People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.

I hope what I do when I draw from other people's lives is pay tribute. To try to understand what it means in our society to be silenced. To try to understand how class and gender intersect with that. To try to understand how being named and classified within the context of psychiatry can intersect with all that, as well.

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

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.

I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.

People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.

I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!