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

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

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.