I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.

I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love from entering or leaving.

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.