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 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 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 do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

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 was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are not my favorite. I didn't really become familiar with her work until after I started writing the book, but the more I learned about her the more I admired her.

I'm working on a novel about a girl who grows up in the circus and her relationship with her father, who grew up in Hungary when it was under Soviet control and left during the 1956 revolution. It is told from both of their perspectives, and has been a joy (and very frustrating) to research and write. Needless to say, I am very excited about my next project!