Interviews

... if my people can survive, I can too. Resiliency and survivalism are in my bones.

I wanted to address all the things that I was witness to or that may have informed my understanding of loss.

I don’t believe one can be a good poet while being uncritical of the English language

What would my life have been like if I never discovered fiction, never discovered storytelling, never learned to tell my own story?

There’s only so much support you can have and really truly feel like you’ve been relieved of a set of responsibilities.

When we study evolutionary biology, we learn that parenting was never supposed to take place in just a nuclear family. Yet that’s what has happened in our culture—with the majority of the expectations placed on mothers’ shoulders.

I would suggest making friends with a horror writer, if nothing else.

There will always be something new waiting to be found.

I want the work to sing on the page and, if someone were to read it aloud, sing as it exists in the air.