About

Born in Arkansas and raised in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, Amelia spent her youth poking around antique malls, befriending old ladies at hair parlors, and listening to her grandfather’s tales of Paragould Snake Bite Medicine.

Amelia graduated with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas in 2005. She fled to the rain forests of Oregon to take pictures with 8×10 cameras and cut thousands of birds out of paper. She received an MFA from the University of Oregon in 2007. She lives and works in Austin, Texas

Amelia has self-published her zine, Doublespeak, since 2008.

Interests include midnight tea parties, The Black Bottom Stomp, whiskey, collecting vintage valentines and human teeth, sneaking into movies, analogue photography, hand-embroidery, 1930s silk, dancing, vegan cooking and Brazilian coffee.

When I was a kid I watched Betty Boop cartoons and I remember feeling this strange sensation while watching a rotoscoped Cab Calloway sing “St. James Infirmary Blues.” I knew I was traveling in some way, it was like an out of body experience. Since 2001, I have been a part of an online community of “time travelers” affectionately called Vintage Vivants. We are young people who wear vintage clothing, listen to old music, and watch classic movies. We gravitate towards the period from 1920, when film making came into its own as an art, to around 1948, when the long playing record was introduced. We do this not just in an attempt to appreciate the past, but to adopt it. Our goal is to internalize the gracious values of this earlier era in order to combat a world that is quickly moving in the opposing direction.

I would describe my style as 1930s Chorus Girls meets Sweet Lolita meets Flapper Fantastique.

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