Interviews

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.

When I write, I don’t set out to preserve anything. I feel more like a conduit for whatever obsessions, conscious or not, are inside of me.

I collect things like a magpie. I need to try everything.

I feel increasingly in my life that action and feeling must be in a dance.

I’m learning to embrace my excess, and that gentle acceptance of my extraness waterfalls over into my work.

I write because I want to be in another place, out of my chair, looking up at trees.

…in the same way that words and sounds can rhyme, ideas and facts can also rhyme.

For me, the process of essay play involves a lot of making things visible that were invisible, which often means circling back to show what else was there.