writing life

“I needed to live all of the change and movement and multiplicity that the book wound up being about in order to write it.” —Caylin Capra-Thomas, author of Iguana Iguana

“A reader who truly needs these stories might not come to them for weeks, months, or even years.” —Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

“This book really fought me, or I fought it, for the first couple of years.” —Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die

“I think it was essential that I turn further inward, that I trust the ‘quieter’ poems.” —Zeina Hashem Beck, author of O

“Write because you want to, not to define yourself for the benefit of other people.” —Maya Marshall, author of All the Blood Involved in Love

 “I wanted to write female friendship in a way that felt honest to me.” —Christine Kandic Torres, author of The Girls in Queens