Interviews

To convey human fallibility against the backdrop of a system where we work to survive and strive to actualize, to become the best version of ourselves. And how even learning to live with ourselves is a developing relationship.

Every narrative is in an invitation to daydream, and as author, I’m trying to construct and direct those daydreams, but the meaning you’re making, and the images you’re forming in my mind, all of that is beyond my control.

You have to convince the reader this show is worth working on, and your prose is just as responsible for that as your characters and plot.

At some point I decided that I was going to drop genre altogether and just follow the story. I would write and follow it.

I am much better in the stage of doing than I am in the stage of pondering.

I often have concerns about sharing too much of myself.

My poetry and photography are extensions of each other. I like to think of my photography as the abstract poetry I cannot write.

I say that to say all religion is practice, is an interpretation of faith, I guess my interest in religion tends to be more sociological and anthropological.– Kaveh Akbar