THE PEOPLE BEHIND THIS ISSUE REVEAL THEIR HOT LISTS
MICHELLE JAGER
The winner of our fiction competition (“Ghost Child”, published on p62) has a PHD in creative writing from the University of Adelaide and is obsessed with anti-heroines. She’s also the ultimate “odd-job lady”, working as a university tutor, research assistant, pet-sitter, court report editor, wedding photographer, pharmacy assistant and writer.
On my playlist: Garbage, The Jezabels, Beyoncé, Nirvana, Kristin Hersh, Demis Roussos and Johnny Cash. I recently discovered Montaigne and I’m hooked on her song “For Your Love”.
On my reading list: Yoko
Ogawa’s The Diving Pool and Maxine Beneba Clarke’s Foreign Soil.
On my to-do list: Keep a plant alive. I do not have a good track record.
On my wish list: To publish a novel. And to have a home where I can keep a dog — or many dogs.
On my bucket list: A road trip around New Zealand. On my blacklist: People who chew gum on public transport.
SARAH ELLISON @sarahellisonstudio
A Byron Bay local, Ellison multitasks as a furniture and homewares designer and interiors and fashion stylist. She leant her simple, modern aesthetic to our “Home On The Range” shoot on p138.
On my playlist: RUFUS, Paul Kelly and Led Zeppelin (they’re my four-year-old’s favourite band).
On my reading list: At the moment I’m reading TC – former pro-surfer Tom Carroll’s autobiography.
On my to-do list: Start to design a lighting collection.
On my wish list: Sparkly Balenciaga slingbacks and a Buds lamp by Foscarini.
On my bucket list: To show my son as much of the world as I possibly can. On my blacklist: Unnecessary plastic packaging in supermarkets.
GRACE O’NEILL @grceoneill
Our fashion features director’s little black book of celebrity interviews includes Pamela Anderson, Kim Cattrall and Alexa Chung. She wrote our “How To Do Summer” manual on p26 and plans to spend her days off sans phone, with a stack of books at a beach house. On my playlist: Hall & Oates, D’angelo and the Vanguard, Rhye, Underworld and a lot of George Michael. On my reading list: The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy, Personal History by Katharine Graham and Kitchen Confidential
by Anthony Bourdain.
On my to-do list: To get my driver’s licence!
On my wish list: Vintage silk shirts by Dries Van Noten – I have about 10 sitting in my The Realreal basket.
On my bucket list: To try the hot pastrami sandwich at Langer’s Deli in LA – Nora Ephron wrote an essay on it.
On my blacklist: Dogmatism – now is the time to engage with ideas that challenge your world view.
JANNA YOTTE @jannayotte
The art director turned collage artist creates pieces that deal with human nature, femininity and vulnerability, and her work has been published from New York to The Netherlands. When she’s not creating striking imagery (like the art for our horoscope guide on p155), she’s tending to her bower of orchids.
On my playlist: Charlotte Cardin, Christian Löffler, Mormor and loads of podcasts.
On my reading list:
Mindsight by Daniel J. Siegel.
On my to-do list: A serious closet clean-up, too many dessert recipes and getting that work/life balance.
On my wish list: A piece by [sculptural taxidermy artist] Polly Morgan, a vacation somewhere warm and inspiring, and some cute and warm-enough-for-acanadian-winter boots (suggestions welcome).
On my bucket list: Many feelings to amplify, many fears to get rid of, many connections to make. So many places to travel and so much food and drink to try!
On my blacklist: Rudeness.