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Your Name: Olivia Caroline

Your Nickname: Oliv, Liv, Livia, Livvy, (La) Petite, Nessarose, Nessa, Berries

Born (place and year):

Long Island, New York on July 26 1989

Day Job: Poet, Fanfic writer, librarian

Formative Childhood Experience: Reading my first chapter book, (Roald Dahl’s Matilda) watching The Prince of Egypt every day for five years, seeing RENT, dancing with a stripper, going to the city unsupervised and returning at two in the morning

Last Book Read: Angels Dance, Angels Die: The Tragic Romance of Pamela and Jim Morrison

Ambition: To fall in love, lose my virginity, move to New York, travel the world, get married and be asked to join Oprah’s book club…so I can turn it down haha!

Recent Accomplishment: I met Ralph Fiennes and was able to form real sentences in front of him.

Prized Possessions: My iPod, my autographed photo of Jesse L. Martin, the pearls my father bought me

One-sentence description of your writing: The darkly sweet spoils of a war between one girl and the world she doesn’t understand.

Influences (poetic and otherwise): Mary Chapin Carpenter, Sarah Mclachlan, Jonathan Larson, Anthony Rapp, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel, Brian d’Arcy James, Ralph Fiennes, Robin Williams, Jonathan Franzen, Ishle Yi Park, Francesca Lia Block, my father, mother, friends and teachers, soda, thunderstorms, men, James Douglas Morrison

Favorites

Colors: Red, black, white, gold Flower: roses, day lilies, peonies

Month: July, Day: Friday,
Holiday Do weddings count as holidays?

Foods: peaches, blueberries, mushrooms, hamburgers, tacos

Drinks: Dr. Pepper, Cream Soda, Coke, green tea, Shirley Temples

TV show: Law & Order SVU Cartoon: Hey Arnold!

Movies: The Phantom of the Opera, RENT, The Prince of Egypt, Angels in America, Dead Poets Society, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas

Books: Phantom by Susan Kay, How to be Alone by Jonathan Franzen, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, The Weetzie Bat Series and Echo both by Francesca Lia Block, The Rameses Books by Christian Jacq, River God by Wilbur Smith

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian d’Arcy James, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Anthony Rapp, Taye Diggs, Jesse L Martin, Ewan McGregor, Robin Williams, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Tim Curry

Actresses: Julia Stiles, Judi Dench, Claire Danes, Tracie Thoms, Liv Tyler, Heather Headley, Toni Collette

Singers: Sarah Maclachlan, Natalie Merchant, Paula Cole, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Julia Murney, Idina Menzel, Josh Groban, Suzanne Vega, Adam Pascal

Bands: 10,000 Maniacs, The Killers, Panic! At The Disco, Fall Out Boy, Genesis, Yellowcard, Nightwish, Third Eye Blind, Vertical Horizon, Evanescence, 112, 3 Doors Down, The Doors

Poem: The Wild Party by Joseph March (If anyone knows this poem, contact me. I love it and it’s a lost treasure)

My Policies

I don’t like flames! Please be constructive if you want to criticize. I also don't like people who read and don't review. If you review me, fave me or both I’ll review you back. I love to hear what people think so please if you should like to spare a moment I will do the same for you.

If you want to read anything...

I Know There is Poetry

Vega

Coulrophobia

Gray Girl

and my play I Feel Fine. Those are my best.

Thanks for stopping by! And now on to my scribbling.