christina rivera
@crivera.bsky.social
essayist & author of MY OCEANS (NUpress, Mar ‘25). Words @pushcartprize @orion @thecut @terrainorg @kenyonreview
Get👇MY OCEANS 🥰 www.christinarivera.com
Get👇MY OCEANS 🥰 www.christinarivera.com
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New interview up with author and environmental writer Christina Rivera (@crivera.bsky.social) on opening and shutting her "subconscious door," holding suffering and grief, and the sparkle of beginner's mind 🌊 SO MANY GEMS IN HERE! 💎💎
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"befriending my subconscious"
essayist, author, and environmental writer Christina Rivera on opening and shutting her "subconscious door," holding suffering and grief, and the sparkle of beginner's mind 🌊
emilymohnslate.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New interview up with author and environmental writer Christina Rivera (@crivera.bsky.social) on opening and shutting her "subconscious door," holding suffering and grief, and the sparkle of beginner's mind 🌊 SO MANY GEMS IN HERE! 💎💎
emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/befriendin...
emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/befriendin...
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@crivera.bsky.social, author of MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, will judge the 2026 AWP Intro Journals Project in creative nonfiction! Read more and nominate student work, open to AWP member program directors October 1–November 30, 2025!
AWP Intro Journals Project Judges
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September 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
@crivera.bsky.social, author of MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, will judge the 2026 AWP Intro Journals Project in creative nonfiction! Read more and nominate student work, open to AWP member program directors October 1–November 30, 2025!
Some excerpts from a lovely conversation about the tensions between caretaking and creativity hosted by the wonderful Nancy O Reddy for her Good Creatures series!
Follow the link to read it all: open.substack.com/pub/nancyred...
Follow the link to read it all: open.substack.com/pub/nancyred...
May 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Some excerpts from a lovely conversation about the tensions between caretaking and creativity hosted by the wonderful Nancy O Reddy for her Good Creatures series!
Follow the link to read it all: open.substack.com/pub/nancyred...
Follow the link to read it all: open.substack.com/pub/nancyred...
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Happy Earth Day! To celebrate, we hope everyone will dive into My Oceans: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women by @crivera.bsky.social.
Use code WHALE on our website for 30% off April 22-23 and then explore this timely and wondrous descent into the deep waters of interconnection in which we swim.
Use code WHALE on our website for 30% off April 22-23 and then explore this timely and wondrous descent into the deep waters of interconnection in which we swim.
April 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Happy Earth Day! To celebrate, we hope everyone will dive into My Oceans: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women by @crivera.bsky.social.
Use code WHALE on our website for 30% off April 22-23 and then explore this timely and wondrous descent into the deep waters of interconnection in which we swim.
Use code WHALE on our website for 30% off April 22-23 and then explore this timely and wondrous descent into the deep waters of interconnection in which we swim.
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On day 84 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance, @crivera.bsky.social: This Is Not The End of the Story…
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@writingco-lab.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
On day 84 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance, @crivera.bsky.social: This Is Not The End of the Story…
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@writingco-lab.bsky.social
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@writingco-lab.bsky.social
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In a swell of sea-linked essays, "My Oceans" by @crivera.bsky.social explores the kinship between marine animals, humans, and Earth’s blue womb. Join us next week when Christina will be here to celebrate her beautiful new book along with @bkloren.bsky.social! Tix: RiveraBBS.eventbrite.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In a swell of sea-linked essays, "My Oceans" by @crivera.bsky.social explores the kinship between marine animals, humans, and Earth’s blue womb. Join us next week when Christina will be here to celebrate her beautiful new book along with @bkloren.bsky.social! Tix: RiveraBBS.eventbrite.com
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In @crivera.bsky.social's new essay collection, she writes about new words, discovering her own way of thinking, and seeing the world as a web of flowing relationships.
Her book, MY OCEANS, is available now, via @nupress.bsky.social. Read our excerpt ⬇️
longreads.com/2025/03/13/l...
Her book, MY OCEANS, is available now, via @nupress.bsky.social. Read our excerpt ⬇️
longreads.com/2025/03/13/l...
March 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
In @crivera.bsky.social's new essay collection, she writes about new words, discovering her own way of thinking, and seeing the world as a web of flowing relationships.
Her book, MY OCEANS, is available now, via @nupress.bsky.social. Read our excerpt ⬇️
longreads.com/2025/03/13/l...
Her book, MY OCEANS, is available now, via @nupress.bsky.social. Read our excerpt ⬇️
longreads.com/2025/03/13/l...
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"I love this notion: that in vast seas and the absence of cues, the space between whales became the point of focus."
@crivera.bsky.social on the flowing relationships between things and the missing language we need amid a time of change.
(@nupress.bsky.social)
@crivera.bsky.social on the flowing relationships between things and the missing language we need amid a time of change.
(@nupress.bsky.social)
Quieseeds - Longreads
What if the key to understanding ourselves lies in the spaces between things—between words, between waves, between worlds?
longreads.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"I love this notion: that in vast seas and the absence of cues, the space between whales became the point of focus."
@crivera.bsky.social on the flowing relationships between things and the missing language we need amid a time of change.
(@nupress.bsky.social)
@crivera.bsky.social on the flowing relationships between things and the missing language we need amid a time of change.
(@nupress.bsky.social)
They say people don’t buy a book until they’ve seen its cover at least nine times. So here are nine photos of MY OCEANS being read by hot men.
Because ALL men who read feminist books are HOT.🔥
Pub day tomorrow. Get it in any place books are sold. Preferably your fav local bookstore. 😍
Because ALL men who read feminist books are HOT.🔥
Pub day tomorrow. Get it in any place books are sold. Preferably your fav local bookstore. 😍
March 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
They say people don’t buy a book until they’ve seen its cover at least nine times. So here are nine photos of MY OCEANS being read by hot men.
Because ALL men who read feminist books are HOT.🔥
Pub day tomorrow. Get it in any place books are sold. Preferably your fav local bookstore. 😍
Because ALL men who read feminist books are HOT.🔥
Pub day tomorrow. Get it in any place books are sold. Preferably your fav local bookstore. 😍
Such a delight working with Cheri and a dream pub @longreads.com !
I considered a few excerpts from @crivera.bsky.social's new book, "My Oceans." I was so drawn to this one, in which she writes about whales, the missing language we need in a time of change, and the spaces in between things.
When the world shifts, so must our words.
In this excerpt of MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, Christina Rivera explores nature, the sea of language, and the power of naming the ineffable.
@crivera.bsky.social
@nupress.bsky.social
In this excerpt of MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, Christina Rivera explores nature, the sea of language, and the power of naming the ineffable.
@crivera.bsky.social
@nupress.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Such a delight working with Cheri and a dream pub @longreads.com !
Reposted by christina rivera
I considered a few excerpts from @crivera.bsky.social's new book, "My Oceans." I was so drawn to this one, in which she writes about whales, the missing language we need in a time of change, and the spaces in between things.
When the world shifts, so must our words.
In this excerpt of MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, Christina Rivera explores nature, the sea of language, and the power of naming the ineffable.
@crivera.bsky.social
@nupress.bsky.social
In this excerpt of MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, Christina Rivera explores nature, the sea of language, and the power of naming the ineffable.
@crivera.bsky.social
@nupress.bsky.social
Quieseeds - Longreads
What if the key to understanding ourselves lies in the spaces between things—between words, between waves, between worlds?
longreads.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I considered a few excerpts from @crivera.bsky.social's new book, "My Oceans." I was so drawn to this one, in which she writes about whales, the missing language we need in a time of change, and the spaces in between things.
My last published book excerpt before I crawl back into the hole where I make up words and deeper-dive the atmorelational!
When the world shifts, so must our words.
In this excerpt of MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, Christina Rivera explores nature, the sea of language, and the power of naming the ineffable.
@crivera.bsky.social
@nupress.bsky.social
In this excerpt of MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, Christina Rivera explores nature, the sea of language, and the power of naming the ineffable.
@crivera.bsky.social
@nupress.bsky.social
Quieseeds - Longreads
What if the key to understanding ourselves lies in the spaces between things—between words, between waves, between worlds?
longreads.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My last published book excerpt before I crawl back into the hole where I make up words and deeper-dive the atmorelational!
Hugging this from Febos today (as the pages of my debut are likely being bound; does publishing a book ever not feel like an act of narcissism?): “To place our flawed selves in the context of this magnificent, broken world is the opposite of narcissism…”
January 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hugging this from Febos today (as the pages of my debut are likely being bound; does publishing a book ever not feel like an act of narcissism?): “To place our flawed selves in the context of this magnificent, broken world is the opposite of narcissism…”
@elemntor.bsky.social
Hi! Now that you have a bluesky account, can you pretty, pretty please add a bluesky icon to the Elementor recommended icon library?
Hi! Now that you have a bluesky account, can you pretty, pretty please add a bluesky icon to the Elementor recommended icon library?
January 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
@elemntor.bsky.social
Hi! Now that you have a bluesky account, can you pretty, pretty please add a bluesky icon to the Elementor recommended icon library?
Hi! Now that you have a bluesky account, can you pretty, pretty please add a bluesky icon to the Elementor recommended icon library?
TODAY is the 55th anniversary of Corky the Killer Whale’s captivity. The Cut just published a #FreeCorky excerpt from my book, MY OCEANS, & I hope you'll honor it with your eyes and open heart? And consider re-sharing to build momentum for Corky's release?
www.thecut.com/article/cork...
www.thecut.com/article/cork...
Screaming for Freedom
Corky the Orca’s cries from captivity have shattered glass. I know the feeling.
www.thecut.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:28 PM
TODAY is the 55th anniversary of Corky the Killer Whale’s captivity. The Cut just published a #FreeCorky excerpt from my book, MY OCEANS, & I hope you'll honor it with your eyes and open heart? And consider re-sharing to build momentum for Corky's release?
www.thecut.com/article/cork...
www.thecut.com/article/cork...
My debut book, MY OCEANS, is finally here! Will you please consider pre-ordering MY OCEANS and supporting a writer trying to make a career out of anti-establishment art? (It's not easy out here!) 🩵 All your fav bookseller pre-order links at www.christinarivera.com
November 12, 2024 at 5:34 PM
My debut book, MY OCEANS, is finally here! Will you please consider pre-ordering MY OCEANS and supporting a writer trying to make a career out of anti-establishment art? (It's not easy out here!) 🩵 All your fav bookseller pre-order links at www.christinarivera.com
#AWP25 will take place March 26 through 29 in Los Angeles, California.
*doing a little happy dance for my book launch month on the Pacific Coast!!!*
*doing a little happy dance for my book launch month on the Pacific Coast!!!*
January 24, 2024 at 8:23 PM
#AWP25 will take place March 26 through 29 in Los Angeles, California.
*doing a little happy dance for my book launch month on the Pacific Coast!!!*
*doing a little happy dance for my book launch month on the Pacific Coast!!!*
I dream in languages when I'm studying them. Similarly, I "dream in book" depending on the project that feels most entitled to nagging me. And here we are: The essay collection has finally shut TF up. And the novel is back at my 2am doorstep! Tis the new season of "gnawing" (see threaded definition)
December 5, 2023 at 8:01 PM
I dream in languages when I'm studying them. Similarly, I "dream in book" depending on the project that feels most entitled to nagging me. And here we are: The essay collection has finally shut TF up. And the novel is back at my 2am doorstep! Tis the new season of "gnawing" (see threaded definition)
who else thanked their dogs in their acknowledgments?
November 11, 2023 at 3:10 PM
who else thanked their dogs in their acknowledgments?
You ever return to a workshopped essay remembering the feedback as positive and expecting the work to be minimal, and then feel slapped across the face with the reality that people were nice because the middles of those compliment sandwiches required your deepest thinking/work yet?
September 21, 2023 at 3:13 PM
You ever return to a workshopped essay remembering the feedback as positive and expecting the work to be minimal, and then feel slapped across the face with the reality that people were nice because the middles of those compliment sandwiches required your deepest thinking/work yet?
The birds at my empty feeder are not just side eyeing me out of anatomy, right?
August 24, 2023 at 2:35 PM
The birds at my empty feeder are not just side eyeing me out of anatomy, right?
omg. Despite the new marketing term, only has the the classroom “parent” EVER been a mom. Until today! A dad volunteered! Everyone clap! Except don’t! Cause moms never got clapping. So I’m just gonna sit here, lips zipped, in passive approval.
August 16, 2023 at 8:20 PM
omg. Despite the new marketing term, only has the the classroom “parent” EVER been a mom. Until today! A dad volunteered! Everyone clap! Except don’t! Cause moms never got clapping. So I’m just gonna sit here, lips zipped, in passive approval.
Why does summer homework feel like a parenting assessment?
August 7, 2023 at 5:03 PM
Why does summer homework feel like a parenting assessment?
when I put a raw veggie within arm reach of a child hard in thought (drawing, homework, reading) and they grab it and put it in their mouth and I die of success happiness
August 6, 2023 at 11:19 PM
when I put a raw veggie within arm reach of a child hard in thought (drawing, homework, reading) and they grab it and put it in their mouth and I die of success happiness