I Grew Up In Cyprus And Egypt,

I Like Dark Subject Matter. I'm Not Sure What That Means About Me!

For Me It Was A Lot Harder To Come To Terms With The Death Of My Grandfather Than It Was To Come To Terms With What's Happened To The Former Yugoslavia.

The Best Fiction Stays With You And Changes You.

I've Always Written About Animals. I'm Still Trying To Process Why That Is.

When I Was Eight Years Old, I Wrote A Paragraph-long Short Story About A Goat On My Mother's Hundred-pound, Black-and-white-screen Laptop. The Story Came About Largely Because I Liked The Way The Word 'goat' Looked On The Page, But I Decided Then And There That I Wanted To Be A Writer. That Desire Never Changed.