Jiordan Castle
@jiordancastle
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author of DISAPPEARING ACT ( @fsgbooks 2023) • hacksaw’s human • she/her
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In 2023, I published my first book. I had a second poem in The New Yorker. I co-bought a very vertical home! I pet my dog! I did a lot of events with a lot (!) of stars of the heart and mind. I said a little no. I grew in the ever-loving direction of yes.
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to the woman who helped me get my dog into his tote bag on the subway platform tonight: i genuinely love you.
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In my wildest dreams. In my wildest life. 🪄I HAVE A POEM IN THE
@NewYorker
!
Thank you to
@Deardarkness
for everything, all of it. To
@ghazalblues
for kind coordination. Thank you to anyone at TNY who pulled me from the slush and PUT ME ON THE PAGE.
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I’m genuinely in love with this person
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MISSED CONNECTION:
you—
@JimGaffigan
, on the 6 train going downtown. me—keeping it cool as hell in a black and white coat across from you because i didn’t want to bother you with your many papers and i’m having a bad day but
YOU’RE THE GODDAMN BEST!
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@ambernoelle
So many years ago when I was a particularly depressed college dropout I started a kind of “depressive’s guide to barely cooking” and honestly, that’s my white whale, that’s my lost opus!
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Picture THIS: ✨ I’m in The New Yorker (online & in the Jan. 16 print issue) with a new poem about forgiveness, mistakes, and Comic Sans.
Thank you to Kevin Young & Hannah Aizenman for everything. My dream!
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🌟 BOOK COVER REVEAL 🌟
Every thank you to
@mallorygrigg
for creating this cover for Disappearing Act, my own YA+ true story (
@fsgbooks
, out August 2023!). My ethereal girl, the electric scene. The cover of my dreams.
Preorders TBA! 👀
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This is my love story. ✊
Thank you to
@noahmichelson
, an absolute angel of an editor and a champion of the human spirit for saying yes to this dress—and to Jerrod and our dog Hacksaw for making my life fuller than I ever imagined.
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Today is 8 years together—and on Friday our photographer captured this, which is inarguably the greatest photo of us in existence. Just a couple of antler queens.
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I may be SICK on the COUCH but I’m also 31 today and these are MINE because they were delivered to ME 🥳👏🎂
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I don’t know that I’ve ever tweeted this—and it merits tweeting! I met
@cmaum
at the apocalyptic 2020 AWP, where I bought her brilliant book deal book. That spring, I sold my 2023 debut.
And let me tell you: this book GETS IT. 🤝✨
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I have a brain that never stops. I’m constantly spinning wheels and anxieties and to-do lists and most of the time I hate it. But other times, I’m eating a sandwich in a tent with someone I love and I’m okay! Isn’t that something.
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I’ve only become enthusiastic about weird car stuff in recent years (I never knew/remembered anything about cars) and
@DougDeMuro
is a big part of that! This video/review is pure bliss, especially for us city freaks.
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DISAPPEARING ACT is out 👏 one month from today! ⚡️ And yesterday I received lil’ cover earrings from my sister. The support is everything.
Please preorder and tell pals and enemies, my earlobes and I ask (beg) you. It means the world to a debut.
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We’re in
@nytimes
today! 🤯🥳🥰
Thank you to
@Jenny_Block
for capturing our story so thoughtfully, to Craigslist for bringing Jerrod & me together, and to Hacksaw for wiping his face on us all day every day. Love is the why.
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Today is our 1-year anniversary, but last night we got to do this. 🌙
#johnnyhashishand
#johnnyhashisbride
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I wanted to be 30, flirty, and thriving and HERE I AM. 💁🏻♀️
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In case it goes quiet in the larger news cycle because there’s a mass shooting every day in this country, know what happened on South Street in Philly. Every day, a what if of mass shootings.
It’s not that it could be us, it’s that it is us—it’s our duty to not look away.
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It’s not every day I turn 33. Just one day actually! Yesterday! I’m glad I’m alive, eating pizza and donuts! Life. Love. What a trip.
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When you go to buy your issue of The New Yorker in bulk at Barnes & Noble and they only have trash bags 🔥🔥🔥
#stayhumble
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My first critical review of Disappearing Act—and it’s starred. ⭐️ Thank you to
@ALA_Booklist
for seeing my book as I hoped it might be seen. I hoped, but I didn’t quite dream. Now maybe I can! Maybe I will.
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I still have many more (!!!) Hacksaw bookmarks after AWP. What to do with these?
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I’m getting married in ONE WEEK! & one thing I cannot stress enough about getting married is that people mail you cookies. I will marry Jerrod many more times going forward if it means many more cookies.
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I’m relieved for the hostages, the congregation, their loved ones.
I don’t want to be afraid to return to a temple, but I am. I don’t want to be ashamed of that fear, but I am.
I want better for Jews. But tonight, we have each other. I hold that in my heart.
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Unboxing day for ✨ DISAPPEARING ACT✨ and I’m all out of words. The physical fact of this beautiful book wouldn’t be possible without the wonderful people of FSG BYR and especially
@mallorygrigg
. Genius! It’s out 8/15!
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One of the newsletters I most look forward to is
@JoshRadnor
’s—clever and quietly kind, musical… Today’s pulled me into the loveliest aha moment here:
“Feelings have never really been my problem. It’s the feelings I have about my feelings that take me out.”
That! That’s it.
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An absolute thrill to see my very short story “Death Doula” published by the kind people at
@Wigleaf
. You can read it—and my postcard about nosebleeds and growing up... all at
Here’s a preview:
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Jared Kushner is a human wedgie
that’s the tweet
Jared Kushner is demanding his tenants keep paying rent — while asking for leniency from his creditors: WaPo reporter -
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Announcing my first-ever gold seal (!), gifted by Junior Library Guild. ✨ The idea that Disappearing Act could be recognized as a gold standard book for libraries—I lose the words.
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It’s hard to write a memoir in any form, I think, without feeling like a traitor to someone or something—without feeling like you’re sewing the fabric of a universe while also poking holes in it.
Like looking in a mirror for a moment too long. Don’t I know you? Did I once?
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beautiful night last night with
@CloudCult
& also
@JoshRadnor
: YOU MADE ME CRY IN PUBLIC IN A GOOD WAY AND I LOVE YOU.
#theseeker
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I don’t think I published anything new in 2022 (did I? I did get some new-old
@havehadhavehad
💀s!), but—
I finished writing Disappearing Act, my debut. It comes out August 15, 2023 (please preorder her: ) and it didn’t break me. Some days it made me.
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WHAT A YEAR AMIRITE? But you know, this year I had a poem published in TNY, sold my first big book, published flash pieces (each a little true, a little insane) and an interview, and married a truly excellent person.
I pushed and the universe relented. Or gifted. Or both.
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@vanjchan
I can’t even bear the idea that this person is real and not just a caricature of an MFA nemesis
1, thanks for workshopping a published piece, idiot
2, thanks for the unsolicited feedback, period
3, that’s straight up, unobstructed racism
... THAT IS ALL (and also, sorry, wow)
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Got that paperwork SIGNED, took that envelope HOME, ordered Hacksaw a BOW TIE, ready to get married next MONTH ✨
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What’s one non-emergency, non-necessity you’d get with your first book advance?
I’M 🔥 WEARING 🥂 MINE
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This is an engagement photo my friend took of us at Taco Bell before all this. 🤝
What I’m saying is love is love is chalupa. What I’m saying is LIVE LOVE MAS.
@TBQuarterly
(Also, this is the man from my TBQ love poem. This is not that same Taco Bell.)
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This is a
@harriettsbooks
appreciation tweet. Just look at this book bundle! 🌹Celebrate loving spaces. Celebrate good stories.
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IT’S OFFICIAL: WE BOUGHT A HOUSE TODAY! Here in Philly! 🥳🫢🤯 I stuck this little friend in my future office for good measure. 🪄
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🚨I paid off my private student loan this week and I feel... like I’m paddling back toward the steps from the deep end of the pool. Maybe for the first time.
My adult life has been defined by this debt. That’s not an understatement. If that’s you, I’m paddling for you too.
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If you hate women, you’ll love this review.
A+ to
@KirkusReviews
for getting the exact wrong reviewer for
@literarytswift
’s important, generous debut memoir.
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📣 DISAPPEARING ACT is going on tour! Thrilled to be joined at
@anovelideaphl
with
@__eshani
(w/ flowers by Philly local Books & Blooms!), H&H with
@sometimes_k8
,
@ptknitwear
with
@readandbreathe
,
@printbookstore
with
@hannahmsays
, and to join some truly beloved reading series…
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I now own a gold Jiordan necklace and have found inner peace, AMA
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Pictured here: the start of anniversary dinner last night, aka welcome to the museum of small perfections!
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Writing your final* draft, velcro pug edition.
*last brain cell departing your body
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It’s
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
.
I’m holding all my fellow Jews and our history in my heart today and all days. Everyone who didn’t survive, who suffered—may their memory be a blessing.
And for those of us with the good fortune to have arrived here today, I celebrate us.
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I have a short story in
@The_Rumpus
today! 🥹 ➡️
My deepest thanks to
@rrrubenstein
, who saw this story, these two beloved girls, and knew exactly what to do. My champion editor! 🐺
+
@EllyLonon
, the artwork is straight out of my DREAMS. How! How!
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9 years ago I moved in with a stranger from Craigslist! He later became my best pal, my husband, the other human to our dog, etc.
Love is not overrated.
On this Craigslistiversary, in case you’re new here, I wrote about us early in the pandemic.
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You don’t have to play it cool! Have dreams, speak them into being. The right people will love you more for it.
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My pink velvet office couch arrived this week so welcome to my real-life Pinterest board, where we recommend punk bands and instant pot recipes and remind you to love yourself
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✨THEY’RE REAL & THEY’RE SPECTACULAR ⭐️
These perfect behind-the-scenes beauties. Disappearing Act! What a concept! Courtesy of the greatest art director and magician of the heart
@mallorygrigg
!
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I took to Instagram to write/share more about my AWP 🤘& all I want to say here is: Alone can be good, but there are times when together is even better.
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Blessing you with child Jiordan on this fall Sunday, complete with Beanie Baby
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It’s never too late to be your best little goth self. Take it from me, a scientist.
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My mom’s friend died from the virus yesterday. It happened quickly—a matter of a few days.
She told me today that she keeps thinking about how her friend said—when she was first in the hospital, still able to text: I wish I’d stopped going out sooner.
She lived here in NYC.
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Is now a good time to announce that we’re moving to Philly?
(This isn’t a joke.)
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@thewelllostmind
@rachsyme
FRENCH KISS IS ICONIC CINEMA 🥺
“I want you—”
“That’s it.”
Giving a voice to all us lactose intolerants out there.
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My book shoes have arrived from
@CharStoneShoes
. Invite me to do readings and sign books and all of it this fall, PHL/NYC/NJ/BEYOND! These shoes will be present!
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Maybe the real AWP was the friendships we made along the way
to dim sum and hoagies and dance parties and cocktails and coffee and hugs hugs hugs joy joy joy
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Shana tova to my fellow Jews and those who love us! To a sweet new year! To mercy and peace, love, goodness, life. All of it. Let’s be greedy for it. Let’s let each other have it.
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The time we got to eat in a restaurant without people in it! With our dog! What world is this!
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What a magical time. To be reading and talking with
@stevealmondjoy
,
@saralippmann
, &
@MargoRabb
on a Tuesday at the library!
And to come home to
@matthewzapruder
book mail thanks to incomparable book designer
@JayaNicely
🥹🤌 These are the things! These are the why.
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I loved both of our weddings. I hope we get married a hundred more times! In any case, happy two years to a waking dream come true.
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📷: my husband who is learning to find the ANGLES, the LIGHT, the MAGIC (I wish this for all of us)
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#phillybookstorecrawl
things! To read and sign and listen and learn and buy at
@anovelideaphl
—and know my book is in the wild at fellow beautiful indies like
@CBWHaverford
—you just can’t ask for a better 📚 CRAWL ✨💐
Ft. dreamy
@rosso_christina
@nahhhlina
@theoriginalison
💓
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🚨In case you missed it the first time around, I’m back to get in your face with my poem “The Surrealist” IN THE HOLY
@NewYorker
🎨
In every universe, I’m grateful for this.
“Sometimes
a veil is just a veil &
sometimes a veil is
everything
we uncloak
in order to see clearly.”
A poem by
@jiordancastle
.
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Three years ago we met a dog that was Hacksaw magnified x a billion.
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Today was the first day in a while that I felt like my whole self. Not just a frayed nerve. A person! I saw the sky! And the sky saw me.
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@blktinabelcher
@BitchMedia
“When I told one customer that her book was back-ordered, but there were an expected 20,000 books coming back into stock within two weeks to meet the unprecedented demand, she said, ‘But what I’m supposed to do now?’”
That moment, that question. Right in the chest. Oof.
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Also, Hacksaw was allowed into our favorite bakery today. So wins ALL AROUND!
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Bring me your essays! Submit to
@PigeonPagesNYC
’s contest by 1/15! I’m honored to judge this contest, which has meant so much to me.
I won in 2018 (judged by the magical
@gayrodcon
)—and this could be your year! 🙋🏻♀️💓
Tis the season - our Essay Contest is now open! Send your beautiful truths for our judge
@jiordancastle
by January 15. The winner will receive $250 and publication in Pigeon Pages.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable:
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Two years ago we moved to Philly! To everyone who’s made it feel like home since, thank you. Hacksaw thanks you too.
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Four years ago. The pose that rocked the world. Hacksaw as his alter ego, Chad.
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