At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

I think of myself as a really happy person.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.