this is crazy😭 my advance copies came in the mail today omg😭🤯✨😁🩷 UMMM I’m AN AUTHOR!?😁 you can preorder my first book here: ugapress.org/book/978082036…

Still can't believe I get to finally say✨I HAVE AN AGENT✨after almost 7 years in the trenches & hundreds of rejections I finally got my one YES from my absolute dream agent Sandra Proudman 🇵🇸 of Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency So excited to get my messy millennial ghost book out on sub!😭🎉

It’s here! It’s here! Issue 10 of the Under Review is now live. 10 on the 10th! Hang 10! It was such a privilege to work on this issue and we’re so excited to celebrate these writers. This is the fun part! Happy 10th Pub Day, Baller Writers! 🖐️➕🖐️🟰 underreviewlit.com/issue-10-summe…

Super excited about this.

“Being broke at the book fair… was the saddest days as a kid” THIS is why we need the Adult Scholastic Book Fair! Us, with our adult money, raising funds to prevent sad scholastic book fair kids… they all leave with a good book… no one goes home empty handed! 😊

Dolly Parton gifts $500 to every kid who graduates high school in her home county in Appalachia. She did this while having 2 cats and 0 children.

It is truly a privilege to be unaware of the concept known as code-switching and not have to use it to navigate society. Y'all weird AF. See? I just codeswitched.

FIRST Ever Gymnastics Podium Composed of All Black Women. I love this & how much they love eachother 🖤

All I have in my head is “get ready to be sick of us, USA” 😂💜

This update is coming a couple weeks late #onhere BUT couldn’t be more thrilled to share I’m now represented by samantha s. fabien at Root Literary for my books & Authors Unbound Agency for speaking engagements! 📚🎙️✨ Quite literally couldn’t be more excited for what’s to come. LESGETIT! 💪🏾📚✨

In case you missed it earlier this week!

It’s National Poets Day! Use our Poetry Resource Center to access a list of recommended poetry titles featuring books by josé olivarez, Scott Hoying, Ari Tison, and more! bit.ly/3mlyOiU

So happy to get to share this with ya’ll! 🥰🙏🏽

my book is out today but i also have homework due tomorrow so hold on everyone hold on POST PENDING!!! BUT PLEASE BUY MY BOOK!!!!!! you can buy it from native-owned and operated birchbark books :D as a book birthday gift to yourself! birchbarkbooks.com/products/the-s…

ONYX & BEYOND is a book about a boy named Onyx, X for short, whose mom has early onset dementia. It’s dedicated to my grandma who has dementia. She has a hard time remembering me but she knows my books. I am going to cry when she opens ONYX & sees her name. 🥹😭🚀 Oct 1,2024

happy book birthday to my poetry collection, THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET <3 a winner of the national poetry series. ahxéhee' for the love for silly ol' me and my poems. you can order it anywhere you buy books :) my fave: birchbarkbooks.com/products/the-s… UGA Press