People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even later when I grew up, I was constantly wearing dungarees, wearing guy shirts.

When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female.

Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

Quite a while ago, I made a conscious choice to place my teaching first, so it was very ego-invested. That decision wasn't a good thing in some ways.

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

In a way, this kind of insight or recognition often permeates the way I think of character, how I plot action, and the way in which I use imagery, seeing binaries as false.