I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo

Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.

Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like "Can you read at this thing?" And I say, "Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York."

Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.