Interviews

Art doesn’t have an obligation to comfort, affirm, make us feel fuzzy. The question is, how do we respond and react?

It’s important to provide perspective—that life is long and complicated, filled with moments of joy, triumph, and everything in between.

Word economy is, basically, the skill that you have to really hone to become a successful stand-up comedian.

... 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.