Features & Reviews

As a poet, I’m constantly trying to make connections and see between and among things.

Compassion is a window, and ideally the reader feels that—even if they’re reading a character whom they don’t necessarily like—this person is a rounded character with good qualities, bad qualities, and in-between qualities.

I’ve always wanted to write plot-driven novels that borrow from a lot of different traditions and institutions. That’s something I like most to read, and whenever I write something, I try to write something that I enjoy reading too.

I’m sure you’ve seen your own versions of these stories. These truths, these stories, are everywhere. Quiet, but waiting.

When you’re writing about family, there's what’s really relevant and has meaning to you. And then there’s what has meaning to the audience.

. . . the process of writing really was a devotion. It gave me a reason to keep going. And because I’m interested in formal problems, it was the crafting of sentences, finding rhythms, shaping my material that helped me to get hold of it.

While I do see there is importance in recognizing identity, I also want there to be a broader field to go beyond the identity itself, the identities that were forced upon us, in addition to what we continue to reinforce and agree upon as identity.