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Maria Robinson
@mariaaarobinson.bsky.social
Writer of fiction & sometimes non-. Work in Electric Lit, Wigleaf, The Forge -> Best Microfiction 2023, Rejection Letters, Catapult, BLR, cream city review, and more. Cupboard full of beans (I make a lot of soup).
Got to write about Weapons’ spookiest subtext for @electricliterature.com
“I walked out with a warning about what happens to the children of a society too preoccupied with its imagined enemies to recognize the real threat operating in plain sight.”
Modern America Is a Horror Movie - Electric Literature
A tyrannical orange clown who draws power from brainwashed young people? Oh right, we’re talking about “Weapons,” the year’s most incisive genre film
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October 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
agh this is so good
October 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Damn, this is so good.
August 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Maybe an existential flash about mushrooms will help
"The dog once ate a mushroom from the duff in the place where the trees-turned-timbers were felled. It told her things far more valuable than whatever’s inside the room I’m not describing."

—Maria Robinson
Maria Robinson – ANMLY
anmly.org
June 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Biased but the @katiehrob.bsky.social piece in this issue is 🔥🔥🔥
Spend some time with our ✨ April Issue 💫 before it hits the archive tomorrow!

WORDS: Vincent Perrone, Neeru Nagarajan, katiehrob.bsky.social, & Amy Thatcher
ART: Shannon Louise Barry
PLUS: @dianegotauthor.bsky.social reviews @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social buff.ly/a8ZJANg
May 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
So thrilled to be a part of this amazing issue! anmly.org/ap40/maria-r... 🍄‍🟫🐕🍄
May 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I haven’t been posting about soup but that doesn’t mean i haven’t been making it.

(This post both 100% is and 100% is not about soup.)
February 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I only took this screenshot to see what he was reading—now I’m stuck with a shirtless therapist!
January 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
my dream for us all is a future where if i were to acontextually post

this shit is so fucked.

it wouldn’t make immediate sense to you
January 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Back at you, @wigleaf.bsky.social ✨🤩💫
🙏 these amazing writers 🌟
January 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Top-tier late-December vibes in Anne Waldman’s “Seasonal Poem” (from the Dec. 13 issue of JSTOR Daily daily.jstor.org/merry-christ...)
December 20, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Tonight’s soup: broccoli, cheddar, and white bean purée with homemade wholegrain mustard croutons.
December 20, 2024 at 5:37 AM
Kinda early but I’m calling it: best thing I read today.
A few months into the pandemic, while rifling through old papers, Ed Park stumbled on something truly incredible: an unpublished manuscript, decades old, filled with the kind of “sustained artistic bliss” in short supply during lockdown.
Beautiful Plan of Your Future | Ed Park
Unpublished work by living authors has a simpler status, removed from the din of literary executors and divided acolytes.
thebaffler.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:24 PM
This is an incredible piece of journalism, and another reminder that healthcare should not be for profit (and neither should news).
NEW: “Eat What You Kill”

Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths. @davidmcswane.bsky.social
A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did…
propub.li
December 7, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Best thing I read today.
Love this essay from @elisabethnicula.bsky.social … could really blockquote any paragraph, but this one fit in one phone screen

www.smallpresstraffic.org/the-back-roo...
December 3, 2024 at 4:58 AM
Tonight’s soup: yellow split pea with onion, carrot, potato, and parsley (pan-fried veggie hot dog coins on top, re-heated buttermilk biscuit on the side)
December 1, 2024 at 11:36 PM
TV on the Radio’s incredible Tiny Desk Concert prompted me to revisit some other faves. This one always leaves me covered in goosebumps: youtu.be/z1Lh06y6Z1Q?...
Dirty Three: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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November 30, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Best thing I saw today youtu.be/zi_jOYpeCEM
TV On The Radio: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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November 28, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Reposted by Maria Robinson
Everyone should read this.
November 25, 2024 at 10:01 PM
First thing I read today.
I felt a lot of things when I read the Vanity Fair essay on Augusta Britt. One was that I never wanted to hear a woman described as a “muse” ever fucking again. So I asked the talented, anti-muse writer/artist AJ Bermudez to write the essay I needed to read. electricliterature.com/a-woman-isnt...
A Woman Isn’t a Muse - Electric Literature
Like Augusta Britt, we exist outside of men’s imaginations
electricliterature.com
November 26, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Best think I saw today: this painting of a slice of lemon meringue pie by artist & author Elizabeth Schoonmaker. (That jaunty pompadour of meringue!)
November 25, 2024 at 2:38 AM
Best thing I read today.
November 24, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Tonight’s soup: acorn squash, black bean, and corn garnished with sour cream, crispy tortilla strips, and a vigorous squeeze of lime.
November 22, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Best thing I read today.
Now that the Sky is more filled, I'm reposting this new story of mine. It's part of the novel I'm working on and means a lot to me. I'd love it if you gave it a read.

Tw: dementia

therumpus.net/2024/11/04/r...
Rumpus Original Fiction: Obliquity - The Rumpus
Andrea tells me her hallucinations are getting worse, more frequent, more frightening, though she doesn’t elaborate on how.
therumpus.net
November 21, 2024 at 10:07 PM
To the digit… and now it’s time for me to crunch on some osteoporosis pills while I write my will.
Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you recognize playing at Coachella 2025
November 21, 2024 at 7:52 PM