Writer & elementary school teacher; anti-Trump American expat in Gurye, South Korea. I've lived in Korea for almost three years. I have a master's degree in Creative Writing. I'm a former fiction editor. I love books, I love music and art, I love 초고추장, and I love to meet interesting people.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

I love to meet interesting people from around the world.

兴趣

Writing. Reading. Music - listening, playing, history. Wandering. Language. Culture.

• arts
• movies
• music
• history
• reading books
• creative writing

音乐、电影和书籍

Music nerd. Blues, jazz, country, bluegrass, classical, rock, hip hop, funk - anything -- but especially old strange recordings. 1920s Greek fiddle? Yes please.

David Lynch, Coen Bros, PT Anderson, Cuaron, Scorsese, Bong Joon Ho, Park Chan Wook, etc etc etc.

Faulkner, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Flaubert, Lorrie Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beatty, Jane Hirshfield, and on and on and on.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Becoming friends with 300 middle schoolers whose language I didn't speak, and then breaking my heart saying goodbye to them all. And then, the next year, doing it all again.

我游览过的国家

China, Czech Republic, France, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

South Korea, United States