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.

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

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

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 think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.

I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.