Wash the bones, bring the body, leave the heart behind.

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

Wash the bones, bring the body, leave the heart behind.

death should be celebrated...when you put something in the ground you always know where it is