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I had read The Handless Maiden during my poetry program and I loved how dark and unusual it was.

Yes, it definitely is, though it only retells about the first half of the fairy tale. Would you say Minnow is a retelling of The Handless Maiden? The final piece of the puzzle was discovering The Handless Maiden, which is the fairy tale that I built Minnow’s story around. I became interested in the idea of writing a fairy tale retelling. One of the most important novels I read during that time was The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale, which is a fairy tale retelling. Something in YA managed to satisfy my reader-spirit in a way that nothing else I was reading at the time could. I started devouring YA novels (sometimes instead of my required poetry reading…oops). I was in a poetry program in college, and during that time, a couple of great YA novels happened to fall into my lap. Another thing was discovering YA literature. One was that I spent a lot of time in Montana while my mom was studying for her PhD (the book is set in the wilds of Montana and in the town Missoula, a place I absolutely love). The book was inspired by a lot of seemingly unconnected events and encounters that occurred over the course of about a year. Do you remember what first inspired you to write Minnow’s story? Congratulations on writing such an incredible book.