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 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.

She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself. To bare oneself to the lonely.

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them an escape route.

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.