Kristine Langley Mahler
@suburbanprairie.bsky.social
Memoirist experimenting with the truth. Author of TEEN QUEEN TRAINING (Autofocus 2026), A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN (Autofocus 2023) and CURING SEASON: ARTIFACTS (WVU Press 2022). Director of @splitlippress.com. More: linktr.ee/suburbanprairie
amazing that everyone agreed it needed more air time in the collective Twitter memory than JK Rowling
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
amazing that everyone agreed it needed more air time in the collective Twitter memory than JK Rowling
I am losing my mind that I finally get to share its cover and announce preorders are live for TEEN QUEEN TRAINING, my erasure essay collection deconstructing and reconstructing the rules of being a teenage girl!
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I am losing my mind that I finally get to share its cover and announce preorders are live for TEEN QUEEN TRAINING, my erasure essay collection deconstructing and reconstructing the rules of being a teenage girl!
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
HELLO, ‘90S TEENS!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tqt
The last two times the aurora were supposedly visible for my area, I couldn’t find them no matter how far out of town I drove, and I couldn’t stand looking at everybody’s pictures because I was so jealous. So just give me this. I finally got them!
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The last two times the aurora were supposedly visible for my area, I couldn’t find them no matter how far out of town I drove, and I couldn’t stand looking at everybody’s pictures because I was so jealous. So just give me this. I finally got them!
This is why you preorder from your local indie bookstore—SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS FROM YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORRRR (to join the copies of Cat’s Eye and Morning in the Burned House she signed for me in 2000 and 2014)! I’ve been connecting likely-truths in her books for the past 25 years and I AM SO EXCITED!
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is why you preorder from your local indie bookstore—SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS FROM YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORRRR (to join the copies of Cat’s Eye and Morning in the Burned House she signed for me in 2000 and 2014)! I’ve been connecting likely-truths in her books for the past 25 years and I AM SO EXCITED!
Happy Halloween, which is also Happy 2nd Birthday to my 2023 heartbreaker A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN 🐍🌙👻
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Happy Halloween, which is also Happy 2nd Birthday to my 2023 heartbreaker A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN 🐍🌙👻
Also bc I, too, miss the glory days on Twitter when everyone would post the pages with their names and you just had to hope someone with a last name alphabetically near yours posted a pic so you could check, I am doing this service:
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Also bc I, too, miss the glory days on Twitter when everyone would post the pages with their names and you just had to hope someone with a last name alphabetically near yours posted a pic so you could check, I am doing this service:
Happy Best American Essays Day to everyone but especially to ME because I have a Notable this year!!!
October 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Happy Best American Essays Day to everyone but especially to ME because I have a Notable this year!!!
Got my aura photographed yesterday and looks like I’m receiving peace and love and sending out peace and fucking love, you assholes, so don’t come tell me it isn’t real because THE AURA PHOTO SAYS I AM TRYING TO BE A GOOD PERSON!
October 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Got my aura photographed yesterday and looks like I’m receiving peace and love and sending out peace and fucking love, you assholes, so don’t come tell me it isn’t real because THE AURA PHOTO SAYS I AM TRYING TO BE A GOOD PERSON!
Happy third birthday to my 2022 darling CURING SEASON 💛💛💛
October 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Happy third birthday to my 2022 darling CURING SEASON 💛💛💛
This September I have been reading like a person on fire :: maybe because this country is on fire :: yes, this equates to a book every two days :: but I couldn't put a single one of these down once I started it!
September 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This September I have been reading like a person on fire :: maybe because this country is on fire :: yes, this equates to a book every two days :: but I couldn't put a single one of these down once I started it!
Just made myself a spirit-free drink to celebrate!!!
September 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Just made myself a spirit-free drink to celebrate!!!
Happy eclipse season! May the things that need to be transformed within you begin to transform, and may you be agents of helping this world to transform as well. Me, I’m out here watching for the snakes and finding, instead, small bouquets of good intentions. Hoping the same for you all.
September 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Happy eclipse season! May the things that need to be transformed within you begin to transform, and may you be agents of helping this world to transform as well. Me, I’m out here watching for the snakes and finding, instead, small bouquets of good intentions. Hoping the same for you all.
I have no less than 4 calendars/planners open, indicative at how horrified I am to realize it is the time to put together a reading event sched for Teen Queen Training. It comes out with @autofocusbooks.bsky.social on Feb 17! Where are my fellow early 2026 authors and SHOULD WE BE COLLABORATING?
September 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I have no less than 4 calendars/planners open, indicative at how horrified I am to realize it is the time to put together a reading event sched for Teen Queen Training. It comes out with @autofocusbooks.bsky.social on Feb 17! Where are my fellow early 2026 authors and SHOULD WE BE COLLABORATING?
Spotted at City Lights in San Francisco over the holiday weekend: @riggstah.bsky.social’s incredible story collection, ALREADY facing out on the shelf 😍
September 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Spotted at City Lights in San Francisco over the holiday weekend: @riggstah.bsky.social’s incredible story collection, ALREADY facing out on the shelf 😍
When I say I’m a fan of @autofocusbooks.bsky.social, it’s not just because I’ve published 1 book with them + have another coming out in Feb (I CANNOT WAIT TO SHARE Teen Queen Training!!)—it’s bc I genuinely love the work they publish. I don’t collect a press’s entire catalog unless I mean it ❤️❤️❤️
July 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
When I say I’m a fan of @autofocusbooks.bsky.social, it’s not just because I’ve published 1 book with them + have another coming out in Feb (I CANNOT WAIT TO SHARE Teen Queen Training!!)—it’s bc I genuinely love the work they publish. I don’t collect a press’s entire catalog unless I mean it ❤️❤️❤️
I Went to France For Nine Days and Avoided All Social Media and It Was the Best Thing Ever But Then I Came Home to This Stupid Timeline
June 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I Went to France For Nine Days and Avoided All Social Media and It Was the Best Thing Ever But Then I Came Home to This Stupid Timeline
In one week, I'm offering you 2hrs of whipping your creative muscles into shape! When the class is over and you have carpal tunnel, you’ll also have EIGHT ESSAY STARTS. That you did! Good for you! Happy Cinco de Mayo! Drink all the margaritas + write all the essays! writeordiemag.com/workshops/p/...
April 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In one week, I'm offering you 2hrs of whipping your creative muscles into shape! When the class is over and you have carpal tunnel, you’ll also have EIGHT ESSAY STARTS. That you did! Good for you! Happy Cinco de Mayo! Drink all the margaritas + write all the essays! writeordiemag.com/workshops/p/...
the understory has begun to grow back (a nonfiction metaphor)
April 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
the understory has begun to grow back (a nonfiction metaphor)
I support independent bookstores and independent bookstores support me! Lots of love for two of my favorites, The Bookworm Omaha and Prairie Lights (I wasn't smart enough to take this photo in a convenient square-size but THAT'S MY BOOK in Bookworm and THAT'S A P-L SWEATSHIRT)
April 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I support independent bookstores and independent bookstores support me! Lots of love for two of my favorites, The Bookworm Omaha and Prairie Lights (I wasn't smart enough to take this photo in a convenient square-size but THAT'S MY BOOK in Bookworm and THAT'S A P-L SWEATSHIRT)
She’s taken a licking but she KEEPS ON TICKING! 15yrs old this spring, my glorious peach tree, queen supplier of the most popular holiday gift from my household (homegrown peach jam)
April 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
She’s taken a licking but she KEEPS ON TICKING! 15yrs old this spring, my glorious peach tree, queen supplier of the most popular holiday gift from my household (homegrown peach jam)
I am so, so delayed posting about this, but mostly it’s because I wanted another reread of @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social’s HUMAN/ANIMAL, which I was also so, so honored to read early (and thrilled to blurb!). Obviously, I highly, highly, recommend this to all my experimental essayists especially 😍
April 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I am so, so delayed posting about this, but mostly it’s because I wanted another reread of @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social’s HUMAN/ANIMAL, which I was also so, so honored to read early (and thrilled to blurb!). Obviously, I highly, highly, recommend this to all my experimental essayists especially 😍
Pkg of @autofocusbooks.bsky.social goodies for the weekend has arrived!
March 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Pkg of @autofocusbooks.bsky.social goodies for the weekend has arrived!