melissa lozada-oliva
poet but don’t hold it against me • dreaming of you, candelaria @astrahouse
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- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivaHuge thanks to mesmerizing Franklin Park Reading Series 2026 Launch stars @justintaylor.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden & Ali Kriegsman & ❤️ to our amazing audience! And we were honored to kick off the paperback tour for Justin's incredible novel Reboot!
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivapicked this up because @livesinpages.bsky.social recommended it in "Short Story, Long's fave story collections of 2025!" and holy shit was just knocked out by the first/title story. I know it is early still, but probs my fave story of the year so far. Incredible banger.
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivaNext Monday, January 12, 8pm: Excited to launch the 2026 Franklin Park Reading Series season with stellar authors @justintaylor.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden, and Ali Kriegsman! #Free shorturl.at/yTq9W
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivaMonday, 8pm, at Franklin Park Reading Series: We're thrilled to host @justintaylor.bsky.social for the NYC paperback celebration of his brilliant novel Reboot, w/stellar authors @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden & Ali Kriegsman! 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights #Free
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivaMONDAY, 8PM: Excited to host supertalented authors @justintaylor.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden & Ali Kriegsman! #Free raffle for our readers' stunning books! Details: shorturl.at/yTq9W #crownheights #freeadmission
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivajonny you are a darling for giving me this opportunity to self promote. passing that opportunity along to newsletter authors whose stuff i read EVERY time: @nikostratis.com , @erinrwilliams.bsky.social , @lukeoneil47.bsky.social , @ellomelissa.bsky.social , and the beautiful devin kelly
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivaWe're thrilled to share the story "Heads" from @ellomelissa.bsky.social's collection Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! It's weird, it's unsettling, it's a little gross...and it's one of our most anticipated reads of the year 🪓 reactormag.com/excerpts-bey...
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- where my dense breast girlies at im about to get a mammogram
- final copies for BEYOND ALL REASONABLE DOUBT, JESUS IS ALIVE! Came in. if you pre-ordered from BOOKS ARE MAGIC you get a beautiful original print booksaremagic.net/item/MexlWhz... Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! by Melissa Lozada-Oliva | SMITH STREET LOCATION
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivaExcited to add @ellomelissa.bsky.social to the 2025 lineup! Preorder Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/beyo... Listen to all episodes here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivaHere's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
- What the fuck
- There are still spaces left for this in-person class! Sign up here centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivaI’m breaking down., I’m begging you—my life is on the line. Every second that passes, I’m slipping closer to the edge. I need your help. Please share my GoFundMe link.. You might be the reason I survive. Please… share it, repost it—help my voice be heard!” gofund.me/84aa6b44
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivaWe will be reading and laughing and drinking while also supporting the Iowa Abortion Access Fund… You don’t wanna miss this. @lyz.bsky.social @alisonleiby.bsky.social @ellomelissa.bsky.social @felipetmedina.bsky.social @taylorkayphillips.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/red-state-...
- GALLEYS CAME IN!!! I’ve been working on these stories since 2019 I feel really proud and happy !!!!
- if you ever ask for earl grey tea iced you should be struck down by god
- Hot girls vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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- I need to be a xanned out housewife and just not look at the news
- im so old but i dont think I like using StoryGraph and seeing reading as a statistic
- it’s kind of nuts that I know two people who are getting fired bc of musk like ???
- it’s actually exhausting not taking anything for granted and saying I love you all the time. actually taking things for granted is nice and may we all be able to feel peace and comfort and silliness and not think of the worse thing that could happen when someone walks out the door
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivaMarch is right around the corner—check out our incredible classes. Act quick, these classes sell out. Plus, there are still some early bird discounts available! 🐣 Learn more and register: at.pw.org/classes @alissonwood.bsky.social @mollymcghee.bsky.social @shelleywong.bsky.social
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- rich people are too concerned with living forever instead of their actual legacy. build a train that works and name it after yourself. fund the arts. stop chugging collagen and digesting infant blood and being a little bitch
- No one says “woke” more than republicans they’re obsessed with that word
- Every poet either wants a university gig or job at CHANI
- I can’t even process this
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivasay what you will about the ultra rich of 150 years ago, at least they built libraries and roads
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- This is the cover for my collection of short stories BEYOND ALL REASONABLE DOUBT, JESUS IS ALIVE! Out September 2nd, 2025. You can pre-order starting NOW. Alive ! bookshop.org/p/books/beyo...
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- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivameli featured me in READING SUCKS (and catch her early blurb about SLOPPY, too!!) ellomelissa.substack.com/p/january-di...
- “I don’t think a writer can write worth a damn if her mind doesn’t wander.” New READING SUCKS with @raxkingisdead.bsky.social ! Please subscribe so I can get off of other social media lol ellomelissa.substack.com/p/january-di...
- “I don’t think a writer can write worth a damn if her mind doesn’t wander.” New READING SUCKS with @raxkingisdead.bsky.social ! Please subscribe so I can get off of other social media lol ellomelissa.substack.com/p/january-di...
- I know all presidents are bad etc etc but it feels so insane to have a fascist moron run the country for four years
- if you ever think about how the world got more conservative bc of the internet you just don’t want to be on the internet at all
- feel scared and disgusted by the amount of people who have said well it’s only criminals he’s deporting
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- it’s so arbitrary to rate a movie I’m not doing that shit anymore
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- Finally slept in our apartment after six weeks of being gone and dreamt of keep our cat safe from the streets …. His parasites are creeping back in
- Every day I’m so depressed about the state of literacy in the US
- back injury that defined his life …. bisexual ……unibrow. close enough welcome back Frida Kahlo
- Absolutely fixated on the assassin
- October was your Floral Symmetry Mother in Law Popsicle Moment
- September was your accidental encounter with alien life forms cat walk moment
- July was your never been kissed by a fisherman cat walk moment. was it ?
- I miss my cats
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivagetting Dunkin’ Donuts in Massachusetts is like getting ramen in Japan
- can’t wait to run into another 30 year old with wearing the same eco friendly long lasting tights she ordered today
- Reposted by melissa lozada-olivaFor sale: baby shoes. Unbox video. So aesthetic! Plz purchase through Amazon affiliate link. <3 #holiday24
- my overheated Brooklyn apartment makes me feel cold everywhere else
- Like water for chocolate is about cooking and putting your magicrealussy into it
- I talk a lot about nighttime logic, a concept I first heard from @kellylink.bsky.social and now I’m teaching a class on it at the center for fiction! Sign up here! centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...
- [Eric Adams voice] New York is the Wizard of Oz
- loved this bc he mentioned seeing yellow butterflies in Guatemala with his girlfriend who is me. also a really nice discussion about a book I’ve never read but was formative to me anyway :)
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- Every Instagram reel has a straight couple in sweat pants in a grey minimalist condo and they’re always farting.
- Some of us have been hearing the lyrics to defining gravity and holding space with that and some of us didn’t know that was happening and it shows
- Wicked was so good and I cried three to five times and one of those times was when they did that stupid dance because of the hat bc being a friend is about embarrassing yourself which might actually make theatre kids really brave ??? also insane to watch this during the rise of fascism
- I can’t wait to watch wicked later lmao
- Is writing fiction just like profoundly evil
- This is what I wore last night to the National book awards after party do you like it
- Im sorry I can’t stop thinking about the Augusta Britt profile … imagine an older man grooms you and uses your entire life in his fiction and then when you finally get to tell your story its to like … the worst writer imaginable. he’s not a bad person he just sucks at writing …
- bad person who was great at writing or mid to okay person (really just a guy) who sucks at writing but they’re both ducking your soul dry
- Hello my followers stream LEVELD my dear friend samuel aka canteenkilla ‘s new album. it’s so fucking GOOD open.spotify.com/track/16H2wK...
