Your hold is ready! (5.31.26)

Hi everyone!

What a month! I had an amazing time in NYC and Minneapolis reading from Differential Diagnosis –– in NYC, joining Fez Avery and friends to celebrate the publication of Clayboy, and in Minneapolis, joining Danez Smith (!) to read and chat about my book, Madness, sickness, opacity, and more.

Next up, a reading with Mordecai Martin and Topaz Winters at Hive Mind Books, come through on June 3 at 7pm, and RSVP here!

You can read more about the book’s theoretical and political orientations in this recent interview for fifth wheel press.

Housekeeping:

If you want to read about transMad queercrip nonsense as aesthetic and praxis and haven’t ordered a copy yet, check out Differential Diagnosis, which is now available on Northwestern University Press’s website and on Bookshop (or, in Canada, at Another Story or your local indie!) Be sure to request it from your favorite indie bookstore, and add it on Goodreads and Storygraph.

Likewise, you can find my debut experimental-sf- trans dyke body modification novel, Failure to Comply, at featherproof books, Bookshop (+ your local indie), Another Story, Goodreads, and Storygraph.

Also - manywor(l)ds opens for submissions June 1, and remains open through July 31! Send your stuff!

Now, onto the recommendations.

Today’s Recs:

Books:

• Kathleen Pendleton Jiménez, How to Get A Girl Pregnant

• Michel Nieva, tr. Rahul Bery, Dengue Boy

• E.M. Carroll, A Guest in the House

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Stefanie Kirby, Tender (2025)

• Corinne Engber, The Hero (2024)

• Mack Gelber, Driving Through Pennsylvania (2026)

• Hugh Ryan, Safety Third (2026)

Essays and Articles:

• Andrew Paul, Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts (2025)

• Jack Liddell, Teaching Shakespearean Sonnets to Brain Rot 15-Year-Olds (2026)

My Recent Work:

• Interview: Cavar in conversation with M. K. Thekkumkattil in Fifth Wheel Press.

• Interview: Jamie Silvonek in conversation with [sarah] Cavar in Fifth Wheel Press

• The Inherent Poetry of Horror, Or Horror in the Poetic in the Northwestern University Press Blog.

• Speculative Syllabi: Imagining Pedagogies of Madness and Hope, with Helen Rottier, in the International Mad Studies Journal.

• Two pieces and Introduction in ANMLY, Autistic Protest Poetry.

• Okay…a little unfocused, but hopefully you can make something of this? in Disability Archives Lab.

• Access Fictions: Clarity, Violence, and the Promise of transMad Opacity in Transgender Studies Quarterly.

• In a dream |m| asks if I believe in mercy in Passages North

• You May Feel Odd or Different All Day in The Offing

• Every Trans Suicide is State-Sanctioned Murder in Protean Magazine

• Three Micros in X-RAY Lit

• Loving Renee Back in The Rumpus

• Find my chapbooks on my website and my Goodreads author page! Contact me for PDF requests.