TINY THINGS

Guilty literary pleasure: Chani Nicholas & Susan Miller horoscopes when the moment they’re published. Any sort of horoscope really.

If you had to brag about yourself: I make these chocolate cupcakes that are very good.

While spending too long thinking about what constitutes a lie to oneself, I burned the tahini honey yogurt cake I am baking. It may have improved it.


Last time you lied: I have children so like five minutes ago.

Last time you lied: A pair of friends came over around 9 am to drop off their keys so I could stop by and feed their cat while they were away. I was still in my pajamas.

Your rituals (writing or not): Too many cat-petting rituals to name. Suffice it to say, they make my life worth living.

Any place in the world: Impartial as long as it’s a cold, wintry beach where I get to be very in my feelings

Question you secretly want to be asked: What is the biography of shame in your life?

Best breakfast: Leftovers. There's nothing like warming up leftovers in a bowl and eating it in bed, a blanket around your shoulders. I pretty much eat everything out of a bowl, even pizza (the fold-technique helps).

Question you secretly want to be asked: Would you like a snack?

If you have a c-section, you might want to get yourself some high-waisted panties because the incision will be right where your usual panties sit and it hurts.

Gmail, Twitter, an article on Coleridge called “Is the Ancient Mariner a Zombie?”, my Game of Thrones fantasy league score tables, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s “Women’s Work” from the Boston Review, Wikipedia page for the singer Rebekah Del Rio, essay on the Punjabi poet Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Twitter

I acted nonchalant when I was, in truth, heartbroken.

I can stay calm during a crisis. But only if it’s very, very serious. Trivial complications provoke a totally outsized reaction from me. I can only handle catastrophes.

I’m impulsive. It’s get me into trouble. Also, my nose. Or maybe I’m fine with my nose now, I don’t know. Also, I’m indecisive.

Your rituals (writing or not): fuck. a LOT OF THINGS. one i’ll share: I got these prayer beads. when i’m stressy or just awake, i count each bead (112) out loud.

Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail, web portal thing from the school I work for, OnlyUndiesClub (to see if it still exists, made curious by question below, it

Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail; Google Drive; the Google doc I’m answering these questions in; another project I’m working on, also a gdoc; “Constructed Worlds” by Elif

If you had to brag about yourself: For thirty-five years I’ve had perfect vision. Your writer crush: Elizabeth Hardwick in 1979, Fiona Apple Favorite lyric: It was the first part

Tabs open on your screen right now: Facebook. Tweetdeck. Three NYT articles. One Fast Company article. One WSJ article. Spotify. The Muse. Tumblr porn. If you had to brag about

Tabs open on your screen right now: Facebook (never closes). Google docs. Square. Some video where Susan Sarandon is being a total entitled jackass.If you had to brag about yourself:

Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail, Google Docs, Verse.press, Facebook, Twitter, NY Times, Lit Hub, The Nation, Google Analytics. If you had to brag about yourself: I make

Tabs open on your screen right now: My email inbox, a Google doc of a new piece, which is a meditation on mountains.  And Zappos.com, I’m looking for boots and

Tabs open on your screen right now: Facebook, the English PEN page, and the hoard of academic articles on JSTOR that I’m promising myself I’ll read this afternoon. If you

Tabs open on your screen right now: Two work emails (Yahoo and Outlook), my personal Gmail, rare book seller (looking at a folklore dictionary that I used to read during

Tabs open on your screen right now: (I'm guilty of lots of open tabs): Amazon confirmation order for purchasing dog books and nail polish strips, NYT article about Donald Trump dropping

Tabs open on your screen right now: I have about eighteen tabs open in a few different windows right now. I have a friend who only commits herself to having

Your writer crush: Roxane Gay Favorite lyric: "Your father made fetuses with flesh licking ladies, While you and your mother were asleep in the trailer park.’ Oh Comely, Neutral Milk

Tabs open on your screen right now: This Morgan Parker essay, capes on etsy for toy poodles, this bianca stone poem , watching the L word on netflix If you

Tabs open on your screen right now: “The Growing Legend of Shirley Jackson,” an interview with Ruth Franklin and Doug Gordon at Electric Literature. If you had to brag about

Tabs open on your screen right now: Several Google Drive documents, Google Calendar, Facebook, Twitter, Mailchimp, OkCupid and two Gmail accounts. If you had to brag about yourself: I am

Tabs open on your screen right now: - Youtube Video "Music for Effective Studying- Easy Studying Music- Beautiful Study Music- Easy Smooth Inspirational" - Twitter - Google Drive Folder- "Alana

Tabs open on your screen right now: Pantone's Color of The Year (It's "Greenery"), Chani Nicholas Horoscopes, Lorelei Black's website, Antwawn Sargent's interview w/ Arthur Jafa, Fred Moten's Lunch Ticket

Tabs open on your screen right now: Isadora Duncan autobiography "My Life" // Gmail // Google Calendar // Google Drive // Chase Year-End Summary // Google Finance // Facebook //

Tabs open on your screen right now: -"Artist sketchbooks" Google search (for teaching) Article from Portland weekly Willamette Week about how the Portland NAACP pulled out of the upcoming Women's

Tabs open on your screen right now: eBay search for “first class relics,” lesson plans, a science experiment for children on how to see an afterimage, Audre Lorde’s “Afterimages,” Wikipedia

Tabs open on your screen right now: Blogger. I am designing a blog for a studio art class I am teaching this semester at Naropa: Shrine, Ritual, Installation. Also, Twitter.

Tabs open on your screen right now: No tabs open. If you had to brag about yourself:  I will call the 1-800 number for you because I know how much

Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail, Hulu paused on "Inside Amy Schumer." If you had to brag about yourself: I do it all the time, I'm told... I'm

Tabs open on your screen right now:  Google calendar A short piece on the Four of Swords that Lily Hoang sent me the day of the election A scan of

Tabs open on your screen right now: Email1; Calendar; Email2; Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt; ESPN Fantasy Basketball (2nd place at the moment!); Google Maps map of St. Petersburg,

Tabs open on your screen right now: Besides the usual Gmail and Drive, Healthcare.gov and a Google search on how to automatically send someone straight to voicemail without blocking them.

Tabs open on your screen right now: NASA report on water depletion, email trash fire, wikipedia page on threatening the president of the United States, wikipedia page on Wendy’s fast-food

Tabs open on your screen right now: health insurance nightmare, a zillion Wikipedia articles about birds, that pretty great Daft Punk/Beastie Boys mashup, Submittable, research for a poem about Nietzsche

Tabs open on your screen right now: Facebook, Wikipedia If you had to brag about yourself: I used to play Varsity Soccer & Basketball, and was voted Prom King. Now

Tabs open on your screen right now: Baseball statistics site, Wall Street Journal article about weirdest baseball superstitions, twitter, thesaurus, the New Yorker, tab-that-shall-not-be-named-because-it-is-related-to-my-partner’s-birthday-present, gmail. If you had to brag

Tabs open on your screen right now: A google doc entitled "BOOK TWO," this, this, and this. If you had to brag about yourself: My balance and sprezzatura in heels.

Tabs open on your screen right now: Rebecca Solnit's City of Women map in the New Yorker, dreamy pictures of the Hanson Brothers, Google map street view of my childhood

Tabs open on your screen right now: 30. Things have gotten out of hand. If you had to brag about yourself: I would be very uncomfortable. And probably writing a

Tabs open on your screen right now: Twitter, Gmail, way too many banking-related tabs (the thrills & chills of setting up billing & payment as a freelancer!).If you had to

Tabs open on your screen right now: Lonely Hearts Lingerie, Chelsea Hodson’s Tiny Spills, this poem, a google doc I’m editing, the Wikipedia page on Enheduanna If you had to

Tabs open on your screen right now: Uh, I'm a hoarder, but here are a few: NAMES FOR GOD (Wikipedia); various social media; various horoscopes for Cancers; The Guardian's review

Tabs open on your screen right now: Google search results for “goat varieties in the Caribbean” Abramsbooks.com NYT: “10 Competitive House Races” Zabars.com Repeat Delivery Program/bagels Your writer crush: Dead?

Tabs open on your screen right now: Hypernormalisation, a BBC documentary I want to watch; Hobart submittable page since I’m reading fiction subs for October; wolf pupy’s twitter account; Ballotpedia

Your writer crush: Warsan Shire Favorite lyric: At this moment: "It's a thin line between love and hate." Any place in the world: Rush Hour Records in Amsterdam. Best breakfast:

Tabs open on your screen right now: cosmonaut avenue website ( ;) ) a pdf of a chapbook by astrid lorange from sod press an article by dorothea lasky called

Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail / Three Google Docs / Facebook / Google Search If you had to brag about yourself: I am really good at filtering

Tabs open on your screen right now: NYTimes, BBC, Shopstyle, Seamless, the movie "Suspiria" on YouTube If you had to brag about yourself: I have a pretty good brain Your

Tabs open on your screen right now: My work computer just has boring work stuff (about a gazillion tabs of a NYT archive search of “Turkish military” + “secular” since

Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail; Voter’s Edge CA; “Woolf's Einfuhlung: An Alternative Theory of Transgender Affect” by Lucas Crawford; four different google docs with bits of an

Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail. Chase Bill Pay (I sent my last rent check to the wrong address…). Tiny Spills. Tiny Spills. Tiny Spills. Tiny Spills. Tiny

Tabs open on your screen right now: 15, on a startling range of topics. If you had to brag about yourself: I'm getting nicer every day. Your writer crush: Amy

Tabs open on your screen right now: "Philip Glass on controlling your output and getting paid for what you make;" mottandbow.com; Facebook; "Larry Wilmore Talks HBO’s ‘Insecure,’ TV Diversity and the

Tabs open on your screen right now: Pocket, Mint, these VERY CUTE SHOES I am considering on ASOS.com, Netflix (Episode 9 of Luke Cage), CheapAir.com, and a yellow dress on

Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Cosmonauts, Jessica Lanyadoo's horoscopes, Cherry Velvet dresses, Aids Action Now website, Donovan Woods' soundcloud page. Maria Bamford's show paused on

Tabs open on your screen right now: Only this one! If you had to brag about yourself: I would say that I try very hard to be empathetic. Your writer crush:

If you had to brag about yourself: I’m Black and alive and living. Your writer crush: Nick Laird Favorite lyric: “Don’t know what’s in store, but together we can open

Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail, Submittable (where I'm reading fiction submissions for the next issue of No Tokens), Dictionary.com (where I was looking up a synonym for

Tabs open on your screen right now: facebook.com, nytimes.com, grandpa.se, lightboxpoetry.com If you had to brag about yourself: I mean, this hair, obviously. Your writer crush: Saving myself for Sondheim.

Tabs open on your screen right now: Just this. Astrologically, my sun and moon are in Capricorn, which makes me a very focused and structured person. I fluctuate between so

Tabs open on your screen right now: "Aubade with Burning City" by Ocean Vuong at Poetry Magazine (audio); "100 Bells" by Tarfia Faizullah at Poetry Magazine (audio); Vimeo of Xochitl-Julisa

Tabs open on your screen right now: Netflix, Power House Arena, Twitter, Interview w/ Mary Miller on Electric Literature, Litreacor (my online class), The Rumpus If you had to brag

Your writer crush: J.B. Fletcher Any place in the world: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Best breakfast: Coffee from a French Press and my friend Julie's homemade blueberry pancakes with compote

Tabs open on your screen right now: Personal Gmail, Bennington Review Gmail, YouTube: Eric Andre Show — “Falcon,” Dream Dictionary — “Mouse Bite.” If you had to brag about yourself:

Tabs open on your screen right now: DEMOCRACY NOW! COWSPIRACY  (one of the most important documentaries of our time, AND the blog on this site is AMAZING) If you had

Tabs open on your screen right now: i honestly have so many open in two different browsers, these are just the ones i can see: ASOS, Miista, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube,

Tabs open on your screen right now: The New York Times, Twitter, Bernadette Mayer’s poem “Failures in Infinitives,” Danez Smith’s answers to this same Q&A (which I really enjoyed reading),

Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail work email KROnline interview with Safiya Sinclair RollingStone piece on South America’s 8 scariest serial killers Submittable The Guardian story on Puerto

Tabs open on your screen right now: gmail, facebook, indesign, a load of word documents, spotify—too much If you had to brag about yourself: I’m quick at learning languages and

Tabs open on your screen right now: PsychologyToday's therapist directory (I'm searching for a new person after moving back home to Chicago from Boston), "What I Pledge Allegiance To" by

Tabs open on your screen right now: Renew passport by mail, YouTube Living Single theme song, Google image search: vertical messenger bag, Daryl Baldwin—Macarthur Fellows class of 2016, NPR main

Tabs open on your screen right now: a poem, an essay prompt for my students, a Khadijah Queen poem, facebook, some lab results from my doctor, itunes playing Noname, an

Tabs open on your screen right now: Work: University of Missouri (was away from my laptop all afternoon.) If you had to brag about yourself: I wouldn't. It's not about

Tabs open on your screen right now: Deadspin: the story behind the perfect photo of olympic pain Deadspin: How a career ends: Dominique Moceanu, America's youngest gold-medal gymnast Youtube: Kanye

Tabs open on your screen right now: okay so i'm a really bad serial tab pinner. here are all my pinned tabs as of today: Aleatoric music Sami people Executive

Tabs open on your screen right now: Facebook / An interview with Alexander Chee / Moira Egan's beautiful "Ghazanelle" / Episode 10 of Outlander / FKA twigs's performance at Pitchfork

Tabs open on your screen right now: To-Do Lists, A running document where I type up student poem feedback, Blind Pilot performing "Umpqua Rushing" Live at Bear Creek Studio (YouTube);

Tabs open on your screen right now: * LibriVox * Emanuel Swedenbor’s Journal of Dreams * Vistaprint * Facebook * Center for Fiction – In conversation: Atticus Lish & Daniel

Tabs open on your screen right now: my therapist's website, my psychiatrist's website, a video of a space-x rocket exploding, a buzzfeed listicle of baby animal GIFs that i looked

Tabs open on your screen right now: Outlook and a Korean news website. The news article is on the drafting of Korean women's volleyball players. If you had to brag

Your writer crush: How can I have just one? I’ll name some seasonal suspects: John D’Agata, Eliot Weinberger, Harold Pinter Favorite lyric: “Don’t want to end up a cartoon in

Tabs open on your screen right now: Catherine of Siena’s Wikipedia page (novel research), my work email, and a Flemish painting that I’m basing a short story about weird art