Thrilled to share a book trailer and the cover for both the English and Spanish versions of The Witch Owl Parliament, Volume 1 of Clockwork Curandera, the new graphic novel series co-created by Raúl the Third and me that drops this October from Tu Books. First, the covers! And here’s…
In conjunction with Estudio Tlalli, I am establishing THE PATH GRANT, which will award annual $2500 prizes to new and emerging BIPOC women writers of speculative fiction. To fund the grant, I am donating all of my royalties from my space opera quartet THE PATH (The Blue-Spangled Blue, The Deepest…
Karai Senryū was born in 1718 in Edo. A town official and frequent judge of poetry contests, he was responsible for popularizing a more whimsical or humorous variation of haiku that now bears his name (senryū). Some of his work is darkly ironic, as in this piece. her parents, left…
In 1688, during one of his many journeys throughout Japan, Bashō came to Mount Yamato Katsuragi. Near the Shinto shrine for the local god, Hitokotonushi, the poet composed this haiku. still, what joy I’d feel to find the god’s face amid all these morning blooms —translated by David Bowles, April…
