Sunday, November 9, 2008

A Statement

I’m primarily a prose writer. I traffic in both fiction and creative nonfiction, although I consider the line between the two genres blurry (at the very least). My main artistic goal is to entertain as many people as I can. If, in the process of trying to create an entertaining piece of art, I manage to say something fresh about what it is to be human (or I manage to say something that’s been said before, but in a fresh way), all the better. But I believe that art that fails to engage its audience at first glance or upon first read will lose a large percentage of that audience right off the bat. I strive to create accessible art—art that falls into the realm of popular culture.