Rachel Cochran

Today’s the day! THE GULF is out today, June 13, and I could not be more excited to share it with the world! Join me tonight at 5:30 at Francie & Finch in Lincoln, NE, or tomorrow at 7:00 at BookPeople in Austin, TX!

Ilana Masad (@ilanaslightly) Discussed The State of Book Criticism With Three Critics studyhall.xyz/ilana-masad-jo…

So excited about our latest amazing Machete book, the #memoir 'Women Surrounded by Water' by Puerto Rican poet & performance artist @_patriciacoral_ ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9…

Exciting news for UNL Creative Writing!!! A BIG book deal for the brilliant @ahpetite Ber Anena, for her nonfiction book THE LIES WE TELL FOR AMERICA @UNLincoln @unlcas @MEButton @UNLwriters

My novel THE SLIP is coming 6/3/25 from @SimonBooks. It’s a big Texas novel about a missing teenage boy and cases of mistaken & fluid identity and the transformative power of boxing, and I can’t wait to share it with you. Please consider preordering today! 🥊

COVER REVEAL for my new novel, A Sharp Endless Need, available May 13, 2025, preorders are up now! This book is v near & dear to my heart. A queer & trans coming of age basketball novel about grief, identity, obsession, ambition, legacy, & more. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762682/a…

My novel, she is debuting 🤩

This book rules! @hannahmartian34 has written a "small town mystery" book perfect for all the brokenhearted queer folk out there. Thanks so much to @crookedlanebks for sharing with me!

@emma_krab @litmoralitmag Emma, this is marvelous! Goosebumps!!!

today i’ve got a eco-horror flash piece published in the newest issue of @litmoralitmag. it’s my first publication since graduating undergrad, and i’m really excited for you to check it out :)🧵1/2 litmoralitmag.com/issue-4-ecohor…

Big week for Zero Street! I MAKE ENVY ON YOUR DISCO recommended by Andy Cohen on TV; ALL DAUGHTERS ARE AWESOME EVERYWHERE gets rave review from Kirkus ("an important voice"); and the audio book of FORGET I TOLD YOU THIS holds strong in top 40 of LGBTQ+ Thrillers & Suspense/Amazon

What a strange and luminous thing to have happened— Sincere gratitude to Ronald Mitchell and everyone at @SoInReview and a special thanks to @FadyJoudah for believing in my manuscript. 🌷🌷🌷☺️

So excited about this stunning, shattering, exquisite debut memoir by @_patriciacoral_, available for pre-order now from Machete at @ohiostatepress. #Latinxlit 🇵🇷 ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9…

“How do we respond to the climate crisis? What's an ethical way of responding? Is violence justified?” These are the questions that guided the creator in both his novel and companion album. thepitchkc.com/the-evolution-…

“Over the past 8 months, at least 14 Palestinian writers and poets have been killed by Israel in the Gazan genocide … It is our duty to honor them, to ensure their work lives on, and to hold the state that murdered them accountable.” -Téa Obreht speaking at @hayfestival ❤️‍🔥🇵🇸

“The book is a lot about trying to capture what it feels like to be alive right now -- even though it’s set in the future -- with all the violence in our world and the planet collapsing around us,” said @_scottguild. cleveland.com/community/2024…

If you like reading about spooky houses, the terror of coming home, the terror of leaving home, cults, the trickiness of memory, or any of the above, you should read The Gulf by @_RachelCochran, which is out in paperback now!

PLASTIC: THE ALBUM by @_scottguild is out on 5/31, and he's celebrating with a show at the iconic Green Apple Books in San Francisco! If you're not in town, you can stream it live from Green Apple's YouTube page. greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-…

Very, very happy to share that my essay ‘Sunita’ won the @PorterHouseLit nonfiction Editor’s Prize, judged by ahem ahem @egabbert (!!) and is now up for you to read: porterhousereview.org/articles/sunit…

For @TheAtlantic, I wrote about anthropocentrism and one of the first dystopian pandemic novels - The Last Man by Mary Shelley. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…