Author: timothybraun

  • Five Questions With Jennifer Mazza

    Name: Jennifer Mazza Title/Occupation: Artist / Adjunct Professor Organization/Company: Various URL: jenmazza.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born in Washington D.C., but grew up 50 miles west of the city, in Wheatland, VA. The place is marked by a green and white…

  • Are The Austin City Limits Getting Too Large?

    The Austin City Limits are growing, and I’m not just writing of the festival. This week the Wall Street Journal placed Austin as the fifth coolest town for young folk to like in the United States, right behind our sister city Portland (OR), Seattle, New York, with Washington D.C. topping the list. This is viewed…

  • Five Questions With Nova Ren Suma

    Name: Nova Ren Suma Title/Occupation: fiction writer, author of DANI NOIR (http://daninoir.com) Organization/Company: self URL: http://novaren.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? When I was a kid, we flung ourselves between the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, but I mostly grew up…

  • Five Questions For Michael Krumenacker

    Name: Michael Krumenacker Title/Occupation: Artist Organization/Company: Self URL: Chinati 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in very rural New Hampshire, completely ignorant of anything considered “high” art, although also far away from any suburban sprawl, cable, fast-food restaurants or malls too, so…

  • Meet The Curator – Ron Berry

    Name: Ron Berry Title: Curator and Creator Affiliation: Fuse Box Festival 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in the Houston suburbs. Strip-malls, bayous, astronauts. I was a NASA kid. My father was an aerospace engineer and my mother a counselor and teacher.…

  • Five Questions for Timothy Braun

    Name: Timothy Braun Title/Occupation: Writer/Professor. Organization/Company: A handful of websites, theaters, papers, and universities. URL: http://www.timothybraun.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born and raised in Indiana, but I’ve lived for stints in all kinds of places for months at a time doing…

  • Five Questions for Kambui Olujimi

    Name: Kambui Olujimi Title/Occupation: Artist Organization/Company: self-employed URL: http://www.kambuiolujimi.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. I moved around a lot, but kept coming back to Quincy Street where I was born. I feel like I never really get homesick,…

  • Five Questions for Patrick Rosal

    Name: Patrick Rosal Title/Occupation: Author, Poet Organization/Company: See below. URL: http://www.patrickrosal.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born and raised in New Jersey. I’ve had short and very temporary stints in Yonkers, NY, Altoona, PA, Austin, TX, and most recently Brooklyn. For the…

  • Five Questions for Jonathan Wei

    Name: Jonathan Wei Title: Executive Director / Writer and Producer Organization: The Telling Project 1.) Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in college towns in Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, Minnesota and New Hampshire.  My father was a librarian, which explains none of this…

  • Five Questions for Walter Kirn

    Name: Walter Kirn Title/Occupation: Writer Organization/Company: Self 1.Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in a couple of tiny towns along the St. Croix River in Minnesota, towns so small that the summer tornado sirens were practically the only entertainment other than waiting each…