About Me

Atlanta, Georgia, United States
My first book, "Invisible Sisters: A Memoir" has been named one of "Twenty Five Books All Georgians Should Read!" I would love to visit your bookclub, either in person (in the South) or through the magic of electronics. My writing has received a "Special Mention" for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. I have been honored with a residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT., a Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and the 2009 Peter Taylor Nonfiction Fellowship at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Locally, I teach workshops in creative writing, memoir, and feature journalism, and am a member of the faculty of an art college, where I teach screenwriting. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) and a B.S. in Communication from Emerson College, in Boston. I used to work in television. I did not push the broom behind the elephant. Usually, I served as mahout - I drove the (allegorical) elephant. If he was SAG or AFTRA. Rock stars do not scare me.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

The sounds outside my house at night, or another reason to love Atlanta


This is what we hear outside, high in the pines and oaks, late at night.

Listen closely - the sounds you want come in at about eight seconds, (or 00:00:08, for those of you trained like me, and no, I don't have the frame count.)

This is from somewhere in Canada, but it's the same sound, and I love it. A barred owl.

1 comments:

Chuck said...

Thank you for that. I've been hearing the same sound up here in Little Five Points, and now I know what it is!
Huck