Neither cutesy nor demure, but horrifying and hysterical… It’s officially HYSTERICAL GIRLS month, which means tour kicks off soon! Mark your calendars & check out the ✨ exclusive ✨ pin (designed by Rizal Aziz) you’ll only get by attending one of my launch events! SEE YOUUUU

I absolutely cannot tell you how much this means to me. I'm speechless. And grateful beyond all measure.

CHECK OUT these titles from Capstone 📚 💻 🌈 in celebration of #LibraryCardSignUpMonth!🫶🏼📚 ilovelibraries.org

I was going to post a joke about sodium... But Na.

As a new academic year is upon us, a reminder that a lot of zooms could be emails and a lot of emails could be thoughts we keep to ourselves 😉

I just read a book about sponges. It was very absorbing.

My painting of a Palestinian orange tree

We are open for fiction submissions The Rumpus for another week, until Sept. 15th! Please send us your stories. Everything we've published in the last two years has come from our open submission periods, which I'm proud of.

✨COVER REVEAL✨ my YA cozy fantasy romance is out in hardback in the UK on March 27, 2025! ft: 🌿a black cat gf x golden retriever bf 🌿desi cottagecore 🌿studio ghibli vibes 🌿a found family of sisters 🌿an enchanted forest 🌿and lots more!! preorder: geni.us/LoveandPoison

🏅 WNDB has been selected as the 2024 Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program American Prize recipient! We thank Library of Congress for this tremendous honor!

are authors even real? discuss 🤨 - never see them writing, just lying on the floor crying - claim their job is books but don't live in bookstores - they know a lot about mvrder, not a lot about about where commas go - if you ask what their book is about, they don't even know??

Your boy is officially a PUBLISHED author 💚 I couldn’t be happier that my Ghanaian mythology story is out in the world. Black boys have always deserved to be the heroes of their own stories, and I hope you love this story as much as I loved writing it. See you in Asamando 🇬🇭

Join #MaryaKhan once again in MARYA KHAN AND THE AWESOME ADVENTURE PARK! Get the latest chapter book in the series by Saadia Faruqi and Ani—now available in paperback! bit.ly/3ZkmhOw

Commemorating another anniversary of 9/11, and hoping we learn to see our neighbors with love and friendship instead of hate and mistrust 🧡 #september11th #NeverForget911

One of my kids asked me if we had any books that were about 9/11, so I showed him what we had & book talked about few. He asked me to choose 1 that was from a perspective he might not have known. I knew exactly the book to give him. Thank you Saadia Faruqi

Happens to me on a daily basis 😭

not to be sentimental but I think it’s beautiful that libraries exist and are free and that we can use them. I love that there are so many bookish folk who are always reading and learning. I’m so glad to live in a world where there are books.

Did you know that Riz Ahmed (Riz Ahmed) and I went to school together? That he is as eloquent and informed on politics & on issues like Gaza, as he is on acting, the arts, diversity, and story-telling? This was such a fun show to do. Full show here: zeteo.com/p/freedom-is-a…

Use STARFISH to start a conversation about bullying with your child or classroom in October, National Bullying Prevention Month. According to the American Psychological Association, 40 to 80% of school-age children are bullied.

Let's talk about how the political positions I support—such as greater freedom for all, multiculturalism, and respect for different ways of living—have, in fact, improved fashion. 🧵