heather rounds, earth-maker, spoon-bender, and writer of there (emergency press), lets plain wrap get to know her better. this is the forty-seventh installment of plain wrap’s interview series in which plain wrap interviews all its facebook friends. thank you, heather rounds.
1. Tell us about yourself?
1. I live in Baltimore in a house full of pots of tiny collard greens. I’m apparently incapable of growing collard greens to a mature, edible size, but may eventually sprinkle the tiny stunted leaves into a salad, just to say something came of it. A cat lives in my house. He’s not obese but I can’t explain the large, strange utter thing that swings from his bottom side when he walks. I’ve done stuff—peed in a Starbucks at the Great Wall of China, bent spoons with my mind (it’s easy, really!). I’ve not done stuff, too—like, never read the Bible or waited tables. I’ve seen Iran, Syria and North Korea from the border only and in that order. I take things too seriously and I’m too hard on myself, but if it ended tomorrow I’d say it was perfect enough. My spine is curved like a sloppy S and I’m highly allergic to dust. I write. Recently I wrote a book called THERE, inspired by a year I spent in the Middle East. I just found out it won Emergency Press’ 2011 International Book contest. Many, many months from now, they will publish it.
2. Have you read any good books lately?
2. Dave Eggers’ What is the What. It gave me nightmares, but in a good way. And for the sake of book research, I read anything to do with Colorado agriculture in the 1940s or chickens.
3. Why did you leave your last job?
3. Oh job shbob bloblob!
4. What have you done to improve your knowledge in the last year?
4. I started a worm compost bin: 1000 red wigglers, two Rubbermaid containers, lots of table scraps. I’ve learned how to make earth! If there’s better knowledge to learn than that I don’t know it.
5. Tell us about the most fun you have had in life?
5. Maybe Monica, stolen ice cream and driving the car over that lawn or the Soviet era side-car thingy attached to Colin’s motorcycle or something to do with a Beijing bath house and a lost passport or Bronson and monkeys or anything to do with that one time in Beirut or with Teddy. Who can say, really?
