Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.

I'm not afraid to say what I'm afraid of. Does that make me fearless?

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it since I was a child. I would find it in pieces of art, music, flowers, trees. Now I've come full circle finding God in clouds, flowers, and trees.