I’m (clearly) not an illustrator but my poetry is very visual (& visualizing poems often gives me inspiration), so here’s a tree/poem about falling down. #kidlitartpostcard I’m a YA author and poet, rep’d by Michelle Witte. #ImageandVerse

After a week of literally living in an oven (turning on the fan felt like putting on the convection mode), it finally cooled down in Paris yesterday night with the storms. I managed to get some lightning bolts with the Eiffel Tower (perk of a hellish studio under the roofs) #STUNday #photography

Happy #caturday! Blackberry the multimodal cat (thanks @actfortransit.bsky.social for calling her that) loves the train, because she can chill on the seats and eat whenever she’s hungry. (She also really prefers low-carbon modes of transportation when it’s possible)

The #TransitCat of the day is multimodal.💜

For health reasons Blackberry cannot stay alone for more than 6 hours so she goes wherever we go! As an island dweller, she often takes the boat (also the plane, car, bus, train, metro)… She’s a great traveling companion (napped on my knees most of the way in the ferry today)! #caturday

I used to care about the too-frequent laughs the whistles the oohs and aahs the head shakes and eye rolls I used to care to feel the burn of unshed tears and bottled shame but the truth is: a body is a body is a body but the truth is: my body is my body is my body.

Not quite sure what it means about humanity that The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest literary works written ~ 2000BC, is literally about a tyrannical king who abuses men and women for fun and whose main goals in life are to destroy the world's forests and become immortal...

It's usually quite fun to be on an island with wild goats...but it's much less fun when the dogs decide to chase after the goats and I have to chase after the dogs chasing after the goats. (In the second blurry picture, the dogs are the two dots ahead of me and the goats are near the rocks)

I'm not an illustrator (as you can obviously see), but my poetry is very visual & plays with space & shape, so I thought I'd post a little drawing of how I pictured a poem. #KidLitArtPostcard I'm a YA author and poet, rep'd by Michelle Witte.

What better way to work on a (dead) manuscript than with a tiny & very live monster? #KidlitZombieWeek Literary sacrifice/murder is often my way of reviving stories (as in literally chopping off the head & the limbs of the story to get back to its heart)

If you've ever been supremely annoyed by someone telling you that a woman who was "the first woman" to have done something in her field didn't "really" count because tons of men had done it before, then you'll love Tapputi! She was one of the first known chemists (regardless of gender) in 1200 BC!🧪✨

Did you know that there already were petroleum wars in the 18th century BC in Mesopotamia? You can learn all about it (and a lot of other things) in the exhibit Primordial Water and its associated trail, on which I've been working for 3 years, and that just opened in the Louvre Museum!

Hi there, I'm new to Bluesky and hoping to connect with the writing and scientific community! I write in the YA space about girls in science and/or ancient civilizations, and I'm represented by @michellewitte.bsky.social of Mansion Street Literary! (More to come about my favorite female scientists)