Maria Dawson

Queen, Extreme, Europe, Giant, Laura Branigan, Tara McLean, Rick Springfield, Lauren Christy, Damone, Riverdogs, Dokken, Cyndi Lauper, The Smiths, Van Halen, Mr. Big, Cher, Styx, ABBA, Whitesnake, Queensryche, Simon & Garfunkel, early Bon Jovi, Juice Newton, anything by composer Christopher Young (especially the soundtracks to Hellraiser and Flowers in the Attic)

An Invisible Sign of My Own, The Seal Wife, Sophie's Choice, Mariette in Ecstasy, Frankenstein, Perfume, Slammerkin, Bee Season, April Witch, The Bean Trees, Lolita, Music for Torching, The Secret Life of Bees, The Rapture of Canaan, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Virgin Suicides, Property, The Chocolate War, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes, Patrick McGrath, Kathryn Harrison, Eurora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Sheri Reynolds

Edward Scissorhands, Heathers, Carrie, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, The Iron Giant, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Mermaids, Mask (not The Mask), Flowers in the Attic, In the Bedroom, Beetlejuice, Candyman, Flash Gordon, The Lost Boys, Flatliners, The Shining, Benny & Joon, The Piano, Flashdance, Clash of the Titans, Footloose, May, Pan's Labyrinth

The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, American Dad, America's Psychic Challenge, Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead, Sex and the City, Ally McBeal (before its forced and humorless final season)

Christian

Gather Inc., National Leisure Group (NLG)

The University of South Alabama -- Mobile, AL

Thomasville High School -- Thomasville, AL

MA, Writing & Publishing -- Emerson College -- Boston, MA