I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me.

I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left.

I hope to work through disappointment and frustration with as much grace as [Georgia] O'Keeffe did, and I hope to have the same confidence in my own vision.

I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me.

This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!

I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!