Every Day…
…I wake up with this Elvis Costello song stuck in my head. Friends, I am on sabbatical and grinding away on edits to a new novel acquired this year by Henry Holt & Co./Macmillan as well as another project (TBA)! Meanwhile, I’m beyond excited to share the paperback cover for Off the Books, out now … Continue reading
From NY to CA, NYT to RFA, LitHub to Electric Lit
Off the Books has me on a whirlwind tour. Check out the Events page, and you’ll understand why I’m so sleep-deprived that life’s become a waking dream: the book tour kicked off with six fabulous events in four fabulous states in ten (yup, fabulous) days, and now I’m back on the East Coast and in … Continue reading
Off the Books Named One of Summer’s Most Anticipated Novels
Big thanks to Bustle for naming Off the Books one of the summer’s most anticipated books (spoiler warning: big tipoffs in Bustle‘s review) and to the San Francisco Chronicle, which listed it among 8 Bay Area books “perfect to pore over.” Here are more early words about the novel: “Frazier captures the relatable toggle between … Continue reading
Off the Books: Preorder from Barnes & Noble Now
Okay, this makes one nerdy writer’s day LIFE! I hear “I should have more written by now” or “I should be published already” from many of my students. Well, writing, for me, always takes longer than I think it will. Hell, most worthwhile things do. And in the interim, nerds like us can freak ourselves … Continue reading
Off the Books Available for Preorder
Since 2019, I’ve spent my nights in a well-worn armchair—late enough to aurally pinpoint the tree where a great horned owl calls out in the darkness beyond my window—and written a novel about college dropout Mei, who does her best to mind her own business but gets tangled up in a dicey international issue. Here … Continue reading
Don’t Pinch Me Yet
So, my dream agent — the brilliant and badazz Victoria Sanders of the eponymous Victoria Sanders & Associates — just sold my debut novel to my dream editor at Holt/Macmillan for release in July 2024. Grateful to VSA’s all-star team for making this magic happen, and for their patience with my incessant, nerdy noodling on … Continue reading
Panel Alert
So proud of Subnivean student editors Mads Pearson and Shannon Sutorius, whose public discussion I moderated at the 2021 national Forum for Undergraduate Student Editors (FUSE) Colloquium. And it was such a pleasure to speak on a later FUSE panel alongside Daniel O’Malley, author of The Rook. Next up: AWP 2022. Subnivean is headed to … Continue reading
story in STORY
In the midst of novel revisions, it’s great to take a break and write work one can complete in days, not months/years. A new short piece is forthcoming the legendary STORY magazine. I’ve always admired STORY for publishing literary luminaries from Richard Wright to Truman Capote to Charles Bukowski to Junot Diaz to Joyce Carol … Continue reading
2021 CLMP Firecracker Awards
How do our babies grow up so quickly? Subnivean—an internationally-read literary publication that I developed for SUNY undergraduates to staff, which has now received submissions from authors working in 48 countries and 48 U.S. states, plus the United States Virgin Islands—has been named a finalist in the 2021 CLMP Firecracker Awards. This national award will be presented by the Community of … Continue reading
New Year, New Anthology
Huzzah! Foglifter Press, which recently won the prestigious Whiting Award, will release Home is Where You Queer Your Heart in March ’21.
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