Interviews

Research is always a factor, even in my fiction. I want the reader to think, ‘oh, this could really happen,’ or it really did happen, or ‘it feels very real.’

As a vegan, I feel like animals have their own independent life force. I don’t feel like I have any right to take lives. I knew I wanted to write about an animal that was so thoroughly abused that we don’t understand.

I think part of our supreme duty as poets is to offer language for what was formerly unutterable to people.

My other motto is, no more half assing. “Whole ass or nothing.”

Writing about lineage means untangling, not only your experiences, but the experiences of the generations before.

I kept coming back to this idea of exit wounds, both as a literal trajectory through my father’s skull and metaphorically as in what it means for the people who are left behind.

You don’t need permission to be an author. There are a thousand ways to connect to readers, which is the important thing.

Writing in different genres is like trying on different outfits and trying to figure out what’s you and what’s not.