Fran Wilde has taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts and St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She was also the director of the genre fiction MFA concentration at Western Colorado University. That feeds my fiction and my editing processes for short fiction and long. A Catalog of Storms is your first short fiction collection, following 2021 poetry collection Clock Star Rose Spine. What are the things you’ve learned through writing book after book that you brought into writing A Philosophy of Thieves?