One Question Interview: Myna Wallin

Myna Wallin is a Toronto-based author and editor who published three chapbooks of poems before the full-length collection A Thousand Profane Pieces (2006).  Her novel Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar is new this year.

How did the plot develop, and is there an advantage to telling a novel in stories?

Confessions began as a collection of short stories. All of them had in common the same protagonist who experiences a series of comical romantic/sexual adventures with different men. Halli...