"I really don’t worry about labels. Writers worry about syntax, voice, setting or landscape, plot, and the arch of the…"

"Writing is a form of activism. Again, let’s not separate into small boxes, ‘activism’ versus writing. Native people, …"

"We are still a ‘vacant map’ as Native writers of Native literature. But, a story chooses a writer, not the other way …"

"Humor defuses pain. Humor gives the narrators in my stories agency to tilt at the ever-whirling windmills of coloniza…"

"I do think that reading aloud, or performing one’s own work is very helpful to the writing process. You can hear the …"

"I think most really good teachers, or professors, prepare for their classes as any writer/performer does. You write a…"

"Learning is supposed to be fun, (or funny) dramatic, and full of irony. A performance."

"I think the way I come at a story has always been from thinking about the past, (American Indian history, my family’s…"

"If it seems like a contradiction, it is. But that is the basis for all stories."

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