About
Victoria Marinelli is often assumed to be persons she isn’t. Here’s a working list of some of the things she is, which, while it is hardly comprehensive, gives one someplace to begin.
Vicarious metalhead. Ambivalent blogger1. Anti-poetry poet. Alternately reluctant and effusive memoirist. Monogamous, legally married bisexual. Writer, copy editor, feminist, academic, mother, technology-addicted/ repulsed all-purpose nerd. Suspiciously tolerant of ambiguities. Eviscerates sacred cows. (Metaphorical cows only. Is also a vegetarian.) Loves easily, but never lightly. Politically uncategorized. (But cried herself to sleep, on the night George W. Bush was first “elected.”) Changes identities/homepages more frequently than the oil in her car. (Has killed quite a few cars.) (Not to mention potted plants.) Sometimes burns, then rebuilds bridges. Means well. Is cynically/cautiously optimistic. As deeply ethical as scandalous. Off-the-map anomalous.
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1 To wit: On April 14, 2008, deleted her entire blog - about four years’ work, with hundreds of entries and thousands of comments. And felt not a moment of regret.