Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and wholeness, starvation and wicked plenty, and more. That is, I am already thinking ahead to more writing.

If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over.

Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat.

In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.

I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.

The crows that are predatory are something you have to deal with. For me, they also become associated with cancer cells.

[Cancer] didn't make me more intense about not working more and just having fun more. It didn't do that either.