Moments like these are threaded through my stories, and to me, they are the gold thread glinting in my fiction. In some ways, I’m always writing for my parents, towards my mother.

Moments like these are threaded through my stories, and to me, they are the gold thread glinting in my fiction. In some ways, I’m always writing for my parents, towards my mother.
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"...Often the draft has its own energy and then we almost kill it. We refine something down to death."
"All the books that I’ve written so far are iterations of the same person learning more about what it means to be a Black trans person."
"...When you’re urban or even in a space like a suburban neighborhood you can understand or feel where your world ends, right?... The field to me has presented a place of expanse. Freedom."
"Translation, much like writing, is a relational art."
It’s interesting to think about moving through the sections of the book like moving through different rooms in a building
The poems are built on a foundation of refusal — to choose between two truths