1) when i was little i used to catch bugs and kill them so i could hold funerals for them
2) my favorite books are House of the Scorpion, Metamorphosis, 100 Yrs of Solitude, and Scorch Atlas
3) I have a younger brother with 5 yrs' distance between us
4) the first thing i ever wrote was a poem about silkmoths when i was in kindergarten
5) when i was in elementary school i was obsessed with death and my mortality; i used to keep a yellow paper pad filled with drawings of a girl being pursued by the grim reaper