Michelle Johnson

by Michelle Johnson We all have questions, hesitations, and those moments when we lack courage. As a writer, you will also often encounter doubt. It is an enemy you will have to defeat more than once. It is the voice that questions your right to create, the one that rehearses worst-case scenarios, the one that keeps you safe by keeping you small. Doubt can protect you by making you consider if there is a better option or another perspective.

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to signin or get access. In Earth 7 (Graywolf, June 2026), all sea life is destroyed, there are no free bees, and the line between human and robot has thinned. Still, a class has a bully, a teenager argues with her mother, and a young woman falls in love—with an enhanced human often mistaken for a robot. Earth 7 pairs the bleak landscape of ecological devastation with a timeless girl-meets-girl romance.

April 16 is National Librarian Day in the US. To celebrate this day, we offer fifteen books and one film for those who love libraries and the people who make them places for everyone: the librarians. Nicole A. Cooke The Legacy of Black Women in Librarianship: When They Dared to Be Powerful ALA Neal-Schuman, 2025 The Legacy of Black Women in Librarianship, by Nicole A. Cooke and Aisha M.