The Lohj

Sometimes the stories come in a dream. Sometimes they show up in something I observe. Sometimes they show up in pieces of other people’s stories that somehow meld together.

The joke has always been that I write “whatever the voices tell me to write.” And that’s true to an extent. I hear dialog between people I have never seen. I see images of places I have never been. So the only way to quiet the voices and the images, is to let them flow through my fingers.

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Sometimes the stories come in a dream. Sometimes they show up in something I observe. Sometimes they show up in pieces of other people’s stories that somehow meld together.

The joke has always been that I write “whatever the voices tell me to write.” And that’s true to an extent. I hear dialog between people I have never seen. I see images of places I have never been. So the only way to quiet the voices and the images, is to let them flow through my fingers.

No matter what I’m writing—literary fiction, speculative fiction, essays, or simply trying to make sense of the world—the same themes find their way onto the page.

Self-discovery Curiosity and belief Agency and obedience Choice and control

Ultimately, I write about what it means to become aware of ourselves, and how that awareness shapes our relationships, our work, our future.

Every story, in one way or another, asks the same question.

Who am I?

And every story begins with the same answer.

I am.

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