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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dr. Pullen & her TA Fidil recommend Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan. This historical fantasy contains a unique take on the Beast of Gévaudan, Joan of Arc, & other historical incidents filtered through a narrator that is at once amusingly profane & deeply sad. #purrfectreads

Tabby cat next to the novel Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There are so many books by authors whose work I follow coming out this fall, I'm giddy with excitement over new books by Emily St. John Mandel, China Mieville, Leigh Bardugo, Christopher Buelhman, and Madeline ffitch, to name a few. Its an embarrassment of riches!

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Dr. Pullen & Fidil recommend The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. This historical horror novel is a page turner that is at once dark & hopeful about human potential, with two siblings struggling against racism & supernatural horrors, helped by their community. #purrffectreads

Tabby cat next to the book The Reformatory by Tananarive Due.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My first day of teaching in the BFA and MFA in creative writing at Bowling Green State University is in the books! The students were so lovely!

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Same. My interest in most of the internet as declined precipitously.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Writer friends, how often do you update your author photo? Mine are about eight years old...I think I may need a new one. If you live in NW, do you have recommendations for someone who takes a cool author photos?

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm on a pedagogy panel for #AWP27 in Chicago. I hope to see my fellow creative writing academics there!

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Ken Liu???? I am shocked. He has written so eloquently against AI up to this point. Ugh.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Desert Notes is incredible!! What a great spark.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Fellow writers, if you had to pick one book that lit the writing spark for you, that first made you think you wanted to be a writer, what would it be?

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The birds are thoroughly pleased to hear it.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm writing a bunch of deeply weird flash fiction about birds and I am loving it.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Dr. Pullen & her TA Fidil recommend The Changeling Sea by Patricia McKillip. They'd never heard of this novella before & were delighted to discover a used copy at their local bookstore. McKillip's gorgeous prose conjures the feeling of a folktale, unknowably old, rediscovered. #purrfectreads

Brown tabby cat next to the book The Changeling Sea by Patricia McKillip.

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TheSerifM @theserifm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In the 2006 science fiction novel 'Rainbow's End' by Vernor Vinge, he had AIs shredding books as they ingested them at scale. Threw me out of the story, because obviously that would never happen IRL. 😑

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm back from my trip home to the NW. It was so wonderful to spend time with friends and family in the glorious outdoors of my home turf of WA (and also OR).

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thank you!!! (also, I hope you are doing well!)

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What are your favorite contemporary fantasy novels (in this case, meaning fantasy novels set in the 21st century) for adults of the last two years?

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Its always so good to visit home.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

One year Assistant Teaching Professor (Fiction) BGSU: come be my colleague for a year! www.schooljobs.com/careers/bgsu...

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm glad its not just me. This book, which shall remain nameless, is really popular, so obviously it doesn't bother everybody, but I just can't tolerate it.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A fantasy novel from the last few years had, I swear, at least a dozen smirks and eyerolls within the first chapter, that was no more than 10-15 pages. It was SO annoying. The smirks and eyerolls were even used as dialogue tags at times. I quit after the first chapter.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A few off the top of my head: Cloud Atlas, Light from Uncommon Stars, The Keltiad series by Patricia Kennealy.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'm writing some really weird micro-fiction about birds, and my brain feels on fire with it. I can't wait for some of these pieces to be in the world.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

You are welcome! Thank YOU for this and so many other beautiful books. I will convey your thanks to Fidil in the form he best understands (treats).

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

That's what I did too! I waited until the end of the semester and took a day and a half to read it in one glorious gulp!

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Dr. Pullen & her TA Fidil recommend Written on the Dark by @guygavrielkay.bsky.social. This book was the treat she saved herself to binge at the end of the semester. Kay is one of our finest prose stylists & a spinner of enrapturing tales. His newest historical fantasy is perfection. #purrfectreads

Brown tabby cat next to the novel Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I went to Vermont for the first time for a college roomie girl's weekend. Two people had a terrible time with flights and never arrived ( American Airlines, UGH), but one friend made it, and we had a lovely time! In other news, I'm now obsessed with Vermont.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Thank you so much! :) I am so pleased to be here!

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I got my keys for my new office in East Hall at BGSU! My new professional home away from home, I can't wait to fill it with books!

Photo of Jen Pullen in front of college building, East Hall at BGSU.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Fidil fell asleep ON MY HAND while I was petting him and watching Task Master. Oh what a sweet and silly furry boy.

Tabby cat sleeping with chin resting on Jennifer Pullen's hand.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I agree!!! The world of creative writing is small, but sometimes its extra small in a delightful way, like right now!!

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My contributor's copy for The Mid-American review has arrived. I submitted long before I knew I would someday work at BGSU, and I'm so I'm extra excited for my meta-fictional story about Christina Rossetti to within. And to share space with @gwenekirby.bsky.social! @midamericanreview.bsky.social.

Tabby cat next to the latest issue of the literary magazine MAR.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Its always fun being trapped into explaining to a random customer service person how AI works, that you can't copyright anything created with AI, and that "writing" with AI makes you a writer as much as microwaving a hot pocket makes you a chef.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My TA Fidil & I recommend The West Façade by Lauren Johnson from the @sfwp.bsky.social. This historical fantasy set in medieval Paris swept me away. The statues on the west façade of Notre Dame come alive, but only one, the statue of Saint Genevieve steps down & becomes human. #purrfectreads

Tabby cat next to the novel The West Façade by Lauren C. Johnson.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I've finished my first graduate workshop syllabus!! One syllabus down, and one more to go for next semester. The luxury of only teaching 2 classes is unbelievable. I've made 5 syllabi each semester for most of the last 9 years. I'll get to focus so much more on my students now.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'd never been before, but I am now in love. She has good taste!

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I had an amazing first research trip for my fantasy retelling of Little Women. I visited the archives in the Houghton Library, Walden Pond (so peaceful I didn't want to leave), Alcott's house, and more!

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The world really has a case of the bat-shits. I'd like to recommend serious modifications to this timeline.

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

When I buy beautiful notebooks I feel compelled to hoard them instead of write in them. Like buying beautiful handmade soap at a craft fair and just taking it out to smell and never using it, lol (also something I have been guilty of in the past). I'm trying to break the habit and write in them.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

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