I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.