The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association has embraced poetry more and more in recent years, from counting poetry sales toward membership eligibility, to establishing a new Nebula Award for Best Poem.  They’ve also started up an online poetry book club for SFWA members, hosted by the amazing Mary Soon Lee.  I’m honored that they’ll be reading and discussing my chapbook The Inca Weaver’s Tales, winner of last year’s Elgin Award for best chapbook, at their meeting this Saturday, Feb. 7! 

For anyone curious for more info. about my chapbook, I did an interview with Brittany Hause about it on the podcast Into the Looking Glass (we ended up speaking about many, many other things, too). 

I have to share, this is wild to me, seeing my name in an official SFWA graphic like this.  I remember 8 years ago, getting toward the end of grad school, prepping to go to my first Worldcon, telling my capstone team that I was determined to access the SFWA suite, either by 1) qualifying for membership (I failed) or 2) being someone’s guest (also failed).  It would take me 2 more years to qualify for Associate membership, then 2 more years for me to get Full membership.  Fast forward another 4 years, and here we are.  Just wild.