"Once upon a time I wrote the way a very young child draws, with absolute confidence that the work is genius. A splotch of colour there. A smear. Spirals and zigzags. Exploration and process are at the heart of art when we are only beginning. My writing has always been intentional. Both intensity of feeling and lushness of language have been primary goals of mine from the get go, but it did not always involve this level of anxiousness, of desperation…"
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On how faer writing style has evolved in “2019 Contest: Interview with Fiction Judge Rivers Solomon” in BWR (University of Alabama; 2019 Apr 17)
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