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Steffan Triplett
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writer. BAD FORECAST (Essay Press Sept. 2024) and CONSTRAINTS chap (New Michigan Press Feb. 2024). Managing Director of CAAPP (Center for African American Poetry and Poetics). linktr.ee/stefftrip
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5/ #Pride #SmallPress #books: A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby (@umanitobapress.bsky.social), Born Backwards by @tanyaolson.bsky.social (@yesyesbooks.bsky.social) & Bad Forecast by @steffantriplett.bsky.social ‬(@essaypress.bsky.social). See alt-text!

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Book cover for Born Backwards: Poems by Tanya Olson‬ (YesYes Books), with a hog standing on a bit of grass. Olson’s third poetry collection “reports from inside butch culture in the 1980s American South as it traces how geography, family, experiences, and popular culture shape one queer life.” Finalist for the 2024 Indies Book of the Year Awards, 2024 Big Other Award in Poetry, 2025 Golden Crown Literary Society Goldie Award in Poetry, and 2025 Paterson Poetry Prize! https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/born-backwards Book cover for Bad Forecast by Steffan Triplett‬ (Essay Press‬), with hurricanes, fire, tornadoes and every kind of bad weather tearing apart a landscape. A hybrid memoir told in lyric and fractured prose, depicting grief not just in the aftermath of a tornado in southwest Missouri, but in all that is unearthed from the grounds of adolescence and young adulthood. The book explores the overlaps in the way we talk and think about weather, about queerness, about race: their disruptions, their pervasive pull, the isolation they can leave behind. What secrets are kept in the climate of Middle America? What spirals out after a storm? How do race and queerness, like the weather, inform a landscape? Bad Forecast considers how we interpret the forecasts that linger behind us and those still projected to come, brewing in the distance. https://www.essaypress.org/triplett/ Book cover for A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer (University of Manitoba Press‬), with a photograph of the author playing a drum. Ma-Nee Chacaby, an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian who grew up in a remote northern Ontario community, tells the story of how she overcame experiences with abuse and alcohol addiction to become a counsellor and lead Thunder Bay's first gay pride parade. https://uofmpress.ca/books/a-two-spirit-journey
June 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Great new review of @steffantriplett.bsky.social’s Bad Forecast! barelysouthreview.com/2025/03/07/i...
In Bad Forecast, Poet & Essayist Steffan Triplett Grapples with Unfathomable Loss
In Bad Forecast, Poet & Essayist Steffan Triplett Grapples with Unfathomable Loss By Kate Lewis Life’s inexplicable cruelties thrum through Bad Forecast, Steffan Triplett’s moving cross-genre w…
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March 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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BAD FORECAST 🌥️ Book Tour, next stop, Left Bank Books
in St. Louis on Thursday, Jan 23rd! Come out if you're in St. Louis or join via the livestream if you're not. Even better, I'll be in conversation with the inimitable Jacqui Germain! RSVP HERE: www.left-bank.com/event/steffa...
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January 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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I wrote about trying to find the original Lithium for Medea manuscript for @essaydaily.bsky.social www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
Dec 7: Leah Mensch, Hard Evidence Had Nothing to Do with My Life
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent.  Find the rest of this year's and prev...
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December 7, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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my debut hybrid memoir BAD FORECAST has been in the world for two months now and had its first review in Foglifter Journal where it was called a "brilliant collection on several levels". So glad to be seen/read in this way and can't wait for more people to read it! t.co/xOysa0ZGYE
December 4, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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Writer @steffantriplett.bsky.social looks at “Dead in Long Beach, California,” where Venita Blackburn contemplates expectation, the self, and gender in the Internet age.

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Reality and Rationale in ‘Dead in Long Beach, California’
Novelist Venita Blackburn contemplates expectation, the self, and gender in the internet age.
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July 22, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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“Venita Blackburn’s ‘Dead in Long Beach, California’ is remarkably good—a bold, fresh meditation that feels more ‘real’ than anything I’ve read lately,” writes @steffantriplett.bsky.social.

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Reality and Rationale in ‘Dead in Long Beach, California’
Novelist Venita Blackburn contemplates expectation, the self, and gender in the internet age.
www.altaonline.com
July 19, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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For the book club, @steffantriplett.bsky.social looks at our July selection, where Venita Blackburn contemplates expectation, the self, and gender in the Internet age.
www.altaonline.com/california-b...
Reality and Rationale in ‘Dead in Long Beach, California’
Novelist Venita Blackburn contemplates expectation, the self, and gender in the internet age.
www.altaonline.com
July 18, 2024 at 8:26 PM