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Michaella Thornton

@kellathornton.bsky.social
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Seeker, writer, curious | Midwestern | Patty & Selma in a trench coat | wholesome and horny | "the most fun, overwhelmed person I know" | she gets a long letter, sends back a postcard 💌🏳️‍🌈

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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
TUESDAY NEXT WEEK — come to The Ethical Society at 9001 Clayton Road for a very special @leftbankbooks.bsky.social event. Kella Thornton (@kellathornton.bsky.social) and I will be talking all things The Veiled Prophet (@haymarketbooks.org) left-bank.com/event/2026-0...
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Thank you, Andy! 🏞️
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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Check out this nice article featuring Lingering Inland contributor @kellathornton.bsky.social! caps.washu.edu/caps-instruc...
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CAPS Instructional Designer Contributes to Midwest Book Award Winner - Continuing & Professional Studies
WashU Continuing & Professional Studies (CAPS) Instructional Specialist Kella Thornton is among the contributors being recognized after Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest won top honors ...
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Also, mea culpa for not tagging @illinoispress.bsky.social correctly the first time 🪩✨🪩
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Thrilled & honored to have one of my essays in a 2026 Midwest Book Awards-winning anthology (Humanities' category, bb!), edited by @andyoler.bsky.social, published by the @uofillinois.bsky.social press & inspired by the "Literary Landscapes" series in The New Territory Magazine 🎉🪩🌌 Woohoo!
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is auh-mazing!! Gooooo, Andy, Olga, and Liz!! Congratulations 🎉🪩🎉
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Pretty rad that this anthology I'm in, along with so many other amazing writers, has been named as a finalist for the Midwest Book Awards in the Humanities category ... P.S. A half-off summer sale happening now on this book & others through June 16: share.google/2eFJZfkuE3xo...
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2026 Summer Sale - Illinois Press Blog
Keep cool and read books! From June 1 until June 16, you will receive 50% off *ALL* UIP bookswhen you purchase from our website with code SUMMER26. Browse books here. [...]Read More
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 02/06/2026
There could be a personal hole to scream into If you were writing a book you know
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I am thrilled to support and celebrate @devintoshea.bsky.social's inaugural book launch tour this summer. Devin's fierce prose and reporting in the Veiled Prophet will be well worth the wait. It's a true honor to join you at Leftbank Books on July 7 📖🙌❣️
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
From Wendy Cope's book, If I Don't Know. #poem #booksky #writing
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Thank you so much, Melissa 💓✨🫂
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I'm so, so excited and happy for you, Melissa ❤️ congratulations 🎉🎉 (and I cannot wait to read Bitter Over Sweet over the winter break!)
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Thank you my sweet and kind friend. You are so lovely!! Happy December to you and yours 💗
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I'm exceedingly grateful to the incredible editorial team @trampset.bsky.social for a Best Microfiction nomination for "Green" 💚 thank you from the bottom of my heart for this incredible kindness 💚
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Lingering Inland Book Launch Party - The New Territory Magazine share.google/YFRZmrZAfs8k... Wanna party in St. Louis & celebrate the gorgeous, gritty beauty of Midwestern writers? Join me & a bunch of incredible writers, editors, & publishers who make the writing world a better place on 12/13
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Lingering Inland Book Launch Party - The New Territory Magazine
Join us to celebrate Lingering Inland, an expansive anthology edited by Andy Oler. 73 original short essays explore locales in Midwestern literature relevant to the life and work of literary […]
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Gina, thank you, thank you for reading and being so generous!! 💚💚💚
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Thank youuuuuuu, Kathy! 💗💗💗 You're so incredibly kind and I learned so much from you
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This is a gorgeous and moving story, Laura. Brava!! 💓
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trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
"I am the cool fizz of prosecco sliding down one’s throat during the golden hour. The chartreuse velvet couch we make out on after eating Vietnamese take-out." @kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green" trampset.org/green-b178ab...
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Green
by Michaella Thornton
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Baby's first published prose-poem in @trampset.bsky.social, just in time for Halloween: "Green" trampset.org/green-b178ab...
The Northern Lights in Laugarvatn, Iceland on Saturday, October 18, 2025.The mossy green forest floor on a hike in Laugarvatn, Iceland on October 18, 2025.The view outside the Héraðsskólinn Historic Guesthouse, October 2025.Seventeenth century Italian Baroque painter, poet, and priest Francesco Furini's arresting painting of Santa Lucia, as seen in the Galleria Spada in Rome, Italy by the writer, Michaella Thornton, in September 2024.
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
PREACH 🙌🏻😆😭
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I'm so glad you called our attention to this... Sometimes this news cycle feels, well, overwhelming 😞💗
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Gah, this whole scenario also reminds me of Richard Preston's nonfiction book, The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story (1994)
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
So honored to be included in this dream publication. This Friday will mark my first-ever prose-poem publication 💚 a beautiful ode to the color green sparked by a writing prompt by the incredible writer and teacher @kathyfish.bsky.social in Casperia, Italy last fall (thank you, Kathy!)
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Sending love from Iceland 💓🇮🇸🌌
In a field outside of Geysir Geothermal Area in IcelandThe interior of an A-frame of wood framing two sconces and a window looking outside to Laugarvatn, Iceland Me, Michaella Thornton, wearing a black raincoat and wine-colored hat and black hood on a walk in Iceland The road to Friðheimar, a beautiful windbreak of trees lining the road to the family restaurant and hothouse
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I responded to Sarvin directly on this thread! Thank you, Dave! 😌
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Hello, Sarvin, and welcome! The St. Louis Poetry Center is amazing: stlouispoetrycenter.org - I have made wonderful friends through the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, High Low Readings (and Literary Death Matches)... WashU, UMSL, and SLU all have vibrant writers in each higher ed context too
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Saint Louis Poetry Center
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Well, with an editor like you at the helm, I knew this book was going to be fabulous 🤩
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I'm super excited to be in this gorgeous anthology writing about one of my literary heroes, Kate Chopin, and about making art as a single parent when the world is falling apart
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Thank you, Andy!! 🌻🌻🌻
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
One of my favorite poems and poets: "Enough" by Suzanne Buffam | The Poetry Foundation share.google/kRNpFRjNO0FZ...
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I am wearing dark glasses inside the house To match my dark mood. My rage is a kind of domestic rage. I learned it from my mother Who learned it from her mother before her And so on.
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I'm teaching a five-week humor writing course beginning this week, and while there's an abundance of chaos and tragedy all around us, now, more than ever, we need to also employ humor to satirize, challenge, protest, ridicule, and illuminate what's happening in our country 💓
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Happy birthday all the same. I'm sorry it's been a rough go of it, and I'm hopeful things look up soon. Also, I think it's healthy to be real when reality is hitting us. 💗💗💗
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Gah, Midwestern Weird and Deep Time is the genre of champions 😍 kids-on-bikes novels and films are also rad
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It's very sobering to know that my home and child's elementary school were less than 4 miles from the tornado's path 😭
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
This weekend I helped a friend move some of their belongings out of their apartment in the Central West End. I won't share any of the photos I took, and I teared up driving to their apartment off Union. If you can, please help the St. Louis tornado relief efforts: www.stlmag.com/news/st-loui...
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St. Louis tornado relief and recovery: How to get and give help
In the face of devastating loss, the St. Louis community shows grit and support.
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Success sometimes looks like eating red beans & rice on the porch of my brick bungalow while pale pink peonies bloom, Ani singing through the window, & I just finished meeting with my childhood library system, where I will be facilitating a workshop with a publisher whose work elevates the Midwest 🩷
Lady Anna peonies in their springtime glory in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. May 6, 2025 🌸
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Wound by Larry Levis I've loved you as a man loves an old wound picked up in a razor fight on a street nobody remembers. Look at him: even in the dark he touches it gently.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16/04/2025
Human beings are not an “administrative error”
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Hey Kansas City writers! I'm facilitating a Micro Essay Writing in-person workshop in collaboration with The New Territory Magazine & The Story Center of Kansas City, Missouri on May 31, 2025 from 10 AM-4 PM Central. To register for this free workshop, please visit: www.mymcpl.org/events/10615...
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Plein Air Micro Essay Writing | Mid-Continent Public Library
Join The New Territory magazine and The Story Center for a full-day intensive on the micro essay form.
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
How to be roasted by my 8yo right before bed this evening: read a graphic novel about dinosaurs, and she dead-eyed looked at me and smiled as she asked me: "So, these dinosaurs were around in the '80s right?" Sis, 65 million years ago dinosaurs died out. Not the '80s, not when I was a child 😭😂😉
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
💖 While you are at #AWP25, please make sure to pick up a copy of SCREAM QUEEN by our own @cdeskilson.bsky.social from @acrebooks.bsky.social & THANKS FOR THIS RIOT by @janellebassett.bsky.social from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social 💖
CD Eskilson & Anna Cabe, holding SCREAM QUEEN after CD signed Anna's copy. At AWPJanelle Bassett with Anna Cabe holding up THANKS FOR THIS RIOT after Janelle signed Anna's copy!
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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 27/03/2025
I could not be at AWP this year because of work. I'm sad to miss all the good talk about reading & writing. Also, as someone with a new-ish book out, I guess I'm missing the opportunity to spread the word - so here goes: I hope you'll consider ordering SAD GROWNUPS: bookshop.org/p/books/sad-...
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Sad Grownups
Check out Sad Grownups - <p><strong>For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. </strong></p><p><br></p><p>A neighborhoo...
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
As is yours 🥰
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
In a world full of cowards, I’m begging all of us to be fearless. To dig deep. To find someone or something to stand up for. To make things with our whole heart. To care about the most vulnerable. To write as if our lives depend on it. To do the right thing despite the cost. Now is the time.
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Who are the five writers that made you? Toni Morrison Dorothy Allison Mary Gaitskill Jo Ann Beard Sei Shōnagon ❤️
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Ever read a line in a book you want to commit to memory, it's so beautiful and true? I just began Raven Leilani's novel Luster, and swoon 💜
Highlighted purple text from the novel Luster by Raven Leilani: "It's that there are gray, anonymous hours like this. Hours when I am desperate, when I am ravenous, when I know how a star becomes a void."
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 10/03/2025
We're going to pay $150 for prose, poems, art, and beyond, for TBQ8, which will also be in print and released in the fall. We open 4/20. Official call and guidelines coming soon! Follow us, read all of our back issues online for free, and live más!
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Peak girlhood is eating Girl Scout Cookies (s'mores is auh-mazing) while watching Alive Australia (also peak disassociation with everything going on) 😜
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Michaella Thornton @kellathornton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I keep thinking about our public school system & how gutting the DOE, which is on Trump's agenda, is going to hurt so many children in so many long-lasting, irreparable ways As the mother to a child with a 504 plan, I'm furious & ready to fight so hard for basic human decency in our government
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