As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.

I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.

Of course, I can't separate my queerness from my brownness - if anything, my queerness amplifies my brownness, and vice versa - but I spent so much of my early twenties trying to erase my differences, often without awareness of what I was doing.

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

I recently did a reading at an elementary school in Ottawa, and one of the children asked me if I was a girl. I said yes. Another child commented that I had a deep voice. I responded: "Can girls have deep voices?" There was a pause and then the group responded, "Yes!"

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.