Kristen Martin
@kwistent.bsky.social
Author of THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW, out now from Bold Type / critic with words in NYRB, NYT Mag, WaPo, The New Republic, and elsewhere / member Freelance Solidarity Project and National Book Critics Circle / Philly / kristenmartin.net
Convincing you to read THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD by *also* sharing the first two paragraphs. Because I'm a giver.
Share yours!
Share yours!
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Convincing you to read THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD by *also* sharing the first two paragraphs. Because I'm a giver.
Share yours!
Share yours!
Penny Loafer loves voting for PA Supreme Court judicial retention and for Philly DA Larry Krasner!
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Penny Loafer loves voting for PA Supreme Court judicial retention and for Philly DA Larry Krasner!
It’s Penny Loafer’s ninth birthday!
October 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
It’s Penny Loafer’s ninth birthday!
Philly folks! Join me and Jiordan Castle for a convo about my book THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW this Thursday at the Penn Bookstore!
September 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Philly folks! Join me and Jiordan Castle for a convo about my book THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW this Thursday at the Penn Bookstore!
I may never recover from the fact that Rider Strong AKA Shawn Hunter has READ MY BOOK and TALKED ABOUT IT and SAID MY NAME on this Boy Meets World podcast 😭😭😭
September 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I may never recover from the fact that Rider Strong AKA Shawn Hunter has READ MY BOOK and TALKED ABOUT IT and SAID MY NAME on this Boy Meets World podcast 😭😭😭
Just one! Penny Loafer:
August 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Just one! Penny Loafer:
It’s my 36th birthday—and my first as a published author! So yes, I am using this as yet another opportunity to say BUY MY BOOK and TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT plz! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It’s my 36th birthday—and my first as a published author! So yes, I am using this as yet another opportunity to say BUY MY BOOK and TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT plz! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
These mourning dove babies were as shocked to see me as I was to see them
July 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
These mourning dove babies were as shocked to see me as I was to see them
New ink for my beloved Suzy Creamcheese
July 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
New ink for my beloved Suzy Creamcheese
The Cherokee purple I have been EAGERLY tending got a sunburn today 😓
June 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The Cherokee purple I have been EAGERLY tending got a sunburn today 😓
Fucking outrageous way to communicate with constituents. I have to watch a video of this fool kissing Trump’s ass?!
April 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Fucking outrageous way to communicate with constituents. I have to watch a video of this fool kissing Trump’s ass?!
This morning I got a Google alert that my book THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW was featured on a 7-min podcast episode, with a review. I listened to it and realized it was produced by AI, which I guess means they either fed the book or reviews of it through an LLM. These are the AI avatars:
April 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This morning I got a Google alert that my book THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW was featured on a 7-min podcast episode, with a review. I listened to it and realized it was produced by AI, which I guess means they either fed the book or reviews of it through an LLM. These are the AI avatars:
Dougie the cat forgives you
April 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Dougie the cat forgives you
Folks heading to #AWP2025 this week! I’m moderating a nonfiction panel about blending personal narrative with research and reporting, and our lineup is truly stellar: @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @sashabonet.bsky.social, @melissafebos.bsky.social, and Heather Radke! Come through on Saturday.
March 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Folks heading to #AWP2025 this week! I’m moderating a nonfiction panel about blending personal narrative with research and reporting, and our lineup is truly stellar: @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @sashabonet.bsky.social, @melissafebos.bsky.social, and Heather Radke! Come through on Saturday.
I’ll be signing copies of my book at the newly opened Barnes & Noble in Bryn Mawr tomorrow (3/8) from 12 to 3 PM! Come through!
March 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I’ll be signing copies of my book at the newly opened Barnes & Noble in Bryn Mawr tomorrow (3/8) from 12 to 3 PM! Come through!
I may not live in Missouri, but I am the author of a book on the history of child welfare and family separation, so I wrote to the House committee on children and families urging them to reject the bill. Here’s what I said if it’s useful, and their emails:
February 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I may not live in Missouri, but I am the author of a book on the history of child welfare and family separation, so I wrote to the House committee on children and families urging them to reject the bill. Here’s what I said if it’s useful, and their emails:
Obv my fave part of the Eagles parade
February 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Obv my fave part of the Eagles parade
Perhaps you need two cats. I highly recommend two cats.
February 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Perhaps you need two cats. I highly recommend two cats.
Wish I were one of my cats and had a walnut brain and didn’t need to think about the chaos agents running our country
January 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Wish I were one of my cats and had a walnut brain and didn’t need to think about the chaos agents running our country
I wrote about sharing my book's pub week with the dawn of Trump 2.0:
americanorphan.substack.com/p/the-united...
americanorphan.substack.com/p/the-united...
January 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I wrote about sharing my book's pub week with the dawn of Trump 2.0:
americanorphan.substack.com/p/the-united...
americanorphan.substack.com/p/the-united...
Thank you! My first book THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD came out this Tuesday (!) #FridayReads www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/krist...
January 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Thank you! My first book THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD came out this Tuesday (!) #FridayReads www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/krist...
The Gore Vidal quote comes from his essay “State of the Union: 2004,” where he looks back on a 1972 address he gave after the official SOTU, in the context of the second GWB admin. Here’s part that’s too prescient today
January 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The Gore Vidal quote comes from his essay “State of the Union: 2004,” where he looks back on a 1972 address he gave after the official SOTU, in the context of the second GWB admin. Here’s part that’s too prescient today
My first book, THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW, comes out tomorrow (apt title, eh?). Here are the epigraphs.
www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/krist...
www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/krist...
January 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
My first book, THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW, comes out tomorrow (apt title, eh?). Here are the epigraphs.
www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/krist...
www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/krist...
Last up: I read Roxanna Asgarian’s WE WERE ONCE A FAMILY in the middle of my research and drafting of THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW. It is perhaps the most important book written on foster care in the past decade and I’m hugely humbled that she blurbed my book. (20/20)
January 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Last up: I read Roxanna Asgarian’s WE WERE ONCE A FAMILY in the middle of my research and drafting of THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW. It is perhaps the most important book written on foster care in the past decade and I’m hugely humbled that she blurbed my book. (20/20)
Gabrielle Glaser’s AMERICAN BABY was one of the first books I read when I was working on my proposal and I used it as a comp. I’m so honored that she blurbed THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW! (19/20)
January 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Gabrielle Glaser’s AMERICAN BABY was one of the first books I read when I was working on my proposal and I used it as a comp. I’m so honored that she blurbed THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW! (19/20)