(me, April 2013)
The short version…
My name is Bailey and I am a writer. I am also a graduate student.
The long version…
I was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the middle of a spring afternoon. This sentence explains more about me than you’ll probably ever know.
When I was a young child, I read Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh. From that book forward, I carried a notebook & a pen around with me everywhere, jotting down things I witnessed. It sounded something like this: dog barking, sign, waiter outside Indigo Crow, truck, car, post office, cloud shaped like a rabbit… Sometime during this crucial, formative period, I declared myself a writer.
Today, most of my writing time is spent on a novel-in-progress that is affectionately known as #thatghoststory. I write in any spare time I can find between classes and work and spending time with real people.
As a graduate student, I study digital humanities, rhetoric and composition, and pedagogy. I get a little geeky about it all and, sometimes, I even blog about it.
Some things I really like this year…
Albums: Is (Hey Ocean!)
Books: The Big Smoke (Cally Jackson, 2012)
Films:
TV Shows:
Winning Fiction…
“Frakking Vests” (won The List Contest, Figment Fiction)
Interviews…
Ask the Reader, interviewed by Claire E. Smith (April 2011)
You forgot to mention the day you met me and how it changed your life forever in sheer awesomeness…
Ok, that is slightly egocentric, but meeting each other really did lead to lots and lots of awesomeness!
I had the same reaction to Harriet the Spy and spied on the neighbors because of it!
I like your style, Sheila Hurst!
Thank you – unfortunately though, they never did anything good and mostly just watched TV.
Just tagged you for the Lucky Seven/novel excerpt game. No pressure, but if you’d like to participate here’s the post: http://sheilahurst.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/lucky-seven/