My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.

I don't do the like, "This led to this, and this was why this happened." That doesn't feel real and isn't how I experience things.

That was an instance where I was given a word to define my confusing experience, and I'm just like, "nah."

I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline could be contained.

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

In fiction you can make up everything to create the feeling. You can manufacture a story with whatever tools you want. With nonfiction you have to rely on what actually happened to describe what you're feeling. That's hard. You have to know what will feed into the emotion you're trying to convey. And that's hard because you don't necessarily know what causes your emotions.