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About meBritani Sadovski has been writing under the name Sunflower Skins since 2005. Her work is available in self-published chapbooks, and she has also appeared in The Grapevine and Grubstreet, both from Huron University College. She works primarily with her partner Thom Bacchus Roland and has collaborated with other writers and artists, including Vagrancy Films, Grimbrothers Entertainment, Sweater Eyes Photography, and England’s Briton Self. Currently projects revolve around writing experiments in preparation for larger works.

Sunflower Skins distributes both professionally and guerilla-style; Attic Books and Hanger 18 in London and Fanfare Books in Stratford have carried free chapbooks. Also check library books, menus, street corners, and all places random. You might find one there.

Reprints are available for most works; email for details.

About my libraryMy entire left side is tattooed with Kathy Acker's "Empire of the Senseless" and I have two shoulder pieces from Joyce Carol Oates's "Foxfire." Most recently, my right arm has become devoted to Joyce's "Ulysses." I have a collection of first and rare editions of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry and an out-of-print edition of "Catcher in the Rye" depicting Holden on the cover. Our latest acquisitions include a first of Salinger's "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" and "Seymour: An Introduction", as well as a first of Joyce's letters, edited by Stuart Gilbert. I have ordered books from as far away as France because I just couldn't live without them and have meticulously repaired the decaying and forgotten ones in used stores around the corner.

My library goes with me everywhere; when I moved into residence at university, I brought 4 boxes of books while everyone else carried in TVs and stereos. As a writer I know that reading as much as I can will strengthen my own work--and so I devour Acker, Millay, Pynchon, Twain, Kafka, Salinger, Genet, Faulkner, and Woolf. I have an affinity for Michael Turner and Geoff Nicholson. Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" makes my heart stop. Adrienne Rich and early Jeanette Winterson shaped much of my adolescence and now the history of circus and sideshow culture takes over my dreaming and waking lives. Trocchi, Ginsberg and the rest of the Beats have their place on my shelves. I will forever be indebted to Milton for writing "Paradise Lost" and equally so to C.S. Lewis for his preface to it.

This, I love more than anything.

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Real nameBritani Sadovski

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Member sinceJul 6, 2008