Impossible to describe the gratitude I feel: RIVER EAST, RIVER WEST has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize. Being in the company of these authors I so love and admire is the greatest honor. Thank you to the judges, my incredible editors, and readers!!!!! 💛💛💛

I'm so excited to share that my debut YA novel, UNDER THE NEON LIGHTS, is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection! Thank you @jrlibraryguild for this honor. It means the world to me that more teens will meet Jae & Trey. 🛼🪩

I'm 37. Instead of regretting that I can't wake up age 18 again, I pretend to myself that I'm 90 and I've woken up age 37 again, and that I get to magically, wonderfully have the next 50 years again.

Have almost finalized an offsite, nonfiction reading in @ AWP! It’s featuring some magical, established & emerging folks. Saturday, March 29th from 5-630PM PT. Excited to share the flyer in the next couple of days. ✏️🖤

No more secrets! I'm so excited to announce that I'm a literary agent with Rosecliff Literary, and I'm open to queries on Friday! Huge thanks to Jessica Berg for the encouragement and mentorship! MSWL below!

LA! Come out & celebrate the end of #awp25 at our nonfiction reading at Sunset Strip Tattoo in Hollywood! Saturday, 3/29 from 5-630 PM. Come hear some chisme & leave with a couple’s tat! 😈😜 Looking forward to seeing you there.✨✨✏️

Anyone take v long personal essays these days? Longer than 6k words? TYIA 🖤

Uber Fish 😂

Thank you, Derek, for saying "yes" and for having a vision for Church Ladies!

I have new work in Wigleaf. Deepest thanks to Scott Garson and the Wigleaf team for holding my story with such care. I wrote this piece with love for a friend and I'd be so honored if you could read it.

the new pope is gringo

Details you missed and things you (probably) didn't know about the Sistine Chapel 🧵 1. The genius of Michelangelo

Thrilled to learn that Early Sobrieties has won the PEN/Hemingway Award (sticker forthcoming….) Astra House PEN America

Opinion | What Is Academe's Problem With Pregnancy? chronicle.com/article/whats-… "70 percent of tenured male professors have children, as compared to just 44 percent of tenured women". That tells a story right there.

Happy pub day to Matthew Gavin Frank!!

thrifted outfit of the day. It’s how we cope w/ the chaos

If anyone wants to add me to your #awp26 panel, holler. Can talk about: -Bodies/fatness/beauty standards -Sex/fetishes -Sobriety/recovery -Humor/balancing tone -immigration -politics/current events -the memoir plus -memoir in general -querying -academia -class/race/diversity

I've been following Chance's journey for the past 6 weeks. She is amazing. Y'all are amazing. 💞💞💞

This guy rescued 30 beagles from a testing lab It's the first time they've seen grass and they couldn't be happier.

If you need a huge smile today… 5 months ago we spotted Shaggy on the streets of Thailand. He was alone, sick, terrified and without hope. Today he arrived at his forever home in America 🇺🇸… (1/7) 🧵