So thankful to infrarrealista review & Mónica Teresa Ortiz for this beautiful review of my debut poetry collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters (@UWiscPres), where Monica says, “we follow along, waiting for either a caress or a blow.” Read it here: infrarrealistas.org/waiting-for-ei…

186,000 Palestinians estimated to have been killed by Israel in Gaza since October. One hundred and eighty-six THOUSAND humans with lives, and hopes, and dreams, and futures that were taken away from them. Read the number and try to digest it: 186,000 men and women and children.

No one taught us how to mourn an entire city, with all its memories , homes, streets, and people.

Palestinians will be in grief for a long time

if you are a trans or queer writer wanting (kind, generous) feedback on a story, essay, or novel excerpt up to 20 pages, DM me. “emerging” or unpublished writers to the front, please. I can take on 5 pieces rn.

To massacre a people to the point that the only way to calculate the death toll is by using a scale to weigh pieces of shattered flesh equivalent to the weight of a human is unconscionable.

Budget hotels need to stop playing with their room decor.

Happy September

hey friends, I'm stoked to announce I'm now offering novel manuscript consultations for a flat fee of $2,500. sliding scale & payment plans are available. email me marisacrane12[at]gmail[dot]com the first 20 pages of your MS to see if we are a good fit. marisacrane.org/manuscript-con…

thanks for the support 🥹

I've only had rejections this year (from my manuscript to individual pieces), so it's a surprise & honor for my lil flash from SmokeLong Quarterly to be included on CLMP's reading list for Hispanic Heritage Month. So much talent y'all should check out! clmp.org/news/a-reading…

I haven't been writing much lately, or submitting much lately, but everything I've written and submitted seems to be coming out now. Thank you to @westchesterrev for publishing my (long!) story about a bear hunter's girlfriend! 💖💖💖 westchesterreview.com/cathy-ulrich

I have a poem from my forthcoming book in the October issue of Ghost City Review! Thank you so much to poet john compton for giving it such an apt home! ghostcitypress.com/poetry-91/2024…

already having people reach out about book stuff & just wanted to say! if you have a podcast, want to review / interview me, are thinking about short stories & climate change & queer longing & the pacific, EXTINCTION CAPITAL publishes in august and i’d LOVE to talk about it 🩵

With all this grief surrounding me (us), I forget to stay in the present. Today I’m celebrating two wins! 1) I’m on the landing page of Poets & Writers for their Writers Recommend Series. 2) I have two new poems published at The American Poetry Review.

super stoked & grateful to be a fellow in residence MASS MoCA next month to work on my debut novel, a queer sailing romance set between the 90s and near-present day, hawaiʻi and the american west!! can’t wait for the chance to connect and create 🩵 assetsforartists.org/blog/welcome-2…

howdy peeps, rising from silence to say, I have TWO new pieces out in SmokeLong Quarterly today, one of which Is THE WINNER of the grand micro contest. GAH!!!! Please take some time to read if you have time: smokelong.com/stories/the-sk…