One of my favorite podcast interviews about my novel Ring. It gets into the experience of complicated grief, somatic therapies, the discomfort many have around grieving people, how community and non-human animals can break through, and what it means to go on when our grief doesn't neatly "resolve."

I'm moved to see that the Grief Library on Bookshop.org recommends my novel Ring. I'm also grateful to know about this list of book recommendations for people who are grieving. It's not limited to fiction but also includes self help, memoir, and poetry. bookshop.org/lists/fictio...

If you're in the area, please stop by Chapter One Books in Mendham on May 30 between 12-2 to say hi!

Friends published this book with an incredible artist from Gaza, Kholoud Hammad, who made the drawings on a small notepad kept in an evac bag. The text is by Ammiel Alcalay, professor/poet/translator, and the book is published by poet Sampson Starkweather's press. Sales support Kholoud's family.

My novel Ring is a finalist for the Golden Crown Literary Society's 2026 debut novel award. The Goldies are awards for sapphic literature. I'm honored Ring was chosen as a finalist, and grateful that that GCLS is trans and nonbinary inclusive. www.goldencrownliterarysociety.org/2026-goldie-...

It's hard to do anything since my mother's death. But my forthcoming memoir, A Series of Opinionated Animals, is in many ways a tribute to her; she modeled respect for animals' individuality and filled my childhood with loved ones of many species. Available for pre-order now. Here's to you, Mom.

Shout out to The Open Door bookstore in Schenectady NY for carrying Ring in their brick and mortar store. Even though longlisted for Aspen, it's with a small press with little marketing. Please support bookstores that introduce new reads. They do online orders opendoor-bookstore.com/search?q=Rin...

My novel Ring is still largely unknown, being with a small press, and thus a fish out of water on the Aspen Words longlist. Happy to see libraries posting the longlist, though some don't have the book. If you want to read it from a library and yours doesn't have it, you can request they order it.

The Red Balloon is helping get books into the hands of kids who are affected by ICE redballoonbookshop.com

Comma Bookshop hosted sign-making, because free assembly needs tools. Support Linden Hills' neighborhood shop:

"We have never required a purchase to use our space and that principle has never been more important." Inkwell Booksellers is donating 20% of their cinnamon honey latte sales to @AyadaLeads. Support them:

Black Garnet Books’ sister studio, Blackbird Revolt, distributed free protest signs and gear to marchers exercising their First Amendment rights. Support this Black-, queer-, woman-owned shop: @blackbirdrevolt.bsky.social

Need to buy a book? Order from Milkweed Books—one of Minnesota's finest, fighting for the right to free speech and free assembly at the epicenter @milkweededitions.bsky.social

Despite the steady stream of bad news & tragic events, good stuff happens, and victories are won. Yesterday, Colorado notched another win in the courts

Recommending Frank Busch's award-winning novel Grey Eyes, a pre-contact story about Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation. Frank, who graciously did a sensitivity read for my novel Ring, described Grey Eyes as an Indigenous Harry Potter for adults. But it's better than Harry Potter, and less problematic.

I was interviewed on the FYI-- I am Damaged podcast and it was a really good conversation about complicated grief, somatic therapies, the isolation of illness, how we store trauma in the body, and writing my novel Ring. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

My animal memoir, A Series of Opinionated Animals, is available for pre-order! Due out in October! bookshop.org/p/books/a-se...

Artist @nikkiattree.bsky.social has made a line of mugs, socks, t-shirts, stickers, bags, and other items with her illustration from the cover of my forthcoming book, A Series of Opinionated Animals. Proceeds go to an animal rescue on Tenarife. Check out her other lines too!

If you're ordering books, especially in November (but also all year), please consider supporting Paperbacks & Frybread, an Indigenous woman-owned bookstore. You can buy just about any book through their bookshop.org site: bookshop.org/shop/paperba... @paperbacksfrybread.bsky.social

Interview clip from Relatable Wisdom podcast riverside.fm/guest-page?s...

One-stop shop for getting the Aspen Words Literary Prize longlisted books-- and not on Amazon! bookshop.org/lists/2026-a...

The signs were there.

If you're buying books, please consider buying through Grand Gesture Books. This queer Black woman-owned bookstore in Portland, OR needs to keep its doors open! It's a romance bookstore but you can buy any book at all (including mine!) through its online shop. @grandgesturebooks.bsky.social

Umm, hello world, my novel Ring was just longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize 😳 www.aspenwords.org/literary-pri... #AspenLitPrize @aspenwords

Thank you so much to @quinncy.bsky.social for posting about my forthcoming memoir-ish book A Series of Opinionated Animals! It won't be out for another year-- October, 2026-- but I'm so excited Quinn Cummings has read and recommends it!

If you want to buy my novel RING or any other book online, please support @maveybooks.bsky.social in PA, a women, BIPOC, and Muslim owned independent bookstore. You can order most books you'd find on Amazon right on their website-- please support them instead! And if you're near Ardmore PA, stop in!

If you're in Chicago, find Ring -- or other books you're looking for-- at great indie bookstore Unabridged! You can also order most books online from them instead of Amazon! @unabridgedbooks.bsky.social unabridgedbookstore.com/book/9781610...

Grief & Happiness podcast interview about my novel Ring and learning to live with grief. Thanks to Emily Thiroux Threatt for the invitation and moving conversation. shows.acast.com/grief-happin...

Everyone. Go watch the movie Miral if you haven't. Now. Even if it means renting it from Amazon. Though it seems to also be on youtube and Google Play so if you can rent it from one of those, probably better.

Learn Palestinian embroidery online with writer Fatima Shaat, whom I mentored through We Are Not Numbers. The donation for the classes goes to her family in Gaza who are all still living in a tent, as their home is destroyed. It will be a small class of up to 8 people, and there are 7 spots left.

My mentee Fatima just evacuated from Gaza on a scholarship and is trying to raise money to support her family back home through two one-hour tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) classes next weekend. Information on how to sign up is at the end of her video. www.instagram.com/reel/DPkTLBm...

Cover reveal for my next book, due out from Bancroft Press in October 2026! Huge thanks to illustrator Nikki Attree for the drawing and Christine Van Bree for cover design! See more of Nikki's drawings here: nikkiattree.net

Thanks to Hudson Review for including RING in its Ode to the Indies summer fiction review! It's not Ring's best review, but it makes me feel avant garde! Are you one of the very curious readers the reviewer recommends the book to, because you want to read a book unlike any you've read before?

This account is for my books but I stopped posting about my novel because who cares during a holocaust? Here's the link to my recommended reading list on complicated grief and traumatic loss, including a book by Mosab Abu-Toha, with a link at the end to read part of my novel online. Compromise.

Promoting another LGBTQ-owned bookstore. You can order my book or just about any other book online through Reach and Teach instead of through Amazon (or shop there in person if you're near San Carlos, CA-- they carry my book and many others in their store as well). #ReachAndTeach

My novel RING takes place outside Attawapiskat, Ontario. The band Midnight Shine isn't well known in the US but is great and its lead singer Adrian Sutherland is from Attawapiskat. This video shows some of the beauty of the area. My other favorites are Northern Man and their cover of Heart of Gold.

Promoting another LGBTQ-owned bookstore, this time Spoke & Word Books in Milwaukie, Oregon. I'm posting the link to my own book on their website, but you can order most books from them instead of Amazon. And if you're in Oregon, you can go to the store itself!

My novel Ring is carried by a number of LGBTQ and woman owned bookstores, most of which have online ordering. I highly encourage ordering all your books from these stores instead of Amazon. Today I'm sharing the direct order link at Giovanni's Room in Philadelphia, now part of Philly AIDS Thrift.