My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.

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

I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.

I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.

I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in fiction creative writing workshops against using the self at all, and I think I try to encourage students to write the self, but to connect the self to something larger, which is to be this thinking, seeing, searching, eternally curious person, and that writing can come out of investigating and trying to understand confusion, and doubts, and obsessions.