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- Do you still do any self-publishing?
- In terms of your daily life, what's your typical day or week like? Do you write every day?
- What are your most productive working hours?
- What is your writing process like? Do you write after time has passed or while the events are unfolding?
- Fiction writers say that their philosophy is "Show Don't Tell." What's a memoir writer's philosophy?
- What music, if any, most inspires you to write? What do you like to listen to while writing?
- Who or what has influenced your writing, and in what way? What books have most influenced your life?
- What are you working on now?
- Can you talk more about prostitution as a job?
- With your partner, Rocco, publicly evolving from F to M, your role/image, both publicly and privately, seems to also be shifting. Can you talk about that?
- When you teach your memoir workshop at the Center for New Words this month, what techniques will you emphasize to your students?
- Did you set out to write a book?
- In Valencia you talk about having zine parties, and I'm curious about your zine-making and how that has influenced what you do now.
- Have you submitted to large publishers, or is it a conscious choice to have your work published on small presses?
- Do you feel your early experiences in performance art and live-speaking/readings have helped you in being concise and direct in what you write?
- Do you think it's important for all writers to read their work in the spoken word environment?
- Which do you feel is your strongest medium, spoken or written work?
- Why have you chosen to bill them as fiction rather than autobiography?
- Where do you draw the line between what stays in your journal and what you publish?
- Do you keep extensive diaries?
- Which writing of yours you're most proud of, and why.
- Women of our generation have had the luxury of defining feminism for ourselves. Do you consider yourself a feminist and what is your definition of that?
- How important a role do politics play in the way you choose to express yourself?
- Any advice to young writers?
- You've spoken often about what an impact Eileen Myles has had on your writing. What other authors have impacted you?
- What are your favorite books right now?
- What inspires you?
- Who is your inspiration, Miss Tea?
- Do you make a living from your writing or do you have a day job?
- How long have you been writing? When did you know that you wanted to write as a career?
- How long have you been writing?
- When and why did you begin writing? When did you first consider yourself a writer?
- Where are you from? How--if at all--has your sense of place colored your writing?
- Where did you grow up?
- If you were to ever go back to college, what would you study? What do you want to learn more about?
- Do you still write poems? Are there any post-1997 ones?
- If you were to teach a college course in literature, what would you require your students to read?
- How did your parents react to your writing?
- What kinds of reactions have you received from the people you've written about? Have their reactions influenced how you continue to write about your life?
- Do you obscure things to protect people's privacy?
- Personally, I am so excited to end up in a book. I get murdered in Dennis Cooper’s Period and I am honored. Do you think folks you hang out with now have concerns about you writing about them?
- Does it upset you that you are kind of pigeon-holed as a gay writer? Or does being assigned to a niche actually make distribution easier?
- I know I don’t want to be labeled solely a "gay" writer. I am a writer and my sexuality is a separate thing. Plus I may turn into a lesbian one day. How do you feel about being known as a gay writer?
- What were some of your favorite books growing up?
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