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 wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those people.

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.

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

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.

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.

One of the things I love most about second person is that it reminds the reader that they are reading a text. It doesn't allow them to drift into the story and not notice that they are reading a book - a book that has an author.