About the Author
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Blurbarian Since
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April 2008
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Name
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Melissa Stallard
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My Web Site
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melissastallard.com
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Location
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Chicago, IL
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Gender
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Female
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My Occupation
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photographer
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My Bio
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Born and raised in the coal fields of southwest Virginia then uprooted to a widespot in the middle of the road in northeast Tennessee at thirteen. At twenty-seven she relocated to Chicago, IL where she finally learned to appreciate the things that she had had her entire life. She's becoming retroactively more southern everyday.
Fresh out of graduate school, where she received she MFA in photography at Columbia College Chicago and currently seeking employment in photographic arts and education.
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Things I Don't Mind The World Knowing
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Spoiler alert: I'm thinking my next book will be about... |
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you guessed it... photography! |
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Everyone needs to know about these authors and artists... |
Photographers: Mike Smith, Mark Steinmetz, Alec Soth, William Eggleston, William Christenberry, Robert Frank, Walker Evans, Susan Lipper, Jason Lazarus, Brian Ulrich, Christian Patterson, Greg Stimac.
Writers: Larry Brown, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Nathaniel Philbrick.
(I love southern gothic literature and historical non-fiction.) |
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This book is addictive. Read it. (At your own risk.) |
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
-- both by Nathaniel Philbrick |
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