My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but America elected a man who enjoys grabbing women by their pussies.

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see me in the middle of a huge crowd just staring intently at my phone because I just don't even know how I should interact with other humans.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.

My dad is a workaholic so I take after him in this respect.