What you like to be called:  Marci

Your email: mbatchelor@mills.edu

Your birthday: April 9

Your genre(s): Poetry

My grad thesis: 

Interested in the nature of existence, and attending to a queer consciousness, my poetic fascination is intent on exploring the way in which individuals and objects interact in public space in ways that are random, puzzling, and imperfectly coordinated. My awkwardly loving senior thesis seeks to enchant readers with wordplay that connects, drifts, and shifts together like a puzzle or a game may or might. I'm going for tension and suspense! The main theme my work is gearing itself towards is: "Solids and Silhouettes," because I'm interested in shapes, colors, and the arrangement of what exists as actual and how the supposed "fact," a preconception, contrasts with what seems exist, such as the mystery in the corner of the eye, the unknown that gives rise to uncertainty. 

Why you are a writer: 

I strongly believe that to communicate the human experience is to be invested in the human experience, that, writing puts into a larger conversation with the world as we connect with our readers. 

First thing you ever wrote: 
What your writing practices are? How often? How long? Where? With? Etc.:

I keep a notebook with me at all times--that way if the impulse hits, a lined paper-pal is readily available for what may become a colorful word flow powered by thought and energy.  While I do like to write in a quiet space where I can enter a deep state of concentrate, more and more, it has increasingly become a pleasurable experience for me to write in a café where, in a public space, there are lots of other productive people buzzing about, captivated, too, by this project or that activity.

 Anything else you want to tell us? 

The guitar has become a huge friend to me, and now if only I can think of ways that I might be able to manipulate some of my poetry into becoming some good old songs for crooning, then we are set to go full, out, and live!