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

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.

I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that.

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

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.

You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.