Aaron Dietz asked Heather Fowler:

The stories and quirks about people that you write about are fantastically weird. Where do you get such great weird ideas?

Heather Fowler I think I'm always interested in the strange story over the mundane story--this is likely since I first fell in love with books that were magical as a child, books that had elements of the bizarre. Maybe I felt a clear sense of otherness due to my poor vision and huge propensity to daydream. The ideas for stories that come to me arrive from everywhere, are often twists on what would be a normal narrative without, say, the speckled ghost I add into the story--or the random but unusual natural occurrence. Often, the urge to escape normalcy, or skew it, makes my stories pleasantly weird and enjoyable distractions to write--in a strange story, I am free from a standard construction of reality. I am at play. :)

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