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About meBritani Sadovski has been writing under the name Sunflower Skins since 2005. Alongside self-published chapbooks, her work has also appeared in the Grapevine and Grubstreet, both from Huron University College, and she has collaborated with authors such as England's Briton Self and Montreal's Jeremiah Riehl. Current projects include her novel, "Liebestod", as well as a series of letters written with her partner, Darren McMullin.

Sunflower Skins distributes both professionally and guerilla-style; the new book, "Re-Membering & Acts of Omission", can be found at Attic Books and Hanger 18 in London and Fanfare Books in Stratford. 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". I have nine first-editions of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry and an out-of-print edition of "Catcher in the Rye" depicting Holden on the cover. 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, Woolf, Keats, and Browning. 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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