To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se, but in terms of stories. It is the story itself that creates an inherent structure.

My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.

We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our insight and protection as a writers. This is our authority as women, as human beings.