| Female |
| January 28 1989 |
| Chicago suburbanite |
| I'm a poet posing as a fiction writer. I just worry poetry can't change the world. And frankly, you'll learn all about me if you read something, anything, that I managed to scribble down. |
| A serious one |
| John Steinbeck, Yann Martel, J. M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie, Haruki Murakami, David Foster Wallace, Roald Dahl, Arthur Miller |
| Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Simon and Garfunkel, Bon Iver, Regina Spektor, ecetera ecetera. |
| I'm Not There, Into the Wild, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Synechdoche, NY |