Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

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

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

Fiction is socially meaningful.