| Male |
| The Pacific Northwest |
| I am a young adult, and an American. I have lived in the Balkans, and participated in the Occupy Movement. I worked as a student journalist in the past. |
| Casual, journalistic |
| Experimental, first-hand experiences |
| Modernist fiction, first-hand memoirs, realistic and experimental new writing |
| Trainspotting, The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Kite Runner, Homage to Catalonia, All's Quiet on the Western Front, Koolaids, Sarajevo Marlboro, Fight Club |
| George Orwell, Chuck Palahniuk, Khaled Hosseini, Edward Abbey, Irvine Welsh, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |