"As a child I lived in the country, and those cold fall days after the harvest stick in my memory."

"I’m not sure if I have favorite tools. Each poem makes its own demands."

"So, once I saw how those writers conceptualized their own worlds, I wanted to emulate that perspective. I wanted my pieces to end with someone kicking the door open, or picking the mic up for once."

"As someone who is pretty attached to reality, it felt very transgressive to “write away” from my experience—but it was also liberating."

"But form is best for me when it’s the most invisible, and the single-stanza whoosh is somehow both almost-invisible in its proximity to prose as well as it is hyper-visible in its looking like a brick wall."

"This newness is incremental and barely perceptible in real time, but the speaker in each section conveys an understanding and, I think, an appreciation for their transformation.

"I wanted to write a collage poem about how people have a habit of ranking things—the items on their bucket lists, their favorite foods, their favorite sports teams."