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When I'm absorbed in a work of fiction, time and place melts away, as though I've drifted away from my usual reality and been absorbed into another.

~Laura Van Den Berg

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I do not work well when I am in living in a cyclone of panic. I reject actively seeking out destabilization and suffering as a creative model.

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In the novels I most admire, there is this sense that, within the confines of the world, the possibilities are always opening in new and surprising ways - that was a quality I strived to capture, with the hope that the reader would be willing to follow me.

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Being scared by a movie offers a safe catharsis, because the terror is confined to the screen. It's an adrenalin spike, and when I come back down, I feel a bit more leveled.

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Early influences included Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Richard Ford, Alice Munro, Denis Johnson - writers who are important to me still and who I discovered through my teachers.

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Like many artists, I have issues with anxiety and depression, so I try to live in a way that supports my mental health.

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Anxiety and doubt are among my biggest struggles as a writer.

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Florida is a most unusual place. It can feel at once stifling and like anything is possible there.

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For three years, I lived in a miniscule apartment on Beacon Street, less than a mile from the Boston Marathon explosions.

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In terms of specific cinematic influences, certainly I'd recommend 'Juan de los Muertos,' and I also really love this French zombie movie - 'Les Revenants' - where the dead reanimate for no apparent reason.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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