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Writer, teacher, traveler, trivia junkie. I work and play mainly in Texas.

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Better late than never! I had a blast during our Writing Impermanence panel at #awp2026! Funny story, I was only introduced to Erica, Sean, and Bathsheba through Monica Macansantos (who was unfortunately unable to attend AWP this year), and our panel was where I literally met everyone for the first time in person. Nevertheless, I was so awed by our rich and varied approach to the topic—we spoke about experiencing, preserving, and disseminating history, of course through writing, but also through oral histories, archives, playing music, and through traversing the Alaskan wilderness, Texas cities, and early Twitter and Tumblr. It was an invigorating conversation, and I’m glad to have met them all! P.S. Shoutout to Wendy for the photos!

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#AWP26 lasted seventeen years and I saw so many of you and had so many thoughts! I bought/traded a Very Reasonable Number of Books! I saw some fog! We all did a very good job. Honored to be among you. 🖤

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what a busy yet wonderful week at my first AWP! I got to meet so many writers & editors in person that I’ve known only online for years & pick up copies of their amazing books. I also have a new story, The Haunted House of Things Left Unsaid, in the delightful @hadhavehadhave. grateful as always to @aaron__burch for the perfect home for my words + to all of you who read it ♡
link in my bio 💀 🏚️ ✨

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Hoping to see you Saturday morning at our AWP 2025 panel, “Filipino Women Writing Nonfiction: The challenges to speaking our truth.”Moderated by Monica Macansantos, with Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, Melissa Chadburn, Anna Cabe and Jen Palmares Meadows. @madamebutchay @myheartunderwater
@mchadburn @annaisabe
Saturday, March 29th @ 9-10:15am
Room 511AB Level Two
Los Angeles Convention Center

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i’ll never get over this weekend I fear

i love celebrating Pauline 🥹🤍 can’t wait till JUNE!

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@tin_house film developed!! I’d bought a new disposable camera just for Tin House. When I first arrived, I thought it was so silly, I’d never get through the whole roll. By the time Tin House ended, there wasn’t a single shot left.

Everybody who knows me knows how much I love Reed. Reed was the first place I ever really felt like I had a home in the world, a place where I belonged. It was such a strange delight to be back here, not to relive the past, but to meet new friends and find new life in this place that is so dear to me.

Tin House was such a tremendous joy— leaning from @hellocecilywong, whose guidance, sharpness, and ability to connect us made our workshop immediately click, learning and working alongside such supportive and challenging writers. The first picture is from the first day that our workshop met. I wasn’t sure at all what this was going to be like, but so, so excited to find out with this group.

& to @_pandanna_ I am so grateful that Tin House brought us together & gave us the chance to meet. Anna is one of the grittiest people I’ve ever met, with drive and tenacity and strength and extreme boss bitch energy combined with compassion and curiosity about other people’s stories. Anna’s ability to TCB is an inspiration, pushing me to try harder and better even when she’s a thousand miles away.

In the malaise & mundanity of everyday life, the daily grind of work, how lonely writing can be, y’all have given me renewed excitement for the work of writing. How wonderful, how vital, to be reminded that none of us are working alone, in a vacuum.

All y’all out there better get excited to read the books these writers are going to put out in the world

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It took me a few days to come down from the high of the Tin House Summer Workshop (and the stress of travel *long story*). As I wrote in my introductory workshop letter, it’s been years since I’ve really been a student. I feel incredibly lucky that my return to the “learning” side of writing was with such a beautiful, kind, discerning group of people. Of course, such a blissful atmosphere wouldn’t have been possible without the steady, sharp-eyed leadership of the magnificent Cecily Wong. We wrote and workshopped together! We ate punny buns together! We went hog-wild in @powellsbooks together! We placed in the middle in trivia together! We sang “Call Me Maybe” in karaoke together! And of course, we cheered each other on at the student readings! What a marvel, what a joy, to find such a community. 🥰😍❤️ #thsw

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Thank you @tin_house for the dreamiest, most radical literary week. My students slayed me with their smarts and care and wit, and wrote a card that made me cry. The faculty readings felt like going to church. Hard, uncomfortable truths were spoken into microphones every day and yet there was infinite space for joy and shenanigans and karaoke, and I don’t know how to explain how special it was to hold all these raging human feelings at once.

Flowers to @lance_cleland @a.l.major @autumnfourkiller and Yimei for steering such a beautiful ship. 💐📚⭐️

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The @tin_house Summer Workshop ☀️ What a beautiful group of people.

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This was such a special week. What an incredible group of new friends. 💕 Writing can be solitary, but community means so much and I’m so grateful to @tin_house for everything. Thank you @hellocecilywong for helping to foster such a warm, kind, and brilliant workshop environment, and thank you to every single person in my workshop for being the absolute coolest. 😎 Now to sleep for a week…

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Hey!! We’re looking for pup models to wear our gear! You’ll get posted to our main account which has over 740k+ followers!! Just message us “Hi” to @packleashestalent now 🙂 Can’t wait to hear from you!!

Message us @packleashestalent (not directly here) and Lillie, our rep, will get back to you ASAP! 🙂‎
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This week, we're reading: an essay on the stardust we all carry; a writer's journey of tarot, crystals, and divorce; and a novel excerpt set in Quezon City. These and more recs in our newsletter through the link in our bio!

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