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Maine Stories

When I first moved to Maine in 2009, I told myself I would not write about this place until I felt like I understood it. Eight years later, I began to write. (Image: Sarah Baldwin, Seedbombvesselportrait)

Blogging from a Maine forest
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Origin Story 
Maine Arts Journal, Spring 2018
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If you walk behind a row of semi-detached houses in Blackburn, Lancashire, you’ll find the forest where I played every summer of my youth. I was born in this rural patch of northwest England and would have grown up here, if it were not for my father.

​One day while working as an architect for the local council, he spotted an advert for a job in the Architectural Services Division of the British Colonial Government of Hong Kong. My parents, then young and still adventurous had too many bills to pay, and they saw this as a promise of a better life.  When I was two and my brother four, we boarded a plane to Hong Kong. Read more


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Putting It In Ink:
​Sarah Baldwin Profile

I interviewed artist and curator Sarah Baldwin for The Chart in the fall of 2017. We discussed her site-specific show 'Influx' in the Biddeford mills. 
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Sascha Braunig:
​The Hollow Body:

I visited the studio of the Portland-based artist Sascha Braunig to write this essay for Leap: The International Art Magazine of Contemporary China. 
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Olympia Snowe Interview

I spoke with the senator about the leadership institute she founded to inspire a new generation of women leaders in Maine. 
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