Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

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.

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.

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.

In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.

I am more likely to get paid for my art if it's presented alongside a white artist, so the questions around value and agency arise: What choices should I make, or do I have to make, if I want to be compensated for my work? Why isn't my art valued on its own?