Sometimes it’s pouring rain & your child kicks you out of summer camp visiting day early and you have to admit writing in an old chair in an Econo Lodge is way better 🤷🏻‍♀️

Where I would have been hiding had I been made to go to summer camp

Creating writing residency moments out of this obligatory summer camp stay

Let me be clear. I love campING not summer camp but I really love my girl so I’m here for it.

And now to briefly indulge my Appalachian trail fantasies …

“Are you going out like that?” - always nice greetings from 12 in the morning.

Took a trail run on the way to see the college where I’ll be teaching … Jersey never looked so good!

The imposter syndrome is real but also … this feels pretty good

About to read my own book on the train for final (final?) editing … 📕🙏

Just some Elisa Albert & sara lippmann fans (Shayne Terry Yvonne Conza Brian Gresko) out Greenlight Bookstore to hear these two brilliant writers talk about Elisa’s essays & other things we won’t mention here.

Day one of professing on this pretty campus- you all didn’t tell me how much I’d love these kids !

When the work party is a boat ride around NYC …

Train writing this am … finalizing my novel pitch 🤞

I actually have a new story to submit for September submission time & I can’t think of many places I can say that where I wouldn’t get a blank stare so I’m putting my excitement here 🤞🎉🪩

I went to Brooklyn Book Festival last year for the first time and it was like a mini outdoors AWP … this may be an anti advertisement for some but I loved it. Hope to run into some of you there !

And so we will … see you there !

Good times at the packed new reading series PATIO at TJ Byrnes- loved the always surprising Bud Smith, poems by Izzy Casey … a tale of woe and fish tanks by Michael Bible & more