Students Say

  • my name: Dani LeBlanc
  • my major: Creative Writing
  • my hometown: Littleton, Massachusetts; Calvert County Maryland; Honolulu Hawaii
  • childhood ambition: to be a mermaid
  • fondest Farmington memory: snowball fights in Abbott Park, late night breakfasts at Irving’s, romantic swims in the Sandy River
  • Soundtrack: anything that makes noise
  • wildest dream: see childhood ambition
  • proudest moment: the day my free-spirited dog learned to sit
  • I live to: laugh and love and observe as much as I can
  • biggest challenge: the 40-page autobiography
  • best class taken: James Joyce seminar with professor Dan Gunn
  • mentor / hero: Eiei Hlaing (the roommate of everyone's dreams)
  • guilty pleasure: chocolate and coffee
  • perfect day: warm coffee wake up, a long walk with a good friend, pleasant music, pleasant food, perhaps a swim or bike ride, an informal poetry reading among friends, end of the night dance party, lather, rinse, repeat.
  • indulgence: late night amazon.com purchases of books I don't have time to read!
  • favorite book: House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski), The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros), Ulysses (James Joyce), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), poetry by Pablo Neruda and e.e. Cummings. And so much more!
  • favorite movie: Wayne's World
  • inspiration: words and laughter and movement
  • why Farmington: friendly, affordable, and a great writing staff.