please share this call with your human friends, human students, human neighbors, human writing groups

And thanks to @agnimagazine.bsky.social for running this interview with @ericarstern.bsky.social about FRONTIER agnionline.bu.edu/preview/77ce...

Thanks to @riverteeth.bsky.social for this great review of @ericarstern.bsky.social's FRONTIER! riverteethjournal.com/book-reviews...

Another year, another great day of writing craft lessons and book hauls from @barrelhouse.bsky.social's DC conference.

Another really great @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC yesterday. I had a wonderful time chatting with @poeticmoni.bsky.social, @bydianarojas.bsky.social, Michele Evans, and @ericarstern.bsky.social, and even sold out of Aliens Attack! Thanks to everyone who came out, see you next year!

relevant to the debate over whether we should keep funding DHS without reforms and accountability for how out of control their spending is

Thrilled to see @ericarstern.bsky.social's FRONTIER on here!

"'Frontier' breaks the code of suffering in silence over and over again." Corinne Cordasco-Pak reviews Erica Stern's "Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story:" https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-ghosts-of-the-delivery-room/

After Erica Stern's baby was whisked away to the NICU, she couldn’t stop replaying bad memories. A year and a half later, she was ready to try again.

Great essay by @ericarstern.bsky.social in @wsj.com www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

substack.com/@ericastern/... Loved these questions! Thank you to Postpartum Productions for featuring me and my book!

Thank you to Leslie Lindsay and Hippocampus for this lovely review✨

After a long break, @ericarstern.bsky.social and I are back with some very personal book recommendations. books4endofworld.substack.com/p/birth-trau...

substack.com/@memoirland/... Excited to have this excerpt from Frontier up at Memoir Land! Big thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social and @cassmannes.bsky.social

Peace demonstrators have been beaten, foreign students have been disappeared, and educational institutions have been broken and tarred for being "antisemitic" through a series of tortured jingoistic inferences, while Donald Trump constantly and explicitly tells us what he thinks of Jews

Can we start talking about the war on children?

For no particular, topical reason I’ve been listening to “With God on Our Side” on a loop…😬

We have @littlelobbyists.com families on the way to Washington DC right now, they'll be on the House-side of the Capitol tomorrow. We're going to make them see us before they vote to kill disabled children. If you can help cover the costs of this urgent action: secure.actblue.com/donate/littl...

Thrilled to have this excerpt from my book up @thesunmagazine.bsky.social—a dream 🤩

New Orleans! Please join me in celebrating @ericarstern.bsky.social 's book release @bluecypressbooks.bsky.social, next Weds, June 18, 6:30 pm! FRONTIER is a beautiful and thrilling ride about birth, the unexpected, and the wild frontiers. I love it. From @barrelhouse.bsky.social books.

Check out this great excerpt of FRONTIER by @ericarstern.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/here-is-what...

An except from FRONTIER is up on @literaryhub.bsky.social !!!

@ericarstern.bsky.social‬ considers a traumatic birth and the many that came before: “Was there something she was afraid of, a contaminant that might transfer from me to her if she were to look at me directly?”

Loved talking to @rachellayown.bsky.social for @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social! Such great and thoughtful questions about FRONTIER

Chicago! Join us for a FRONTIER launch party next week! @ericarstern.bsky.social & @finejuli.bsky.social at @volumesbooks.bsky.social, on 6/5

Couldn't be clearer that — just like #MahmoudKhalil & #RümeysaÖztürk — #MohsenMahdawi is persecuted for his political speech & identity. DO NOT play "Good Palestinian/Bad Palestinian" or "Good Immigrant/Bad Immigrant" here. If you care about democracy, speak out without qualifiers. Raise hell. NOW.

Includes FRONTIER by Erica Stern!

Looking for some distraction? @ericarstern.bsky.social and I are back with book recommendations from someone far funnier than we are books4endofworld.substack.com/p/the-sopran...

I am generally a big Severance fan but have one qualm—why do they pretend epidurals don’t exist? Kier has a network of birthing cabins and women undergo invasive brain surgery to avoid childbirth pain, but like, there is a simpler, fairly effective alternative!

Nothing says happy anniversary like gripping your husband’s hand until it nearly loses circulation while watching an episode of The Pitt w/ a devastatingly realistic birth trauma scene 😬😬😬

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.

“Both a memoir and a Wild West ghost story.” I’m in! That’s one of the most intriguing book descriptions I’ve ever seen. Looking forward to it from @ericarstern.bsky.social and @barrelhouse.bsky.social.

This cover!!! Get your preorders in via the link below or Bookshop/B&N/ your fave indie

Brilliant article about how we got here by my friend and newsletter collaborator @suzmkahn.bsky.social

Still anxious. Still offering occasional book recommendations with @ericarstern.bsky.social. books4endofworld.substack.com/p/gift-y-boo...

Over on my side project (book rec newsletter) @ericarstern.bsky.social and I interviewed the person with the coolest job I know, Molly Wasser. She's got books for you on everything from astronomical scales to historical romance to doggies! books4endofworld.substack.com/p/relocating...