Every time I hear people pining for Blockbuster and other video rental stores I want to yell from the rooftops "LIBRARIES!! LIBRARIES ARE WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AND THEY STILL EXIST!" Also, even if you're not gonna use it, consider getting a library card. It helps.

Prairie falcon greeted me when I came home.

New semester! 🎉 I've themed my literature classes Disabled Characters vs. The World. 📖 Brooms by Jasmine Walls & Teo DuVall 📖 A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow (@alixeharrow.bsky.social) 📖 Uncanny's Disabled People Destroy Fantasy! 📖 Uncanny's Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction!

Mine might be a tie between the Susquehanna near Selinsgrove and the Hudson near Sleepy Hollow.

New semester! 🎉 I've themed my literature classes Disabled Characters vs. The World. 📖 Brooms by Jasmine Walls & Teo DuVall 📖 A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow (@alixeharrow.bsky.social) 📖 Uncanny's Disabled People Destroy Fantasy! 📖 Uncanny's Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction!

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." - Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

Apparently I can only handle so much tragedy before I have to poem about it...

She was a mother and a poet. I didn’t have words for this before we knew who she was. I don’t have words for this now. Here is her poem that won the Academy of American Poets Prize in 2020. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

📖 The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The kitten heel of one shoe caught into the slingback strap of the other. Broken elbow.

Submissions are open! Send your weirdest. No bigotry, etc. We're always excited to consider pieces from writers of color, international writers, queer writers, and disabled writers. genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/submissions/ #writers #writer #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #artists

The crows are hungry this morning.

I want to reread my favorite books.

My favorite books of 2025! 🧵

I'm probably going to finish the year out with Shirley Jackson, and start the new one with Oscar Wilde.

You can learn a lot about a person based on who their favorite Muppet is.

My favorite books of 2025! 🧵

kith crit: cohort one

Not my spoiled princess of a cat thinking I'm giving her some of tonight's manicotti for dinner. 👑

This is... quite a year to be on the academic job market... 😅

I put in my first two library holds for 2026 releases! 📖 Playing for Keeps by Alexandria Bellefleur 📖 The Book of Blood and Roses by Annie Summerlee

Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only

Absolutely the fuck not. 🫶🏻

Back on my bullshit (ordering library books and staring at the moon)

What was that discourse again about disabled people having had it too easy for too long...? 🤔

Birdie buddies 🐦‍⬛

Stew season

Accommodations SHOULD be easier to access. Pedagogy should also be more inclusive at the baseline, and teachers have the opportunity to make it more accessible as they go. And, as someone with a disability who's in academia: jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2023/02/23/c...

So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through. Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.

Accommodations SHOULD be easier to access. Pedagogy should also be more inclusive at the baseline, and teachers have the opportunity to make it more accessible as they go. And, as someone with a disability who's in academia: jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2023/02/23/c...

Crow friend! 🐦‍⬛

Join Sarah Fawn Montgomery (@sfmontgomery.bsky.social) and the Creative Writing Studies Organization (@cwstudies.bsky.social) for our Unlearning Workshop Ableism event on December 2, 2025 from 7:00-8:00pm EST! creativewritingstudies.net/unlearning-w...

Junco in the snow ❄️

Join me and The Creative Writing Studies organization on Tuesday, December 2 at 7pm EST for a virtual talk and Q&A about my @sundresspub.bsky.social NERVE and ways we can create and sustain more inclusive workshop spaces! Link to register in comments.

Penguins (which are also my favorite animal). Of backyard birds, grackles (my funny lil anxiety birds), with an additional soft spot for crows. That said, I'll stop whatever I'm doing for literally any bird that happens into my line of sight.

Join Sarah Fawn Montgomery (@sfmontgomery.bsky.social) and the Creative Writing Studies Organization (@cwstudies.bsky.social) for our Unlearning Workshop Ableism event on December 2, 2025 from 7:00-8:00pm EST! creativewritingstudies.net/unlearning-w...

My life right now is just me needing to do things... and the cats not allowing me to do things.

Giving myself a mani/pedi for the first time in literally years. (Tbf, the color name was too on-brand for me to resist.)

Fun fact: I keep a list of recommended reading on my author site! Some favorite full-length memoirs: 📖 In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado 📖 You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith 📖 Sick by Porochista Khakpour 📖 Night Parade by Jami Nakamura Lin 📖 Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Honestly have no idea what some people get out of using AI for writing. Just had all the parts of a story idea click into place and it’s such a satisfying feeling. Why the hell would anyone want to outsource creativity?

Everybody should have easy access to accommodations AND we should be collaborating toward a more inclusive baseline to begin with.

ISO links to short stories with disabled characters. Bonus points if they're fantasy, sci-fi, and/or fairy tale inspired.

👩🏻‍🏫 Currently Teaching: You Must Take Part in Revolution by Melissa Chan and Badiucao 📖 Currently Reading: Failure to Comply by cavar

👩🏻‍🏫 Currently Teaching: You Must Take Part in Revolution by Melissa Chan and Badiucao 📖 Currently Reading: Failure to Comply by cavar

Conference buddy Joplin Eloise #CWSC25

"I have to remind myself that Gen AI is part of a capitalist agenda, not an educational agenda." #CWSC25 #Session3A

"Storytellers can, in fact, be cultural leaders." - Leslie Kreiner Wilson #CWSC25

Only 3 days to go! Register now for #CWSC25 Online and enjoy 40+ presenters, panels, workshops, round tables, and discussions. Schedule: creativewritingstudies.net/2025-confere... Learn more: creativewritingstudies.net Register: cwso.wildapricot.org/event-6339367

Today in liminal spaces... This semester, I'm teaching in a former library, notoriously haunted by a librarian. Today, I stumbled upon this room that looks like the beginning of something Guillermo del Toro might direct. (Perfect setting for this semester's course theme: Social Horror.)

Today in liminal spaces... This semester, I'm teaching in a former library, notoriously haunted by a librarian. Today, I stumbled upon this room that looks like the beginning of something Guillermo del Toro might direct. (Perfect setting for this semester's course theme: Social Horror.)