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Created on 2009-04-14 21:20:10 (#61259), last updated 2020-12-04 (239 weeks ago)
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| Name: | sidravitale |
|---|---|
| Location: | Massachusetts, United States |
| Website: | ...Parenthetically Speaking |
Sidra is an attorney (immigration, environmental, energy), scientist, and writer of both fiction and non.
Why law? I wanted to do more good in the world and I didn't have the patience for a medical degree. Law seemed like a great tool for my toolkit. Human systems are just interesting me more and more these days, over physical ones. What can I say? I follow my obsessions.
Why science? Because I want to understand the world around me. Physics is cool. Chemistry is cool. Math is cool. It's all great.
Why write? Because. Just, because. I write feminist and political commentary on my blog, and track diseases, since just because I said I didn't have the patience for a medical degree doesn't mean I don't find infectious diseases incredibly INTERESTING. I write fiction, generally science fiction and fantasy, and appeared in the 2005 volume of the Writers of the Future anthology. Law school (2004-2007) and now law practice, obviously cuts pretty deeply into my writing time, but I did my best (and still do) to stay tantrum-free over it.
Past publications:
* "A Footfall of Cats", published in 2001, in Vol XVI of Peridot Books. http://www.peridotbooks.com/
* "It's the Smell", published in May 2005 in Vol XXIV of Peridot Books. http://www.peridotbooks.com/
Available Now:
* The 3rd WWWave of Feminism, founder, contributor. Feminism, politics. Since 1998. http://www.3rdwwwave.com
* Parenthetically Speaking. A personal blog, covering topics from politics to food to science and law. http://www.sidra.vitale.net (now relocat[ed]/[ing] to http://sidravitale.blogspot.com)
* "My Daughter, the Martian", in The Writers of the Future v.XXI (anthology).
I also plurk! http://www.plurk.com/sidravitale
And twitter! http://twitter.com/sidravitale
Why law? I wanted to do more good in the world and I didn't have the patience for a medical degree. Law seemed like a great tool for my toolkit. Human systems are just interesting me more and more these days, over physical ones. What can I say? I follow my obsessions.
Why science? Because I want to understand the world around me. Physics is cool. Chemistry is cool. Math is cool. It's all great.
Why write? Because. Just, because. I write feminist and political commentary on my blog, and track diseases, since just because I said I didn't have the patience for a medical degree doesn't mean I don't find infectious diseases incredibly INTERESTING. I write fiction, generally science fiction and fantasy, and appeared in the 2005 volume of the Writers of the Future anthology. Law school (2004-2007) and now law practice, obviously cuts pretty deeply into my writing time, but I did my best (and still do) to stay tantrum-free over it.
Past publications:
* "A Footfall of Cats", published in 2001, in Vol XVI of Peridot Books. http://www.peridotbooks.com/
* "It's the Smell", published in May 2005 in Vol XXIV of Peridot Books. http://www.peridotbooks.com/
Available Now:
* The 3rd WWWave of Feminism, founder, contributor. Feminism, politics. Since 1998. http://www.3rdwwwave.com
* Parenthetically Speaking. A personal blog, covering topics from politics to food to science and law. http://www.sidra.vitale.net (now relocat[ed]/[ing] to http://sidravitale.blogspot.com)
* "My Daughter, the Martian", in The Writers of the Future v.XXI (anthology).
I also plurk! http://www.plurk.com/sidravitale
And twitter! http://twitter.com/sidravitale
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