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I’m ginger, a writer, bookseller, dog walker, and lifelong note taker. I was born in Monterey and live in Los Angeles with my partner and two geriatric chihuahuas.

notework is an ongoing collage essay project that examines the practice of note taking as a constitutive process of lived experience. Some influences include the work of David Markson, Kate Zambreno, Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyser, Lydia Davis, John Berger, John Cage, bell hooks, Lucy Sante, Claudia Rankine, Melissa Febos, Teju Cole, Lidia Yuknavitch, Myriam Gurba, Wendy C. Ortiz, Melissa Broder, Valeria Luiselli, Jenny Holzer, Renata Adler, Joe Brainard, Yoko Ono, May Sarton, Doris Lessing, Dawn Powell, Elizabeth Bishop, Clarice Lispector, Annie Ernaux, Henri Michaux, E.M. Cioran, Roland Barthes, Witold Gombrowicz, Leonora Carrington, Vernon Lee, Laura Riding, Virginia Woolf, Louisa May Alcott, Jules Renard, Giacomo Leopardi, Robert Bresson, Hélène Cixous, Frida Kahlo, Georges Perec, René Char, W.G. Sebald, et al.

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