“If all you’re reading has been written by only one specific demographic, then how will you ever understand the complexity and beauty that is this world?”
“I wanted the story to showcase the range of ways women may feel—hence, the plural point of view—and also nod to the ways in which women have been historically misrepresented and misunderstood.”
“I pictured the movement of The Wheel, of my movement,as a literal wheel—moving forward and backward, healing and regressing and trudging forward in spite of it all in pursuit of more healing.”
“I think that the act of writing poetry in a capitalist economy is already a revolutionary act because poetry allows us to see the world outside of linearity and even of grammatical rules.”
“I ... seek to force English out of its comfort zone, become foreign to itself and, in the encounter with Turkish, gain in greater expressive capacity.”
"In tinkering during editing phases of a poem, I allow for the logic of cadence, rhythm, sound to govern. Sometimes the truthfulness of the image has to shift to allow sound to prevail."