Recent Updates & Upcoming:
"Unexpected Results: when your math tutor is a poet" on Mathematical Association of America's blog Math Values
"Coastal Prayer" in Redheaded Stepchild Magazine
"Enrolled," "If things feel unfair, count." & "Dementia Sandwich" in BRILLIG: a micro lit mag Winter/Spring 2024
"Same" in Cosmic Daffodil's Yin & Yang Issue
"Yoga for the Apathy of Rocks" in The Heimat Review
"He Leaves Instructions on the Whiteboard: Systems of Linear Inequalities" in J Journal: New Writing on Justice
"Midlife Calculus" in February issue of Scientific American
"Noise" in Anabaptist World
"Ponder, as Mary" on Christmas Day in Anabaptist World
"Z-Score of Zero" forthcoming in Mathematics Association of America FOCUS
"Property Management" out now in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Literary Magazine
My poem "Mathematics of Change" appeared in August as a part of North Carolina's Poetry in Plain Sight project - the very same month that I became an "empty nester."
"stephen + carina" in Soft Star Magazine
You can orderMidlife Calculus directly from Press 53.
Or, if you're also ordering other books, try one of your favorite independent bookstores like my hometown bookstore Plott Hound Books or one of the other bookstores that is graciously hosting me, like Fables Books.
North Carolina's Poetry Society's Poetry in Plain Sight is a fantastic program that puts North Carolina poets and poetry in front of more people.
2024 Reading List
Current/Upcoming:
Once Upon a Prime by Sarah Hart
A City on Mars by Kelly & Zach Weinersmith
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
Completed:
Tales from the Folly* by Benn Arrington
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
Even as We Breathe by Annette Sanook-Clapsaddle (re-read)
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
Hagitude by Sharon Blackie
Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age by Alec Wilkinson
Shae by Mesha Maren
Demise of Pangea by Claudine R. Moreau
Stop and Smell the Fractals by by Caroline Jennings
Rivers of London* by Ben Aaronovitch
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
Akata Woman* by Nnedi Okorafor
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Binti* & Binti: Home* by Nnedi Okorafor
Gideon the Ninth & Harrow the Ninth* by Tamsyn Muir
Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower* by Tamsyn Muir
The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Witch King by Martha Wells *
Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science by Jessy Randall
Building the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks & Oprah Winfrey
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling *
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
* audiobook through Libby
2023 Reading List:
Systems Collapse by Martha Wells
A House Between Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm *
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Playing Big by Tara Mohr
The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz*
Under this Forgetful Sky by Lauren Yero
The Last Astronaut by David Wellington*
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu *
Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys *
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Menopause Manifesto by Jen Gunter
Upgrade by Blake Crouch*
Goldilocks by L.R. Lam*
Hellbent by Leigh Bardugo
Winter World by A.G. Riddle*
The Last Watch by J.S. Dewes
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
Activation Degredation by Marina J. Lostetter
Black Sun & Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
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