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

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

Another obligation that I have as a teacher is to make available to students a range of options and devices and approaches, rather than saying "well here's one way to do it and that's the only way that's good."

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

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.

Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.