CURRENT MISSION

To fill my remaining allotted heartbeats with wine and laughter and endless summer snoozing

ABOUT ME

I have an MFA in creative writing from Naropa University, where I studied fiction.

My first collection of short stories came out recently - It Can Be That Way Still (Bedouin Books, 2008).

I'm also co-founder and prose editor of Zero Ducats, a literary journal comprised entirely of pilfered materials and dispersed for free.

I've spent most of my waking life in schools and universities, but the only worthwhile things I've learned have been through traveling and meeting new people.

PHILOSOPHY

Carpe diem.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've couchsurfed in Berlin and Paris, including several weeks as a tumbleweed at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore.

Every year of my adult life I have traveled far more than the year previous. I've never had much money or material resources, so I've largely done this through couchsurfing with friends and friendly people...

Interests

Graveyards, woods, cities, literature, the films of Orson Welles and David Lynch, Modernism, cooking for myself and friends, wine, DIY book publishing, evolutionary sociology, meeting random people in random places and talking about wonderfully random things...

• writing
• books
• literature
• singing
• diy
• cooking
• wine
• vegetarian
• vegan
• partying
• movies
• traveling
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Cormac McCarthy, JD Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Grahm Greene, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rimbaud, Anything by Truffaut and Fellini and Wong Kar Wai, Touch of Evil, Lady from Shanghai, There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, No Country for Old Men, Blue Velvet, The Big Lebowski, The Wrestler, Anything with Will Ferrell (well, almost anything)...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

At a party in Brooklyn I talked for hours with the main nerd guy from the Beastie Boys video "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)." He doesn't like it when you sing the chorus to him.

Teach, Learn, Share

Vegan and vegetarian cooking, graveyard exploration, shoplifting.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea, United States

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