In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.

Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.