"When writing, I often feel like I’m having an out-of-body experience in which I’m as ageless, sexless, classless, raceless as I can ever humanly get…I have to forget myself so I can be fully committed to understanding my character’s motivations in a way that isn’t facile or boxed in…"
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LGBT peopleNovelists from the United StatesShort story writers from the United StatesAsian Americans
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On finding voices for her characters in “A Secret Cut in History: Amanda Lee Koe Interviewed by Leah Dworkin” in BOMB Magazine (2019 Jul 11)
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