ABOUT ME

I'm pretty laid back, and I love spending time with friends, especially when there's good conversation and food, but I also value my time by myself. I speak English, a little French, and I'm currently trying to learn some Dutch. I'm an outdoorsy Canadian girl, so I love hiking, camping, kayaking, swimming, biking - basically any activity that gets me moving while I enjoy the sunshine.

Centres d'intérêt

One of the things that is most important to me is having the time to make art, particularly theatre/film, although I also love to paint and dance. I pursue beauty above all else: beautiful people, ideas, food, moments, places...

I just finished my Hon. B.A. at the University of Toronto in playwriting and literary theory, though I've also studied, and have a passion for Russian literature in translation.

I do have severe allergies to peanuts and soy, so this is something I need to be very careful about when I'm travelling. However, I love to cook, and I'm pretty good at it, so if all else fails, I can whip us something up.

• arts
• writing
• literature
• poetry
• beauty
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• traveling
• painting
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• swimming

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Favourite books:

Foe by J.M. Coetzee
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Playwrights: Naomi Wallace, Edward Albee, Henrik Ibsen, Simon Stephens, Lucy Prebble, Rosa Laborde, Daniel Karasik, Jordan Tannahill

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

The poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" has haunted me more than any other piece of writing. Recently on a trip via chartered bus back from New York, I was sitting beside a wonderful older gentleman named John and we started talking about literature. He was pleading the case for simplicity in poetry and I had a feeling he might be a fan of Robert Frost. When I mentioned this great American poet, John proceeded to softly recite from memory the words of the very poem that I love so much, on the gently rumbling bus, in dim bluish bus light.

Pays que j'ai visités

France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United States

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Canada