Before I turned my attention to fiction, I spent five years writing plays with an interactive theater company in Chicago. Though it is now defunct, the awareness it infused in me—that all art speaks to an audience—remains in my fiction. My work plays with reader perspective, inviting the reader to fully invest in the emotions and accounts of the eternally unreliable narrator. My stories are largely concerned with people whose self-consciousness comes with an absence of self-awareness—people trapped in office posturing, in proscribed familial roles, in constant petty battles with their neighbors. I am currently starting a novel and polishing a collection of short stories.