Willow Rowlands

Age:

20

Personal Quote:

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.  Ernest Hemingway

Education:

High school: Arts green light. Maths red light.

Universitaet Wien: German course.

College: Classical Civilization, Drama and Theatre Studies, German, Archaeology. 

Employment History: Carnuntum Archaeology Park, various bar work.

General:

Born in Liverpool, UK. As a child i moved house on average once a year, and enjoyed a succession of unpleasant schools. During high school i discovered Stanislavski, German expressionist painters and beat literature. At 16 i went to Vienna looking for Scheile, and came home a year later speaking German, with a bag of cashews. I then studied ludicrous subjects at college which i failed to finish. During this time i started writing a poem, which became prose, which turned in to a short story about docking towns. This took up most of my time and thought. I spent the rest of it “researching”. After a year in a quiet town on the Danube, working at the local excavation and trying fruitlessly to finish my book, i came back to the UK to study psychology.