Book Sense Pick, Winter IndieBound Pick, Autumn Teen People Book-of-the-Month selection Please tell me about your background, where you grew up, how you became a writer. I was brought up in Central Pennsylvania in a very strict Catholic home. Instead, my parents suggested that I become a nurse or work in state government. Reporters from all over the world descended on our town and I knew then that I wanted to go into journalism. I studied journalism at Columbia and later took a job at a mid-sized newspaper.
Having a daily deadline was a great cure for writers block; you learn to write under deadline pressure and you learn to accept revisions from an editor. When I left college, I worked as a newspaper journalist.
I occasionally write magazine stories, but now I mainly concentrate on fiction. I write to figure out who I am and how I feel about things. I also write to give voice to experiences that might not otherwise be spoken about. What challenges did you have growing up and how did you overcome them? There was a lot of anger in my home growing up. And so I retreated into an attic space over our garage — one time I hid there for an entire school day. I also spent a lot of that time writing really bad stories in an old copybook.
Having a physical and an imaginary space where I could escape saved me and instilled in me a love of stories — stories that can distract you from your real life troubles, lead the way toward solutions and eventually allow you to transcend them.
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