Interviewer questions (helpful for editing, not word for word): *Could you explain to our listeners why you became interested in creative nonfiction? *Why was creative nonfiction the genre you chose to operate in? *On the Canada Writes website, the finalists all have short biographies. Several of them mentioned that they prefer creative nonfiction because they consider it more honest than fiction or poetry. Would you agree with that assessment? *Would you say that a lot of writers of creative nonfiction have a hard time adjusting to the fact that they are not fiction writers? *You seem to be interested in events that happened to other people long in the past, in contrast to some of the other finalists who have submitted very personal stories. Why are you drawn to these distant subjects? *I was wondering if you could talk about the process of deciding the shortlist. What criteria did you use to narrow it down to the finalists? *You're going to be teaching CNF at the University of Missouri next year. What are some of the key things you're going to tell your students? *Do you have any CNF projects of your own that you're working on? *Is there anything else you'd like to add? *How can our listeners learn more about the Canada Writes Prize?