourai, The Science of Sleep, The Sheik, The Squid and the Whale, Rushmore, Taxi Driver, Thumbsucker, Tom Jones, Vertigo, The Virgin Suicides, Wristcutters, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Yellow Submarine.
My favorite novel is The Great Gatsby. It is the greatest book of all time. This is not debatable.
