There's little question that short stories, like poetry, don't get the respect they deserve in the culture - but what can you do? Like Canute, one cannot fight the sea, you have to go with your love, and hope one day, things change.

The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.

As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.