Congrats to past Guest Host Melissa Valentine, NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Nonfiction Literature! So much gratitude and love, yo!!! may you get all the accolades!!! Also, get her memoir, The Names of All the Flowers, y'all!!! bookshop.org/books/the-name…

We could all use a little help processing the times we’re living in: ow.ly/VyHr50BUly2

Just finished Melissa Valentine’s memoir, The Names of All the Flowers. Such an important addition to the BLM movement and race-related literary canon. A poignant story of power, beauty, and grief. feministpress.org/books-n-z/the-…

Does anyone need something concrete to look forward to? Here's something. Well-Read Black Girl Festival ™ Festival will be held online, and among other amazing events you can see Raven Leilani in convo with @blueifiwasnt Melissa Valentine & Stevona Elem-Rogers Saturday 7 PM wellreadblackgirl.org

“‘The Names of All the Flowers’ is at once a requiem for Melissa Valentine’s brother and an account of her coming to consciousness in the years that follow his murder, as she reckons with the mounting toll of black death in the United States.” ow.ly/c6On50CkkCF

Thank you Katie Shireen Assef for this beautiful review of Melissa Valentine's THE NAMES OF ALL THE FLOWERS for Los Angeles Review of Books tinyurl.com/y2ck5egj

While today’s terrible display of terror and meanness shakes us, let’s remember: Jon Ossoff, Jewish son of an immigrant & Reverend Raphael Warnock, first Black Senator from Georgia, will join a Catholic POTUS & the first woman, Black + Indian VP in our nation’s capital. God bless America.

Get Hooked On… THE NAMES OF ALL THE FLOWERS by Melissa Valentine! Join Melissa Valentine is joined by writer Amber Butts 2/17 6pm to talk about The Names of All the Flowers. bit.ly/2-17-21_MValen…

I’ve got a couple events next week I’d love to see you at 🥰 the first: More Than a Month at SF Public Library. Register here: sfpl.org/events/2021/02…

We're over the moon 🚀 about these CLMP Firecracker Award noms! See you at the virtual ceremony next week? tinyurl.com/8rjrhkcn

So excited for this book!

Writing THE NAMES OF ALL THE FLOWERS "helped heal and transform my grief." Congratulations Feminist Press Melissa Valentine!

Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists of the 2021 CLMP Firecracker Awards! clmp.org/programs-oppor…

One time for the Flowers 💐 so honored to accept this award!

Being a parent of a baby is like getting ready to catch a red eye every night for the rest of your life. Imagine!

Congrats @LaurenParvizi! So excited to bring your lovely novel to the world! #debut #debutnovel #bookdeal #womensfiction

First impression of Seattle: good job on all the trees! Tiny joys in a world on fire.

#bookdeal excited for this emotional, page-turning debut!

Bagels is California are so sad. Someone share a recipe! Help! Why are they so bad?