For Feb 28, this last day of 2025’s Black History Month, Zuwena ZZ Packer’s collection of stories Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. I’d love another book from her. Fingers crossed! #blackhistorymonth #zzpacker #stories #writing #books

Just went back to look at a few of @NewYorker stories by Black writers that I remember reading when they came out and feeling inspired by. A thread.
1/ @zzpacker FOREVER. thank you @Peter_Orner for teaching ZZ's story at @commofwriters....

@zzpacker And this is the one that made me resolve to become a psychiatrist. Instead of the psychiatrist Dina has to deal with. #BrownGirlPsychiatrist
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/06/19/drinking-coffee-elsewhere

Teaching @zzpacker and @KaliMaFaja's entire books for my undergraduate seminar, because I have excellent taste.

This was really good. And sad. I'd read it alongside #brownies by @zzpacker. It's that good @smathewss. Brava.

https://kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2019-janfeb/selections/sarah-thankam-mathews-342846/

I’m dropping out of literature and endorsing @zzpacker.

Now we just need @zzpacker
Restoring Black Cowboys to the Range https://nyti.ms/2O7g8Ai

really enjoyed being able to shout out @zzpacker on this podcast, talking about #drinkingcoffeeelsewhere.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-92hin-9ada8d

had to sit down and coach myself out of a writerly "freak out" when i found my book on a list w @zzpacker + #sandracisneros -- so many feels; a lot of gratitude.
https://therumpus.net/2018/08/what-to-read-when-you-want-short-stories/

New contest! Deadline Jun 1: The winner of the Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize, judged by @zzpacker, will receive $2,500 and publication in an upcoming issue of American Short Fiction | http://ow.ly/C8Hb30k0YAd @asfmag with @submittable

@zzpacker hope you will post your panel on McPherson - loved Yiyun Li’s essay about him and have been reading him ever since :) sorry I didn’t get to see u at #AWP2018 - next time! Or will hope to hear u read at. @GrubWriters the Muse :)

One of the stories in this book inspired by @zzpacker "Brownies"...which gave me the courage to write about a relative's experiences in a special needs day camp...albeit in disguised form to protect him/her since she/he hasn't come out to the world as #DisabilityRights and proud

For @zzpacker :)

@zzpacker Really appreciated your tweet on impact of the horrible tax bill and its indwelling health care "reform" and wondered if you'd like to be interviewed for Cleaver Magazine on "The Fiction Writer as Activist Citizen". thanks so much for considering it. @chayab77

#dear you: read patricia smith & @MargaretAtwood for poetry. read @pearlcleage and @bellhooks for essays. read: zzpacker for short stories