Honestly the essay I’ve been waiting to write for nearly thirty years

Get ready for so much teenage sadness and yearning and driving past cornfields and crying!

Wowwee @hubcitypress.bsky.social is OPEN this weekend for single-narrative nonfiction! This is my time, my favorite stuff! Can be personal, reportage, memoir, cultural criticism, history, or a blend of the above. Ends at midnight on Sunday. Drop any questions below. hubcity.submittable.com/submit

✨Cover reveal!✨ Super excited to share the creepy cover of my dreams for my debut novel, HEMLOCK, coming 1/20/26 from @littlebrown.bsky.social & now available for preorder! You can find it at all major retailers and, better yet, your local indie bookstore or @bookshop.org. See you in the woods! 🦌🌲👻

Just completed the second day of Kenyon Review’s Summer Online Creative Non Fiction workshop with the wonderful @mlfaliveno.bsky.social and had the express pleasure of hearing her read this piece. Magic.

"Bets is falling apart. I guess maybe I am too. But somehow, for now, we both hold on." Here is a piece from our latest issue by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social we keep revisiting. Read it at the link in our bio. kenyonreview.org/piece/drivin...

It's finally here! Our Winter 2025 issue the winning entry of the 2024 Kenyon Review Nonfiction Contest judged by @melissafebos.bsky.social, the Far Corners folio, poetry by @victoriachang.bsky.social, nonfiction by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social, and so much more! kenyonreview.org/journal/wint...

I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.

So incredibly stoked that this is happening, and that the very first @marchxness.bsky.social essay I wrote (about the Creatures & Virginia Woolf & menstrual blood & nu-metal, among other things) will be in it alongside so many faves! Coming March 2026!

Chapel Hill, NC: reminder! TOMORROW, Feb. 18, @flyleafbooks.bsky.social will host @ajromriell.bsky.social, author of the memoir WOLF ACT, in conversation with @mlfaliveno.bsky.social! We hope you'll come celebrate with AJ and Melissa on publication day 🎉 Details: flyleafbooks.com/event/romrie...

Come work with me at UNC! We’re looking for our next Kenan Visiting Writer, a fiction writer with one book working on their next. This position was life changing for me & I loved our program so much I came back (truly, best folks ever). Hit me up with questions! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/289...

Happy publication anniversary to this memoir roundup I wrote for @xtramagazine.com in 2022, ft. books by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social, @otroedgargomez.bsky.social, Eleanor Crewes, Katie Heaney, and Grace Perry! 📚 I spent much of the pandemic reading queer memoir, and these were some of my favorites 🥰

We are happy to share our 2024 Pushcart nominations. Kinship: One Week in LA, @amspagna.bsky.social Mountain Milk, Shubha Venugopal Astonish, Diane Zinna The Sauna, @dianaruzova.bsky.social Carry Me, @mlfaliveno.bsky.social Transition Lenses, Jessica Petrow-Cohen

I am notoriously bad at both describing my own work and saying good things about it, so shout out to these incredible folks who were willing to blurb the book: @mlfaliveno.bsky.social @otroedgargomez.bsky.social @mcrane12.bsky.social & Shayla Lawson 💞 elj-editions.com/no-offense-a...