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Created on 2003-08-24 14:56:27 (#1277943), last updated 2009-10-24
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Basic Info| Name: | Rachel Elizabeth Dillon |
|---|---|
| Location: | Somerville, Massachusetts, United States |
| Website: | Personal Webpage (now with actual updates) |
Bio(I originally had something snarky here but as I start using this for professionalish encounters I figured I should put in something at least vaguely reasonable. If you're a potential future employer, you should possibly ignore all this and go read my resume instead.)
The short version: I'm a forever-27 vegan biker dyke trying to thrive simultaneously in industry and academia while maintaining active creative and social lives. If that sounds busy, it's because it is.
Professionally, I work for a tech company in Cambridge, MA, USA. I do documentation and customer support, and have touched product code, though it's been a long time and it may have been a bad idea. :) I've also done consulting in the past in tech writing, software service sales, and book design, but right now I'm not able to handle any work on top of my full-time job, because of the things I do academically, which include my studies at University of Massachusetts Boston toward an MA in English. My non-creative-writing courses have led me to a focus on race and gender passing — in brief, people crossing identity boundaries — in fiction and autobiography. I taught a class on this at MIT in February 2009 and it is immortalized on Open CourseWare. This is all really exciting, and means I don't get to put quite as much time as I might like into my personal projects, which include a Crawl server (it's like NetHack, but harder), a nascent literary journal called Place/Time that's part of what will hopefully turn out to be a literary press, a probably-never-going-to-get-off-the-ground band, and writing fiction and poetry.
Oh, and I'm told I throw an excellent party. :)
The short version: I'm a forever-27 vegan biker dyke trying to thrive simultaneously in industry and academia while maintaining active creative and social lives. If that sounds busy, it's because it is.
Professionally, I work for a tech company in Cambridge, MA, USA. I do documentation and customer support, and have touched product code, though it's been a long time and it may have been a bad idea. :) I've also done consulting in the past in tech writing, software service sales, and book design, but right now I'm not able to handle any work on top of my full-time job, because of the things I do academically, which include my studies at University of Massachusetts Boston toward an MA in English. My non-creative-writing courses have led me to a focus on race and gender passing — in brief, people crossing identity boundaries — in fiction and autobiography. I taught a class on this at MIT in February 2009 and it is immortalized on Open CourseWare. This is all really exciting, and means I don't get to put quite as much time as I might like into my personal projects, which include a Crawl server (it's like NetHack, but harder), a nascent literary journal called Place/Time that's part of what will hopefully turn out to be a literary press, a probably-never-going-to-get-off-the-ground band, and writing fiction and poetry.
Oh, and I'm told I throw an excellent party. :)
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a single sentence about, all tomorrow's parties, alphabetical enough that it, appears properly right here:, buying new costumes gets, costly and i recommend, doing some sort of, exercise where you just, find an arrangement of, garments that you already, have that you've never, intertwined before and then, jazz it up with, kelp fronds or maybe, lilacs like you were, made of plants or, naiads; say it's an, oulipo sort of thing, perhaps that will raise, questions but you want, recognition after all and, so being associated with, trendy french poets and, unusual stylistic forms is, wonderful for picking up, xylophone players or whoever, you meet at these, zany goddamn soirees anyway.
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