Beauty, You Can Find It Here If

I Wrote Before I Could Write. I Got My Hands On A Journal, Maybe A Hand-me-down; I Had Three Older Siblings. My First Entries Are In The Handwriting Of The Sister Closets In Age (5 Years My Senior). She Must Have Gotten Tired Of My Dictations Because She Gave Up And Then My Blocky Scrawl Shows Up. I Wrote Plays As A Kid Mostly.

Love Is A Luxury. It's Something That People Are Allowed To Indulge In When They're Not Simply Trying To Survive And Keep Other People Alive.

I Believe That One Of The Most Damning Things About Our Culture Is The Adage To Never Talk Religion And Politics. Because We Don't Model This Discourse At The Dinner Table And At Thanksgiving, We Don't Know How To Do It Well And We're Not Teaching Our Children About The World And About How To Discuss It.

My Work Is To Know The Characters Intimately And To Tell Their Story.

Literature Has Done Great Work For Feminism - Writing And Reading Are A Practice Of Empathy - And Great Literature Will Continue To Do So.