My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me.

The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying.

I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes.

For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them.

I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in the action.

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader.