Kelly Conrad asked Malcolm Ivey:

When did you first start writing?

Malcolm Ivey Hey Kelly, thanks for the question. I began my first novel, Consider the Dragonfly, in February of 2011, but I've always had a thing for the written word. I recently heard a writing award referred to as a prize for "American letters." I love that. I spent a lot of my 20s and 30s in a prison cell, starving for human contact. I felt like if I could just write the perfect letter, I could establish a connection, maybe even find love. That didn't happen. But a serendipitous consequence was that all along, in desperation, I was honing my craft. Today I'm still writing those letters, but I now write them to the universe in the form of novels.

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