There has been a renegade skunk on the loose in my suburban neighborhood for over two weeks and he is so canny, so elusive, I have never caught a glimpse but I must keep *just* missing him because I can smell he has been here, sneaky little metaphor of a dude

It's getting very Scorpio tomorrow on Creepsakes

'Kristine Langley Mahler writes about carrying an assortment of sorrows with her throughout relationships and from place to place.' Love this review in @ncliteraryreview of CURING SEASON @wvupress

Blessed to be you-know-where for my fifth straight self-directed residency in my favorite place!

We've been open for chapbook submissions at Split/Lip Press for 2 weeks and I would formally like to request MORE NONFICTION/HYBRID MANUSCRIPTS PLEASE! Open prose (fic/nf/hybrid), up to 80pg, I'm a first-round reader FOR THE 1ST TIME SINCE 2019 so 🫶splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

Always really special to see your book alive & well in bookstores.

Shout-out to my WVU Press mates, Neema Avashia, Deesha Philyaw, Kristine Langley Mahler, Chris Campanioni, & more.

Shop indie, Taylor Books.

wvupressonline.com/in-betweens

Absolutely amazing that the other reveal yesterday, during the eclipse, was actually this review of CURING SEASON in the NC Literary Review (BASED IN GREENVILLE!!!) feat. never-before-published photos of adolescent Kristine (which I provided to them)
issuu.com/eastcarolina/d…

Happy Eclipse Day, I am currently in cloud-cover Minneapolis where we'd only see an 80% eclipse at best, but I have had enough eclipse ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS AND REVEALS to last me a lifetime so I'm grateful for the veil 🐍

An English major in a black turtleneck never really leaves Iowa City, she just…gets older

Tomorrow Split/Lip Press opens for our OPEN PROSE Chapbook subs period, and we'll be looking for fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and everything in between. Up to 80pg! I GET TO BE A FIRST LINE READER FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2019 and I am psyched AF!!!

My 15yo daughter made fan art from Lauren Groff’s MATRIX for her high school art class assignment 🥰

I got to do a good turn today by recommending four incredible people for an opportunity I was offered (and am too over-committed to take!) and while I did it bc I knew they’d be fantastic fits, I also did it bc baby, we’re in eclipse season; karma is coming to collect

Hold down the fort, Asterism Books, because I have a feeling you're about to get a lot of distribution queries from small presses today...