I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.

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

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

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.

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

There's relief in white space for the reader.

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