Come for the personal writing, stay for the breathtaking photography. Fifty years of independent publishing.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Joined October 2009
Happy Publication Day to @anna_gazmarian, MFA '20 (Nonfiction)! Her memoir, DEVOUT: A MEMOIR OF DOUBT, is out today from @simonschuster! 🎉 bookshop.org/p/books/devout-…
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I have an essay in The Sun’s newest issue — Loving a Sport That Doesn’t Always Love Me Back, I’d love if you gave it a read. It’s about community, navigating the pickup basketball space as a trans person, proving myself, & some anger & resentment ha thesunmagazine.org/issues/57…
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My essay is online at @TheSunMagazine, and I promise it journeys toward joy and sparkle, but first I had to walk through the darkness of #ocd and a terrifying car accident that took the shine off Metallica's "Enter Sandman." Act II courtesy #AdamLambert. thesunmagazine.org/news/the-…
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proud to have a story in the latest issue of @TheSunMagazine. it's about renaissance fairs and what it's like when so much of the evil in the world looks like you. thanks to The Sun's staff, especially @wordshepherd for his generous editorial support. thesunmagazine.org/issues/57…
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Also! A reminder to please read “A Very Brutal Game” by @margosteines via @TheSunMagazine beforehand. (Or, better yet, read “Brutalities”!) thesunmagazine.org/issues/53…
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A real pleasure to talk about @thesunmagazine with Dan Hill for the New Books Networks podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/the-sun-…
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thesunmagazine.org/issues/57… via @thesunmagazine Thanks to the Sun magazine and their fab editorial staff, I can share this essay. When you are writing in your basement to save your life, it's difficult to imagine it will see the light.
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Always fun to read your words in PRINT and even more thrilling to appear in @TheSunMagazine - joining the company of some of my favorite writers. READ THE FLASH ESSAY ABOUT SPEAKING IN TONGUES 👀🗣️➡️
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A dream come true. I’m thrilled, honored, and still stunned that my short story “Animal Moments” is featured in the November issue of The Sun. Huge thank you to everyone @TheSunMagazine Please read and share! thesunmagazine.org/issues/57…
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Wow this Doug Ramspeck poem in @TheSunMagazine! Ripping this one out to keep
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This year I sold and revised a memoir (out in April, please preorder!), reviewed a bunch of very gay books (all lovely!), and published an essay in @TheSunMagazine that's very close to my heart (linked below!) thesunmagazine.org/issues/56…
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For the #WritingCommunity: a poignant message from @TheSunMagazine's Sy Safransky; craft tips from @Bookfox & @DavidCorbett_CA; @legroff's new bookstore; more. wp.me/p4x0h8-cVW
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"we are like the pages of a love letter written thirty years ago that some aging god still reads each day and then tucks back into its envelope." #TodaysPoem #poetry Getting Into Bed On A December Night by @PoetEllenBass (2017 @TheSunMagazine) tinyurl.com/k5y5danh
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So very in love with this story Animal Moments by @bethmarcel in @TheSunMagazine, a fresh exploration of the postpartum experience “Someone says, “Bless you.” I enjoy the way we forgive each other for this, making room for instinct.” thesunmagazine.org/issues/57…
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thank you x1000 to everyone @harperbooks who turned a dream of mine into this stunning physical object
absolutely THRILLED to be revealing the final cover for @EmetNorth's gorgeous debut ✨IN UNIVERSES✨ “A breathtaking introduction to a brilliant new voice.” —@daniellevalore "An assured and wildly imaginative debut that never loses its heart in any of its realities."— @SequoiaN
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An honor to be included @TheSunMagazine as it celebrates founding editor, Sy Safransky (whose piece on his retirement is beautiful & brave). I am grateful for the conversation on dementia with the compassionate & brilliant @derekaskey. thesunmagazine.org/issues/57… via @thesunmagazine
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When I first got hold of an issue of The Sun, it was a revelation to me. Indeed, "... a publication that celebrates the beauty and the sadness of being alive." I don't believe there's another magazine that does it better. #Grateful thesunmagazine.org/issues/57… via @thesunmagazine
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