Roxane Gay
“I am a writer who happens to be a woman and a person of color and even when I don’t explicitly write about gender or race and ethnicity, who I am influences what I write.”
Jenny Boully
“For me, memory is composed of poetry–images, colors, senses, what is seen, felt, heard; experience is a stain that I try to recreate.”
Ayelet Tsabari
“I wrote this collection having faith in the written word’s ability to bridge gaps, faith that regardless of where the stories take place and what language is spoken, or what unusual circumstances the characters may find themselves in, readers in other places would be able to relate to them.”
Tasha Fierce
“My role, I think, is to write my truth, to add my voice to the chorus of voices out there.”
Susan Deer Cloud
“As an indigenous writer, place is certainly important to me because my ancestors had land stolen from them and I know what it is like to walk on Mother Earth and yet feel homeless because of that stealing of our land.”
Achy Obejas
“Different projects require different things. Sometimes it’s imagination, sometimes it’s language, sometimes it’s research, sometimes it’s simple perseverance and discipline. A great imagination isn’t well served without the rest of those attributes.”
Janet Mock
“I talk about love and self-acceptance. These are the truths I hope to communicate, and my goal is not to be the best trans writer or the best female writer, it is to be the best truth-teller – open, honest, reflective.”