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Eiren Caffall

@eirencaffall.bsky.social
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Lyrical dispatches from the apocalypse. THE MOURNER’S BESTIARY (Row House, 2024), and novel ALL THE WATER IN THE WORLD (St. Martin’s, 2025), Whiting Creative Nonfiction Award, finalist Gotham Book Prize, Compton Crook Award, Chirby 2X.

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Page One Media @pageonem.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
MY MOTHER IN HAVANA (@rebehuntman.bsky.social) SLASH AND BURN (Claudia Hernández) THE DISAPPEARED (Rebecca Sanford) THE PAIN OF PLEASURE (@amygraceloyd.bsky.social) THE MOURNER'S BESTIARY (@eirencaffall.bsky.social) Women don’t just survive history—they carry it.
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Christopher Hennessy @thealtchris.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Congrats to these debut authors! @eirencaffall.bsky.social @barsukov.com @mhayinde.bsky.social More of this kind of author support, please.
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Maria Thompson @writercpa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Reading new novelists for the Compton Crook Award is some of the fun in being a member of @balticon.bsky.social Best wishes to all of this year's finalists. @eirencaffall.bsky.social, Haley Gefulso, Antonia Hodgson, @barsukov.com, @mhayinde.bsky.social & Andrew Luddington
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Applications close TODAY! 🥕 Write about food with Kate Lebo 🌏 Write about climate with Maria Pinto ✏️ Investigate your own style with Jennifer Landretti 🌱 Generate climate poetry with Jessica Abughattas 🕸️ Write through connection with Eiren Caffall More: orionmagazine.org/events-works...
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
But have you seen Studs?
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Can you tell I am working on many new projects? I can. It has been a month since I posted anything here.
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Okay, I have just been shown tree.fm and it is saving my life at my open office right now.
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tree.fm – Tune Into Forests From Around The World 🌳🔈
People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, while in lockdown or unable to travel. Use this site to chill, meditate or do some digital shinrin-yoku.
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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Procrastinators rejoice! 😂 We are extending the deadline for Memoir In A Year applications (online with @eirencaffall.bsky.social and in-person with Rachel DeWoskin) until this Friday, September 12. You have THREE more days. Apply now: buff.ly/eOXVcqo #writingcommunity
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In-A-Year Book Programs at StoryStudio Chicago - StoryStudio Chicago
IN-A-YEAR BOOK PROGRAMS Becoming an advanced writer takes a lot of hard work and dedication, and our “In A Year” programs are designed to help you cross the finish line… and…
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Gonna reup this, in praise of protecting something our dear leader wants to destroy before climate collapse can get its hooks in.
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Booklist Publications @ala-booklist.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
We are in the thick of #SummerReading and we have just the thing to keep those TBRs full: 🐳 Environmental reads 🎧 #Odyssey interviews & listen-alikes 📚 @libraryreads.bsky.social July picks ⏰ #PBSBooks countdown to the semiquincentennial 🎙️Interview with Michael Connelly and more: bit.ly/40JmBWJ
Closeup of cover of the July 2025 issue of BOOKLIST READER with text: READ & SHARE THE JULY BOOKLIST READER with star burst DIGITAL VERSION NOW AN ALA MEMBER BENEFIT
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Page One Media @pageonem.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
@eirencaffall.bsky.social's book, The Mourner's Bestiary was featured on the cover of ‪‪@ala-booklist.bsky.social‬ #Page1MediaPR #LiteraryPR #BookMarketing #BooksInTheMedia #SummerReading
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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Memoirs about disability & disabled experiences
Graphic with the disability pride flag as the background showing six memoirs about disability. Titles included are: “I’ll Look so Hot in a Coffin” by Carla Sosenko, “The Pretty One” by Keah Brown, “The Invisible Kingdom” by Meghan O’Rourke, “What My Bones Know” by Stephanie Foo, “Leg” by Greg Marshall, and “The Mourner’s Bestiary” by Eiren Caffall.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Last year, thanks to #dcasegrant, I went to a @storystudiochicago.bsky.social retreat at Ragdale co-run by @meganstielstra.bsky.social & @eirencaffall.bsky.social to work on my project COSMIC FRUIT. "We Beet On," now in @orionmagazine.bsky.social, started there! orionmagazine.org/article/we-b...
Cutting beets to make my fingers a lurid color.
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Page One Media @pageonem.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Help us celebrate and uplift the disabled community this Disability Pride Month. We wanted to highlight the amazing work of former P1M authors,  @eirencaffall.bsky.social‬ and Megan Nix as well as recommend some of our favorite books with disability representation! #disabilitypride #booksky
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
March 2025 Me, in the hospital with a broken vertebra and high on painkillers, was super optimistic about what July 2025 Me, healed and back at work and stone cold sober, could get done during this month. To be fair to her, she was looking at this view.
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
"In dark places, it is light that calls us. Even in a broken ocean full of chemical fouling and warming water, bioluminescent fire remains." Diagnosed with a kidney disease guaranteed to shorten her life, Eiren Caffall processes life and death through space and sea.
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Sky of Plankton, Ocean of Stars
Recently diagnosed with a kidney disease guaranteed to shorten her life, a woman processes life and death through space and sea
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
But have you seen Studs?
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The Trump administration has shut down a federal website on climate change, taking down congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment reports and extensive information on how global warming is affecting the country. @coveringclimatenow.org @sciencewriters.org www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Trump administration shuts down U.S. website on climate change
The Trump administration shut down a website with national reports on climate change. Scientists decry the move, saying it robs the public of vital information.
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Crossed 20,000 words on the new novel today please clap.
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Welp, kittens, it took over a decade, but here it is, baby’s first hate mail! (Pro tip, Sir: the ass is not where climate communism goes.)
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Karen Sprenger @grlgeek.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
All the Water in the World - @eirencaffall.bsky.social When the Moon Hits Your Eye - @scalzi.com Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett The Bones Beneath My Skin - TL Klune Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt The Will of the Many - James Islington
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just saw this and felt so happy. Thank you for pulling this language out of the book.🌊
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just gave a book talk in the perfect library on the tiny island that’s the star of my memoir and the place I do my best writing. And it is foggy. Best day.
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This is the kind of thing that climate-concerned folks have been thinking about for a decade or two—but most of us (me very much included) just kind of assumed that by the time this was clear to people like Powell, the conversation would be...really different from what it is now. Wild, indeed.
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Missed marching with 100,000 siblings in my home city yesterday. But here, on a tiny island in Maine, there was also a march.
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Joel Stainer @joelstainer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Read 'All the Water in the World' in nearly one sitting. Really enjoyed the book. a pretty straightforward post-apocalyptic story but beautifully written and kept me engaged throughout. Loved the themes in the book and I hope @eirencaffall.bsky.social writes more!
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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Today's blog post is a review of @eirencaffall.bsky.social 's ALL THE WATER IN THE WORLD, post-apocalyptic novel set in New York and environs. watershednotes.ca/2025/05/28/r...
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Review: All the Water in the World, by Eiren Caffall
Eiren Caffall’s All the Water in the World is a post-apocalyptic novel set in the near future in New York City. Floodgates have been installed on each side of
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Page One Media @pageonem.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
@eirencaffall.bsky.social discussed her memoir THE MOURNER'S BESTIARY (@rowhousepub.bsky.social) on The Chris Hedges Report! page1m.co/43FyqOw 🧵(21/21) #memoir #chrishedges #booktube
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Facing the Climate Crisis and Human Mortality (w/ Eiren Caffall) | The Chris Hedges Report
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It was a double double rainbow day. So, quadruple rainbow. Second, third, and fourth rainbows not pictured.
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Video of the dust storm coming into Chicago this evening, as seen around Montrose Point — featuring birds, toad sounds, and people catching a fish.
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Chicago, I leave you alone for five minutes…
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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I'm biased, since I had the joy of fact-checking The Mourner's Bestiary, but you should absolutely read it and support @eirencaffall.bsky.social in any way you can:
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The Mourner's Bestiary
Check out The Mourner's Bestiary - <b>A critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness.</b><...
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
While on the topics of books I recently read and loved, here are two more: The Mourner's Bestiary by Eiren Caffall, and Disabled Ecologies by Sunaura Taylor, both of which powerfully deal with the intersections between sick/disabled/injured people and sick/disabled/injured ecosystems.
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Rebecca Altman, PhD @rebecca-altman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Manuscript delivered 😮‍💨 — now begins development and editing and whatever lies beyond that. Every day I’ve gotten to do this, grateful beyond grateful. 🌱 Thank you, friends, family, for the years (5+) of support. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Eleanor Thorne @eleanorthorne.net · 07/05/2025
Just added "All the Water in the World" by @eirencaffall.bsky.social to my read list. One word grabbed me, and it's not hard to guess what. Hello, fellow hypercane, uh, fan! And one that hits NYC, at that. Dang. 🌀😬 #clifi #postapocalyptic 🪐📚💙 Beach read, definitely! bookshop.org/p/books/all-...
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All the Water in the World: A Novel
A Novel
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Jann Alexander @jannalextx.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
All the Water in the World, a mind-bending novel by @eirencaffall.bsky.social I read in no time flat, paints a drowning world populated with characters who find a new way to begin by harkening to ideas and methods from the distant past. #sci #histfic #booksky www.jannalexander.com/post/end-of-...
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We're Coming to the End of Earth Month. But Not the End of the Earth...Yet.
Even the dystopian novels I'm reading these days aren't predicting that. Instead, they're showing us our history, and a way forward.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Industrial fishing is the most destructive activity we undertake in the ocean, and doing it in more places is not great.
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Trump order to loosen fishing regulations poses major risks, experts warn
Conservationists fear fallout from president’s proclamation on fishing in federally protected area of Pacific Ocean
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Oh, to be read like this! What a gift is this review of The Mourner’s Bestiary. Thank you, Mark DeVries and @christiancentury.bsky.social. Honored. www.christiancentury.org/books/wild-e...
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The wild earth and its consolations
The Mourner’s Bestiary is part memoir, part illness narrative, and part ecological...
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...
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Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend
I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks. Shit is bad. But I…
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lizwhitelam.bsky.social @lizwhitelam.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This Earth Day, here are three of my favorite CliFi (Climate Fiction) titles: ALL THE WATER IN THE WORLD by @eirencaffall.bsky.social , WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy, and THE GREAT TRANSITION by Nick Fuller Googins.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 21/04/2025
Mauna Loa hasn't published any daily CO2 updates since April 16th. Dear @climate.noaa.gov, what's going on??? gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg...
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Milton Public Library (Milton, MA) @miltonlibraryma.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
What are we reading? Tyler recommends All The Water In The World by Eiren Caffall. @eirencaffall tinyurl.com/yw4y4k6s More staff picks: miltonlibrary.org
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Nikita Kuckuck @nikitakuckuck.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I just finished reading All the Water in the World by @eirencaffall.bsky.social, and I found it heartbreaking beautiful. It's left me thinking about the things we try to save when everything comes crashing down - history, memory, hope. What a gorgeous book.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The world knows about climate change mostly because of great American researchers, and that work has been largely centered at NOAA. Trump and Musk are now shutting down that brilliant work. They are contemptible, short-sighted, and sold out www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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Kris @electriclibrarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
All the Water in the World by @eirencaffall.bsky.social is an excellent post climate disaster novel. Literary and thought provoking with a ton of heart. www.theretiredlibrarian.com/2025/04/all-...
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All the Water in the Workd
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 08/04/2025
The Center + allies filed a notice today of their intent to sue the city of Tacoma, Washington, for discharging toxic wastewater at levels that harm Puget Sound Chinook salmon, protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. More info: biodiv.us/3G0ULhi
Underwater view of four Chinook salmon swimming, with the logo of the Center for Biological Diversity in the corner.
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
So, I’ve been off book tour with a broken back for almost a month. Still recovering and stuck in bed. You know what would weirdly help? I’m at 1999 followers. I’ve never had that many followers anywhere in my admittedly indifferent social media participation. Wanna cheer me up & be my 2000th follow?
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Recouperating from my broken vertebra and reading Timothy Eagan’s Big Burn. A mater class in nonfiction, as are all his books. And a reminder of the vast western part of this country in all its complex history.
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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
But have you seen Studs?
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