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.

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

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.

There's relief in white space for the reader.