born in Germany, raised in New York City, lived in Massachusetts and England and now Massachusetts again. (the above sentence took 26 years to happen but only a few seconds to write.) now I'm a grad student, studying books.

Interests

dogs. poems. instruments. etymologies. vegetarian food. poems about dogs. clicking "Random Article" on Wikipedia. Louis C. K. yogurt. musicological analysis of mid-career Taylor Swift. any gif. testifying to the love between babies and animals, as in http://www.imgur.com/NMhS8ZV.gif.

• animals
• dogs
• books
• poetry
• dining
• vegetarian

Music, Movies, and Books

recently:

music: D'Angelo. Nils Frahm. Perfume Genius. Sturgill Simpson. and making my way through all of Bob Dylan, an album a week.

movies: It's Such a Beautiful Day. Selma. The Magnificent Ambersons.

books: Frank Bidart. Louise Glück. Rachel Zucker. trying to read all of Emily Dickinson while keeping a smile on my face.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

my sister and I survived, for two days, in a foreign country, on M&M's.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United Kingdom, United States