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.)

Just DNF'd a book with disabled and queer rep. I was about 70 pages in when random biphobia surfaced for no reason and, when I researched others' reviews, it's apparently just a totally normal (and never challenged) part of this character. I'm not about it. 💖💙💜

Currently reading: Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer 🧶 🙏🏻 🌈

We have the @cwstudies.bsky.social conference in about a week (11/7 and 11/8)! Registration for as low as $25, all virtual. To see the schedule and register: creativewritingstudies.net/2025-confere... #CreativeWriting #AcademicSky #academia #writers

Watched Agatha All Along and worked on some collages. 🔮

We have the @cwstudies.bsky.social conference in about a week (11/7 and 11/8)! Registration for as low as $25, all virtual. To see the schedule and register: creativewritingstudies.net/2025-confere... #CreativeWriting #AcademicSky #academia #writers

“When the woman was still a woman, she kept a special place in her mind where she locked away all of the things which were too unkind to say.”

Watching Gargoyles with the kiddo.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

She picked a glitter ruby color.

post a witch 🧹

Not me, sitting here on a Friday, getting all verklempt while grading because I'm so proud of how my students did on their midterm projects. 🥹

Regulating the ol' nervous system with cat cuddles...

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

In an inevitable turn of events, the bird (a mourning dove) is watching me. 👀

We are excited to announce our #CWSC25 keynote speaker, Katie Marya! Katie joins over 40 scholars & presenters bringing research-driven approaches to creative writing to our online conference on November 7-8. Learn more: creativewritingstudies.net Register: cwso.wildapricot.org/event-6339367

Our apartment has a bed, a homemade cat bed, a couch, an ottoman, a new loveseat... but one cat is smooshed up in my lap, and the other is curled up next to me.

Took the kiddo to the Bookmobile with no intention of getting any books for myself... but still checked out a graphic novel with queer vibes, the new T. Kingfisher novel, and a Malcolm X biography. Whoops?

if you want to support a nanticoke who makes little magazines this indigenous peoples day, here are the little magazines i make www.ANMLY.org — intl art & lit that's never boring www.beestungmag.com — non-binary, two-spirit, & genderqueer writing www.ALOCASIA.org — a journal of queer planty writing

Broke: Decorating outside with fake cobweb that can harm birds Woke: Cultivating a healthy ecosystem near your home and letting the spiders decorate for you

Broke: Decorating outside with fake cobweb that can harm birds Woke: Cultivating a healthy ecosystem near your home and letting the spiders decorate for you

we’ll never get a better future if we don’t all commit to being the weirdest we can possibly be

Currently Teaching: The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain Currently Reading: Drinking from Graveyard Wells by Yvette Lisa Ndlova

Currently Teaching: The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain Currently Reading: Drinking from Graveyard Wells by Yvette Lisa Ndlova

First pre-release review of my forthcoming story collection, Penfold's Menu of Magic and Malice! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

I passed my dissertation proposal defense!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Also disability scholar here. One of the problems with it being "impolite" to call an asshole an asshole is that, all too often, it leads to more "acceptable" ableist rhetoric.

Instantly added this to my TBR.

Harvested fresh basil from the garden to prepare it for freezing for winter soups. 🌱

Share your favorite black and white movie

I'm a nature girlie who stops to smile at every squirrel, raven, and moth on the cloudy autumnal walk into work.

Taking a Youtube and collaging break between writing cover letters for the academic job market.

Ekphrastic poems by disabled and/or queer poets! Recommendations? Links?

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