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Probably, my biggest obsession is an exploration of how all things in the cosmos interact. Animals are a huge part of that, as are the inner lives of plants and animals.

The body frequently appears in my poetry, creative non-fiction, and now my fiction. I think animals are also pretty important to me because they don’t communicate in ways most of us understand.

Politics and the question of justice influences me the most. I’m always examining the histories that led us to the equalities and oppressions that exist today.

Poetry has been my artistic and spiritual medium since I was a child. There were many talented musicians and visual artists in my family but I had aptitude for neither of these things. My outlet was always words and their relationships in sound and sense and beyond the 5 senses.

This illustration is the result of a great process Etgar and I went through. Working with him closely on this piece was truly a wonderful and enlightening experience.

I don’t believe there is such a thing as a “non-writing aspect.” Everything influences me and relates to my writing.

The collection piles one surprise on top of the other; just when you feel you’re getting a grasp on what the book is, it subverts your expectations yet again, with a writer who chops off his thumbs, or an act of arson motivated by love, or a society whose members all have two hearts, an upper and a lower.

I like to approach a new story with a question in mind, one that I don’t have an easy answer to.

The poems I write tend to begin and end in a place of faith, though the faith involved is a particularly fluid and changeful sort that borrows from both Eastern and Western traditions.

Only three days ago, I failed my driver’s test.