Alone Crawford @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
Emily Flouton @eflouton.bsky.social Writer. Words in Massachusetts Review, The Atlantic, Tin House, The Forge, Subtropics, Passages North, Gay Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, etc.| FLOW-ton | she/her | teach @lighthousewrite | rep: Eleanor Jackson
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com Recent books include CRITICAL HITS (with Carmen Maria Machado), HARD GIRLS, BUZZ KILL, SUBDIVISION, LET ME THINK. Lits in English prof at a regime collaborator institution. EPOCH editor.
Mary Helen Specht @mhspecht.bsky.social I like to write stuff.
maryhelenspecht.com
Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social she/her 🏳️⚧️ Writer of queer things. Lover of dinosaurs
Stories in One Story, Witness Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, Lightspeed, and other cool places.
Represented by Erin Harris @ Folio Literary
nicanstett.com
Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social Author: Invisible Things, Loving Day, Pym, Incognegro, etc. Helped on The Fall of the House of Usher (Nflx) and Manhunt (🍎).
Philly-born; Oregon-thriving
Storytelling Guru at U of Oregon; Go 🦆!
Will block for pedantic responses to joke posts—gleefully
Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com 📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise
🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller
🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com
🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her
🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social Author of 10 books.The latest: A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THE AMNESIAC out 2027. Newsletter here: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com #1000wordsofsummer
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social let the mirror express the room
Justindtaylor.net
Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social Lammy award winning author. Novels: BEINGS (🛸📚💌); ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS (💀🚗🌈). Co-editor of the anthology HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor🌹.
https://linktr.ee/ilanaslightly
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Rioncarnated @reeamilcarscott.bsky.social Camouflage fatigues & dashikis. Somewhere in between Ralph Ellison and PE
📚:🔥INSURRECTIONS🔥(PEN/Bingham winner) and THE W🌍RLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU
I write love notes to black people & dis songs to white supremacy. 90% love. 10% dis.
I deserve it all.
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Lacy M. Johnson @lacymjohnson.bsky.social Writer of books & things | Contributing Editor @ Orion Magazine | Curator & Founder @ Houston Flood Museum | Professor & MFA Director @ Rice U | Guggenheim Fellow 2020 | Community storyteller @ Houston, Texas, Baby.
Luis Alberto Urrea (& Cindy) @urrealism.bsky.social Author and reader, husband & grandpa, scribbler in notebooks, wanderer. Team Urrea is always on the scenic route.
Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social Author of five books—next up The Dry Season 6/3/25
Thoughts my own and not representing any institution.
https://linktr.ee/melissafebos
melissafebos.com
https://www.prairielights.com/pre-order-dry-season-june-2025-prairie-lights-0
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
@lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social Not checking this account all that often these days but you can find me here: https://fightweek.substack.com/
claire @clairecomstockgay.bsky.social horoscopes at the cut, other stuff too
Rachel Yoder @rachelyoder.bsky.social the original Nightbitch, novelist, screenwriting prof at UIowa, WGA West
Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social writer, teacher, author of fiction including The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and Willful Creatures. Happy to be on here.
Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. 🏳️🌈🦌🐊🦀
Min Jin Lee @minjinlee.bsky.social New York State Author Laureate 2025-2027. Writer. New Yorker. Late Bloomer.
www.minjinlee.com
Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social Writer, reader, office potato. Author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Lambda Award Finalist. NY Times Editors' Choice. Real human. No, really.
richardmirabellawriter.com
Insta: @rpmirabella
Jonathan Escoffery @escoffery.bsky.social Author of IF I SURVIVE YOU, a NY Times Editor’s Choice, IndieNext Pick, & International Bestseller. Nom’d for the National Book Award, PEN/Jean Stein, PEN/ Robert W. Bingham, & Story Prize. Booker Prize, PEN/ Faulkner & NBCC John Leonard finalist.
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social www.IlyaKaminsky.com
Deb Olin Unferth @debolinunferth.bsky.social Wrrrittter
The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social The Shipman Agency offers complete literary services to writers at all stages of their careers: event booking, independent publicity, mss consultations, The Work Room. #KnicksinFive. she/her https://www.theshipmanagency.com/
Antoine Wilson @antoinewilson.bsky.social Novelist (Mouth to Mouth, Panorama City, The Interloper), Contributing Editor (A Public Space), Photographer (Slow Paparazzo), Struggle Rapper.
Simon Han @simonhan.bsky.social Nights When Nothing Happened (Riverhead Books, 2020)
Also: Whyyyyy
No Tokens Journal @notokensjournal.bsky.social Established in 2012, No Tokens Journal is run by a volunteer staff of women, queer, trans*, and non-binary individuals. Issue 11 out now!
Judy Blume @judyblume.bsky.social Writer
Mimi Manyin @mimimanyin.bsky.social Writer. Musician. Editor | 📚 Ploughshares, Witness, Michigan Quarterly Review, Meridian, Greensboro Review etc. | 🎓MVICW Fellow, Sewanee Scholar | mimimanyin.com
Jessi Phillips @jessiphillips.bsky.social Journalist, writer, English professor, songwriter, vegetable gardener, part-time everything.
Janice Obuchowski @janiceobuchowski.bsky.social Vermonter | Author of THE WOODS, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award | assistant editor at Conjunctions
Peter Kispert @peterkispert.bsky.social Book editor at William Morrow/HarperCollins. Author of I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM: Stories (Penguin Books).
Posts inane & my own. Here now.
www.peterkispert.com
Turned Into A Strange Dog @tiasd.bsky.social 
T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social author: Whidbey & Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls • hapa kanaka ‘ōiwi dyke • soup enthusiast & magician • land back • aloha 'āina • she/her
Kathy Blackwell @kathyblackwell.bsky.social Editor at Texas Monthly. Board member, American Short Fiction and Austin Film Society
Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social Author of HALF WILD: STORIES and HEART SPRING MOUNTAIN. Residing on the hill where I was born in Vermont, and teaching fiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Let's make beautiful things, yes? 💚🌈🌱
Amy Stuber @amystuber.com Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com
Ariel Lewiton @ariellewiton.bsky.social all-purpose literary type person
vp @ the tuesday agency
Lena Valencia @lenavalencia.bsky.social Author of MYSTERY LIGHTS: Stories (Tin House / Dead Ink Books 2024). Director of Edu. Programming at One Story. https://linktr.ee/lenavalencia
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
aureleo sans 🇨🇴 @aureleo.bsky.social writer • @Tin_House & @sewaneewriters Scholar • @Peripluscollect • in @salamander_mag @electriclit @passagesnorth @bestmicrofic • 
Adam Dalva @adamdalva.bsky.social Writing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, etc. Contributing Editor, Yale Review. President, National Book Critics Circle. Rep: Duvall Osteen
Deesha Philyaw @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Author of THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN (on sale 9.29.2026; pre-order: https://bit.ly/firstladyfreeman) and THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Casey Plett @caseyplett.com Publisher (LittlePuss Press)
Professor (Ohio University)
Writer (✨✨✨)
https://linktr.ee/caseyplett
Athens, OH / Windsor, ON (forever Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba)
Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Jane Kalu @njanekalu.bsky.social PhD candidate at USC | MFA from UNM | Stories in American Short Fiction, Narrative, Boston Review, Isele Magazine, Hopkins Review
Website: www.janekalu.com
Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social Debut novel THE SLIP out now from Simon & Schuster. Winner of 2025 Kirkus Prize for fiction. Paperback 6/23/26.
Gretchen Potter @gretchenpotter.bsky.social Writer, Mama, Tonawanda Seneca. 
Temim Fruchter @temim.bsky.social Author of CITY OF LAUGHTER (Grove Atlantic) | queer non-binary anti-Zionist Jewish writer + gentleman | Co-host Pete's Reading Series | Brooklyn
Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social Journalist, @bookcritics.bsky.social board member, raised in the canebrake by an old mama lion. mschaubtx@gmail.com.
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social Formerly the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses
David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
Podcast: https://milkweed.org/between-the-covers
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editors’ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawai’i http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek 💫 and wristwatch ⌚️ obsessed.
Bob Proehl @bobproehl.bsky.social Public media marketing and comms muppet. Author of THE NOBODY PEOPLE, A HUNDRED THOUSAND WORLDS, and DRAGON DAY. Writing some comics and some podcasts and some books. Lotta dogs over here, y'all. Lot of dogs.
he/him
Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com author n founder @crit.works
Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social writer (novels THE GARDEN, THE ILLNESS LESSON, and story collection WE SHOW WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED); faculty at the Randolph MFA and the University of Pittsburgh MFA
Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her
https://www.emmacopleyeisenberg.com
Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social trying! jeannethornton.com, patreon.com/jwthornton
Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer.
Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
mike! @mikescalise.bsky.social yinzer, author: THE BRAND NEW CATASTROPHE
https://www.mikescalise.me/
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto @megankkakimoto.bsky.social author of EVERY DROP IS A MAN'S NIGHTMARE, from Bloomsbury | Michener Center Fellow | Japanese & Kanaka Maoli writer, reader, pastry enthusiast
David James Poissant @djpoissant.bsky.social Author of LAKE LIFE, a NYT Editor's Choice, and THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize. In print in nine languages. Editor of The Florida Review @theflreview.bsky.social
Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
https://rebeccamakkai.com
Anis Mojgani @mojgani.bsky.social Poet & picture maker. NOLA born & raised. Oregon’s 10th Poet Laureate Emeritus. Trying days, trying heart.
Szilvia Molnar @szilmolnar.bsky.social Author of The Nursery
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Dana Reyna Liebelson @dliebelson.bsky.social Writer ✍️ Fact: NYT Opinion, LAT, New Republic, HuffPost, POLITICO Magazine, etc. Fiction: Ploughshares, Guernica, Passages North MFA: U-Wyoming
Montana raised, Austin based
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Marta Evans @martamaranda.bsky.social Rodent at heart 🐀 writing sometimes https://www.martaevans.com/
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • Lambda Literary Prize
www.ro-kwon.com
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Jules Wernersbach @juliewbach.bsky.social Founder of Hive Mind Books, a queer indie bookstore in Bushwick. Debut novel WORK TO DO coming from University of Iowa Press 2026.
Kristen Steenbeeke @common-loon.bsky.social poet laureate of hell
copy editor at the new yorker
Cara Blue Adams @carablueadams.bsky.social YOU NEVER GET IT BACK, a New York Times Editors' Choice. Work in the New Yorker and Granta. Associate professor at Temple University. Brooklyn & Beacon via Vermont.
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya @kaylakumari.bsky.social gay
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social author of THREE SCENARIOS IN WHICH HANA SASAKI GROWS A TAIL (A\SO) and PULL ME UNDER (FSG). Radcliffe fellow. Editor of Electric Lit's The Commuter
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social Complete fiction
Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social “Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
Hilary Bell @hilarybell.bsky.social https://www.hilary-bell.com/