Susannah

Lesley University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, The Putney School

Mount Holyoke College, Attended 1994 - 1998, Class of 1998, Bachelor's Degree, Russian Literature & Psychology

Learning Specialist, perpetual Master's student

Crazy Cat Women of the Northeast

wigs, biking, swing dancing, Noah Baumbach, Neil Labute, haikus, short stories, first-person confessional novels and monologues, playwriting, outdoor showers with rainbows, Nantucket, 60's horror movies, beginnings and endings, fashion shows, coastal music festivals, nostalgia, group gifts, art deco, kitties, international roommates, the Plan, the Pill, books on how to write (without making myself do so), replacing beloved scratched cds, Nevsky Prospect and those Russians, not talking to my parents for long periods of time but missing them, rhinestones, loving Boston while appreciating NYC, innocence, impracticality, idealism, embracing harmless hypocrisies in myself and in others, therapeutic conversation, recounting what I've done since college and wondering if it's enough, Morrissey, narcissism, self-loathing, existentialism as a therapeutic philosophy, and adolescents (I still feel like one, and they can show it more honestly than I can).

Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata, " anything by Bret Easton Ellis, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The 2006 anthology of NonRequired Reading, Mary Gaitskill's book Because They Wanted To, Neil Labute's book Seconds of Pleasure, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Vladimir Nabokov's book of short stories

Recently: The Lives of Others, Little Children. Less Recently: Half-Nelson, In the Company of Men, Closer, Eternal Sunshine, Happiness, Magnolia

Blonde Redhead, Pulp, Damien Rice, Interpol, The National, Wolf Parade, The Faint, Aimee Mann, Suzanne Vega, The Smiths, The Cure, LCD Soundsystem, The Wrens, Joy Division, The Postal Service, Deathcab for Cutie, Pinback, Franz Ferdinand, New Order, Arcade Fire, The Notwist, The Album Leaf, The Knife

Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiam, Project Runway

Taurus

whimsical, extroverted, high impact, tenacious... and a bit of a sentimental sap.

Parker Posey.