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.

In This Body Mystery, even though it was written in the voice of people with HIV/AIDS, it's about how people come to accept their fate and their sickness. It's about accepting the way your life is.

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

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

When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

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

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.