My review of Juliana Leite’s intimate and philosophical novel Exemplary Humans, translated from Portuguese by Zoë Perry, is up in Asymptote! @twolinespress.com asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/04...

On April 21 at 5pm ET, Ida Stewart, Kathryn Nuernberger & Mandy-Suzanne Wong will read for Lee University’s Writer’s Series in a virtual round-robin reading. Teams link at Linktree. @idastewart.bsky.social @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social @katnuernberger.bsky.social @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social

I’m most grateful to Robert Cowie at University of Hawaii for reading Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl & writing a blurb for it in Tentacle, Newsletter of the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Mollusc Specialist Group. Wow! 🐌🐌🐌 @graywolfpress.bsky.social www.hawaii.edu/cowielab/Ten...

21 Apr at 5 pm EST, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl will participate online in a book-to-book convo w HELD by @katnuernberger.bsky.social & GLOSS by Ida Stewart. Thanks to @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social for the invite! @graywolfpress.bsky.social @sarabandebooks.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social

A wonderful, heartwarming and empowering event. Huge thanks to Long Story Short, St. George's, for inviting me to read from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl at Bermuda's HERStory Festival! @graywolfpress.bsky.social

New releases from @graywolfpress.bsky.social are 15% off just now at Bookshop.org USA thru 29 Apr 2026, including my wee book, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl. bookshop.org/lists/new-bo...

I’m so grateful to Long Story Short Bookshop for inviting me to read from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl at Bermuda’s HERstory Festival next Saturday, 28 March, in St. George! My first reading ever in my wee birth country. Schedule TBA at www.wrcbermuda.com/events/herst.... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Mark Haber is one of my top literary idols. Some of my best experiments were inspired by his. Every one of his books invites close rereading and re-rereading. So excited for ADA!

Grateful to Annelie Hyatt & ACCENT ACCENT for this review of Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl: "a work of beauty, imagination, & depth...which suggests that a new code of justice must rely on compassion, instead of identification." @graywolfpress.bsky.social magazine.accentaccent.com/posts/review...

My belated but profound thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for running this excerpt from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl. 🩵🌊 @graywolfpress.bsky.social

My latest for @thecontinent.org: on Osvalde Lewat's The Aquatics, tr. by Maren Baudet-Lackner.

THE AQUATICS, a novel by Cameroonian filmmaker Osvalde Lewat, translated from the French by Maren Baudet-Lackner, is lush, courageous, and disturbing. Some brief thoughts from me on Goodreads and Substack. @coffeehousepress.bsky.social substack.com/@mandysuzann...

Still thinking about this book, and was so happy to review it, @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social! #books #Booksky #naturewriting #invertebrate

Thank you so much for this amazing opportunity, @pw.org!

“Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl displays radical thinking at its critical heights.” Thank you so much for this shoutout, @bocaslitfest.bsky.social! @graywolfpress.bsky.social trinidadexpress.com/features/loc...

Geetanjali Shree’s characters and dancing prose are always a delight! Some thoughts from me in ASYMPTOTE on THE ROOF BENEATH THEIR FEET, translated from Hindi by Rahul Soni. @andotherstories.bsky.social www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/02...

Next week!

Urszula Honek’s collection of dark stories, WHITE NIGHTS, translated from the Polish by Kate Webster & longlisted for the Intl Booker Prize, are quietly piercing – & now available to US readers from @twolinespress.com. Here’s my review in ASYMPTOTE. asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/02...

Stopped by the fabulous @typewronger.bsky.social in Edinburgh for the first time today, met the amazing Tee, adopted a wee origami dragon, & bought zines by Heidi Clark plus a book about Raffaella della Olga, who uses typewriters to create brilliant abstract images. @yalebooks.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to spend time with AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON – a magnificent documentary novel by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated polyphonically from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney – and to write about it for ASYMPTOTE. @graywolfpress.bsky.social www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/02...

I’m delighted as ever to have 3 reviews up in Asymptote’s "What’s New In Translation" column for Feb 2026. asymptotejournal.com/blog/new-in-...

Thank you so much @diversishelf.bsky.social for featuring Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl in issue 85! diversishelf.beehiiv.com/p/diversishe...

Thank you @pw.org for including me in Literary MagNet! It was a lot of fun to talk about some of the great literary magazines I’ve had the honor to work with. www.pw.org/content/lite... @graywolfpress.bsky.social @diggingpress.com @new-sinews.bsky.social @talkvomit.bsky.social

As the slow poke diver who happily hovers over marine invertebrates while others look for sharks or whatever I can't wait to get a copy of this

Happy pub. day to @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social's DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL, seventeen ingenious essays devoted to snails’ and aquatic invertebrates’ uncanny ways of living 🐌🐙🪼🐚 Pick up a copy from your local indie bookstore today! www.graywolfpress.org/books/daught...

It’s publication day for Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl!! Huge thanks to Yuka Igarashi for helping it make sense. Thank you, Kathryn, for lending your incredible multitalents to the illustrations. Thank you, Graywolf, for being THE BEST PUBLISHER EVER!! 🐌🦑🐙🐚🪸🌊 www.graywolfpress.org/books/daught...

DOMOP is almost here. 🐌 17 Feb 2026 @graywolfpress.bsky.social 🌊 www.graywolfpress.org/books/daught... 🐌🦑🐙🐚🪸🌊

I’ll have the honor of discussing, at NYU SCRIBE’s Lecture Series, 6 Mar, 4 pm EST on Zoom: Bermuda, books (including Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl & The Box), publishing, elasticizing English, & rethinking “heritage.” @graywolfpress.bsky.social Free registration: engage.nyu.edu/event/12206840

Ania Szremski at 4Columns calls Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl "fiercely imaginative and poem-like, though technically nonfiction (speculative nonfiction, perhaps?), essays...[that make] sea snails totally present on the page." 🙏 @graywolfpress.bsky.social 4columns.org/szremski-ani...

“How might we thread the needle between devising open-ended questions to learn more and filling in the blanks with images generated by a poetical human brain?” Huge thanks to Barbara J. King for this review of Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl! @graywolfpress.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’m a guest in the room. “You’re too light” When you cry, coffee has no right to speak hats turn blue. -- "They Leave to Reach Likeness" by Ka Yee Lee Translated from Chinese by Tim Tim Cheng Brilliant poem in @wwborders.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

"It's February. Weeping, take ink." Boris Pasternak, tr John Stallsworthy & Peter France

Many thanks to the editors at @necessaryfiction.com for the opportunity to review FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, polyphonically translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer @graywolfpress.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/reviews/fals...

FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, tr Natasha Wimmer (@graywolfpress.bsky.social). Reviewed by @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/fals...

As blissfully solitary as writing can be, collaborative writing can also be a total blast, given the right word-dance partner and venue. I’m privileged to have found both. Thank you @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for featuring our work! www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/helen...

"I don’t believe the authors mean a Jekyll-­and-­Hyde situation or multiple personalities elbowing one another out of the driver’s seat... I rather think they are envisioning one animal, one starfish, simultaneously living many lives." — @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social longreads.com/2026/02/05/m...

“Radically reimagining the ideal of 'the self' through coexistence with other species...to cherish the many other life forms while knowing we will never fully understand them.” What an honor for Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl! Thank you @electricliterature.com! @graywolfpress.bsky.social

A thousand thanks to the editors of @longreads.com ads for publishing "The Endless Self," an excerpt from Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, which comes out on 17 Feb from @graywolfpress.bsky.social ess. longreads.com/2026/02/05/m...

Awesome to see Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl recommended for SoCal’s TBR piles! @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Very excited for these releases! Look out for my review of @criveragarza.bsky.social 's AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON in Asymptote, coming soon.

Under Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s gaze, small uncharismatic invertebrates become heroes of our fragile ecology…This is a book to be savored slowly. –Maria Reva, author of ENDLING @graywolfpress.bsky.social www.graywolfpress.org/books/daught...

A mesmerizing & perspective-altering book. Wong’s hypnotic prose challenges us to look differently at ocean life & our relationship with the many quieter species we often take for granted. A love letter to the ocean & an absolute marvel of a book. –Tom Lathan 🙏 @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Kou Machida is a punk rocker—his discography includes 10 albums. He published a volume of poetry in 1992 and a novel in 1996. He won the 2000 Akutagawa Prize for Rip It Up. Machida's writing has been compared to rakugo story-telling and to the work of early 20th century self-destructive I-novelists.

So much gratitude to Orion Magazine for recommending Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl alongside such monumental books (including lovely Scottish bestsellers by Ian McEwan and Val McDermid)! orionmagazine.org/article/10-n... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Thank you so very much @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for giving a home to "Helena in the Sheep's Pasture" by DULSE, my word-dance band with Lee Deigaard. It's a tremendous honor! cincinnatireview.com/micros/helena-…

You need (at least) eight arms to hold this savvy & astute collection of essays: it considers topics normally reserved for science with artfulness & biased heart, & it looks at the very human act of writing as a flawed biological feat. –Elena Passarello 🙏🐙 @graywolfpress.bsky.social 17Feb!

Huge thanks to THE MILLIONS for including Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl in the Most Anticipated Great Winter 2026 Book Preview! Yay! 🙏🌊🐙 themillions.com/2026/01/the-... Pub day is 17Feb @graywolfpress.bsky.social 💙

Asymptote has some amazing suggestions for TBR piles around the world. I wrote about Chi Zijian’s marvelous novel of Evenki reindeer herders, The Last Quarter of the Moon, translated from Chinese by Bruce Humes @milkweededitions.bsky.social www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/01...

We grieve with our community.

The chutzpah and pathos and sparkle of Mandy-Suzanne Wong's language. Such imaginative creatures deserve such an imaginative writer, so full of feeling and fellow-feeling. I loved this curveball of a book! --Amy Leach Gratitude for this blurb! @graywolfpress.bsky.social