Alicia Freeman

entered graduate program: fall '12

degree(s) & major: B.A. in English from Cal Poly

favorite periods, authors, and topics: Modernism, Post-Modernism, Russian Literature (Lolita, Dr. Zhivago, Marina Tsvetaeva, etc.) the Beat Generation (the foxy Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Diane DiPrima, etc.), John Steinbeck, T.S. Eliot, Chuck Palahniuk, Just Kids by Patti Smith, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Neruda, Hunter S. Thompson, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Tess of D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy, The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner, and many, many more.

miscellany: I am kind of a cat lady and expect to be a spinster writer like Emily Dickinson (except perhaps not as prolific, talented, or successful.)