My work explores the intersection of place and identity, so I am drawn to stories that create atmospheres both physical and cultural—that investigate the embedded, omnipotent role that our collective histories, and the places where they’ve unfolded, play in our lives.
I love this challenge: to produce an authentic storytelling experience in an unprecedented way.
These works are diverse—in form, tone, subject—but in my emotional and intuitive memory they speak the same language. They feature women out of their time or in impossible places, women that scuttle across traditional boundaries like Gregor Samsa.
Today, the term “emerging writers” feels equivalent to 20-somethings, but so often it takes a lot longer than that for a writer to emerge.
Though I read voraciously as a child, I rarely saw myself reflected in the books I read—except for the Asian caricatures who appeared briefly in…
s a Palestinian graphic novelist, I’m always on the lookout for new artists doing similar thematic work to mine. Comics can often feel like…
How can I begin to talk about exceptional writing by trans women authors when, to a certain degree, any trans woman’s published work is exceptional inasmuch as it has somehow made its way into existence?
My dirty secret about literature is that I’m always looking to put down a book. I read slowly. I have places to be. Some…
Flash fiction. Also known as short shorts, or—my least favorite term for them—small fictions. If the short story is seen as the bastard of…