All right. I'm with Andrew Berega everybody. Welcome to Walkends Welcome. Thank you for coming through to talk to me

Thank you for having me. I'm excited to talk to you about your book victim

I really first of all, want to hear a little bit about your background

and how you decided to write, you know, came to decide to write a book. Did you always want to be an

author?

Yeah, well I want to be a writer pretty young.

I knew that when I was about 16.

I focused on journalism at first,

and mostly because that was like the path that I saw available.

I didn't really imagine what a being novelist was

or what that would look like.

But when I went to college and I started doing creative writing classes, then I fell in love with fiction and it was around that time when I was like, I want to write a book.

Where did you go to college?

Cornell.

Okay. And you grew up in the Bronx, correct? I grew up in the Bronx, yeah.

You're kind of living my dream. I feel like as I was I was just in New York City and I feel and every I was born there actually.

Oh yeah, where?

Where in here?

Like upper west, but it was, I was only there for like the first two and a half years

of my life and then they had my brother and they were like,

we're out of here.

And it was like 1980, so it wasn't you know I mean I think it's a little

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