Taking a train to NYC to read from my essay, On Trains, about various trains of thought.

🚨 Coming soon from DeepDive 🚨 'How to Write Autobiographical Fiction' — an intensive new course taught by acclaimed author Hannah Pittard ('If You Love It, Let It Kill You'). 📱 Streaming soon on the DeepDive app + online. Stay tuned.

5 novels, 3 books of poetry, 1 book of essays, & 1 hybrid assemblage 📚📚📚 #books #recommendations #novels

From our new book review: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/navigating... Organic Matter paints a luminous portrait of the rural ecosystem that feeds the city and explores one perceptive young woman’s relationship with faith, labor, love, family, the body, and the ground. @autofocusbooks.bsky.social

Read our new book review: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/navigating... Organic Matter paints a luminous portrait of the rural ecosystem that feeds the city and explores one perceptive young woman’s relationship with faith, labor, love, family, the body, and the ground. @autofocusbooks.bsky.social

By the way, some news! I have a book coming out with the wonderful @autofocusbooks.bsky.social. I'm incredibly excited to join the list -- I so admire the work they've been putting out.

Contributor @ilanaslightly.bsky.social interviewed @ferrifrigida.bsky.social about her new book OUT THERE IN THE DARK for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! And you can read it all right here: buff.ly/8aebBZq

This book is fantastic! I'm not much of a film buff even & I still loved this. So sharp, well crafted, absolutely fascinating. I want to shove it into everyone's hands & shout "Read this! Read this!" So yeah, read this. @autofocusbooks.bsky.social @ferrifrigida.bsky.social #smallpressseptember

📚📚 ANNOUNCING: POOL PARTY BOOKS!!! 📚📚 Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025. Visit our website for details 🔥

Naomi Washer crafted a whole book out of her personal marginalia (out next week from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social), and I had a blast talking to her about it! writeordiemag.com/author-inter...

I have no less than 4 calendars/planners open, indicative at how horrified I am to realize it is the time to put together a reading event sched for Teen Queen Training. It comes out with @autofocusbooks.bsky.social on Feb 17! Where are my fellow early 2026 authors and SHOULD WE BE COLLABORATING?

Wrote for The Metropolitan Review about the pros & cons of working w/ small indie presses vs. big presses, the journey from almost being a big fancy author to being a medium unfancy author, and mid-career re-evaluation of what I want out of the writing life www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...

Great essay by @tmcallister.bsky.social at The Metropolitan Review about his experience with large and small presses, with a clear-eyed, experienced idea of the pluses and minuses. Also a nice confirmation that querying agents is awful for nearly everybody. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...

some brief morning thots re @ferrifrigida.bsky.social's Out There in the Dark, which I finished last night! Who tryna watch Jeanne Dielman??????????????????????????????

Y'ALL I still can't believe the way everything fell into place for this: I'm going to help @splitlippress.com give out-of-print books a new home!

If your answer is not "Teen Queen Training, Kristine Langley Mahler's erasure essay collection forthcoming with @autofocusbooks.bsky.social on Feb 17" then IT SHOULD BE!

my internet has been out and last night I spent the evening reading @ferrifrigida.bsky.social's Out There in the Dark (out now on @autofocusbooks.bsky.social) with a tiny cat in the crook of my forearm and the window open and (genderless) brother, that's the gd cure

First blurb is in for @lindzmcleod.bsky.social's collaborative craft writing book An Honour & A Privilege, from the great author & publisher Michael Wheaton of @autofocusbooks.bsky.social. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

I don't think Erin Slaughter is on here, but her book about her father that's about to drop from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social is so insanely good. autofocusbooks.com/store/p/dead...

Really enjoyed this collection by @aaronburch.bsky.social from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social The thinking about how you’re going to tell the story while you’re still in the middle of living the story is deeply relatable.

Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home: We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more. Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:

Friday night plans ✨

Finally, pouring one out for Synaesthesia Mag, apt., Atlas & Alice, The Collagist/The Rupture, cahoodaloodaling, and Gigantic Sequins--gone, but fondly remembered (especially on my Acknowledgments page in TQT--keep your eyes on @autofocusbooks.bsky.social to preorder! February 17, 2026!)

Helluva reading streak I’m currently experiencing… @sandorfpassage.bsky.social @emilylauracosta.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social @clairehopple.bsky.social @ferrifrigida.bsky.social

Note from a fellow writer that cheered me today.

Final ep of Book Fight went up today. 13 years ago when @mikeingram.bsky.social asked me to do a podcast with him, I thought it would be a little hobby for a few months but it's been the most fun & fulfilling work of my life. Thanks to everyone who followed along www.bookfightpod.com/episodes/end...

Happy publication day to Issue 19 of Stanchion Magazine and to the 22 talented writers featured within. Thanks to each of you for being a part of this tremendous issue curated by @fbereaud.bsky.social. Buy a copy today in print, from Stanchion or wherever you order books, or as a PDF.

2027 is looking mighty fine already at Autofocus! Thrilled to be working with @lillydancyger.bsky.social on this absolute gem of a book.

Surprise! I'm writing a new nonfiction book!! About dance and chronic pain and the ways the body can both express, and be impacted by, emotion. Forthcoming from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social in 2027!

Hey @autofocusbooks.bsky.social and @tahomareview.bsky.social, guess who's boothed up next to you at AWP26? SEE YA IN BALTIMORE! ❤️

Was just re-reading my interview at @memoirland.bsky.social to prepare for my event on parasocial fandom this afternoon - it's a pretty good overview of my book & the headspace I was at when writing it. memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...

Some of the @rejectionlit.bsky.social fam (including photographer @squeakypig.bsky.social — I’m sorry I doubted your vision for this shot) at the @autofocusbooks.bsky.social reading last night! @dtrobbins.bsky.social & Sean Moeller and me!

Still open for pitches for short NF books!

Angelenos, come out on Wednesday night to Stories for the book launch and reading for @autofocusbooks.bsky.social's new compilation, IF I CAN BE HONEST! I'm so excited to celebrate Autofocus and the incredible writing it continues to shepherd into the world!

When I say I’m a fan of @autofocusbooks.bsky.social, it’s not just because I’ve published 1 book with them + have another coming out in Feb (I CANNOT WAIT TO SHARE Teen Queen Training!!)—it’s bc I genuinely love the work they publish. I don’t collect a press’s entire catalog unless I mean it ❤️❤️❤️

I'm excited to teach this class. Come join the fun!

@autofocusbooks.bsky.social book mail days are great days

Grateful to have the essay "Take the Bus Home" included in the @autofocusbooks.bsky.social anthology alongside so many writers whose work I admire. autofocusbooks.com/store/p/if-i...

A few weeks earlier, J and I had rearranged all the furniture in our bedroom, overcome one afternoon by the compulsion home renters sometimes get to make small, arbitrary adjustments to their interior decorating scheme in the hopes that one of them might improve the quality of their lives.

Wrote about my father-in-law's stroke and the feeling of getting all turned around for one of my all-time favorite magazines @therumpus.net. 👇👇👇 therumpus.net/2025/07/17/o...

Second this!

You know this -- what Michael Wheaton has done to raise the profile of CNF in 5 years is extraordinary. AUTOFOCUS is the go-to for the best CNF written today. The catalog is exceptional. And it started w/ a journal that never missed. So grateful to be in IICBH. Get this book & support the press.

Baby's first anthology! I have an essay about doing yoga with my mom in this new collection from Autofocus. Can't wait to read through everything else 🙏 🙏 🙏

What a thrill and an honor to have a piece included in this anthology. I can’t wait to read the whole thing!

Got an essay coming out soon and was just thinking about my oldies like, On Baths, which shows up in my book @autofocusbooks.bsky.social .

I'm so thrilled to have one of my favorite essays "A Brief History of My Knees" included in this anthology. What a beautiful keepsake of the journal's legacy - and I'm a little humbled to be in the company of this TOC.

my essay about Angela Carter's mysterious unfinished Jane Eyre sequel is featured in this anthology! so happy to be in the company of so many writers I admire ☺️ happy pub day to everyone, and thank you as always to @autofocusbooks.bsky.social!

The new Autofocus anthology, If I Can Be Honest, is out today! It commemorates the four years of the online journal that morphed into this press. Some of the best formally rich short personal prose you can find anywhere, if we may say so! autofocusbooks.com/store/p/if-i...