I fell in love with books because of my parents. My father worked at Houghton Mifflin, and when I was very young, he typeset one of my first stories so I could see it in print. My mother is an avid reader, and we continue to recommend books to each other. So, I probably got the writing bug early because I was surrounded by books.

Writing allows me to do two things. First, it helps me make sense of the world around me; second, it helps me escape it. There are times when each of these is valuable. But overall, I think writing makes us human, and I mean that literally. I believe human beings communicate through story, and we are hard-wired to absorb information more easily when it comes to us in a narrative. As a writer, I’m addicted to the idea that I could add something to a tradition that goes back as far as the written word, and creating stories allows me to add my voice to the infinite dialogue that gets passed down from generation to generation.

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