I learned how to improve my writing and what I would avoid doing in my work.

ICL: What is your favorite quote or line from a book?  
"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike," Ralph Ellison.

ICL: What have you read most recently that inspired you?  

Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

ICL: Tell us something about yourself that most people don't know.  

I'm a chess fanatic. I love playing the game.

ICL: If your life had a theme song right now, what would it be?

"The Pan Piper" by Miles Davis

Writing Sample

"Suite One: Hoodoo in the Forest"

The sun stopped shining in a certain place in the woods. There was a time trees were barren and cold. In August, it once snowed. And deer, undeterred, roamed its grounds searching for food from a certain tree I was hung. I know this tree well. It grows bright red apples in the winter.