Recent Updates & Upcoming:

I'm determined to suck an MFA out of my thumb (like any homeschooled, library kid knows they can do), so I'm creating a new page to chart my journey (goals and progress) and I'm actively looking for book recommendations.
Midlife Calculus had its first birthday! Thanks to everyone who helped make this last year such an exciting and rewarding one for me. Y'all rock!
New Publication in the 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.

Yes! I've moved to Northern Indiana and am looking to make connections in the writers' scene here. So, if you need a poet to visit your math class-- yes, you read that right -- I'm the one to call. Or an English class... or if you're putting together a reading of some sort. Let me know.

2025 Reading List - the goal is 50 books, like usual

Current:

The Garden by Nick Newman

The Bear by Andre Krivak

The Luminaries by Elanor Catton

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

How to Steal a Galaxy by Beth Revis*

North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher

Completed:

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

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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