If I Were a Hoarder

Anonymous asked: Who is Zoltana Domotor?

That’s me, with a pseudonym I shamelessly pilfered from a math professor at Penn and then feminized.  He was my advisor during my first year there, when I was an aspiring mathematician who had not yet turned to things more literary (and sadly, less remunerative).  When I met with him I was wowed by the rhythmic elegance of his name, and envious of the gall with which he chain-smoked in his dark cluttered office in a building where it was emphatically verboten…   

… As if my own name weren’t cool enough… In Boston you can get arrested for having name like mine!