I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.

I enjoy working on a number of projects - books - at once.

Revision is a good impulse to have.

I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail. I don't want a book to fail.

I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.