For the past five years, I have crisscrossed our state to offer free & bilingual writing classes to more than 850 students in 50 towns & cities.

My very last Humanities Washington class is Tuesday night at Folio in Pike Place Market. 12/9 at 6. Register here:

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"Caldwell shows readers how to endure catastrophe with aplomb; there can be no better recommendation for literature." — @kristenmillares.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com

TRYING is out today! 🎉🎉

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With support from 4Culture, I'm collaborating with Majel Reyes Quesada, based in Havana, to translate my memoir-in-essays Desire Lines into Senderos del deseo. I'll also narrate and record the Desire Lines audio book to be published October 6, 2026 by @redhenpress.bsky.social. Thank you to 4Culture!

Melissa Febos's great power is pairing structural rigor with emotional disclosure. By reclaiming her focus with celibacy, she replenished her erotic sense of selfhood, what Lorde called “an assertion of the life force of women.” Read my @washingtonpost.com review of THE DRY SEASON.

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Folklife! Come to SIFF Film Center Sat. 5/24 for Glimmers in the Night. 2:30. When I need a poem, a spell, or advice, Anastacia-Reneé's got it. She has something for you too. We both do. 167 Republican St.

On Friday, I'll give two free workshops, same place, English at 6:30 y en español a las 8.

To hone your craft as a writer, consider the low residency MFA program of the OSU-Cascades campus in Bend. I teach with Kim Johnson, Beth Alvarado, Irene & Mike Cooper, Christopher Boucher, T Geronimo Johnson, Ellen Waterston & Jeff Fearnside. Applications due 6/1.

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Spokane's calling. At Get Lit! Festival, I’ll discuss silence in narrative with Margot Kahn, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum & Molly Olguín. 4/12 at 10:30, Montvale Event Center, Ella’s Theater.

At 9 that night, I’ll read at Emma Rue’s with Foray for the Arts.
I-90 keeps going; I brake for literature.

🇮🇸, here I come. As a fellow UNESCO City of Literature, Reykjavík has launched an annual residency for writers from around the world. In November, I'll interview Icelandic authors and attend readings. Once I have a sense of their literary culture, I’ll write a story to be translated into Icelandic.

“We are completely interdependent,” said Margo Okazawa-Rey. “Let us reclaim & reinforce our commitments to each other. We've given away too much of our power partly because we think what we are doing is individual.” #cohimbeerivercollective @townhallseattle.bsky.social @uwpubliclectures.bsky.social

My memoir will be published by @redhenpress.bsky.social on October 6, 2026. DESIRE LINES is an investigation into the emotional topography of womanhood.

At its heart is Cybele—the great mother goddess I pursued through pagan temples, the archives of the Louvre, and the deepest reaches of history.

Seattle Met keeps a big Seattle reading list, and I'm glad SUBDUCTION is included for prose “at once poetic and punching" with “sentences taut yet lush.” www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-cul... @redhenpress.bsky.social

Ticket sold out for the next Lit Lounge. Host & vibe setter Jodi-Ann Burey & Kisa Nishimoto know how to curate a night.

I’ll perform with Monica West & Quenton Baker, feat. DJ Topspin & @mamsbooksandthings.bsky.social at The Station in Columbia City.

Sign up for the next one 3/21: litlounge.art

Most people, when they fall in love with someone who does not reciprocate their affection, hide their distress if they can, to save face. Not Tree Abraham. ELSESHIP begins where most love stories end. wapo.st/4aE9iL7 #bookreview #washingtonpost #lgbtq #memoir #creativenonfiction #unrequited #love

A sparkly launch night at Elliott Bay Book Company for ELITA, called "a slow burn mystery with potent characters" by a rave WaPo review. Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Tara Conklin & I talked about working motherhood and fictional landscapes.
#nordir #noir #feminist #mystery #novel #seattle #literature