Brave and unflinching, Like Blood on a Dog's Teeth comes gracious & asking; From youth to adulthood, from lost pup to collared, Nivik reflects on bright lights and rough loves, the selfhood of aging, & all that it costs. @nivikthejackal.bsky.social Pre-orders are OPEN kithbooks.com/shop/p/dogsteeth

i think i'm gonna go to seminary

So every November I try to write 30 poems in 30 days and little recap essays on my substack. In this one (Week 1) we talk about St. Augustine, Jonah, and Charles Peguey

"The Great Blight of Yates County, New York" Wilhelmina "Billie" Sainwood @billiewrites.bsky.social engenderedlitmag.com/summer2025

Day 18 of the #sealeychallenge August 18th- What was eaten was given, Billie Sainwood @kithbooks.bsky.social makes beautiful books, and the poems inside this collection are funny and well-crafted

Nothing, lover, will die with you. -T4T4T4T4T4T4ever @billiewrites.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/whatwaseaten

Sainwood’s naked discussions of sex, mental illness, fear, hope, & longing beg the reader into their own self reflection. Cis, trans, queer, straight, our bodies all pray to something. How do you worship? What lies deep inside you? What must you let out? @billiewrites.bsky.social

Put a liver on a plate, that’s poetry

Sainwood’s naked discussion of sex, mental illness, fear, hope, and longing begs the reader into self reflection. Cis, trans, queer, straight, we are sites of creation, deserving of worship. What lies deep inside you? What must you let out? @billiewrites.bsky.social

New blog post up! Epiphanies of Impossible Women: Tokyo Godfathers, the Virgin Mary, and Trans Nativity

Reminder that I wrote a book of poems that I would just LOVE if you bought, read, or begged your libraries to stock

Posted my year recap! I did entirely too much.

I have rediscovered how cute I look in pigtails. The world may never recover

This photo is the crowning achievement of my life.

I have written the Acknowledgments section to my latest project and realized, again, that it is a poem in disguise.

Oh, I guess I’m back here now. I will occasionally be posting about poetry, art, and unrelenting sapphic yearning

Hi! Please pre-order my book I worked so incredibly, unbelievably hard on it. It’s gay, it’s trans, it’s sexy, it’s violent, it has FEET in it!!!

I have a book coming out next month. If you like body horror, love poems, religious trauma, and feet? You’ll have a new favorite book by July. WHAT WAS EATEN WAS GIVEN out July 14th

Friends near and far! TOMORROW, at 7:30 Eastern, you can catch Billie Wood @billiewrites.bsky.social and me in a virtual reading and conversation about queer horror for Pride. I'm really excited about this one and I hope you'll join us! www.charisbooksandmore.com/event/z-word...

New blog post up! Link in replies! We talk about Vincent Price, opera, and how much I miss my girlfriend.

I’m doing a Zoom Show with some of my friends and peers. Hear me do TWO (2) poems about A Star Is Born! Link below

New blog post up! Korean cinema! Ghosts! Long Distance Relationships! Link in bio and down-thread

New blog post is up! As I continue to chronicle my experience of writing 30 poems in 30 days. Get the URL from my bio!

Sometimes I think it’s weird that I’ve spent most of this month writing about my breasts…then I remember that I literally JUST got these and that’s rad.

Second National Poetry Writing Month recap is up on the blog! We talk about DeadMau5, hell, sculpture, and the anxiety of writing a book! Link in bio.

First NaPoWriMo recap is up on the blog

My gay little poem about girls and god got published today!

Special thanks to photographer Robert Wolfgang for taking pictures at the Atlanta Trans Talent Show so I can look like “I’m curse you!”…”with puppies!”

Writing a poem a day this month. Gonna *try* to write a recap blog every week. Let’s do it

Wrote this for Trans Day of Visibility. We exist. We are glorious and mundane. We are vibrantly alive even in silence.

Finally admitting out loud that I’m “working on a book” is the most terrifying and humiliating shit. But I’m working on a book.

Figured I’d update my profile picture since I’m feebly dedicating myself to posting on here more frequently.

New post up on my writing blog. This time I rant about wine, anosmia, Italo Calvino and second selfish secret life of books. It’s in my bio.

Every day I grow closer to posting the really unhinged stuff.

I finally have a poem published under my real name! It’s about my partner’s top surgery and all the things our scars let us become. passionfruitreview.com/billie-sainw...

New blog post up.

“i’m bruised with potential.” Reading HERE I AM, PRY ME OPEN by Atlas St. Cloud after stumbling across one of his poems on Twitter. What a bold, flensing look at transformation and the quiet moments between bodies. A staggeringly honest and worthwhile collection of work.

“The Winter my girlfriend couldn't sleep, when the miles between us calcified into jagged teeth, I read to zier before bed.” NEW BLOG POST! billiewritespoems.com/read-some-th...

I want someone to write a book about an elite, shadowy monster-hunting organization except it turns out they're just looking for the monsters so they can fuck them. (NOT ME I have enough on my plate!)

THE REANIMATOR'S SOUL (TRM #2) comes out in 10 DAYS! Preorder it for 🩻PUSHING DAISIES x SLEEPY HOLLOW 🩻An autistic necromancer 🩻His undead lover 🩻A sinister clinic 🩻A mysterious death 🩻And an obnoxious ex 🩻MM paranormal romance in 1890s NYC Books2read.com/trm2 🌈📚 Book 1 is out in ebook, audio, & pb

Finding someone who shares even one of my special interest or kinks makes me feel like that scene from the Parent Trap where they realize they’re twins.

Current favorite selfie. What’s yours?

Introduce yourself with three books you love! -Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino -The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy -Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Little Shop of Bottoms

After a 7 year hiatus I’m writing poetry again and will be performing as the Local Poet featuring for this event. Link ⬇️

Making a little videogame about social anxiety with “combat” encounters at a party and accidentally made one of the “enemies” too cute by accident. She plays guitar. I am a fool.