She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire.

Write what you care about.