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!

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.

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

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 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.

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.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.