Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

Everything matters. Time is precious.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.