Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

I can't write what I don't believe in.

I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.