Finishing up a post-bachelor's research grant on unemployment and youth development in Macedonia and am hoping to travel the Balkans in August.

American, but half-Slavic in spirit.

Always open to the picturesque and rich conversations.

Interests

Writing poetry and attempting novels I never seem to finish, metaphysics and ontology, classical piano, grammar of foreign languages, lifelong learning, coffee, whiskey, episodes of Jeopardy, pilgrimages to Eastern Orthodox sites

• writing
• poetry
• coffee
• traveling
• piano
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: anything by Dostoevsky or Thomas Mann or Shakespeare, Keats' poetry, textbooks (nerd life),

Movies: Sullivan's Travels, Donnie Darko, Network, Metropolis, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, The Truman Show, Edward Scissorhands

Music: early 20th-century classical (Debussy, Verlaine, John Ireland); Sun Kill Moon, the Album Leaf, early Modest Mouse, Bon Iver, Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes, Green Pitch; Georgian Orthodox chant

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Macedonia, Russian Federation, United States