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Brenna Womer

@brennawomer.bsky.social
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she/they ✨ AuDHD ♾️ queer 🏳️‍🌈 Latine 🇲🇽 childfree ✂️ sober ☕️ Fresno State MFA professor | views mine | author of Unbrained (FlowerSong Press) & Honeypot (Spuyten Duyvil) | brennawomer.com

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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Really excited to be on this panel of Childfree & Childless Women Writers at #AWP26 with such impressive and talented humans: @stevieedwards.bsky.social, @janehuffman.bsky.social, @kaicoggin.bsky.social, & @christinastoddard.bsky.social. If you’re in Baltimore next week, come thru! Details below 😊
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Ready to worship our lord & savior on this sacred Super Bowl Sunday 🙏🏼🐰🇵🇷🙏🏽
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Chinga la migra 🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽 I don’t give a fuck about the Super Bowl, but I’m so stoked for the halftime show 🐰🇵🇷
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
If their sin is hate And my sin is love Guess we'll see when it's all said and done If they're drawing lines then I know on which side I belong I should refuse to lose sleep Over know-nothing sheep But they come for the land that I love These damn motherfuckers Are gonna make me buy a gun
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"Make Me Buy A Gun" live from Friends of Friends Recording in Chicago
YouTube video by The Devil Said Jump
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I never thought this would be possible for me, but here I am, today, one year sober from alcohol, and marijuana too. I have so much to say I don’t know where to begin. I can’t extricate one emotion from the next, and so much goes unnamed. Everything is everything. These days all I do is feel.
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
That back-to-school grind 🖤 Advanced CNF workshop followed by my magical realism topics course today, and first day teaching popular fiction at the men’s prison tomorrow 👩🏽‍🏫 Good luck to us all! What a time to be alive 🙃
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petrichor @petrichorlit.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
@brennawomer.bsky.social has a new free digital chap in petrichor 29, Dear Mom, in which erasure is the content of the letter. petrichormag.com/current-issue/
Page from Brenna Womer's Dear Mom: four-sided pieces of material overlapping in a way that only leaves the words "Dear Mom/I feel/and/I feel/and."
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petrichor @petrichorlit.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
And so: petrichor #29 is here for you. hey neat. petrichormag.com/petrichor-29/
Cover art by Laura Wetherington. Collaged images of autumn and winter trees over a collage background of text and sheet music.
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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Happy to have two small poems in the beautiful new volume of @petrichorlit.bsky.social! Here’s one: petrichormag.com/29-pebbles-v...
The Quiet Car
My heart surgery was going well, the train conductor told me. He said, be aware of your surroundings. I told him not to worry, but when I looked around me, I wasn't so sure. Who were these other patients in the car? And where the hell did all of their hearts go?
-Elena Zhang
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
My hybrid chapbook DEAR MOM is out now from @petrichorlit.bsky.social ☔️📖 You can read it here 👉🏽 petrichormag.com/wp-content/u... Thanks to Seth & the whole Petrichor team, to the mags that published excerpts, to the generous blurbers, and to you for any time spent with the project 🙏🏼🙏🏽
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
A total shitshow getting up to North Tahoe yesterday to teach for UNR’s low-residency MFA, but I’m now a total pro at tire chains 😝 Excited for nine days in this winter wonderland. I’ve missed the snow so much! 😭🤩
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
So impressed by the beautiful job @sugarhousereview.bsky.social did with their full-color Sweet 16 issue, and excited to receive contributor copies in the mail today, featuring my poetry comic “i do everything twice” 🌹🥀❤️
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This year, instead of buying my partner and our animals individual ornaments, I sewed felt ones 🤗 The dogs and cat got mopey, teary likenesses bc they’re a buncha crybabies 😂 and Tyler got Art the Clown bc he loves horror 🤡
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I made salt dough ornaments for the first time this year and had a lot of fun! I’m excited to try a bunch of different shapes and designs next year, but I stuck to the basics this time 😊 I’m using them in place of to/from tags on gifts for the corresponding kiddos 🎁
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
“Hope is visible in the objects in our homes. Identities and plans rest dormant in a stack of books. The kitchen pantry reassures us of our future nourishment. A toolbox is the confidence that we can fix what will break. Little notes to self. Little notes of self.” Catherine Lacey, The Möbius Book
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I can’t recommend this book more highly if you’re AuDHD, think you might be, or just want to learn more 💜💛 I’m listening to the audiobook, and it’s such a gift post-diagnoses 🥹😭
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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
FEE FREE 48 HRS 🐑when you get a break from the severed floor, journey to submittable... sotospeak.submittable.com/submit
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
My very first graphic essay, “Only”—about the complexities of remembering as an only child—is in Blackbird 24.1 🖤 It was a hard one to write and illustrate, but I’m grateful for the process and the processing. TW for suicidal ideation. If you take the time to read and engage with it, thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏽
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." LBJ
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
And if the escalator tries to bring you down go crazy
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
First five min of the Lilith Fair doc and have already cried twice. (Hulu!!)
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
“Most of the women in my life were at war, and the men around us—even or especially the ones we loved—couldn’t see it, didn’t want to, or worse, cared hardly at all.” Jamie Hood, from Trauma Plot
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
So very neat to be scrolling through the 2025 @pw.org Guide to MFA Programs and see us! Come write with Venita Blackburn, @stevenchurch.bsky.social, Ra Jarrar, Brynn Saito, Mai Der Vang, & myself at Fresno State, and work on The Normal School! I’m so proud to work where I do ✍🏽
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Have Trump supporters been to the grocery store lately? I just got ingredients for a simple chicken verde, which I already have half the ingredients for, and spent $34. No items were organic or cage-free; I bought the cheapest version available of each item. How can anyone afford to live right now?
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
What’s a book that gets better every time you read it? For me, @melissafebos.bsky.social’s BODY WORK 🤯😭🫠
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Brain creases increase the available surface area, like the fins of car radiators, a highly evolved trait which allows us to lie and know we are being lied to, and still be happy, still laugh in our sleep, a flaw that’s not quite a flaw. Dorianne Laux, from “Moonflaw”
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Well, this is super exciting news to wake up to 🥳 See you in the new year, Baltimore! #AWP26 @stevieedwardspoet.bsky.social @kaicoggin.bsky.social @janehuffman.bsky.social @christinastoddard.bsky.social
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This semester is all grads all the time 📚 Here are the combined booklists for my two MFA seminars, form & theory of CNF and the nonfiction workshop. A few of these I’ve taught before, but mostly I’m bringing lots of new energy. All are fabulous & brilliant, and I can’t wait to dive in ⚡️
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Sharing the cover of DEAR MOM, with blurbs from three writers I deeply admire, has me feeling quite a lot. The chapbook is forthcoming from @petrichorlit.bsky.social this fall as part of their digital chapbook series. I'm so lucky to be working with Seth and his team. Read the blurbs on my website!
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"Through the erasure of [my mother's] often confessional correspondence to her own parents, I render visible some truths that are difficult for me to speak..." On our site, a visual poem by @brennawomer.bsky.social using collage and erasure of letters to find her own idiom. Link in thread:
White words on black background: Special Feature. Red parallelogram with white words: "Through the erasure of [my mother's] often confessional correspondence to her own parents, I render visible some truths that are difficult for me to speak. Brenna Womer, '26 Sept 86.'" There is a circular profile picture of Brenna Womer (a Latine woman with short dark hair, black clothing, and a colorful tattoo on their shoulder) toward the top.
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Go watch the new South Park episode on Paramount+ like right now.
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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 10/06/2025
time's a-ticking #SubmitToday #WritingCommunity #Submissions buff.ly/N5KHIWt
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 08/06/2025
Why sheriff Taylor doesn't carry a gun. Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23. Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Taking care of this poor feral girl for the next week. She went in for spay with a runny eye and came out with it removed—a surprise to us both. They handed me her trap, showed me a picture of a setup, said she needs to be inside, and then basically said figure it out. So figuring it out we are…
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
sometimes it seems like people want to get published like it will Solve Their Problems and I just want to confirm that after you publish they don't give you a new childhood, you still have to live with yourself, it's just that some of that self is on display this month at a Review
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
“Can we go outside and play now?” “Soon, boy.” “You said that ten minutes ago.” “As soon as I finish my cof-“ “Oops.” “You did that on purpose.” “It slipped.” “I’ll get my coat.” “Excellent.”
A tennis ball floats in a cup up coffee below the face of a dog looking expectantly at the camera.
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My neighbor agreed to let me take her two 16-week-old sibling-kittens to be fixed & ear-tipped since they’re outdoor and have started wandering into the neighborhood a bit more with the colony. So, I get to hang out with these cuties, Poncho & Poncha, today! 🖤🩶🤍🤎
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Waylon is neutered, ear-tipped, dopey, & in a comfier crate now before release 🐱👂✂️💕 The washable caves for under my porch furniture arrived too, & omg I’m up to $160 in Venmo donations thanks to another badass, cat-loving woman! 🥹🙏🏽 Taking two kitten-siblings (4mo, 1M 1F) to be fixed in the morning!
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
When I write consistently, I write better. When I write better, I get the urge to look over my pages again in the evening. When I look over my pages, it primes me to wake up the next day knowing what to do and wanting to do it. It’s a virtuous cycle and I’m doing everything I can to keep it going.
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Just transported this sweet boy, wailin’ Waylon, my second neighborhood feral, for TNR 🧡 I received $110 in donations yesterday via Venmo (@brenna-womer) from two badass women 🥹 That money will pay to fix 4–5 more feral babes! 🙏🏽 P.s. Merle was released this morning, hissy & pissy as ever 🐱👂🏼✂️💕
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Today I got a royalty check for REFUSE TO BE DONE in almost exactly the amount of money I still need to pay this week toward a research trip I’m taking this summer. Thanks so much to everyone who bought my book to help them write theirs, a choice that will also help me write my next one. Good deal!
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Trapped my first neighborhood feral for TNR yesterday! Meet Merle 💛 He was hissy & pissy about it, but I would be too. He got a small cut trying to escape, but my bf’s mom, a TNR pro, told me to zip-tie the door in place. Worked like a charm! Next up are Patsy, Waylon, Johnny, & Loretta Lynn 🐱✨
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
My maracuyá didn’t flower last year, and I felt like I’d failed the vine, like it wasn’t happy enough to flower. I’ve been caring for it extra this spring, and this is the second bloom in three days. I’m so happy it’s happy. (Still working on a better trellis system after the first collapsed!) 💚💜🤍
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
“The Department of Homeland Security is considering teaming up with a Duck Dynasty producer to create a reality TV show called The American, in which immigrants would compete against each other for a chance to be sworn in as a U.S. citizen.” www.thecut.com/article/kris...
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Kristi Noem Wants Migrants to Compete for Citizenship on TV
Gamifying immigration is a new low.
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Recent belly blaster I forgot to share! Finished ‘er up a couple weeks ago 🥳 Sooo happy to have that spot over with 🥴
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It was an incredible honor to hood our MFA graduates today on stage at Commencement for California State University, Fresno’s College of Arts & Humanities (while wearing what my undergrads affectionately call my “wizard cloak”) 🥹 Be still my heart! ❤️💥
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