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.

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

I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.

I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.

It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the five senses or not. I think literature is one of the only kinds of art that truly lets us into that.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

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