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No care plan outside of the Rapture

Hi friends, Over the past century, my family has given enormous amounts of money to extreme evangelical preachers. After my great-grandmother in Dallas…

Sep 26 •

August 2023

So many ancestor links

Hi friends, I’ve got an abundance of reading recommendations and links to share—they’ve been piling up around here for two months (busy summer)! But…

Aug 29 •

June 2023

Editorial offerings, and paperback revisions

Dear friends, I’m an editor as well as a writer by trade, and occasionally fellow writers express interest in working with me, one-on-one, on their…

Jun 21 •

May 2023

Thinning Blood, links, and class last call

Dear friends, I’ve been writing in so many directions lately—it’s fun to experiment right now—and designing some editorial offerings that I’ll share…

May 31 •

This summer: Groove, in the heart

Sebene Selassie's upcoming class. My Family History With Imagination class. Also, Ava Chin, Latria Graham, Nanette Vonnegut, Prachi Gupta, Kelly Link…

May 7 •

March 2023

Family history with imagination

I'm teaching a class, the Ancestor Trouble paperback is coming out, and more.

Mar 27 •

February 2023

Offering and receiving what is offered

Toward the start of every session of the Writing About Ancestor Trouble class I’m teaching, we explicitly invite in kindness and spaciousness around the…

Feb 28 •

January 2023

Doorways and collages and novels and more

Dear friends, I’ve been gearing up to teach my Writing About Ancestor Trouble class, which starts next Tuesday (it’s full! I’ll let you know if I teach…

Jan 20 •

December 2022

Solstice plans, genre confusion, year in reading

Hi y’all, I’m getting excited for the solstice and the gentle turning inward this season brings for me nowadays. Reading and daydreaming more, pouring…

Dec 20, 2022 •

November 2022

Writing about abuse is not abuse

Hi y’all, I’m grateful to you for following along in these times of inundation. I still enjoy jotting down informal thoughts in a place where I’m not…

Nov 14, 2022 •

October 2022

Y'all, bardo, thinning veil, and my class

Hi y’all, I wrote a letter of recommendation for this delightful and inclusive southern pronoun in the most recent New York Times Magazine and suggest…

Oct 25, 2022 •

September 2022

Ancestors, ghost stories, undone

If you’re working on a project about your own ancestors, you might be interested in my latest giveaway—read on or scroll down. Early in the writing of…

Sep 28, 2022 •

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