Blog Archive
blog archive
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Career Day!
I had a wonderful time volunteering at Career Day to meet some Albuquerque 8th Graders! I love how many of the students came up to me to tell…
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It’s okay to say gay: Writing queer characters in Kidlit
Happy Pride to the whole LGBTQIA+ Community and our allies! June is the month where queer people are at our most visible, but I know from personal experience…
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No, RFK Jr., my autistic kids did not destroy my family
I write poetry for a living. This may surprise Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., because I am also autistic. On April 16, the Health and Human Services Secretary called…
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One-Sentence Stories from the middle schoolers at MMS
It was a blast visiting with the middle schoolers at MMS for a writing workshop! The students produced some wonderful work based on sensory memories or major “incidents”…
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The Story Accordion: Developing novel-length story arcs
They’re long. It’s ridiculous how long they are, right? I was in high school workshopping five-page short stories and sixteen-line poems when I decided the time had come…
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Deal Announcement: Reasons to Hate Me
I’m in the Publishers Weekly Rights Report this week! And I can now officially announce that my debut novel, Reasons to Hate Me, has sold to Candlewick Press.…
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