Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.

What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying to answer that question.

I would love to see more acknowledgement of how challenging it is to feel positive about fatness when you can't find clothing. When there literally is not something made for your body. Nobody ever talks about that; all those fat girl clothes swaps and stuff are for a very specific kind of fat girl. If I was Lane Bryant fat, I would be joyful about fatness.

I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.

Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.

I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.

Whiteness is not the default in my fiction.