I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

Twitter has allowed the conversation to broaden and become more inclusive. At times, the conversation is really tense but that's because we're talking about really important issues. It's not going to be easy but at least the conversations are happening.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.