Eleventh grade, student editor-in-chief.
Interests: Irish accents, The Daily Show, Indian food, Coffee, Middle Eastern and African Politics
Favorite Books: Peter and Wendy, J.M. Barrie; Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie; 1984, George Orwell; Howl, Allen Ginsberg; The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien; Atonement, Ian McEwan.
Writing Focus: Poetry and Fiction
Writing and Art is important because it expresses the raw nature of humans’ souls: people paint what they cannot communicate, novelists write their inner-most dreams. Without it, we would all be empty.
Writing process… ideally, a cup of coffee and an empty beach.
Contact: rmatson@nya.org
