What Iām Reading Smoking the Bible by Chris Abani (Copper Canyon Press, 2022) Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (One World, 2021) We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez (Viking Books for Young Readers, 2020) Dog Songs by Mary Oliver (Penguin Books, 2015) American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (Flatiron Books, 2020) Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021) Personhood by Thalia Field (New Directions 2021) Sinners Welcome by Mary Karr (Harper Perennial 2009) Animal Eye by Paisley Rekdal (University of Pittsburgh Press 2012) The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (Graywolf Press 2016) Like by A.E. Stallings (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019) Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2017)