There's relief in white space for the reader.

Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or wonderful or attractive in these ways that throughout literary history we've come to expect female characters to be.

Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.

Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.

Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.