![]() ![]() ![]() However, it was only after I finished writing my then-fully realist novel, graduated from my MFA with it as the thesis, and found an agent, that I realized all its readers had an issue with the novel’s shapelessness. I kept abandoning the novel and returning to it on and off throughout the next decade until I realized that Mitya was the perfect lens through which I wanted to tell two stories that are incredibly important to me: growing up nonbinary and the utter desolation that ravaged the post-Soviet territories in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the repercussions of which are still felt in suffering and military conflicts. The main character Mitya came to me as a small child who swallows a needle and then keeps on growing with the treacherous metal object lodged somewhere in his body. I began writing my novel Little Foxes Took Up Matches more than fourteen years ago, in January of 2008. ![]()
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