My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to keep my head on my shoulders..

I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem..

My dad is a workaholic so I take after him in this respect..

We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so lon….

Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]….

I would like to believe that most people, regardless of gender, are good and kind. The good men in my stories are the rule. It's the bad men that are….

That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unl….

I would love to see more acknowledgement of how challenging it is to feel positive about fatness when you can't find clothing. When there literally i….

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that..

I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a lit….

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky..

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write..

I don't read the comments anymore, unless they are moderated. Which is not to say censored, but I don't need to read someone saying, "You're ugly.".

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years..

To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it is r….

I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings..

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace..

I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see m….

I live in the middle of nowhere and I'm an insomniac. I just make the time and I read and write really fast so that makes a lot possible for me. I wi….

Whiteness is not the default in my fiction..

I'm fat positive, in that I don't see fat as a bad thing. But what I do see as a bad thing is how I'm treated. I can have the most positive outlook i….