For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

There's relief in white space for the reader.

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

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.

In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn to speak or write in the first place - but they're writing a Dean Koontz novel or something.

In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.