speculative fiction

  • April 2025 Reading Recap

    Spring has sprung, and with it several projects I have been working on through the winter! The reading group I am leading through The Center for Fiction entitled “Two Lies and a Truth: Reading Between the Lines of Fact and Fiction” kicked off this month with Emma Cline’s The Girls, a book I found even

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  • 2024: The Year in Reading

    For the fourth consecutive year in 2024 I read over 100 books, tracking not only the titles and authors, but author demographics, as well as genre, format, and publication year. This year I also switched from Goodreads (owned by Amazon) to StoryGraph (Black and women-owned) for online tracking, though I also keep my own detailed

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  • May 2024 Reading Recap

    It was like October in May this month, as I stumbled my way into three fantastic dark and twisty novels, all drawing on historical, literary, and newsworthy inspirations to tell their stories: Grievers by Adrienne Maree Brown, a pandemic-era dystopian fiction novel set in Detroit; James by Percival Everett, a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry

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  • April 2024 Reading Recap

    This month I was once again reminded of the stark difference between adoptee stories told by adoptees, adoptee stories told by non-adoptee allies, and adoptee stories told by those who use us as plot points, perpetuating inaccurate and harmful tropes. I read books that are examples of all three in April.   Please support adoptee

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  • March 2024 Reading Recap

    I had the good fortune to travel to the UK this month, researching the novel I am currently working on. One of the things I love about bookstores in the UK is the rich array of translations typically unavailable in US Bookstores. In fact, I read five of them this month, translated from French, Hebrew,

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  • December 2023 Reading Recap

    December is the time when I look back at all I’ve read the past year… and think about all the books I really wanted to get to but didn’t! I’ve also realized I now have so many unread books on my shelf, I could go all of 2024 without buying a single book. It won’t

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  • October 2023 Reading Recap

    I spent the entirety of my October reading poetry manuscripts from my fellow classmates in the Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Program, a year long program of intensive study that culminates in the completion of full collections by participants. It has been an inspiration and a joy to see my classmates’ work come together (and my own

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  • 2023 Reading: January – June Review

    Closing out the first half of 2023, I completed 85 books across 17 genres and sub-genres. 58% of these books have been non-fiction. Across genres, I have read the most Popular and Literary Fiction (18%) and Poetry / Hybrid (18%). This is followed by U.S. and World History (12%) and Writing Craft & Theory (11%).

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  • June 2023 Reading Recap

    I spent the early part of June in New Haven at the Yale Writers’ Workshop deeply engaged in fiction craft. It probably should have been no surprise, then, that I would return to New York and tumble head-long into Poetry, as evidenced by the six books of poetry and three books of poetry craft I

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