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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The Japanese translation of WATER, WOOD & WILD THINGS is out now, with my illustrations on the cover 🥹🌸🌱 www.kodansha.co.jp/book/product...

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

She loves sunshine and soft things.

Photo of a chicken lying blissfully on a cashmere blanket in the sun, inside a home.

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Imagine being the equivalent of 90 years old, and clearly seeing your reflection for the first time. Tory is mesmerized. Chickens, it turns out, can recognize themselves in a mirror.

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

She put the stuffed animal there herself

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Lap dogs are great, but have you tried a desk chicken?

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

10/10 recommend a chicken on your desk

Very round fluffy hen sleeping on a cashmere blanket

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I always seem to have avian companions during large creative projects. Currently, an elderly hen is getting me through writing a book. Once it was a discarded racing pigeon. And I’m often visited by a family of crows (in a different location).

Hen on the writers lap, in front of a desk cover with notes

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

it’s too damn cold in the kitchen so I’m making breakfast on the wood stove

on top of a wood stove: two edds in a frying pan, a slim tea kettle, and two slices of whole grain sourdough on a wire mesh grate

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

It’s so special to see my book as a staff pick at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social! Thank you for featuring WATER, WOOD & WILD THINGS! 🥰

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I stopped by to visit a friend and he invited me to pick some of these nameko to take home for dinner.

Nameko mushrooms grow on the side of a log in an evergreen forest

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

A family of large-billed crows have trained me to offer them peanuts every day. This one (mama-crow, I think) is the most trusting. After taking a peanut from my hand she cracks it open right next to me.

Close up photo of Japanese large-billed crow

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

There is a geta shop in my town. You can pick the wood base and the fabric strap you like, and the shopkeeper puts them together for you.

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

No wonder it feels so sticky in Kaga today

Screen shot of weather forecast showing 97% humidity

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

vines on the interior and exterior of a glass door in Yamanaka

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Sake, mirin, soy sauce, miso: these are flavors that define Japanese cooking, and they all used to be made in kioke, wooden barrels that can last over a century. Kioke help cultivate a unique microbiome in each brewery that defines that brewery’s flavor. #fermentation pod.link/proof/episod...

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

The other one doesn’t snuggle, but likes to be part of things.

Yellow chicken peaking out from behind a woman seated at a picnic table with another chicken on her lap.

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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

I’ve had pet chickens since I was a child (including a rooster who let me paint his toenails) but I always thought they tolerated my affection. This hen insists on it, tugging at my pants until I pick her up, and melting in my lap.

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