From a recent fellowship application:

I am consumed by the human condition. The condition(s) of being human. My writing strives to trace the trajectory of what a person will and won’t do under extreme conditions – joy, sorrow, excitement, fear, etc. My literature constructs a crucible for characters with situations they are wholly unprepared for. Generally, I’m not as concerned with outcomes, but how the journey forges character. I like to explore the lengths (good, bad, indifferent) that they will go through, and then document the transformative nature of the unexpected.

Beyond this, I’m concerned with mirrors, loops, delightful twists and fractals; I like to think of stories as a collection of individual moments – scene, paragraph, sentence, word – all infused with the same DNA, but with each unit as a musical variation on the overall theme that is story. I love to construct boxes from these units and then think my way out of them. In this way, I’m a genre-bender, but only as a lens for the point of the story – tracing the condition of being human. While I can easily slide from one genre into another as suited by the tale to be told, I strive to tell my stories in the simplest way.