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!

The concept of "girl-on-girl crime" is perplexing to me, and it happens in many ways. There are those, who refuse to identify with women as a group, preferring the shade of the mythologized men, who want to keep up the status quo.

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

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

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 genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

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.