Why Shakespeare's Sister?

Well, largely because I share his birthday. While the exact date of Will's birth is not really known, it is fairly certain that he was born in late April. More importantly though, I, like the bard, love poetry, and I love writing in general.

Naturally, I studied literature in college, and when I first read Virginia Woolf's book, A Room Of One's Own, I was quite fascinated with her hypothesis of how a woman in Shakespeare's time, who might have been as talented as the bard was, would have tried (and inevitably, failed) to be a successful playwright. Feminism is an altogether elaborate can of worms, and one that I don't as a rule open, but I think women writers have come a long way, and I hope that in some small way, I can be a part of this glorious history.

There was also a band with this name in the 1990s, featuring two very Gothic looking women in a video for the only song I have heard by them ("Stay").

I ought to compose a sonnet one of these days.