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The Wild Hunt
How I Live
Created on 2007-09-16 06:09:20 (#13828072), last updated 2009-12-18
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Basic Info| Name: | ssshunt |
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| Birthdate: | 1958-06-12 |
BioBorn in El Paso, Texas, in 1958, so that makes me 49, and proud of it. My parents were Canadian, and the older sibs were born there. I was the first one born in the states that made it; I have an older sister, Cherie Sue, who only lived for two hours. She was a redhead, I am not.
Moved to Salt Lake City in November of '79, which means I've been here 28 years now. The politics can be scary but that story is happening everywhere, so what the hell. I worked odd jobs--cleaned houses even--until I decided I wanted more, and went to university on the Planned Poverty Program. It was there I found out that I really was meant to be a writer. I mean, I hoped and hoped, but was told not to dream too much, be practical, etc, so I had pretty much given up. But I took a couple of writing classes anyway, and after the second one my prof said, "You realize, of course, that you're a writer?" And it was happy happy joy joy time.
I went on to study for an MFA in Creative Writing, but did not finish it due to my funky health. I'm almost done--I will finish it someday.
I write mostly contemporary fiction, but want to write fantasy--it's just so hard to write! Fantasy, I mean. I've read so many books I thought it would be easy, but it is not. Argh. I have published stories in Sudden Fiction Continues, The Mississippi Review, Hotel Amerika, The Way We live: Stories by Utah Women Authors, Quarterly West, and a few other magazines. I'm currently shopping a fantasy story around.
I'm working on a contemporary novel, that big autobiographical one that we all seem to need to write. Have 2 other novels on the back burner, both are fantasy. I can write beginnings and endings, but the middle just kills me. I tend to be more voice-driven than plot-driven, that's probably why.
I'm married with four sons--only one left at home. And he's seventeen, yay! Have an Aussie who is sweeter than sweet, and a black tri--very noble looking. But he's a goof, wouldn't you know it. Am married to a professor I met in school (it's not as sordid as it sounds), who was born in Nice. He teaches English and Creative Writing and Modernism. Go figure.
I live in a three story weird house--looks like a shotgun shack stood up on its end--but I love the place. We live in a nice old neighborhood where everyone knows each other.
Oh. And I'm the matriarch of this clan. God help me.
Moved to Salt Lake City in November of '79, which means I've been here 28 years now. The politics can be scary but that story is happening everywhere, so what the hell. I worked odd jobs--cleaned houses even--until I decided I wanted more, and went to university on the Planned Poverty Program. It was there I found out that I really was meant to be a writer. I mean, I hoped and hoped, but was told not to dream too much, be practical, etc, so I had pretty much given up. But I took a couple of writing classes anyway, and after the second one my prof said, "You realize, of course, that you're a writer?" And it was happy happy joy joy time.
I went on to study for an MFA in Creative Writing, but did not finish it due to my funky health. I'm almost done--I will finish it someday.
I write mostly contemporary fiction, but want to write fantasy--it's just so hard to write! Fantasy, I mean. I've read so many books I thought it would be easy, but it is not. Argh. I have published stories in Sudden Fiction Continues, The Mississippi Review, Hotel Amerika, The Way We live: Stories by Utah Women Authors, Quarterly West, and a few other magazines. I'm currently shopping a fantasy story around.
I'm working on a contemporary novel, that big autobiographical one that we all seem to need to write. Have 2 other novels on the back burner, both are fantasy. I can write beginnings and endings, but the middle just kills me. I tend to be more voice-driven than plot-driven, that's probably why.
I'm married with four sons--only one left at home. And he's seventeen, yay! Have an Aussie who is sweeter than sweet, and a black tri--very noble looking. But he's a goof, wouldn't you know it. Am married to a professor I met in school (it's not as sordid as it sounds), who was born in Nice. He teaches English and Creative Writing and Modernism. Go figure.
I live in a three story weird house--looks like a shotgun shack stood up on its end--but I love the place. We live in a nice old neighborhood where everyone knows each other.
Oh. And I'm the matriarch of this clan. God help me.
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and more things., buffy the vampire slayer, cheese, chess, cooking (sometimes), dogs, fantasy, fencing, gluten free cookbooks, guitar playing, high jumping, keyboards (just barely), lightning, macs, mexican food, music, my laptop, publishing, rain, reading, sleeping (!!), the desert, the french, tornadoes, triple jumping, wonderful cheese, writing fiction
External Services:
 | ssshunt@livejournal.com |
Schools:
University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT (1986 - 1993)Prydonian Academy - Gallifrey, County Dublin, Ireland (2005 - 2009)
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