My Grandfather And I Were Very Close.

My Road To Publishing Actually Came Through A Colleague Who Connected Me To My Agent, And The Faculty At Cornell Was Very Supportive.

At The End Of The Day, It's About The Reader's Attachment To And Belief In The Magical Elements That Make Or Break Magical Realism.

What Inspires Me Most To Write Is The Act Of Traveling.

In Terms Of People That I Know, My Grandmother And My Mother Are Huge Influences On My Writing Life Because They Are Both Massively Supportive And Always Have Been Of My Career.

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.