As February ends, I’m finishing up the BIPOC-only Anaphora Writers Residency. Being in the community that Mahtem Shiferraw curated, working with a dozen other writers in the prose workshop led by Mateo Askaripour (author of Black Buck, 2021), an interview with Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties, 2017) about her latest memoir, classes with Layli Long Soldier, with Chris Abani.

What I’m Watching: Culinary Class Wars, Netflix. This Korean cooking competition show was sold to me as unhinged. It is the master of the cliffhanger and wild competitions.

Book-ish, PBS. Post WWII murder mystery, a bookstore owner with a lot of leeway with the police and a ex-con fresh out of prison.

What I’m Reading: (nonfiction) How to Make a Killing by Tom Mueller, dialysis companies are making so much money on sick minorities.

(fiction) Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. It’s a horror, and I really enjoyed it.

Last Year’s February Publications:

“How His Sins Caught up to the Unpierceable Laoji”, Small Wonders

“The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent”, Tales & Feathers Magazine