Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.

I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.

What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.

I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.