There's me in every character I put on the pages.

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put someone in the ground, we bury them or we burn them, and then we're supposed to just move on and kind of get over it.