Interviews

My job as a write is to first witness, and then record. It would be an injustice to these poems if they were not written from a place of vulnerability and truth.

Subconsciously, when writing my own work, I want to make sure that people understand how these characters became who they are.

My hope is that as a society we can emphasize compassion over stigma and treatment over punishment.

You write a book to get over something. You read a book to get into it.

We are going to need nature more than ever before. We also need to continue being kind to each other and to uplift other writers whenever we can.

. . . the reader animates you. And yet you’re also constrained in some way by that relationship that you form with the audience.

The thing about cults, they indoctrinate. They whitewash. They blind us to better alternatives.

Sport is seen as characterizing a nation. If there’s a sense of injustice and inequality in the fabric of what a nation says it is, then how does that trickle down to everyday life?

“Debut” holds the ring of promise, where disappointment feels intrinsic to the word “sophomore.” For better or worse, people love to call second books “sophomore” novels, with all its accompanying connotations.

I am moved by the revelation that comes but does not announce itself, as a powerful ending or climax might, but waits to be returned to and recognized.