RS Deeren
@rsdeeren.bsky.social
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Michigander in the South
Michigan Notable Book Author
ENOUGH TO LOSE from Wayne State University Press
Prof. & Coordinator of Creative Writing at Austin Peay State University
Michigander in the South
Michigan Notable Book Author
ENOUGH TO LOSE from Wayne State University Press
Prof. & Coordinator of Creative Writing at Austin Peay State University
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RS Deeren
@rsdeeren.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Started a list of working-class and rural authors, for your ease of follow. Feel free to share and add to the list.
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"What’s important to me isn’t to capture an experience so much as the emotional truth of an experience."
@rsdeeren.bsky.social's interview with Valencia Robin on her new book “Lost Cities: Poems” (Persea Books) is out now.
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@rsdeeren.bsky.social's interview with Valencia Robin on her new book “Lost Cities: Poems” (Persea Books) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/12/t...
"The Emotional Truth of an Experience:" An Interview with Valencia Robin - Chicago Review of Books
A conversation with Valencia Robin on her new poetry collection, "Lost Cities"
chireviewofbooks.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"What’s important to me isn’t to capture an experience so much as the emotional truth of an experience."
@rsdeeren.bsky.social's interview with Valencia Robin on her new book “Lost Cities: Poems” (Persea Books) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/12/t...
@rsdeeren.bsky.social's interview with Valencia Robin on her new book “Lost Cities: Poems” (Persea Books) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/12/t...
I had the joy of speaking with Valencia Robin on her newest poetry collection, LOST CITIES, for @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
Check out the brilliant insight below. Thanks to Gabriel Fried for putting us in contact.
Check out the brilliant insight below. Thanks to Gabriel Fried for putting us in contact.
"The Emotional Truth of an Experience:" An Interview with Valencia Robin - Chicago Review of Books
A conversation with Valencia Robin on her new poetry collection, "Lost Cities"
chireviewofbooks.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I had the joy of speaking with Valencia Robin on her newest poetry collection, LOST CITIES, for @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
Check out the brilliant insight below. Thanks to Gabriel Fried for putting us in contact.
Check out the brilliant insight below. Thanks to Gabriel Fried for putting us in contact.
Such an honor to be from a state that has a huge love for its own authors and books.
GET YOUR COPY TODAY!
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September 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Such an honor to be from a state that has a huge love for its own authors and books.
Preorders are live for this major anthology edited by Michael Welch. I am always stoked for work that shows honest aspects of the Midwest, especially the Great Lakes Region. Honored to be in these pages.
Preorders are open for "On an Inland Sea: Writing the Great Lakes," coming your way from @beltpublishing.bsky.social on March 10, 2026!
Featuring everything from shipwrecks & ice caves to zebra mussels & manoomin, & 32 writers on why the lakes loom so large.
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Featuring everything from shipwrecks & ice caves to zebra mussels & manoomin, & 32 writers on why the lakes loom so large.
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June 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Preorders are live for this major anthology edited by Michael Welch. I am always stoked for work that shows honest aspects of the Midwest, especially the Great Lakes Region. Honored to be in these pages.
The team at Wayne State UP have told me that online sales of ENOUGH TO LOSE are still climbing. I don't know what is contributing to this boom 18 months after the book came out but I'm extremely grateful! My neighbor even told me she got a copy!
June 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The team at Wayne State UP have told me that online sales of ENOUGH TO LOSE are still climbing. I don't know what is contributing to this boom 18 months after the book came out but I'm extremely grateful! My neighbor even told me she got a copy!
Real honored to sit down with Mitch at KicksART Farmington to discuss class, writing fiction, rural spaces, and of course THE THUMB. Coming this August!
In August, @rsdeeren.bsky.social, author of the short story collection Enough to Lose, joins us to read & chat all things Thumb & Michigan. Love those things? You'll love his book! Don't know much about MI or the Thumb? You'll love his book!
June 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Real honored to sit down with Mitch at KicksART Farmington to discuss class, writing fiction, rural spaces, and of course THE THUMB. Coming this August!
And it's a brilliant piece!
I have a new essay about snapdragons, dinosaurs, and predatory men in the new issue of Zone 3. Many thanks to @awrightawright.bsky.social, @rsdeeren.bsky.social, and the team for giving this piece a home.
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Snapdragon - Zone 3
I hold open my hand for bloom but feel only burst. My grandmother’s garden is an oasis in the desert, a small bit of land behind her house that stretches toward an empty meadow like it is running away. The
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April 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
And it's a brilliant piece!
I'll be discussing thr working-class, my book, and answering your questions live! See you there.
March 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'll be discussing thr working-class, my book, and answering your questions live! See you there.
This may be my first #AWP with bluesky. I'm hoping to get fives of reactions to my silly posts.
Excited for a handful of working-class panels!
Excited for a handful of working-class panels!
March 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This may be my first #AWP with bluesky. I'm hoping to get fives of reactions to my silly posts.
Excited for a handful of working-class panels!
Excited for a handful of working-class panels!
I had another chance to speak with a wonderful poet. Gabriel Fried's recent collection is stunning, halting, and fantastic!
"...connection comes in feeling out how what we think we know about ourselves isn’t completely congruent with what we don’t, in fact, permit ourselves to know."
Online now: @rsdeeren.bsky.social's interview with Gabriel Fried on his new book "No Small Thing."
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/03/26/b...
Online now: @rsdeeren.bsky.social's interview with Gabriel Fried on his new book "No Small Thing."
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/03/26/b...
"Bring Those Threads Back Together Where They Belong:" An Interview with Gabriel Fried for No Small Thing - Chicago Review of Books
Gabriel Fried’s upcoming collection of poetry, No Small Thing (Four Way Books), is a tour of identities, interpersonal expectations, and the blend of internal and external perceptions that shape an in...
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March 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I had another chance to speak with a wonderful poet. Gabriel Fried's recent collection is stunning, halting, and fantastic!
Oh yeah, forgot: this is my first ever CNF pub!
Thrilling Sunday news! I wrote a creative nonfiction piece that started as a memory of playing in the woods that quickly turned into a 150-year history of exploitation of stolen land in Michigan's Thumb. Excited for this essay to be at home in this anthology.
Out next year from Belt Publishing!
Out next year from Belt Publishing!
February 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Oh yeah, forgot: this is my first ever CNF pub!
Thrilling Sunday news! I wrote a creative nonfiction piece that started as a memory of playing in the woods that quickly turned into a 150-year history of exploitation of stolen land in Michigan's Thumb. Excited for this essay to be at home in this anthology.
Out next year from Belt Publishing!
Out next year from Belt Publishing!
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Thrilling Sunday news! I wrote a creative nonfiction piece that started as a memory of playing in the woods that quickly turned into a 150-year history of exploitation of stolen land in Michigan's Thumb. Excited for this essay to be at home in this anthology.
Out next year from Belt Publishing!
Out next year from Belt Publishing!
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I had the chance to talk to @rsdeeren.bsky.social about the journalism-fiction intersection, Michigan lit and other cool stuff.
"There is nothing simple about small-town life."
@rsdeeren.bsky.social talks with @johncounts138.bsky.social about his debut collection "Bear County, Michigan" @nupress.bsky.social
@rsdeeren.bsky.social talks with @johncounts138.bsky.social about his debut collection "Bear County, Michigan" @nupress.bsky.social
Away From the "Centers of Ambition": An Interview with John Counts on "Bear County, Michigan" - Chicago Review of Books
In his debut short story collection, Bear County, Michigan, investigative journalist John Counts gives his readers the vivid, complicated, and wholly human lives of the residents of Bear County, in…
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February 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I had the chance to talk to @rsdeeren.bsky.social about the journalism-fiction intersection, Michigan lit and other cool stuff.
John Counts had brilliant things to say about rural life, work, and writing. It was amazing getting to speak with him!
"There is nothing simple about small-town life."
@rsdeeren.bsky.social talks with @johncounts138.bsky.social about his debut collection "Bear County, Michigan" @nupress.bsky.social
@rsdeeren.bsky.social talks with @johncounts138.bsky.social about his debut collection "Bear County, Michigan" @nupress.bsky.social
Away From the "Centers of Ambition": An Interview with John Counts on "Bear County, Michigan" - Chicago Review of Books
In his debut short story collection, Bear County, Michigan, investigative journalist John Counts gives his readers the vivid, complicated, and wholly human lives of the residents of Bear County, in…
buff.ly
February 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
John Counts had brilliant things to say about rural life, work, and writing. It was amazing getting to speak with him!
"Our inability to reconcile our impact on others is mirrored by our inability to reconcile our impact on each other."
Spent the new year finalizing an essay that blended my ties to Michigan's ash trees, the Emerald Ash Borer, and my neighbor's AR-15.
Spent the new year finalizing an essay that blended my ties to Michigan's ash trees, the Emerald Ash Borer, and my neighbor's AR-15.
January 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"Our inability to reconcile our impact on others is mirrored by our inability to reconcile our impact on each other."
Spent the new year finalizing an essay that blended my ties to Michigan's ash trees, the Emerald Ash Borer, and my neighbor's AR-15.
Spent the new year finalizing an essay that blended my ties to Michigan's ash trees, the Emerald Ash Borer, and my neighbor's AR-15.
An honor of a review for the book!
"Enough to Lose is a masterclass in intergenerational midwestern gothic showcasing geographic space and time’s pull—on hopes, dreams, grief and loss."
"Enough to Lose is a masterclass in intergenerational midwestern gothic showcasing geographic space and time’s pull—on hopes, dreams, grief and loss."
Review: “Enough to Lose,” RS Deeren. — North Meridian Press
RS Deeren. Enough to Lose . Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2023. In the tradition of Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Jim Harrison, and Bonnie Jo Campbell, RS Deeren deftly weaves shor...
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December 23, 2024 at 7:46 PM
An honor of a review for the book!
"Enough to Lose is a masterclass in intergenerational midwestern gothic showcasing geographic space and time’s pull—on hopes, dreams, grief and loss."
"Enough to Lose is a masterclass in intergenerational midwestern gothic showcasing geographic space and time’s pull—on hopes, dreams, grief and loss."
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Started a list of working-class and rural authors, for your ease of follow. Feel free to share and add to the list.
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November 19, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Started a list of working-class and rural authors, for your ease of follow. Feel free to share and add to the list.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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I'll never write a character better than the real-life bunny lady on IT'S FLORIDA, MAN.
December 2, 2024 at 1:39 AM
I'll never write a character better than the real-life bunny lady on IT'S FLORIDA, MAN.
Today's guest editor.
November 28, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Today's guest editor.
Today's guest editor
November 23, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Today's guest editor
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"Stories are holy and nutritious and crucial. Stories change lives; stories save lives.... They crack open hearts, they open minds." ~ Brian Doyle
November 22, 2024 at 12:16 PM
"Stories are holy and nutritious and crucial. Stories change lives; stories save lives.... They crack open hearts, they open minds." ~ Brian Doyle
First page of Hanif Abdurraqib's THERE'S ALWAYS THIS YEAR. Amazing.
November 21, 2024 at 3:58 AM
First page of Hanif Abdurraqib's THERE'S ALWAYS THIS YEAR. Amazing.