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

I thought of the pillowcases as a symbol of love and loss, of retaining the memory of your loved one.

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'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints.

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.

I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.