About the Writer
"It is utterl imposs. Underline imposs. To write today."
I'm currently a Master's student in Literature at UMASS Amherst. My research focuses on ecocriticism, in particular how it relates to Early Modernism and Modernism. I also investigate feminist modes of mobility in highly pressurized patriarchal systems. In 2022, I graduated magna cum laude with an English degree, emphasizing in creative writing, et une matière secondaire en Français, from Cal Poly SLO.
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I have three published stories, displayed and linked in my Portfolio, and I am currently a publishing intern at Restless Books, as well as a freelance book reviewer (you can find some of my reviews on BookBrowse and Time's Arrow Literature).
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I read a lot. In middle school, it was Magic Tree House, The Neverending Story. High school was trickier- started off with young adult, ended with an intense Kundera kick. Now, it's anything and everything I think will affect me, change me, teach me.
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Like I said, I love to read. At my core, I'm just a girl who loves to read and write stories. I'm a fan of Shakespeare, Joyce, translated literature, memoirs, and anything written by Marilynne Robinson or Ross Gay (who I met, pictured below!).
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Soul Books
As of writing this, these are the books that, quintessentially combined, represent me as a reader, thinker, writer, and person.
The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell
Housekeeping
Whereabouts
Inciting Joy: Essays
by Jhumpa Lahiri
by Ross Gay
by Marilynne Robinson
Immortality
by Milan Kundera
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Upstream
Changing Planes
by Mary Oliver
by Ursula K Le Guin