“Q: What is the hardest thing about your role?
A: Cabin fever. If you want to be a writer, get ready to spend 99% of your time alone.”
“Q: Who inspired you to write and why?
A: My ultimate goal as a writer is to be described as ‘the love-child of Michelle Tea and Francesca Lia Block’.”
“Q: Who is an example of a “cutout man”?
A: All of my ex-boyfriends. Not that any of them will be reading this, but if they are: FUCK YOU, I WANT MY COPIES OF BONJOUR TRISTESSE AND THE WASP FACTORY BACK.”
“Q:What informs your creative process? How do you keep inspired?
A: It’s hard not to be inspired. Misheard song lyrics, trees shaped like dinosaurs, that guy who always orders a large espresso then adds four sugars and doesn’t drink it. Stories are everywhere.”
“Kirsty is one of the best and brightest and this story only highlights her best-ness and brightest-ness. She has a way with language that I absolutely love; when I read her stuff I feel like a I could taste it, chew it, roll it around on my tongue, the language is so delicious and sturdy and musical. She also has a knack for getting relationships exactly right in her writing, whether between parent and child or lovers or friends.”
“‘Pobrecita’ plays with language and structure while still managing to get a brilliant set of images across. (‘… Connor pulls off his t-shirt one-handed, an afterthought.’ I love that image. I wish I’d written it!)”
“Slip this lightweight but nourishing anthology into your holiday bag. Editor Royle has selected 20 published stories from British writers. His own (excellent) taste means that little explosions of weirdness or transcendence often erupt amid much well-observed everyday life.”