It’s been a dream to be published in Ploughshares. Check out the summer 2021 issue, guest-edited by Aimee Bender!

Everyone should know about Delilah Beasley and her seminal book, The Negro Trailblazers of California. It was a profound experience to research and write about her for Clockshop and The Huntington.

We're celebrating #OneYearofCBC this week! 🥳 Thank you to all our amazing members, partners, selection panelists, authors, and hosts for making this possible!

Absolutely incredible to be included in this Well-Read Black Girl Festival ™ anthology, among writers who have had such a profound impact on me and my own writing. #OnGirlhood, Glory a.k.a #WellReadBlackGirl’s new book, is out!

Thank you ✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black Writers!

Christmas came early with this gift from The Paris Review. So excited to listen to this podcast dedicated to the work of Edward P. Jones, who is, for me, the greatest writer of all time.

Discover our newest issue. Featuring new work from Mark Labowskie, Zach Linge (@ZachLinge), Mieke Marple (Mieke Marple), Andrew Navarro (Andrew Navarro), E. Kristin Anderson (E. Kristin Anderson | Your Weird Aunt), & more. Order here: bit.ly/2XxL03Q

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"...Tobar elevates his narrative beyond a simple morality tale about injustice and instead turns it into a representation of the diversity of Southern California." Read Aatif Rashid on "The Barbarian Nurseries": trib.al/AbVdu6K

I had the pleasure of being in conversation with فرح علی Farah Ali about her new book, #PeopleWanttoLive several weeks back. I'm STILL thinking about it. An incredible book published by McSweeney's.

This is such a wonderful profile of my dear friend and mentor, Lou Mathews. Please read it. As I say in the profile, he was the one who showed me the way.

Prior CBC author Dana Johnson writes about Delilah L. Beasley, a self-taught writer who researched the lost Black history of the American West. trib.al/LxyoedG

Amazing to be on this list!

Get Vickie Vertiz’s new book, “Auto Body.” ⁦vickievertiz⁩ #NationalPoetryMonth

October 2023.

Congratulations USC English USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences PhDs!! #commencement2023 cc: Dana Johnson @jeanho @profeldamaria Aimee Bender