Rebecca
Liebmann-Smith
Prose
Brooklyn
New York
USA

Rebecca Leibmann-Smith, Untitled

American, b. 1982, playing from New York City, NY, USA

Rebecca Liebmann-Smith, also known as Booters, is a social work student, writer, artist, aerialist, and bartender from New York City. She currently lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with two human roommates, two cats, one python, and a gecko. Her mother is a health writer and her father is a humorist. Her parents were her main writing influences, along with Roald Dahl, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, and Patrick McGrath. Rebecca.LiebmannSmith@gmail.com.

Thoughts on the Telephone process

At first, I experienced a strong desire to somehow get it “right,” to read into the original concept that inspired the very first piece in Telephone. When I realized this was not possible – especially if I overthought it – I simply had fun with it, and let the piece to which I was assigned marinate in my consciousness over a couple of weeks before I started writing.

What
Came
Before
Embroidery by Willemien de Villiers
Willemien
de
Villiers
Embroidery
Cape Town
South Africa
This
Line
Ends
Here