K.D. Walker

writer & translator

[K.D. Walker @kdwalker2000]

@HilalIsler @meganstielstra @northwesternup Amazing news!! So excited to read this dazzling collection! Huge congrats Hilal 🥳 🎉

[K.D. Walker @kdwalker2000]

@AriaAber @ElectricLit you’re the sweetest, Aria 🫶 much love

[K.D. Walker @kdwalker2000]

In “Good Girl,” @AriaAber reminds us how art can be a lifeline and connection in dark times of strife and chaos. This novel is astounding and so needed right now. Thank you @ElectricLit and thank you Aria for speaking about it with me 💗

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[Electric Literature @ElectricLit]

Aria Aber discusses “Good Girl,” about a young Afghan German woman growing up, falling down, and rising into the storyteller she was always meant to become. (interview by @kdwalker2000) https://t.co/2XksllvRZG

[K.D. Walker @kdwalker2000]

@paulxt yes, would love to! [email protected]

[K.D. Walker @kdwalker2000]

Three amazing authors with incredible fall debut novels! @bdantaslobato, Mike Fu, @sputnikon3, thank you all for your work! and thank you to EL ❤️

[Electric Literature @ElectricLit]

Translators Bruna Dantas Lobato, Mike Fu, and Julia Kornberg (@sputnikon3) reflect on how their translation work shaped their writing (interviews by @kdwalker2000) https://t.co/b6EEKPfmlw

[K.D. Walker @kdwalker2000]

Thank you so much @Hopkins_Review for publishing my short story, “Tourist Attractions.” I’m very grateful for your support!

[The Hopkins Review @Hopkins_Review]

Subscribe today and you'll receive Issue 17.4, featuring K.D. Walker's fiction, as your first issue.
@kdwalker2000

[Nora Jaber - نورة جابر @noratjaber]

‘We who are not there, witnessing from afar, in what ways are we mutilating ourselves when we dissociate to cope? To remain human at this juncture is to remain in agony. Let us remain there: it is the more honest place from which to speak’

[Seven Stories Press @7StoriesPress]

Q: Madame, s'il vous plaît, pourriez-vous décrire votre routine “Pilates” ?

AE: Pourquoi m'avez-vous posé cette question? Mon routine “Pilates,” c’est quand je fais l'amour. Palestine libre! Liban libre!

[K.D. Walker @kdwalker2000]

@LitvAsh yay! congrats ash!!

[Literary Hub @lithub]

Isabella Hammad recommends essential books about Palestine, featuring work by Jean Genet, Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, and more.
https://t.co/cCYrNnOUAh

[The Yale Review @yalereview]

“Nonsense has a particular kind of beauty. It is more like instrumental music than a song with lyrics, more like thinking than thought.”

Percival Everett, whose novel JAMES has been longlisted for a @nationalbook award, on the "real" in fiction. https://t.co/cta1NJvnoj

[vampira @vampl0vrrr]

palestine's mountains.

[K.D. Walker @kdwalker2000]

apply for the @PeriplusCollect fellowship! being mentored by @hilsaphina and joining this most wonderful community changed my life last year. lmk if you have any qs!

[Periplus @PeriplusCollect]

Psst: The application for the 2025 Periplus Fellowship — offering mentorship and community to writers of color — is now open! 🥳 Learn more and apply by 9/20 at https://t.co/sbkJNXlYcl. There's no fee to apply.

Please help spread the word: retweets and other sharing welcome!

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Louise Bourgeois, 'To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere', 1999

[Kim McNeill •📚🍂☕️ @joiedevivre9]

“The result is an engrossing, perceptive, and elegantly philosophical novel about the practice of paying close attention.” — ⁦@carablueadams on The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş. I loved this book! https://t.co/fdlc55WYVJ

[Electric Literature @ElectricLit]

Navid Sinaki (@navidsinaki) on imagining what living and loving would have looked like had he stayed in Iran (interview by @kdwalker2000) https://t.co/5AawkIqCGA

[Electric Literature @ElectricLit]

Kyla Walker (@kdwalker2000) talks with Ayşegül Savaş about her new book “The Anthropologists” and parks, anchors, little joys, and the enchanting rituals of our lives.

https://t.co/Pd8cie8i8p

[K.D. Walker @kdwalker2000]

Ayşegül is one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met, and her new novel is just as charming. It was a gift to speak with her for @ElectricLit 💛

[Electric Literature @ElectricLit]

Kyla Walker (@kdwalker2000) talks with Ayşegül Savaş about her new book “The Anthropologists” and parks, anchors, little joys, and the enchanting rituals of our lives.

https://t.co/Pd8cie8i8p

[K.D. Walker @kdwalker2000]

@ChibuikeOgbon15 amazing! congrats Chibuike!!