It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

Often when people tell their story, they talk about their strengths and resiliency. It's really about their determination and their aspiration to survive and live.

I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me.