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poetry reading at Bridges Math + Art Conference in Galway, Ireland
Recent Updates & Upcoming:
Recent Updates & Upcoming:
Upcoming: Looking forward to participating in Bridges in Galway, Ireland, along with these other fine poets!
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Forthcoming: work in KSMT The Kismet Magazine
So pleased to have a prose piece in Dogwood Alchemy's most recent issue! Now online here.
Check out "Same" displayed in Winnipeg, Manitoba by Roostertown Poetry.
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Two poems in Ink to Paper Vol. 10
"Where Two or Three are Gathered" in Northwest Indiana Review
Nice little write-up in Anabaptist World 10/25
Moss Puppy & Hyperbolic Review collaboration! HERE
Collection of mathy poems and lesson plans for using them in a Math or Language Arts classroom in Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.
"Tattoo Parlor Before Launch" in the scifi poetry issue of Snakeskin.
photo by Kristin Saner from the National Poetry Month Celebration at Fables Books in Goshen, IN
Review of Midlife Calculus in 2026 North Carolina Literary Review
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2025 Reading List
Current:
Structuring Your Novel by K.M. Weiland
Where the Ax is Buried by Ray Nayler
Completed:
Platform Decay by Martha Wells
The Miniaturist's Assistant by Katherine Scott Crawford
The Last Chance to Save the World by Beth Revis
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Tender by Sofia Samatar
and we walk by J.E. Misz (20)
The Summer War by Naomi Novik*
Cinder House by Freya Marske*
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy Stewart
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space Exploration and Life on Mars by Kate Greene*
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh*
Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell*
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar*
The Complete Worm Farming Manual by Felix Raymond
Running Toward Water by Jenna Wysong Filbrun
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (10)
Never Let Me Go by Kasua Ishiguro
Heritage Lost by S.M. Wright
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler*
American Estrangement by Said Sayrafiezadeh
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer
Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz*
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite*
2025 Reading List
Because I Did Not Drown by Pat Riviere-Seel
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Salt by Helen Frost
The Garden by Nick Newman* (42)
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. *
Nombono: Speculative Poetry by PIPOC Poets edited by Akua Lezli Hope
After the Flood by Kassandra Montag*
Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis
The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick
Trying to Catch a Flame in this Windstorm at the End of the
World by Steve Henn
On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner
Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki
False Value by Ben Aaronovitch *
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaicovsky (30)
The Bear by Andre Krivak
How to Steal a Galaxy by Beth Revis*
North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis*
The Artists' Way by Julia Cameron
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
False Vaule by Ben Aaronovitch*
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard*
The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch*
Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch*
Counterweight by Djuna*
Crosstalk by Connie Willis*
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin*
The Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis*
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Moonbound by Robin Sloan
A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladsone*
The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey*
Deep Sky by Yme Kitasei*
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie*
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie*
The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean*
Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch*
Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch*
Math Therapy by Vanessa Vakharia
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch *
Scientific American's 2024 Recommended List
Scientific American's 2024 Recommended List
Midlife Calculus gets a mention! Check out the complete LIST.
image by Francesco Zorzi
2024 Reading List
Moon Over Soho* Ben Aaronovitch
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Once Upon a Prime by Sarah B. Hart
Tales from the Folly* by Ben Aaronovitch
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
Even as We Breathe by Annette Sanook-Clapsaddle (re-read)
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
Hagitude by Sharon Blackie
Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age by Alec Wilkinson
Shae by Mesha Maren
Demise of Pangea by Claudine R. Moreau
Stop and Smell the Fractals by by Caroline Jennings
Rivers of London* by Ben Aaronovitch
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
Akata Woman* by Nnedi Okorafor
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Binti* & Binti: Home* by Nnedi Okorafor
Gideon the Ninth & Harrow the Ninth* by Tamsyn Muir
Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower* by Tamsyn Muir
The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Witch King by Martha Wells *
Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science by Jessy Randall
Building the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks & Oprah Winfrey
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling *
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
2023 Reading List:
Systems Collapse by Martha Wells
A House Between Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm *
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Playing Big by Tara Mohr
The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz*
Under this Forgetful Sky by Lauren Yero
The Last Astronaut by David Wellington*
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu *
Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys *
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Menopause Manifesto by Jen Gunter
Upgrade by Blake Crouch*
Goldilocks by L.R. Lam*
Hellbent by Leigh Bardugo
Winter World by A.G. Riddle*
The Last Watch by J.S. Dewes
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
Activation Degredation by Marina J. Lostetter
Black Sun & Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
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