One week from today! Come help me launch First Love into the world at Books Are Magic with the brilliant Leslie Jamison. (Don't forget to register in advance!) eventbrite.com/e/in-store-lil…

Reminder: I'm offering a 1-hour marketing & publicity consultation for Orion Magazine’s annual fundraiser. Bidding is currently at $525, with a little over a week left. Many other fantastic items to bid on as well!
us.givergy.com/OrionMagazine2…

This is the only kind of critical engagement I've ever wanted or needed

[Outraged M4L voice] This book is in three high schools in our district!

“Perhaps we’ve all done more gaslighting than we care to admit.” Leslie Jamison writes about what the ubiquitous word really means. nyer.cm/BRZH8Uw

I was honored to be invited by a student to join this moving gathering tonight

Shimaa was Refaat’s first child. Shimaa was Refaat’s most loved child. Shimaa made Refaat a grandfather, though he was murdered three months before. Shimaa, Refaat’s first child, got killed today along with her husband and Refaat’s first grandchild.
This is a photo of Shimaa in…

Proud of my outrageously bright and deeply thoughtful former student Charlee Dyroff and her debut novel LONELINESS & COMPANY!

Wait why have I not been reading this version all along

Always held Professor Susan Bernofsky and the care and respect she has for current and former students in such high regard.

!!! A novel from the point of view of a young Tamil woman growing up in Jaffna in the 1980s! And it's is on the Women's Prize shortlist, among books and authors I deeply admire. Grateful for this recognition.

When I say this story floored me, I mean it *floored* me. This is a level of courage and resistance almost beyond my imagination.
thenation.com/article/world/…

Today in The Nation we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it. thenation.com/article/world/…

Very proud to share this news with you.
My second poetry book, Forest of Noise, is forthcoming from Knopf on October 29, 2024.
You can place your pre-order now.

RIP Helen Vendler. What a beautiful mind and soul. Singular and stunning. Shaped me forever.

Thrilled to be a 2024-25 Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library. I’ll be working on my Anne Sexton biography. nypl.org/blog/2024/04/2…

The Sky Is Ours is out today!

As I wrote I spent so much time thinking about other novels and stories that examine technology—brave, new, world-changing inventions—as their central subject.

Electric Literature let me write about some of my favorites:

electricliterature.com/7-books-about-…

Hurrah for Leslie Jamison and Isabella Hammad!