Michaella Thornton

Thank you my sweet and kind friend. You are so lovely!! Happy December to you and yours 💗

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 💚

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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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

Gina, thank you, thank you for reading and being so generous!! 💚💚💚

Thank youuuuuuu, Kathy! 💗💗💗 You're so incredibly kind and I learned so much from you

This is a gorgeous and moving story, Laura. Brava!! 💓

Green by Michaella Thornton

"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"

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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.

Baby's first published prose-poem in @trampset.bsky.social, just in time for Halloween: "Green" trampset.org/green-b178ab...

PREACH 🙌🏻😆😭

I'm so glad you called our attention to this... Sometimes this news cycle feels, well, overwhelming 😞💗

Gah, this whole scenario also reminds me of Richard Preston's nonfiction book, The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story (1994)

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!)

In a field outside of Geysir Geothermal Area in Iceland

The 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

Sending love from Iceland 💓🇮🇸🌌

I responded to Sarvin directly on this thread! Thank you, Dave! 😌

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

Well, with an editor like you at the helm, I knew this book was going to be fabulous 🤩

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

Thank you, Andy!! 🌻🌻🌻

One of my favorite poems and poets:

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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 💓

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. 💗💗💗

Gah, Midwestern Weird and Deep Time is the genre of champions 😍 kids-on-bikes novels and films are also rad

It's very sobering to know that my home and child's elementary school were less than 4 miles from the tornado's path 😭

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.

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...

Lady Anna peonies in their springtime glory in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. May 6, 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 🩷

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.

Human beings are not an “administrative error”

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.

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...

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 😭😂😉

CD Eskilson & Anna Cabe, holding SCREAM QUEEN after CD signed Anna's copy. At AWP

Janelle Bassett with Anna Cabe holding up THANKS FOR THIS RIOT after Janelle signed Anna's copy!

💖 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 💖