Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.

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.

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

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

Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

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

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.