This is out-of-season fruit. Hi, and welcome!

I’m Madi, a late twenty-something grad student writing, eating, and daydreaming out of London (where I moved from Brooklyn last September).

Since January 2023, out-of-season fruit has been my creative corner of the internet to muse on and get personal about the intersection of food and feelings. Outside of Substack, my words can be found in the New York Times' Metropolitan Diaries, Defenestration Mag, and Flora & Fauna Mag. In between studying for my Master’s, complaining about the bagel situation over here, and looking longingly out of the front windows of every double-decker bus I ride (a good consolation), I’m currently at work on my first novel.

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