I prefer true over happy now.

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.

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

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

She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.