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Queer, nonbinary mess. jock to writer pipeline. author of I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF (Catapult 2023) & A SHARP ENDLESS NEED (Dial, 2025)
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it’s true, you can now pre-order my debut novel, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, out 1/17/23!
“Dept. of Speculation meets Black Mirror in this lyrical, speculative debut about a queer mother raising her daughter in an unjust surveillance state.”
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behind every hot girl there is a deep history with wanting their English teacher's approval
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heyyyyy [with the intention of validating your feelings & making you feel safe]
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I wrote down lines my 3 year old has said over the past few weeks, cut them up, & rearranged them into a poem & it sorta slaps?
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telling my baby at 2 am that I simply cannot engage in care work right now & I hope he seeks care from someone he’s been a more consistent sleeper with
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I wrote down lines my 3 year old has said, cut them up, & rearranged them into a poem & I love it as much as the first one (poem
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I wrote down lines my 3 year old has said over the past few weeks, cut them up, & rearranged them into a poem & it sorta slaps?
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it happened to me: I saw someone reading my book on a flight 😭
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HOLY SHIT MY BOOK WAS QUOTED BY NYTBR FOR SATURDAY SENTENCE ON IG!!!!!!
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hi once again I am asking you to share your fav piece you had published this year & if you didn’t publish anything this year, your fav piece of yours from any other year!
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every prose writer needs to be reading poetry, all the time
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passive voice is bad for many things—headlines, content writing, etc—but it is great for the health of a marriage: “the food was left out all night…”
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I am so incredibly thrilled to share the cover for my debut novel I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF, which comes out January 17, 2023, published by Catapult. Cover design by Dana Li, with
@NLCaputo
as art director.
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some very lovely news is that I've officially earned out my advance for I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself—thank you to everyone who has read, reviewed, shared & championed my book. it means the world to me <3
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I’ve got no chill—this is the dreamiest news ever. I get the highest honor of working with
@pedrokat
on not one but TWO extremely gay books. & as always, thanks to
@frecklywench
for being the best agent a boy could ask for
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i am BEYOND THRILLED to share that my novel, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, was selected as a NYT Editor's Choice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am going to go pass out now!!!!
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just poppin in to let y’all know I’m going by Mac or Moz (play on my parent name) from now on, keeping Marisa for publishing purposes for now but use either Mac or Moz otherwise 😘😘😘
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in other news, we had this little person on March 26 at 12:45 am, welcome Revel, I’m excited to carry you around in my kangaroo dad shirt
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**whispers** I have some news…my book has gone into a second printing 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
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just got v abruptly fired from my job…so really, it would be a lovely time to order my book I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself 🙃🙃🙃🙃
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I have an experimental nonfiction piece in the most recent issue of
@prairieschooner
& I even won an award for it 😭it’s in the form of the adoption papers I had to fill out to adopt my own child. thanks for reading ❤️
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libraries are the coolest thing ever, like what do you mean I can read as many books as I want for free??!?!
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what was the last book you read that fundamentally changed you? trying to see somethin (how long I can make my library holds list)
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writing a novel is just gambling in super slow motion
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“…the trick is to love somebody…If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.”
—James Baldwin
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I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself is officially out in the world!!!! it's a book about shame, stigma, grief, & oppression, yes, but it's also about forgiveness, queer resistance, love, parenting, community, hope, & becoming who we are.
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anyone interested in forming an online queer writing group?
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whenever I see a man reading on the beach, I’m like “oh! a man reading on the beach!” & then it’s always called something like HOW TO STOMP ON EVERYONE AROUND YOU & MAKE 286 MILLION DOLLARS
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today we adopted an 8 year old good boy named Sunny D
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quitting everything to become a frog and toad scholar
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I want everyone I know to order my book but want none of them to read it
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if you can believe it, I’m gonna have an essay in The Sun! about basketball no less, & gender, & transness & belonging, on why we love the things we love, their v holiness, & the queerness of yearning for belonging
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do everyone a favor & don’t fucking have children if you don’t plan to protect them at all costs.
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@canadiEmma
I’m a writer. Yeah family bdays. Anniversaries. Book birthday (Jan 17 2023 coming up!)
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got a really exciting acceptance from Brevity for a piece on transness, basketball, & my new name, Mac :)
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me trying to explain extremely low stakes literary drama to my wife
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LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO
In Marisa Crane’s new novel, “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself,” a queer, grieving mother must learn how to raise a newborn baby who is marked from birth as criminal.
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omgggggg my book got a starred Publisher's Weekly review!!!!
"The author’s profound maturity shines as they interrogate the creation of family, criminalization, and queer resistance. Readers will be moved and electrified."
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I got into 2 residencies for this summer that are amazing opportunities but neither allows residents to bring babies or kids. Like, I get it, but way to keep a massive population of writers from having space to write. I know this is not a new discovery but damn, it still sucks.
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hey friends...I wrote a personal essay about femininity, especially white femininity, & basketball, my internalized homophobia & transphobia while playing in college, the intersection of performance, desire, & attention/approval, & (gulp) Caitl*n Cl*rk
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@BarbaraMEastman
Yes and surprisingly you are not the first or second or third or 10th person to make this joke yet!
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therapy is not enough, I need to make out with my hs English teacher
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what’s a book you read recently that you couldn’t put down? one that completely overtook your psyche? that you absorbed into your body?
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sorry to bring my tiktok over here but i got the copies of my book & they are so beautiful I could cry!!!!
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not me getting the absolute kindest essay acceptance from The Offing 😭😭😭
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got the galleys for I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself & thought I’d try out some diff awk ways to hold this thing 😭😭
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this is truly wild!!!!! ABSOLUTELY THRILLED to share that I'll be attending the
@sewaneewriters
conference as a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in fiction!!!!!!!!! an absolute dream come true!!!!!!
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hi, I am trans & I am visible. my trans siblings, I love you all something fierce.
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I’m 34 today. never thought I’d make it this far but glad I have. for my bday, please consider donating to a fundraiser on this spreadsheet of Palestinian escape funds ❤️ (I also won’t say no to compliments, those are nice)
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-debut novel came out
-got a 2 book deal for novel & story collection
-parented the shit out of my kid
-was a Sewanee fellow & made lasting beautiful friendships
-started going by Mac
-discovered the gender euphoria of a cut off hoodie
BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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my toddler looked at the 30-40 books scattered on the floor on my side of the bed & shouted A BOOKSTORE!!!!!
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fyi my next novel, A SHARP ENDLESS NEED, is forthcoming from Dial Press in March 2025 & it’s a queer coming of age basketball novel about ambition, obsession, legacy, identity, why we love the shit we love, grief, the eroticism of falling for a teammate & beyond
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sexually attracted to the way a novel will say “a novel” in tiny script on a book cover
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my kid is beginning to understand that the sun sets & rises daily but he thinks every person has a different sun so tonight he asked me about each sun that belongs to all the people he loves 🥹🥹🥹
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In case anyone was like why the fuck does M post so many selfies, the answer is cuz after so many years of people literally telling me I was only attractive w my hair down / dressed feminine / whatever, I am finally finding a way to like myself outside that shit
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all the people tweeting about wanting to enjoy a beer at a brewery without toddlers screaming & running around: sure, but without a doubt, the most horrible, obnoxious, & awful people I’ve encountered at breweries (& everywhere else) have always been adults lol hope this helps
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I really would love to co-edit a queer sports anthology, just putting that out into the world
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please discuss
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ICYMI, my debut novel got a knockout review in Kirkus:
"Reminiscent of the tenderly ironic confessional voice of Melissa Broder’s novels and the rendering of an eclectic community's search for connection and survival in Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven (2014), this novel
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for those who were following along, I did in fact wear my blue suit, complete with the hoodie & nikes basketball look, for my book launch party last night
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should we organize another all-queer & trans offsite reading for AWP? last year's was a packed house
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my wife wants to know if there’s a support group for partners of authors whose books are currently on submission
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can’t stop thinking about Nex Benedict & the type of country & deadened cruel souls that make their death possible, I’m so so angry & so disgustingly sad
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This is doing numbers so consider supporting me by pre-ordering my queer speculative novel
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I wrote down lines my 3 year old has said, cut them up, & rearranged them into a poem & it makes one hell of a trans poem (poem # 3)
I wrote down lines my 3 year old has said, cut them up, & rearranged them into a poem & I love it as much as the first one (poem
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ICYMI, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself got a RAVEEEEE review in the NYT!
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it looks like my book is temporarily sold out on 👀👀👀🥹😭😭😭
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I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself is a
@LambdaLiterary
finalist in Speculative Fiction!!!! Beyond honored & humbled ❤️
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I never came out as gay, I simply started playing basketball
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there is an essay in me about the widespread moral panic of readers & how their unwillingness to engage w nuance & complexity is ruining modern literature but instead, I’m going to have a cold brew & try to make a baby w my wife
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I heard Taylor wrote this queer dystopian book called I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
Swifties made a random, unpublished book a bestseller after convincing themselves Taylor wrote it
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Wildfang’s got me out here wearing something other than sweatpants & thrift store practice jerseys
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a v fun announcement is that I’m going to be publishing a poetry chapbook with
@KithBooks
, consisting of the cut-up poems using my child’s lines as source text!!!
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another draft of book 2 is complete 👀👀👀 I have a million working titles…taking votes in the comments
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imo 1 of the most harmful phrases to arise on the internet: “you don’t owe anyone anything.” it creates a language of emotional or interpersonal transaction, of debt—maybe we aren’t obligated but we should want to give ourselves, we should want community healing, love & abundance
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Stoked to share that I have an essay in BODY LANGUAGE, the next anthology of essays from
@CatapultStory
magazine, out July 12, 2022! You can pre-order your copy here:
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I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself has over 3,000 ratings on g**dreads, which feels like no small thing 🥹
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hey friends, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself is out in paperback today! thank you to everyone who has read it, shared it, & sent me kind notes, it means the world to me.
for the next week, my paperback is 30% off on
@ShopQueerCo
!!!!
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it’s been incredibly freeing to stop pressuring myself to read every possible buzzy queer book coming out & give myself permission to read older queer books, to make my way through a history I hadn’t previously been given access to
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Blackouts by Justin Torres is what dreams are made of. It’s brilliant, gay, experimental, sad, tender, moving, & political, historical. It reads like a holy text. Torres is a gift.
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one thing that’s making me 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 about readers of my book is that many of them tell me how they got it from the library but then after reading it, they bought their own copy cuz they needed to have it forever 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
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