I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.

I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.