saints & sinners & me

The year thus far has been hitting like a Mack Truck for me. I went into Saints & Sinners in desperate need of some joy and creative inspiration. What I found from attending this year’s festival and being around other LGBT+ authors and readers was something else: a reminder of my place in this literary world. So many of our stories have focused on past struggles and while I believe that the past informs both the present and the future, there’s just too much going on in this modern day and age to not write about it.

People want to know what the hell is going on. How do you make sense of things when the world feels like it’s been turned on its head? Hell, I want to know what the hell is going on. The fact that I write about our current challenges living in a time where PREP exists and has sexually liberated us into what feels like unchartered terriotory, loneliness plagues many of us even as we’re plugged into social media and politics seemed to have boiled down to a battle of good versus evil, well, it’s actually pretty bold. I want to remain bold enough to capture this extraordinary moment we’re in right now in all its complexity. And I will.