Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

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.

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

The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.

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.