I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.

I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.