Stephanie Krzywonos (she/her)
@stephkrzywonos.bsky.social
Xicana nonfiction writer | she/her | Iowa NWP 25' |THE BLUE HOURS forthcoming from Atria in December 2026 | Rep’d by Marya Spence at Janklow & Nesbitt
Editing my book, THE BLUE HOURS, during the blue hour.
January 26, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Editing my book, THE BLUE HOURS, during the blue hour.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
"...as books increasingly come under fire with bans in the US and rising political pressures on education and libraries worldwide, the importance of defending rigorous, long-form nonfiction as a tool for critical thinking has never been clearer."
"...as books increasingly come under fire with bans in the US and rising political pressures on education and libraries worldwide, the importance of defending rigorous, long-form nonfiction as a tool for critical thinking has never been clearer."
Are we falling out of love with nonfiction?
In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
"...as books increasingly come under fire with bans in the US and rising political pressures on education and libraries worldwide, the importance of defending rigorous, long-form nonfiction as a tool for critical thinking has never been clearer."
"...as books increasingly come under fire with bans in the US and rising political pressures on education and libraries worldwide, the importance of defending rigorous, long-form nonfiction as a tool for critical thinking has never been clearer."
Loved this take on what artificial intelligence, specifically LLMs, are doing to education and to us.
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Loved this take on what artificial intelligence, specifically LLMs, are doing to education and to us.
This book is about the fallout of violence and how it has affected a family for generations. I'm not surprised this book won a prize for Immigrant Writing. So timely and gorgeous and you can buy it direct from the publisher here: restlessbooks.org/bookstore/un...
Congrats, Catharina!
Congrats, Catharina!
Unexploded Ordnance: What she felt. What they feared. How they survived. What they saw. — Restless Books
By Catharina Coenen Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing In imaginative prose that interrogates the past with a poet’s curiosity and a scientist’s pen, Unexploded O...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This book is about the fallout of violence and how it has affected a family for generations. I'm not surprised this book won a prize for Immigrant Writing. So timely and gorgeous and you can buy it direct from the publisher here: restlessbooks.org/bookstore/un...
Congrats, Catharina!
Congrats, Catharina!
Until I read Catharina's writing, I didn't know that an unexploded ordnance was an undetonated bomb, and in the case of this writing, the leftovers bombs from WWII that are still being unearthed in Germany.
Unexploded Ordnance: What she felt. What they feared. How they survived. What they saw. — Restless Books
By Catharina Coenen Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing In imaginative prose that interrogates the past with a poet’s curiosity and a scientist’s pen, Unexploded O...
restlessbooks.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Until I read Catharina's writing, I didn't know that an unexploded ordnance was an undetonated bomb, and in the case of this writing, the leftovers bombs from WWII that are still being unearthed in Germany.
My dear friend @catharinacoenen.bsky.social's book, UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE, is out in the world and I couldn't be prouder of her. She is such a master essayist and I've learned more from her about "speculative nonfiction" than any other writer.
October 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
My dear friend @catharinacoenen.bsky.social's book, UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE, is out in the world and I couldn't be prouder of her. She is such a master essayist and I've learned more from her about "speculative nonfiction" than any other writer.
Reposted by Stephanie Krzywonos (she/her)
(1/5) 🎨🌌
From ochre caves to ultramarine skies, Stephanie Krzywonos reminds us: colors are not surface—they are story, blood, memory. To see pigment is to glimpse the history of human longing and grief. 🕯️
Read: emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum...
@stephkrzywonos.bsky.social
From ochre caves to ultramarine skies, Stephanie Krzywonos reminds us: colors are not surface—they are story, blood, memory. To see pigment is to glimpse the history of human longing and grief. 🕯️
Read: emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum...
@stephkrzywonos.bsky.social
Museum of Color – Stephanie Kryzwonos
From ochre to lapis lazuli, Stephanie Krzywonos opens a door into the entangled histories of our most iconic pigments, revealing how colors hold stories of both lightness and darkness.
emergencemagazine.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
(1/5) 🎨🌌
From ochre caves to ultramarine skies, Stephanie Krzywonos reminds us: colors are not surface—they are story, blood, memory. To see pigment is to glimpse the history of human longing and grief. 🕯️
Read: emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum...
@stephkrzywonos.bsky.social
From ochre caves to ultramarine skies, Stephanie Krzywonos reminds us: colors are not surface—they are story, blood, memory. To see pigment is to glimpse the history of human longing and grief. 🕯️
Read: emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum...
@stephkrzywonos.bsky.social
Grateful to Emergence Magazine for publishing "Museum of Color," my latest essay on pigment as a form of nature, our love and lust for color, and the strange places they can lead us.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum...
emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum...
Museum of Color – Stephanie Kryzwonos
From ochre to lapis lazuli, Stephanie Krzywonos opens a door into the entangled histories of our most iconic pigments, revealing how colors hold stories of both lightness and darkness.
emergencemagazine.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Grateful to Emergence Magazine for publishing "Museum of Color," my latest essay on pigment as a form of nature, our love and lust for color, and the strange places they can lead us.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum...
emergencemagazine.org/essay/museum...
I never liked the namesake of the Nathaniel B. Palmer (someone who slaughtered seals in Antarctica), but throwing away America's only icebreaker research vessel is a huge setback.
Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End for America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I never liked the namesake of the Nathaniel B. Palmer (someone who slaughtered seals in Antarctica), but throwing away America's only icebreaker research vessel is a huge setback.
"With President Trump’s return to the White House, the United States’ approach to Antarctica may shift. The National Science Foundation...is proposing iceberg-size research cuts to polar science in 2026. Around 70 percent of the money currently in that pot for both poles could vanish."
Antarctica Faces Tense Future as U.S. Science Budget Shrinks
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"With President Trump’s return to the White House, the United States’ approach to Antarctica may shift. The National Science Foundation...is proposing iceberg-size research cuts to polar science in 2026. Around 70 percent of the money currently in that pot for both poles could vanish."
"Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came."
Wendell Berry, "How to Be a Poet"
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came."
Wendell Berry, "How to Be a Poet"
June 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came."
Wendell Berry, "How to Be a Poet"
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came."
Wendell Berry, "How to Be a Poet"
Finally found the source of one of my favorite Wendell Berry quotes ― "There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places" ― and it is "How to Be a Poet."
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
How to Be a Poet
Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence...
www.poetryfoundation.org
June 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Finally found the source of one of my favorite Wendell Berry quotes ― "There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places" ― and it is "How to Be a Poet."
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Happy publication day to THE DRY SEASON by @melissafebos.bsky.social! You're a master of memoir and I'm so lucky to have learned from you!
‘Our fantasy of love has to do with need and dependency’: Melissa Febos on her year of celibacy
Febos’s life flourished while taking a year off sex and dating. In a new memoir, The Dry Season, she explores the allure of romance
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Happy publication day to THE DRY SEASON by @melissafebos.bsky.social! You're a master of memoir and I'm so lucky to have learned from you!
Very excited to see a fellow Ice (Antarctica) person, Tessa Hulls, win the Pulitzer Prize for her graphic memoir "Feeding Ghosts"!
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Feeding Ghosts
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOKS CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2025 ANISFIELD WOLF PRIZEWINNER OF THE LIBBY AWARD FOR BEST GRAPHIC NOVELKIRKUS N...
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May 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Very excited to see a fellow Ice (Antarctica) person, Tessa Hulls, win the Pulitzer Prize for her graphic memoir "Feeding Ghosts"!
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Milton is ready and fired up for the #handsoff Iowa City protest!
The look of longing you see in his beady brown eyes is for the treats I used to bribe him to sit still.
The look of longing you see in his beady brown eyes is for the treats I used to bribe him to sit still.
April 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Milton is ready and fired up for the #handsoff Iowa City protest!
The look of longing you see in his beady brown eyes is for the treats I used to bribe him to sit still.
The look of longing you see in his beady brown eyes is for the treats I used to bribe him to sit still.
Really feel for the people trapped in this Antarctic research station because I CAN imagine what this is like.
Scientists trapped on Antarctica plead for help after expert's threats
A South African research group dispatched to Sanae IV base, a research station in Antarctica, are alone on their mission for at least ten more months.
www.dailymail.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Really feel for the people trapped in this Antarctic research station because I CAN imagine what this is like.
Reposted by Stephanie Krzywonos (she/her)
The International Writing Program was told on Wednesday that the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs was terminating their federal funding.
The State Department pulled $1 million in funding for the Iowa International Writing Program.
Photo from the IWP’s webpage. The legendary and beloved International Writing Program was told on Wednesday that the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs was …
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March 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The International Writing Program was told on Wednesday that the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs was terminating their federal funding.
“The damage caused by gutting the [Antarctic] science budget like this is going to last generations."
DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica
Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.
www.wired.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“The damage caused by gutting the [Antarctic] science budget like this is going to last generations."
"Writing is like giving birth: we cannot help making the supreme effort."
[Simone Weil, "Gravity and Grace"]
[Simone Weil, "Gravity and Grace"]
December 27, 2024 at 6:42 PM
"Writing is like giving birth: we cannot help making the supreme effort."
[Simone Weil, "Gravity and Grace"]
[Simone Weil, "Gravity and Grace"]
Thank you for publishing Elisabeth's brilliant article. I'm a former contractor myself who has been assaulted and knows too many other women who have been, too. This kind of reporting is important for people's safety.
December 20, 2023 at 4:19 PM
Thank you for publishing Elisabeth's brilliant article. I'm a former contractor myself who has been assaulted and knows too many other women who have been, too. This kind of reporting is important for people's safety.
A woman I know was stalked in #Antarctica for three summers and not helped:
"The contractor and NSF could have had safety protocols to prevent harassment. But making women and victims the problem has long been standard in Antarctic science."
"The contractor and NSF could have had safety protocols to prevent harassment. But making women and victims the problem has long been standard in Antarctic science."
I Worked in Antarctica for Three Years. My Sexual Harasser Was Never Caught
Hundreds of support staff keep Antarctic research stations running. For decades, workers including me have had little to no protection from sexual harassers and stalkers
www.scientificamerican.com
December 20, 2023 at 4:17 PM
A woman I know was stalked in #Antarctica for three summers and not helped:
"The contractor and NSF could have had safety protocols to prevent harassment. But making women and victims the problem has long been standard in Antarctic science."
"The contractor and NSF could have had safety protocols to prevent harassment. But making women and victims the problem has long been standard in Antarctic science."
Two of my women friends have the exact same thing post-covid and it's awful.
December 14, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Two of my women friends have the exact same thing post-covid and it's awful.
As a long hauler and as a writer, thank you for writing this.
December 11, 2023 at 3:49 PM
As a long hauler and as a writer, thank you for writing this.
That sucks! I'm sorry. I tested positive for fourteen days...
December 4, 2023 at 4:14 AM
That sucks! I'm sorry. I tested positive for fourteen days...
Thanks, Mike!!
September 2, 2023 at 6:17 PM
Thanks, Mike!!