Michael Kinch

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Gender Male
Occupation Writer, Artist, Librarian
Location Oregon, United States
Introduction I'm a former science librarian; a husband with 2 grown girls; 3 little grand boys. My dystopia is THE BLENDING TIME, by Flux Books. FIRES OF NEW SUN due Fall 2011. You can view my website at michaelkinch.com
Interests Writing for Young Adults, YA fiction, Teen fiction, Altered Art, Impressionism, Expressionism, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Kandinsky, Acrylic painting, Getty Center, Art museums, Geology, Traveling, Collecting too many interesting things such as, ancient coins, antiquities, (that I can afford!), fossils, classical music, hills-'n-hollers music, TV:, 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, The Simpsons
Favorite Movies Blade Runner, Annie Hall, the very first Star Wars, Galaxy Quest, Napoleon Dynamite, Fargo, Stalingrad, (German version), The 300, Pulp Fiction, Crumb, Coen Brothers, District 9, Wallace and Grommit.
Favorite Music Classical, Aaron Copland, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Delta Blues, authentic mountain music, Iris DeMent, Joan Baez, Afro-Pop.
Favorite Books Two Years Before the Mast, Young-Adult fiction, The Hunger Games, Gary Paulson, Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, Handmaid's Tale, The Hunger Games, The Hunchback Assignments, The Poisonwood Bible, Into the Forest, dystopian novels, dystopias, and 100's of others.

You've been entered in a shadow puppet contest. What's your best pose?

Walk Like an Egyptian.