Grit Quarterly launches today—congrats to Ed. Dan Russell. Happy to contribute an icy little chunk of S.E. Manitoba. @gritquarterly.bsky.social @nberlat.bsky.social @dashlarkin.bsky.social @melissacuisine.bsky.social @russellthayer10.bsky.social @byjeffsykes.bsky.social @maudlavin.bsky.social

My first full-length poetry book SWIM LESSONS comes out Sept 2 from Tulipwood in Seattle. Now available for pre-order. Tulipwood.org And my author’s copies have arrived!

All the cool kids are reading Mermaids and Lazy Activists this summer! 🧜‍♀️

Double checked this and yes we have a fatality from yesterday’s ICE raid in Camarillo. Jaime Garcia is to be removed from life support today after falling 30 feet while running from ICE agents.

Excited to announce that my first full-length poetry book, SWIM LESSONS, will be published Sept. 2 by Tulipwood Books in Seattle! 10 percent off preorder purchases directly from tulipwood.org, made by Aug. 1.

Big thanks to Melissa Flores Anderson for her astute and generous review out today in Roi Faineant!

This Friday, Perrysburg, Ohio, 6:30+, reading from and chatting about Mermaids and Lazy Activists at Gathering Volumes! 🧜‍♀️💙

NEW: Gov. Hochul announces that the state is dedicating $50 million for legal assistance for immigrants like those who may be targeted by ICE when leaving the federal courthouse

Hi all in Chicago! You’re warmly invited: Tarot and Mermaids Watershed Art & Ecology 1821 S Racine, in Pilsen Free Tarot readings by Claire Pentecost and Maud Lavin, first come, first served Copies of Maud’s eco-novel Mermaids and Lazy Activists, From Beyond Press, for sale

Traverse City friends, come by tmrw—Sunday, for this book party for Mermaids and Lazy Activists! Workshop Brewing, 6-8! 💙🧜‍♀️💙🧜‍♀️

The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

Good news—SILENCES, OHIO is now for sale at Buddy’s in the Chicago Cultural Center. Shown here with the infamous Sara!

What the what-ie?! Another party? This one in Traverse City, MI on Sunday, June 1?! You’re all warmly invited! xx🧜‍♀️💙

Reading at the Chicago book launch of Mermaids and Lazy Activists! Me and Rachel DeWoskin 🧜‍♀️💙Fun.

TONIGHT!!! 6-8 The Whistler. Come by! xx🧜‍♀️

All the cool mermaids hang out at Chicago’s Sandmeyer’s Books and other swell bookstores. @frombeyondpress.bsky.social

this is incredibly embarrassing

Today is the pub date for MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS!!! Part of every book sale goes to FLOW: For Love of Water! Available at @frombeyondpress.bsky.social Bookshop Amazon and cool bookstores like Sandmeyer’s! 🧜‍♀️💙🧜‍♀️💙xx

Chicago pals! Book party on Wed, May 21, 6-8, at The Whistler in Logan Square! Come on by. 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️💙💙💙xxx Treats from Tropicake and, natch, the cool kids.

Still 3 days before pub date but the cool kids are already purchasing MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS!

TODAY!!! xx

Chicago Pope will be airing between Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D.

Chicago friends, see you Sat at 2:00 at Printers Row Wine! xxx

DIDN'T TAKE LONG. This is what you call "committing to the bit."

Sinners is so so so good. Brilliant. I bawled my eyes out.

Guys, guys, SILENCES, OHIO is now available as an e-book as well as in paperback! Thx, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social ! And shout out to Adam van Winkle for one of my favorite book covers ever! Ohio never looked so good.

after this last few months I think I am now in critical support of all weird ultrarich people hobbies. take that horse dancing class. I love that yoga retreat for you. tighten up that golf swing. search the ocean floor for ancient shipwrecks. anything that keeps you in your business and out of ours

Getting absolutely bodied by the built-in iPhone journaling app today

Warnock: Don’t lecture to me about meritocracy while I witness you nominate the most unfit unqualified people we’ve ever seen. You cannot lecture me about merit while nominating Pete Hegseth…

This Sat, May 10, Chicago! 💙

Pub date May 13 but early copies of my novel Mermaids and Lazy Activists are here! Publishers Weekly calls it “a thoughtful climate manifesto.” Plus it’s funny.

Chicago pals, coming up fast! Please join us May 10 at 2:00 at Printers Row Wine for a truly outstanding line up of writers reading and delicious wines! xo

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

At JFK I saw an Uber driver curse out the lady who was *getting into his car* after she slammed his trunk closed and I immediately felt like I was back “home.” :) Only thing missing was a rat eating pizza.

Chicago. The next READINGS event Is Sat, May 10, 2:00+. Come by for delicious words and wine!

Hey y’all-it’s a novel by @maudlavin.bsky.social! If you’re in Chicago for the launch, check it out. If you’re not I bet it’ll be pretty easy to nab your copy anyhow.

This is horrifying. On top of the other horrors.

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

Congrats, they heard you! The Social Security Administration has decided tonight to abandon its plans to end phone service for millions of Americans filing retirement and disability claims. Thank you to all who shared our post and made calls today—you did it!

This Sat, Chicago! March 15, 2:00+, wonderful writers, wine, warmth at Printer’s Row Wine. We’ll be glad to see you there!

Bernie out there working.

Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

Chicago! Coming up Sat, March 15, 2:00+ READINGS at Printers Row Wine in the South Loop! Wonderful authors, delicious wines, warm company—see you there. xx

Just try to re-create this exact face It's actually quite difficult

I'm officially open for queries! I'm specializing in mystery, suspense, thrillers, crime fiction, and upmarket fiction with a sharp edge. I'm drawn to high-stakes narratives, complex characters, and stories that refuse to be put down. More on my website: t.co/d6MEt6LMii

Just got fired from being a freshman football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does to communities. They don’t care about what helps people, because the school is certainly not going to find an ex-NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.

Please consider preordering my new novel MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS directly from the wonderful indie press frombeyondpress.com — a portion of every sale goes to the nonprofit FLOW: For Love of Water which protects the Great Lakes. Big thanks to poet Tim Moder for supporting!

Bwahahaha. Mar-a-Lago was listed as "Kremlin Headquarters" for a little while on Google Maps. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.