Interviews

I wish mental health care practices acknowledged the heroic effort of living between worlds and could be more curious about psychosis as a psychic call for help.

My work is really infused with hope even when I’m writing difficult history—there’s always love there.

Falling in love for the first time is like the first draft of a short story you’re writing— messy and exciting and full of possibilities.

Our capacity for imagination is boundless—and that’s where there’s some porousness between how different people move through the world.

The human body is the most miraculous machine, and each of us gets one—just one.

…no human being is explicitly good or explicitly bad, and asking a character to be relatable all of the time negates the possibility of their being a fully realized human.

I do think that making something out of your fear is a hopeful act, at least on the level of the individual.

My understanding of survival has evolved. I am interested in the idea that we go through a journey of creating ourselves as humans.

I thought, “You’re not allowed to write a book that’s just about a woman walking. That’s not even a book. That doesn’t even make sense.”

I’m interested in knowing when I’m lying to myself and how that allows me to make different choices later.

Not everything is going to be funny to everybody, but a joke is going to be funny to at least one person, one time, at a specific point.