Favorite novel ever: The Pandora Principle by Carolyn Clowes. Also: Terry Pratchett is a god.
Some of my creative influences:
Leonard Cohen, Anna Nalick, Jimmy Buffett, Emily Dickenson, Val Murah, Kabir, Kahlil Gibran, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Paul II, Whitman, Wordsworth, William Blake, Charles Simic, Billy Collins, T.S. Eliot, Lorca, Bob Dylan, Terry Pratchett, Bon Jovi, Corrine Bailey Rae, Jack Johnson, Lifehouse, Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Shel Silverstein, Lewis Carroll, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poe, Maya Angelou, e.e. cummings, John Donne, Lord Byron, Rudyard Kipling, Diane Duane, John Keats, Dr. Seuss, Milton, Sonya Sones, Robert Bly, Rumi, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Antonio Machado, Pablo Neruda, Georg Trakl, Basho, Jack Prelutsky
Other influences include Brandon Burns, one of my best friends in the world. If I'd never met him, days would be more boring, for certain, and my music collection much blander. I've tried life without him, and it just wasn't the same. Thus ends the shout out, which, while not quite as epic and full of run on sentences as his, is at least just as heartfelt. :) Peace.
Welcome to the official page of LeighAnna K. Flagg, author of Ain't it Grand: The Transmogrification of Sapphire Erin.
In May of 2007, two of my anthologies, one prose and one poetry, won local awards simultaneously: the Joan Collins Poetry Award, and the Dr. George D. Gleason Award for Writing. That same summer, Publish America accepted Ain’t it Grand, and the book came out in November.
You can contact me at my old site, or my deviantart, or my "real" myspace page. I'm also on Facebook.
About Ain't it Grand:
Strictly speaking, Sapphire Erin doesn’t exist.
That is, she doesn’t have a birth certificate, or a social security number. She isn’t listed in any hospital records, government records, or education records. No employer would recognize her name; no childhood friends would be able to share memories of growing up.
But when you read her poems, when you feel that tug at the heart-soul that is recognition, empathy, and understanding, then you know Sapphire Erin; when you recognize the joyful love of life, and the sadness, behind the poems, realizing you know exactly how she feels—then you know Sapphire Erin. Each time you come to, and move past, an ending, or a beginning, feeling the disappointments and joys that come with repeatedly looking life in the eyes, then you know Sapphire Erin. And whenever you find yourself sitting alone, mournful and endlessly weary; or catch your own gaze in the mirror, and find yourself smiling, feeling the same soul-joy you know she must have felt in these pages—then you know Sapphire Erin.
This is her story.
“Transmogrification”; noun;
a complete and fantastic change
Who I'd like to meet:
I wish I could have met Pope John Paul II, or DeForest Kelley. By all accounts they were both amazing guys. I wouldn't say no to meeting John de Lancie/Q (like God, but prettier) or Colin Mochrie, either.
I'm going to have to complain loudly and vociferously about the horrifying and inexcusable fact that I'm not listed under either "ceative influences" or Heroes. I cannot let this slight go unacknowledged, as such you can consider your tendered resignation accepted.
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