I treat you like a graduate student. In your sophisticated grasp of what a short story might possibly attempt - what a maximal small universe a short story can be, however subtle its plot ... - you are like a graduate student in creative writing, and I'm sure you'll soon be one.

I would, Stephanie, a thousand times rather work with a writer your age who has too much language, too many ideas-of-words, than just enough.

    --Jaimy Gordon
    author of Bogeywoman

You create images that are a joy to pick apart. ... You can just force so much time into so little and it's fast and fleeting it's a great way to get the reader to want more ... my mind compared it to a one night stand.

    --Andrea Cologgi

Your writing can sometimes leave me behind ... almost like painting with words. When you get really wordy, I have to read slower because it's just so...colorful. It's like a really BRIGHT painting.

    --Katie Henderson

You're not only gifted with language, you're one of the most articulate story critics in class.

    --Robert Eversz
    author of Zero to the Bone