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.

[Myra] does not choose this purpose to start out with—it’s a path made by the omnipresent superficiality of popular culture, Twelve-Step language and rituals, and the lack of adult mentorship in her life.

"I believe anything can be said on the page. The issue may be whether the writer has the courage to say what needs to be said."

"...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."