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.

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

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

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.

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

Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.

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