I had been a really dorky kid and I loved Science Fiction and fantasy and horror, and I realized that I wanted to come back around to horror. It’s been tremendously fun and rewarding, and I still utilize the conventions of literary fiction.

And so when we bring our minds together, how can we define what a craft element like voice is? How can we look at that hip-hop artist and that spoken word poet and Moby Dick and step back altogether and say, “What is voice?