I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

