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

I'm much more comfortable in pants and shirts, running around. There was a typical construction about womanhood when I was growing up that I rejected.

The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is a business writer who edits her company's weekly public relations magazine. And in Sister Swing, Suyin writes human interest stories for a free, local community paper, The Asian Time.