Megan Shank

Omaha North High School, Attended 1994 - 1998, Class of 1998

University of Missouri School of Journalism

University of Missouri - Columbia, Attended 1998 - 2002, Class of 2002, Bachelor's Degree, Journalism and Political Science

Editor

Studying Chinese, writing, reading, traveling, running, swimming, scuba, yoga, cooking spicy food, eating spicy food, singing in the shower, gardening, making faces

Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian, River Town by Peter Hessler, Shame by Salman Rushdie, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, anything by Terry Pratchett, J.K. Rowling, Flannery O'Connor or David Sedaris

Still Life, Spring Subway, Waiting Alone, The Life Aquatic, The Hours, Cold Comfort Farm, anything by Alexander Payne -- particularly Citizen Ruth, any Jia Zhangke film

Jolie Holland, Sleater Kinney, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Smith, Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters, Mogwai, Modest Mouse, Belle and Sebastian, Dirty Three, The Go Team, Yo La Tengo, Arcade Fire, The Cribs, The Album Leaf, Built to Spill, Tortoise, Morissey, Jurassic 5, The Roots, Cold Fairyland (Shanghai prog rock band)

Six Feet Under, The Chapelle Show, The Simpsons

Adventurous, open-minded, aesthetic. Creative and conceptual. Lover of strong verbs, punchy flavors and surprising silences. Enjoy playing and laughing. Hard-working and tenacious. A well of will and wanderlust. Interested and involved.