Maud Lavin
Writer. Editor. Chicago, always. Author MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS, CUT WITH THE KITCHEN KNIFE, CLEAN NEW WORLD, PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, SILENCES, OHIO, Ed 3 anthologies, Gugg Fellow
- Chicago pals, plz come by Haymarket House Tuesday Sept 30, 6:30+! Event is free but they ask that you sign up for head count--https://www.tickettailor.com/events/haymarketbooks/1852890
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- My first full-length poetry book SWIM LESSONS comes out Sept 2 from Tulipwood in Seattle. Now available for pre-order. Tulipwood.org And my author’s copies have arrived!
- All the cool kids are reading Mermaids and Lazy Activists this summer! 🧜♀️
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- Excited to announce that my first full-length poetry book, SWIM LESSONS, will be published Sept. 2 by Tulipwood Books in Seattle! 10 percent off preorder purchases directly from tulipwood.org, made by Aug. 1.
- Big thanks to Melissa Flores Anderson for her astute and generous review out today in Roi Faineant!
- This Friday, Perrysburg, Ohio, 6:30+, reading from and chatting about Mermaids and Lazy Activists at Gathering Volumes! 🧜♀️💙
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- Hi all in Chicago! You’re warmly invited: Tarot and Mermaids Watershed Art & Ecology 1821 S Racine, in Pilsen Free Tarot readings by Claire Pentecost and Maud Lavin, first come, first served Copies of Maud’s eco-novel Mermaids and Lazy Activists, From Beyond Press, for sale
- Traverse City friends, come by tmrw—Sunday, for this book party for Mermaids and Lazy Activists! Workshop Brewing, 6-8! 💙🧜♀️💙🧜♀️
- Reposted by Maud LavinThe New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
- Good news—SILENCES, OHIO is now for sale at Buddy’s in the Chicago Cultural Center. Shown here with the infamous Sara!
- What the what-ie?! Another party? This one in Traverse City, MI on Sunday, June 1?! You’re all warmly invited! xx🧜♀️💙
- Reading at the Chicago book launch of Mermaids and Lazy Activists! Me and Rachel DeWoskin 🧜♀️💙Fun.
- TONIGHT!!! 6-8 The Whistler. Come by! xx🧜♀️
- All the cool mermaids hang out at Chicago’s Sandmeyer’s Books and other swell bookstores. @frombeyondpress.bsky.social
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- Today is the pub date for MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS!!! Part of every book sale goes to FLOW: For Love of Water! Available at @frombeyondpress.bsky.social Bookshop Amazon and cool bookstores like Sandmeyer’s! 🧜♀️💙🧜♀️💙xx
- Chicago pals! Book party on Wed, May 21, 6-8, at The Whistler in Logan Square! Come on by. 🧜♀️🧜♀️🧜♀️💙💙💙xxx Treats from Tropicake and, natch, the cool kids.
- Still 3 days before pub date but the cool kids are already purchasing MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS!
- TODAY!!! xx
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- Chicago friends, see you Sat at 2:00 at Printers Row Wine! xxx
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- Sinners is so so so good. Brilliant. I bawled my eyes out.
- Guys, guys, SILENCES, OHIO is now available as an e-book as well as in paperback! Thx, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social ! And shout out to Adam van Winkle for one of my favorite book covers ever! Ohio never looked so good.
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- This Sat, May 10, Chicago! 💙
- Pub date May 13 but early copies of my novel Mermaids and Lazy Activists are here! Publishers Weekly calls it “a thoughtful climate manifesto.” Plus it’s funny.
- Chicago pals, coming up fast! Please join us May 10 at 2:00 at Printers Row Wine for a truly outstanding line up of writers reading and delicious wines! xo
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- Chicago. The next READINGS event Is Sat, May 10, 2:00+. Come by for delicious words and wine!
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- Reposted by Maud LavinBooker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏
- Reposted by Maud LavinCongrats, they heard you! The Social Security Administration has decided tonight to abandon its plans to end phone service for millions of Americans filing retirement and disability claims. Thank you to all who shared our post and made calls today—you did it!
- This Sat, Chicago! March 15, 2:00+, wonderful writers, wine, warmth at Printer’s Row Wine. We’ll be glad to see you there!
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- Chicago! Coming up Sat, March 15, 2:00+ READINGS at Printers Row Wine in the South Loop! Wonderful authors, delicious wines, warm company—see you there. xx
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- Please consider preordering my new novel MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS directly from the wonderful indie press frombeyondpress.com — a portion of every sale goes to the nonprofit FLOW: For Love of Water which protects the Great Lakes. Big thanks to poet Tim Moder for supporting!
