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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.
this looks like food! bad food, like if Tillamook cream cheese went to Glamour Shots
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Maybe don’t make an inedible toy (designated as a choking hazard and containing “compounds and polymer sprinkles”) and call it “Play-Doh scented butter” (even “butter-scented Play-Doh” would be marginally better, with a good graphic designer on the case) and put it in food-style packaging?
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
She came so close to getting to a lot more complex and enduring insight, though! She just needed one of these to help her
October 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Do you think it’s forever? 🎤
October 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
A day later and I’m still thinking about it
October 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I like this French-speaker’s review of a replacement cushion for a patio basket swing. I am in love with the phrase “grandeur adequate.”
October 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Do you think it’s forever? 🎤
October 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Do you think it’s forever? 🎤
October 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Do you think it’s forever? 🎤
October 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
… Do you think it’s forever 🎤
October 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
We have had this cat since Blackout-era Britney. Today we said goodbye to Inga.
October 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Y’all doing the seleect the T-shirt (bonus points if it’s Elvis Costello) that completes two outfits unalike in vibe/occasion but utilizing the same black leather miniskirt (you may accessorize freely) to go with these two pairs of shoes Tik Tok challenge
September 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM
That tracks. Born in 1977 here. Made this to welcome my dad home from
a business trip. Granted, he worked for, uh, the Agency. But still. These fears were very close to the surface of my 6yo brain.
August 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Wait wait in the last several years I have published an essay called Father/Figure and another one about Ophelia. Am I … is my whole life a #LifeOfAShowgirl Easter Egg and I didn’t even know it? Way to play the long game, Tay.
August 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Phoenix friends! If you are free this Thursday night, I hope you will join me at Changing Hands on Camelback for a good old-fashioned book launch for my novella, Visiting Composer!
August 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I get that the national news is universally awful but is everybody’s local news also the horrifying shitshow we have over here in Arizona?
August 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Out: good cop/bad cop
In: belt with tucked shirt cop/no belt with tucked shirt cop
August 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Was anyone ever so 48
July 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Are the croissants in the room with us right now?
July 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Nominating for best Superman this
little hero I saw at a market in Paris
July 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I will be at the National Women’s Music Festival this week leading a session on writing about music. Prep has been wonderful, as I spend time with some of my favorite writers and their beautiful and powerful music writing @johncotter.bsky.social @marthaannetoll.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Hey, Arizona friends… you’re invited… Save the date!
June 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Best thing I found today
June 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Just how “limited” are we talking here
June 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
i wanna know how the mandatory training module I had to take ended up discussing “prenatal, intraNASAL, and postnatal care.” Sike: I know how it happened (AI).
June 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM