Andrea Avery
@andreaavery.bsky.social
Author SONATA: A MEMOIR OF PAIN AND THE PIANO (Pegasus Books) and VISITING COMPOSER: A NOVELLA (**OUT NOW** from Miami U Press).
BA (🎹) MFA, Ed.D @ ASU
MD-born desert dweller. Editor. Thrifter. Cat lady.
Rheumatoid arthritis since 1989.
She/her.
BA (🎹) MFA, Ed.D @ ASU
MD-born desert dweller. Editor. Thrifter. Cat lady.
Rheumatoid arthritis since 1989.
She/her.
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Andrea Avery
@andreaavery.bsky.social
· Jul 1
🎶 Happy Publication Day to VISITING COMPOSER by @andreaavery.bsky.social!! 🎶
“Gorgeous, layered, and full of feeling, this brief trip out of time and into the hearts and minds of two psychically connected young composers is a delight.” –Gregory Spatz
sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...
“Gorgeous, layered, and full of feeling, this brief trip out of time and into the hearts and minds of two psychically connected young composers is a delight.” –Gregory Spatz
sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...
It’s my book’s birthday! And I am so glad and grateful it is in the hands of Miami
University Press. Dream publication experience …
@miamioh-press.bsky.social -press.bsky.social
University Press. Dream publication experience …
@miamioh-press.bsky.social -press.bsky.social
January may be only halfway done, but I am ready to declare #RaisingHare by @chloedalton.bsky.social my favorite book of the month.
January 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM
January may be only halfway done, but I am ready to declare #RaisingHare by @chloedalton.bsky.social my favorite book of the month.
Yeah a guy named Skip left his fraternity paddle in my apartment for three semesters, that doesn’t mean I was in the fraternity, dumbass
January 16, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Yeah a guy named Skip left his fraternity paddle in my apartment for three semesters, that doesn’t mean I was in the fraternity, dumbass
Nowadays when your friend dies, and there are all the loving posts on Facebook, AI pops its stupid face in below the pictures going “What was [name’s] personality like?” and “What happened to [name]?” and it is all wrong and it, as AI so often does, makes a bad thing worse.
January 12, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Nowadays when your friend dies, and there are all the loving posts on Facebook, AI pops its stupid face in below the pictures going “What was [name’s] personality like?” and “What happened to [name]?” and it is all wrong and it, as AI so often does, makes a bad thing worse.
This feels a little bit like how we started talking about Borders and B&N as if they were mom and pop book shops after Amaz*n moved in
State and local law enforcement know the communities they serve. They’ve built the trust and know how to keep us safe.
As Minnesotans express their first amendment rights, I encourage you to remain peaceful and know that local law enforcement has one goal in mind: your safety.
As Minnesotans express their first amendment rights, I encourage you to remain peaceful and know that local law enforcement has one goal in mind: your safety.
January 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
This feels a little bit like how we started talking about Borders and B&N as if they were mom and pop book shops after Amaz*n moved in
Me: My type is, take Erik Estrada in the opening sequence of CHiPs and then cross him with the dad from Family Ties.
Everyone: No such man exists
The Pitt: Sha na na naaaaaa
Everyone: No such man exists
The Pitt: Sha na na naaaaaa
January 9, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Me: My type is, take Erik Estrada in the opening sequence of CHiPs and then cross him with the dad from Family Ties.
Everyone: No such man exists
The Pitt: Sha na na naaaaaa
Everyone: No such man exists
The Pitt: Sha na na naaaaaa
Dear Ken Burns and Anderson Cooper and Patti Smith: No that is what a
half
life
is.
!
half
life
is.
!
January 9, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Dear Ken Burns and Anderson Cooper and Patti Smith: No that is what a
half
life
is.
!
half
life
is.
!
I don’t know how one puts a suitcase “on its side, like a book.” When I look at how FAs want the suitcases, it appears to be equivalent to putting a book in the bookcase spine side down or pages side down, spine in the air. I am not seeing a lot of suitcases slid in with the long side facing out.
January 8, 2026 at 10:30 PM
I don’t know how one puts a suitcase “on its side, like a book.” When I look at how FAs want the suitcases, it appears to be equivalent to putting a book in the bookcase spine side down or pages side down, spine in the air. I am not seeing a lot of suitcases slid in with the long side facing out.
More like Kristi: No, Ma’am
January 7, 2026 at 11:41 PM
More like Kristi: No, Ma’am
I want a look that splits the difference between Scandi Girl and Coastal Grandma. You too?
Get ready for Fjord-Dwelling Retired Gallerist season
Get ready for Fjord-Dwelling Retired Gallerist season
January 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
I want a look that splits the difference between Scandi Girl and Coastal Grandma. You too?
Get ready for Fjord-Dwelling Retired Gallerist season
Get ready for Fjord-Dwelling Retired Gallerist season
January 7, 2026 at 12:52 AM
If you are mad about today’s Wordle you had the wrong kind of batty and beloved piano teacher growing up
January 7, 2026 at 12:43 AM
If you are mad about today’s Wordle you had the wrong kind of batty and beloved piano teacher growing up
A New Year ritual I love is how your health insurance cards are mysteriously unavailable and when you call and spend 90 minutes on the phone they can’t help you but everyone you talk to is like “yeah i promise you have coverage, why do you need to prove it right now?” 1/2
January 5, 2026 at 10:36 PM
A New Year ritual I love is how your health insurance cards are mysteriously unavailable and when you call and spend 90 minutes on the phone they can’t help you but everyone you talk to is like “yeah i promise you have coverage, why do you need to prove it right now?” 1/2
What in the Jojo Sia is this
January 1, 2026 at 4:59 AM
What in the Jojo Sia is this
I was going to go with the boy at the all-night Kinko’s who said “You’re pretty. You really have to look for it, but it’s there” until I remembered the boyFRIEND who said “You need to have rheumatoid arthritis. Otherwise you’d be just too much.”
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
January 1, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I was going to go with the boy at the all-night Kinko’s who said “You’re pretty. You really have to look for it, but it’s there” until I remembered the boyFRIEND who said “You need to have rheumatoid arthritis. Otherwise you’d be just too much.”
Questions I have as I get caught up on Sister Wives season 20: Do the disgruntled middle school-aged chidlren in unhappy polygamist families practice writing their imaginary band’s name in their notebooks and is the band called Basement Wife
December 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Questions I have as I get caught up on Sister Wives season 20: Do the disgruntled middle school-aged chidlren in unhappy polygamist families practice writing their imaginary band’s name in their notebooks and is the band called Basement Wife
I know we all wanted everyone on Sister Wives to go to therapy but we should have made it so that if any of them used therapy speak outside of sessions, they’d thrumble like a grocery cart at the far edge of the parking lot
December 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I know we all wanted everyone on Sister Wives to go to therapy but we should have made it so that if any of them used therapy speak outside of sessions, they’d thrumble like a grocery cart at the far edge of the parking lot
Ah, yes, I believe it was Jesus Christ himself who said “Ew! don’t nobody marry those icky cripples and gimps!”
Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Ah, yes, I believe it was Jesus Christ himself who said “Ew! don’t nobody marry those icky cripples and gimps!”
That full-body shot of JD Vance, dwarfed by the flag beside him, in his ill fitting suit and what he thinks is a powerful wide stance, is amazing. A man ill-suited to his role, a man quite literally not up to the job.
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
That full-body shot of JD Vance, dwarfed by the flag beside him, in his ill fitting suit and what he thinks is a powerful wide stance, is amazing. A man ill-suited to his role, a man quite literally not up to the job.
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Just ordered a shirt:
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Just ordered a shirt:
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Any Oregon writers with disabilities want to establish a critique group? One with social and networking events?
#oregon #writers #disabilities #group #critique #social #networking
#oregon #writers #disabilities #group #critique #social #networking
December 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Any Oregon writers with disabilities want to establish a critique group? One with social and networking events?
#oregon #writers #disabilities #group #critique #social #networking
#oregon #writers #disabilities #group #critique #social #networking
Today in Arizona I am thinking about the subtle differences in meaning between “strip mall” and “shopping center” Because today there was a shooting at a strip mall and also a whole different shooting over at a shopping center
December 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Today in Arizona I am thinking about the subtle differences in meaning between “strip mall” and “shopping center” Because today there was a shooting at a strip mall and also a whole different shooting over at a shopping center
Reposted by Andrea Avery
My graphic novel “Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis” is the perfect present for every opera-loving, anti-war sf/fantasy fan in your life. Give the gift of dark comedy and creative resistance this holiday season. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730993...
Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis by Dave Maass: 9781506737300 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Mixing dystopian sci-fi, mythic fantasy, and zombie horror, Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis, is a graphic novel based on a suppressed opera written in 1943 by Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann, two...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
My graphic novel “Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis” is the perfect present for every opera-loving, anti-war sf/fantasy fan in your life. Give the gift of dark comedy and creative resistance this holiday season. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730993...
Not the least of which is shooting him from above, so he looks like a lil harmless baby, and I know that’s a rosary but it’s giving teething necklace
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Not the least of which is shooting him from above, so he looks like a lil harmless baby, and I know that’s a rosary but it’s giving teething necklace
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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
No one has ever been cooler than the best rollerskater at the local rink. This holds true across all decades and generations since rollerskates and, specifically, rinks were invented
November 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
No one has ever been cooler than the best rollerskater at the local rink. This holds true across all decades and generations since rollerskates and, specifically, rinks were invented