Mia Northwest

I'm another native Californian who transplanted to Oregon about ten years ago. Before that, I was lucky enough to travel and live around the world which taught me more than any book or classroom setting. I write because I'm too afraid to stage dive so putting my work online for people to read gives me almost the same feeling of jumping spastically in to an unnamed crowd. I just hope my work is good enough to surf the web for awhile...

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space - Thomas Mattingly, Apollo 16 Astronaut

Home Town:

San Jose, California

Places I've Lived:

California, Washington, Texas, Mississippi, Washington D.C., Philippines, Seattle, Eugene, Paris, Tunisia, Yakima and Portland, Oregon. In that order!

 

 

 

 

Colleges I've Attended:

University of Oregon. Go Ducks! (That's the fighting ducks to you, mister)

 

 

 

 

Hobbies:

Reading, writing, movies, comics, drinking coffee, lurking in the aisles at Powell's City of Books and office supply stores and starting to spend a little bit too much time at Hulu

 

 

 

Favorite Movies:

Shaun of the Dead, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Venus, Love Actually, High Fidelity, Shop Girl, Miss Potter, L'Enfant, Moulin Rouge (Baz Lurhmann version), Amelie, Shaun of the Dead, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Venus, Love Actually, High Fidelity, Shop Girl, Miss Potter, L'Enfant, Moulin Rouge (Baz Lurhmann version), Amelie, The Dark Knight, Penelope, The Crow, Rab ne Bana de Jodi, The Message, Jodhaa Akbar, Star Trek, Creator, Stardust, Belly of an Architect, Little Miss Sunshine, Run Fatboy Run, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Jaan e Maan, Hot Fuzz, Contact, Wolverine, Om Shanti Om and most documentaries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Favorite TV Shows:

Spaced, Frontline, Nature, Meet the Press, Nova, Secrets of the Dead, The Office, HIMYM, My Hero, The Gilmore Girls, anything on National Geographic, History Detectives, SYTYCD, cartoons and anime

 

 

 

Favorite Music:

Imogen Heap, The Noisettes, Love & Rockets, Outlandish, Sami Yusuf, Native Deen, James, Modest Mouse, Johnny Cash, Sun Kil Moon, The Cure, Kate Bush, Dean Martin, Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman, Paul McCartney (we love you Paul *screaming and crying*) and alternative and local (Portland) music like The Decemberists and Pink Martini

 

 

 

Favorite Books:

Al-Qur'an, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Q & A by Vikas Swarup, Old School by Tobias Wolfe, Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazzo Vittoro, Disquiet Humor (New Yorker) anything by Pablo Neruda, Demon Moon and Demon Night by Meljean Brook (A northwest writer, yay!) Any book at all by Haruki Murakami or Muriel Spark, Essays by Cyrill Connelly, Manga Shakespeare series, The Umbrella Academy, Unless by Carol Shields, Harry Potter series, The Telling by Jo Baker, Observatory by Daragh Carville