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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Always a good feeling to print out the complete novel draft for the first time...

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Y'all, I've achieved one of my writer dreams. Almanac for the Anthropocene was a staff pick at Powell's!

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The necessity of escapism. How are you escaping this week?

A table with DnD pieces--a map of a tavern, a beer, a journal, and a character sheet.

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Took my environmental lit students outside to read Gut Botany by Petra Kuppers and write poems.

Sitting on a campus patio looking over trees, parking lot, and hills. Gray day.

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The family was feeling photogenic...

A black and tan dog standing in the sun in a house with warm colors.

A gray cat strolling through a sun beam in a house with warm brown floors.

A black cat with one eye sitting in a sun beam.

A border Collie laying down with a red frisbee in the grass

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It's been a shitty week, but tonight, there is DnD.

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

My office buddy as I frantically do my Spanish homework.

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Trying to figure out how to talk to my comp students about AI as it seems to be more prevalent each semester...

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Northern Appalachia really setting the tone today.

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

When I was talking with some mutuals about how I felt like I wasn't very good at social media, it was pointed out to me that I don't post enough cat pictures. So, this is Mithrandir, Mith for short. We adopted him from the Iowa Human Society as a kitten. Spoiler alert: we should have named him Loki.

A large, fluffy gray cat lounges on a desk.

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Just finished Metal from Heaven by August Clarke. Wow, definitely one of my favorites this year. It's hard to describe but maybe The Lies of Locke Lamora meets The Dispossessed? I'll be thinking of this book for a long time.

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

And today, we write. We will need stories.

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

So excited to have hit 50 books so far this year! After my PhD, I struggled to get back into reading, and this is the first year I feel like I'm back to my old reading habits! And what a great book for number 50--Grievers by adrienne maree brown had me in tears but hopeful at the same time.

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

If you're looking for a fun vampire novel this Halloween season, my debut is just 1.99 at the cursed website! Gin works security for the Saints Casino, in Reno, Nevada, but her vampire boss Colton is determined to figure out why vampires can't drink her blood...

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Stoked to be moderating this panel at the Baltimore Book Festival for @sfwa.bsky.social on Sunday! Can't wait to talk about hope and quote my favorite Cassian Andor line 😈

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

I picked up the best find at a little free library today! Excited to go find some cool rocks!

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Read The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself by David Mura simultaneously with Practicing New Worlds by Andrea J. Ritchie. Both these books are going to be sitting on my desk for a long time. I can't wait to see how they influence the next novel...

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

My novella When We Hold Each Other Up is one year old this month! This novella will always be a special project as I wrote it while finishing my dissertation, so it's infused with my thinking on Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Jeff VanderMeer, and N.K. Jemisin. #solarpunk

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

The final reading in my sci-fi and fantasy class was "When It's Time to Harvest" by @renanbernardo.bsky.social Students loved the depiction of technology and how the story acknowledged the climate crisis but the characters adapted. Perfect end to the semester!

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Looking for a vampire novel set in the high desert!? The e-book of my debut novel A Shot of Gin is on sale for 1.99 today! Gin works security for the vampire-owned Saints Casino in Reno, Nevada, and she's pretty sure she's mostly human... a.co/d/ayWP9if

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

With award season in full swing, I wanted to remind folks I had three books out last year! When We Hold Each Other Up (novella), Fighting for the Future (as editor), and A Shot of Gin (debut novel). Also just look at all these amazing covers right next to each other!!!

Three bright book covers on a white background. Mushrooms grow in the corner.

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Rereading The Truth About Stories by Thomas King to teach it in a few weeks and that first chapter just tears me up and reminds me why I write. In the words of King: "Don't say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story."

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Had a blast doing book events in Reno for my novel A Shot of Gin!

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Sending my debut novel out into the world is filling me with joy today! I hope you all are highly entertained by Gin's adventures in the high desert!

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

It's here!!! Author copies for A Shot of Gin have arrived! The cover and layout are freakin' amazing in person--the picture can't do it justice! Can't wait to have my scrappy desert novel out in the world October 3rd!

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Had such a blast on Just Keep Writing! Thanks to the crew for the great questions! If you want insight on @brentclambert.bsky.social's story in the cyberpunk/solarpunk anthology Fighting for the Future, you should check it out!

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Pumpkin spice is back on the menu which means it's time for me to batshriek about my debut novel, A Shot of Gin, which comes out on October 3rd and is set over Halloween! If you want hot cowboy vampires, desert casinos, radiation zombies, then I got a book for you...

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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

My third anthology, Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk Tales, is slowly trickling out into the world!

A hand holding a book in front of a bunch of green plants. The book cover features a Black woman in a neon city holding out a digital earth.

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