Patriarchy is having the power to name.

I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.

One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my past passivity, came when a girl I loved very much, who I had been estranged from for some time, killed herself.

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.