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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 31/08/2026

Writing for Children and Young Adults is one of our four genre tracks 💯 (I’m the director—ask me anything)

Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 31/08/2026

Writers of literature for children, teens, and young adults: Interested in learning about a low-residency MFA program that can help you build a sustainable life of creation in community? Check out @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social! Now accepting applications for Spring 2027 🙏🏽

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 16/06/2026

Tomorrow, 6/16, I’ll be joining the Black Staff and Faculty Organization of @uofcalifornia Office of the President at noon PT to discuss this. I’d love to see you there 🙏🏽 4/end

BLACK STAFF & FACULTY ORGANIZATION PRESENTS
pineteenth
2026 CELEBRATION SERIES
FROM SOIL TO SOUL
RECLAIMING OUR ROOTS!
JUNE 16, 2026
AUTHOR SPEAKER EVENT
Featured speaker: Leta McCollough Seletzky
12:00-1:00 pm (PT)
Zoom Details: https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/98997737960
THE
KNEELING MAN
Leta McCollough Seletzky is Director of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, she is the author of The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., an award-winning memoir. She holds degrees from Northwestern University and The George Washington University Law School.

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 16/06/2026

history without discomfort is propaganda. It’s certainly been my experience that the more nuanced and layered my understanding of history becomes, the less room there is for comfort. And yet, the more room there is for hope. 3/

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 16/06/2026

The more I learn about it, the more I’ve revised what I thought I understood—including a piece of family history that connects my father to a singularly tragic event from our nation’s past. There’s a phrase I came across some years back that I often cite, because I think it’s deeply true: 2/

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 16/06/2026

Whether we’re talking about references to Michelle Obama or Dr. King, there are some lines of discourse that don’t merit engagement. Instead, I turn my attention to Juneteenth, the first and only federal holiday that specifically commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. 1/

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 15/06/2026

There’s still time for an Executive Order!

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 15/06/2026

I can’t believe a sharpie didn’t fix the weather forecast and save the UFC event!

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 10/06/2026

A lot of big opinions and feelings from people with no profile pic and dubious command of their faculties

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 10/06/2026

I’m not debating this. Have a good day

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 10/06/2026

As a Black woman from the South and former Assistant Federal Public Defender As a Black woman and former Assistant Federal Public Defender As a Black woman As a woman As a human being My heart breaks for Karmelo Anthony and rages against a system that wrought this

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 06/06/2026

I have so much security and required authentication on my apps that my accounts can be reliably accessed by hackers ONLY

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 05/06/2026

The only thing Idiocracy got completely wrong is that it would take 500 years

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 04/06/2026

I’m deeply honored to join the Black Staff and Faculty Organization of @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Office of the President for their Juneteenth 2026 Celebration Series on June 16 at 12:00 pm PT. I hope you can take part in this special event!

BLACK STAFF & FACULTY ORGANIZATION PRESENTS
JUNETEENTH 2026 CELEBRATION SERIES
FROM SOIL TO SOUL
RECLAIMING OUR ROOTS!
JUNE 16, 2026
AUTHOR SPEAKER EVENT
Featured speaker: Leta McCollough Seletzky
12:00-1:00 pm (PT)
Zoom Details: https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/98997737960

THE
KNEELING MAN

Leta McCollough Seletzky is Director of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, she is the author of The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., an award-winning memoir. She holds degrees from Northwestern University and The George Washington University Law School.
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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 02/06/2026

Not above throwing a blazer on this and calling it business extremely casual

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 02/06/2026

Absolutely. Among many other things, it’s so much better for your clothes

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 02/06/2026

Was hanging up laundry to dry after airing out the house when it occurred to me that pretty much every household in generations past regularly used solar and wind power

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 27/05/2026

So gross. And in its own clownish way, evil

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 27/05/2026

If I may expound on this idea: www.letaseletzky.com/post/the-clo...

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 27/05/2026

America prepares to go FULLY under the big top. “So it would seem that a robust and nuanced understanding of human nature, especially in times like these, requires an understanding of the clown.” -Seletzky, “The Clownishness of Evil”

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 23/05/2026

That’s a great question (and I suspect it does)

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 22/05/2026

Thank you—and I realize that horror as a genre can be polarizing. But I must say it has prepared me for such a time as this lol

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 22/05/2026

Friends, the time has come to share a piece on a topic I’ve been thinking about for some time—since at least 2016, at any rate—THE CLOWNISHNESS OF EVIL. I won’t bore you with preliminaries. But this is only the beginning of a conversation that must be had. 1/ www.letaseletzky.com/post/the-clo...

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The Clownishness of Evil

Rosemary’s Baby as a Meditation on Aesthetics, Authoritarianism, and the False Selfby Leta McCollough SeletzkyPresented to the Chit Chat ClubSan Francisco, CaliforniaFebruary 10, 2026By Paramount Pict...

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 17/05/2026

That a Tennessee school district has banned ROOTS speaks to the book’s power. They can’t ban ideas, so they try this instead. I was a student in Tennessee when I first encountered ROOTS and the great Alex Haley. Like many others, I carry the power of this work with me. No book ban will stop us

School assembly featuring Alex Haley. A sign reads “The Family! The Roots of It All!” I’m standing at the microphone

School assembly. Haley is in the foreground and I’m in the background

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 13/05/2026

Quick question: how useful will data centers be once they’ve depleted our resources, human and otherwise?

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 11/05/2026

Once again, the people most likely to hide a zombie bite are guiding our infectious disease response

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