Nancy Hightower

www.myspace.com/uncannyredemption
  • Nancy Hightower

  • 39 / Female
  • DENVER, Colorado, US
  • Last Login: 11/16/2009

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Details

  • Status: Single
  • Here for: Networking
  • Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Interests

  • General

    Writing, teaching, discovering new art and movies. I have a love for the fantastic and surreal.
  • Music

    Voltaire--a new favorite. Art: Bosch, Brueghel, Goya (his Caprichos), Magritte, Gil Bruvel, Carrie Anne Baade, Daniel Richter, Jonas Burgert, Laurie Lipton, Jennie Saville, Francis Bacon, Odilon Redon, Alfred Kubin, Leonora Carrington the list goes on and on....
  • Movies

    Alien, Aliens, Pitch Black, King Kong, Terminator, Eraserhead, Blade Runner, Underworld, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu, Santa Sangre, Julien Donkey Boy, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Lion in Winter, Gaslight On the lighter side: Better Off Dead, The Holy Grail,The Princess Bride, Stripes, Fletch, Being John Malkovich,
  • Television

    Battlestar Galactica, Dead Like Me, Firefly, Dresden Files, Eureka, X-Files, The Mentalist, Heroes (notice how many of the shows I love are...canceled. Sigh)
  • Books

    Neverwhere, G.R.R. Martin's Fire and Ice series, The Lord of the Rings, The Trial, The Metamorphosis, anything by Flannery O'Connor, The Blue Bouquet by Octavio Paz, Rabbits by Kanai Mieko, Three Days to Never,The Turn of the Screw
  • Heroes

    Jesus, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Teresa, Oscar Romero--basically, if you're fighting on behalf of the poor and oppressed, you're my hero

Schools

  • University Denver

    • Denver,CO
    • Graduated: 2005
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: Ph D.
    • Major: English Literature with an emphasis in creative writing
    1995 to 1999
  • Fort Lewis College

    • Durango, CO
    • Graduated: 1992
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Major: English
    1988 to 1992

Latest Blog Entries

Blurbs

About me:

I'm the author of Devouring Winter, represented by Richard Curtis, and am currently working on an urban fantasy set in a futuristic Denver. http://nancyhightower.com/

Who I'd like to meet:

Other writers, artists, and fans of science fiction and fantasy.

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