Today’s publishing conglomerates have less patience in building careers, leaving many writers with a shorter runway to “make it.” Imagine if Graywolf hadn’t stepped in to publish Percival Everett.

I JUST SAW MY BOOK IN A BOOKSTORE FOR THE FIRST TIME AND I AM VERKLEMPT 😭

I just got to yell to my 10yo son, “Just because I’m a New York Times bestseller doesn’t mean you can skip piano practice! You can skip practice when you become a best seller!”

Anyway. I’m a NYT best seller.

Thrilled to be back in KHÔRA w/ a new short piece + photo essay. I was 1 of the original 4 writers in KHÔRA and it was the perfect fertile soil in which to develop my more experimental writing included in The Translator’s Daughter. 🙏🏽🙏🏽 Leigh Hopkins corporealkhora.com/issue/30/thing…

i am beyond honored to have one of my favorite stories published in Joyland Magazine, one of my favorite journals. 💕💕 read on to meet capi and gull, young queer boys, as they confront a life of poverty & a world hostile to them.

so much love to Leigh Hopkins for including me on this KHÔRA curated team, @lidiayuknavitch for the wonderful opportunity (i miss so being in community with you 💕💕) & Jenzo DuQue-French 🇨🇴 for your generosity & the amazing series of workshop prompts that birthed this piece. 🐬🩵

BAY AREA, SAVE THE DATE!! Please come to my book launch events for The Translator’s Daughter in SF on March 7 (in convo w/ Susanne Pari at The Booksmith) and Berkeley on March 19 (in convo w/ Vanessa Hua at Pegasus Bookstores). Details/RSVP: linktr.ee/graceprasad

OK FINE since we’re talking about essays where we show ourselves being messy & vulnerable, please enjoy this excerpt from my memoir about my shame & helplessness over not being able to speak Taiwanese or Mandarin, and how I made a mistake that got me into HUGE trouble

Congratulations to Leila.C.Nadir.PhD. @leilanadir.bsky.social and thank you, Sari Botton! ✨

This week, from partner publications!: Kyo Maclear Orion Magazine Maria Coffey Oldster Magazine Brendan Spiegel Narratively Hannah Lillith Assadi Literary Hub George Murray The Walrus Su-Jit Lin Substack

memoirland.substack.com/p/a-dozen-stel…

Thank you to Leigh Hopkins and Khora for nominating my essay for this year’s Best American Essays.

check out “angelito,” an excerpt from THE GLORIOUS POOR, my novel-in-progress, in the latest issue of KHÓRA. 👼🪽💟

corporealkhora.com/issue/28/angel…

We’ve built a mini Harriett’s Bookshop inside The Apollo Theater for this weekend—sometimes when the opportunities don’t come to you, you gotta go to the opportunities. 🙌🏾

it’s such a dream to curate this four-part series for KHÔRA with the brilliant aureleo sans 🇨🇴🇵🇸 on the team! here’s “night owl” ✨🦉✨

thank you to the incandescent María Alejandra, whose generative writing workshop birthed this birdy tale. 💃🏽❤️ thank you to the stellar Leigh Hopkins (and Lidia 💕💕) for thinking of me for this wonderful curated team. 🔥🧡

Hey lit mag editors! I’m celebrating Disability Awareness Month with everyone’s favorite thing: unsolicited advice! If you’d like to make sure everyone can enjoy your sweet sweet magazine, read on 🧵

Utterly grateful and humbled.

Thrilled to welcome Minda Honey to the show to discuss her memoir THE HEARTBREAK YEARS about dating in LA in her 20s. She talks about her exes reading this book, being mixed, and her extremely well organized book reading habits. Listen now. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… Little A

Kevin McCarthy just found out in the hardest way possible that Nancy Pelosi only made it look easy.