Are there particular memories of growing up that, looking back, you see as leading you toward a writing career?
My first 17 or so years seemed to be leading me to a writing career.
I wrote all the time—poems, short stories, a 7-page novel, an epic poem cycle based on the life of Elvis.
A lot of what I wrote was involved with creating a world I’d like to live in starring a person I’d like to be.
