If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

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.

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

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 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.

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.

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