ADA CALHOUN is the New York Times otè ki pi vann Crush: Yon woman, named by Tan as one of the 100 must-read books of 2025. Her memoir, Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, was named one of the best books of 2022 by Nouvèl Èdikay, NPR, and Jounal Washington Post, and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in nonfiction. Calhoun’s past books include Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis, Diskou Maryaj Mwen Pap Janm Fè, ak St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street. Her next book, out in May 2027, is Welcome to the Club: The Necessity (and Joy) of Finding Community in Third Places, a memoir about how a year spent joining clubs – everything from a local garden group to axe-throwing medieval reenactors – led to connection, reinvention, and joy.
