I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers…

- Leni Zumas

If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.

- Leni Zumas

In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn to speak or write in the f…

- Leni Zumas

Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.

- Leni Zumas

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions a…

- Leni Zumas

Another obligation that I have as a teacher is to make available to students a range of options and devices and approaches, rather than saying "well …

- Leni Zumas

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

- Leni Zumas

Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more t…

- Leni Zumas

I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve …

- Leni Zumas