Sequoia Nagamatsu
@sequoian.bsky.social
Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editors’ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawai’i http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek 💫 and wristwatch ⌚️ obsessed.
I guess it's #nationaldogday, so here are just a few shots of Fenris. He had a rough start as a puppy (abandoned in the snow in South Dakota and some of his litter mates didn't make it) + lots of training/classes during Covid lockdown (and prob some abandonment issues since he was a Covid puppy).
August 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I guess it's #nationaldogday, so here are just a few shots of Fenris. He had a rough start as a puppy (abandoned in the snow in South Dakota and some of his litter mates didn't make it) + lots of training/classes during Covid lockdown (and prob some abandonment issues since he was a Covid puppy).
If you don't understand my excitement about this then behold Exhibit A . . . me and my friend Marie at the San Francisco Ghost Tour dressed as "a ghost" (a sheet we picked up at a thrift shop in the Mission District and haphazardly cut holes into). We only fell once.
August 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
If you don't understand my excitement about this then behold Exhibit A . . . me and my friend Marie at the San Francisco Ghost Tour dressed as "a ghost" (a sheet we picked up at a thrift shop in the Mission District and haphazardly cut holes into). We only fell once.
So wonderful to meet one of the creators of this constellation character map for How High We Go in the Dark! I've known about this for a while, but still absolutely bowled over by their incredibly close/nuanced reading and the creativity of this map. Bookographic and busybusyreading on Insta!
July 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
So wonderful to meet one of the creators of this constellation character map for How High We Go in the Dark! I've known about this for a while, but still absolutely bowled over by their incredibly close/nuanced reading and the creativity of this map. Bookographic and busybusyreading on Insta!
Next week in Seattle at Elliot Bay Books! If you’re in the area you should drop by! Aram’s debut is a tender and complex exploration of the collision of grief, generational trauma, and cultural identity. I cried, I underlined so many damn lines.
July 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Next week in Seattle at Elliot Bay Books! If you’re in the area you should drop by! Aram’s debut is a tender and complex exploration of the collision of grief, generational trauma, and cultural identity. I cried, I underlined so many damn lines.
Apparently Zoetrope Virtual Studios is shutting down forever by mid month after 25 years. Like probably a lot of you, this site was a significant resource for me early on and where I found much needed literary community, advice, feedback etc. (esp. when I was living in Japan in the mid 00s).
June 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Apparently Zoetrope Virtual Studios is shutting down forever by mid month after 25 years. Like probably a lot of you, this site was a significant resource for me early on and where I found much needed literary community, advice, feedback etc. (esp. when I was living in Japan in the mid 00s).
When you forgot to plan ahead and now this is your carry on 😂
June 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
When you forgot to plan ahead and now this is your carry on 😂
2500 words that came easily today . . . and upon a read through doesn't appear to be entirely dog shit. I'll take it. Pouring any negative energy and crap words into this doll head my mother in law got me (yes, she knows me haha). One day it will come to life via the power of thrown away ideas.
May 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
2500 words that came easily today . . . and upon a read through doesn't appear to be entirely dog shit. I'll take it. Pouring any negative energy and crap words into this doll head my mother in law got me (yes, she knows me haha). One day it will come to life via the power of thrown away ideas.
Okay . . . I'm ridiculous. I love this shirt:
May 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Okay . . . I'm ridiculous. I love this shirt:
Wonderful time talking to book lovers at the Boozy Book Fest @ Cream & Amber bookstore yesterday!
May 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Wonderful time talking to book lovers at the Boozy Book Fest @ Cream & Amber bookstore yesterday!
Got a bunch of stuff and happy to support our neighborhood bookstore that has wonderful displays like this:
April 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Got a bunch of stuff and happy to support our neighborhood bookstore that has wonderful displays like this:
Next week at Moon Palace in Minneapolis! www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/19182...
April 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Next week at Moon Palace in Minneapolis! www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/19182...
I was sifting through photos to clear up my computer and came across this wedding photo. For perhaps obvious reasons 🍆 this one did not make our official wedding album 🤣. We tried so hard to do the drawing with sparkler thing . . . but did not plan for how the string lights would transform.
April 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I was sifting through photos to clear up my computer and came across this wedding photo. For perhaps obvious reasons 🍆 this one did not make our official wedding album 🤣. We tried so hard to do the drawing with sparkler thing . . . but did not plan for how the string lights would transform.
It's 2025 and I still come across sub guidelines for lit journals and presses that simply say "No genre fiction" . . . and okay, fine, but maybe back that up a bit with some detail and rationale. The MFA/Lit ecosystem could learn from a submission guide like Clarkesworld.
April 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It's 2025 and I still come across sub guidelines for lit journals and presses that simply say "No genre fiction" . . . and okay, fine, but maybe back that up a bit with some detail and rationale. The MFA/Lit ecosystem could learn from a submission guide like Clarkesworld.
A quick but energizing #AWP25 . . . Now just come to Minneapolis again, so I can host a (probably fabulist) offsite in my backyard in my comfy house pants and sequester myself upstairs while staring at revelry from up above.
March 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A quick but energizing #AWP25 . . . Now just come to Minneapolis again, so I can host a (probably fabulist) offsite in my backyard in my comfy house pants and sequester myself upstairs while staring at revelry from up above.
What a wonderful audience this morning and a fantastic discussion with some amazing writers 🤩
March 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
What a wonderful audience this morning and a fantastic discussion with some amazing writers 🤩
One of the most generous and kind people in the literary community. Tragic loss.
March 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
One of the most generous and kind people in the literary community. Tragic loss.
I'll be one of the featured authors at the spring Boozy Book Fair at Cream and Amber in Hopkins, MN (Twin Cities metro) with a bunch of awesome other writers (special shout out to Kawaii Strong Washburn who actually helped me kick off How High). Tickets here: creamandamber.com/product/spri...
March 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I'll be one of the featured authors at the spring Boozy Book Fair at Cream and Amber in Hopkins, MN (Twin Cities metro) with a bunch of awesome other writers (special shout out to Kawaii Strong Washburn who actually helped me kick off How High). Tickets here: creamandamber.com/product/spri...
I’m packing super light for my quick #AWP25, but will plant these two signed UK copies of How High around the Los Angeles convention hall with associated photo hints later this week.
March 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I’m packing super light for my quick #AWP25, but will plant these two signed UK copies of How High around the Los Angeles convention hall with associated photo hints later this week.
Kalahira’s maiden voyage in her new backpack. Unfortunately the journey today is to the vet for her usual vaccinations and not adventuring.
March 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Kalahira’s maiden voyage in her new backpack. Unfortunately the journey today is to the vet for her usual vaccinations and not adventuring.
LibGen supporters think they are siding w/ some intellectual property Robin Hood and sticking it to some corporation when they are also hurting authors (and then when they realize that? Also not giving a shit apparently). And it's definitely not just expensive textbooks or scholarly journals btw.
March 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
LibGen supporters think they are siding w/ some intellectual property Robin Hood and sticking it to some corporation when they are also hurting authors (and then when they realize that? Also not giving a shit apparently). And it's definitely not just expensive textbooks or scholarly journals btw.
To be fair, they aren't far off . . . but what I sign is closer to "not yet" without the roots.
March 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
To be fair, they aren't far off . . . but what I sign is closer to "not yet" without the roots.
Come on over and constellate with us. Also, who all is going to #AWP25? This is a very quick one for me. Roll in very late Thursday/early Friday morning and out by very early Sunday morning.
March 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Come on over and constellate with us. Also, who all is going to #AWP25? This is a very quick one for me. Roll in very late Thursday/early Friday morning and out by very early Sunday morning.
Look, I get that a lot of people don’t understand how publishing works and what is/is not typical . . . But I thought this observation was especially amusing 😂 Three whole rejections.
March 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Look, I get that a lot of people don’t understand how publishing works and what is/is not typical . . . But I thought this observation was especially amusing 😂 Three whole rejections.
