Writing The Dawn @writingthedawn.bsky.social Where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet | Writing, creative workshops & coaching|For every kind of bodymind | Neurodivergent-affirming | Anti-racist| LGBTQIA+ affirming | Anti-oppression
Susan Briante @utopiaminus.bsky.social poet, educator, translator author of Defacing the Monument, Utopia Minus, Pioneers in the Study of Motion and The Market Wonders.
Katherine @katherinersf.bsky.social Introvert who loves opera, books, dogs and cats. Fan of classic film, especially silents, pre-Codes and noir. I don't say much. I drink tea and read things. she/her
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com Excavation: A Memoir
Hollywood Notebook: Essays
Bruja: A Dreamoir
All from Northwestern University Press, 2025
Mommy’s El Camino is my mostly weekly newsletter.
she/her/sinvergüenza. Los Angeles.
https://linktr.ee/wendy.c.ortiz
Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social Sharing 19th-century Gothic industrial research
Dr. Bridget Marshall (she/her), Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Books: https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/industrial-gothic/ and https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/mary-elizabeth-braddon-marshall/
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Anne Margaret Daniel 🌻 @annemargaretdaniel.bsky.social Teacher, reader, writer, editor, music lover, rescue dogs. The New School University, NYC. Working on an edition of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's letters and a Bob Dylan book. https://www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-anne-margaret-and-rescue-dogs-in-need
Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social Law professor, Drexel Univ • Affil'd fellow, Yale ISP • NYC Bar Ass'n Rule of Law Task Force • AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure ⚾ Cleveland native/partisan 🏀 runner • https://linktr.ee/akalhan
phone rings, Josh skeets, here comes company @shmeppy.bsky.social Assoc Prof of modernism, film, sound studies, shitposting. Portlandish. I like Triscuits, the Broncos (sigh), donkeys, Douglas Sirk, Henry James, maybe some other things. AI is not one of them.
The slotted spoon can catch the potato. 🥔
Lindsay Vaught @lindsayfouts.bsky.social Spalding CNF student
🎷 player
Louisville KY liberal
Protect trans 🏳️⚧️ youth
RT doesn’t = endorsement
Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social Living on Lunaapahkiing, faculty at IAS, servant of two cats and sometimes one dog. 
Anne H. Putnam @ahputnam.bsky.social Writer, editor, person who makes cakes (and mom).
📚 Navel Gazing (Faber, 2013)
📚 Make Do and Mend (2026)
✍🏻 A novel (title TBA)
Bylines in BuzzFeed, Catapult (RIP), Cosmopolitan UK, HuffPost, The Rumpus, etc.
www.annehputnam.com/writing
Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social Columnist at The Intercept; editing Public Seminar; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life” and "On Un/Certainty" (Verso); antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
Dana B. @dbaredit.bsky.social Curious about archives, sound, books; writer and accidental songwriter
Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social Law Professor| Public Health, Environmental Justice, & Criminal Justice Advocate | Scholar | Family & Friend | Aspec | Proud Blerd | Plus Healthy Doses of Randomness | Views Are My Own
https://law.lclark.edu/live/profiles/16709-michele-okoh
Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social Writer?
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social Writing embarrassing crap about my life.
Creative Writing Prof @ Butler University
📍Indianapolis
🇨🇺🇵🇷🇺🇸
natalielima.com
Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social Atlanta-area author of Southbound, The Parted Earth, and Ballot, out from Bloomsbury Academic on 2/5/26; Affiliate Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles MFA; proud poll worker. linktr.ee/anjalienjeti.
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.
Sari Botton @saribotton.bsky.social Bestselling Author/Editor/Teacher/Oldster Memoir: And You May Find Yourself… Anthologies: Goodbye to All That and Never Can Say Goodbye Newsletters: @oldstermag.bsky.social, @memoirland.bsky.social, Adventures in *Journalism* http://saribotton.com
Eaton Hamilton @eatonhamilton.bsky.social Visual art, writing
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them ♿️ 😷🇨🇦 AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic, MG
UK Sunday Times bestseller, Guardian BOTY, Guernica, The Sun, NYT, Salon, Globe+Mail, Macleans, BAE Notables, BASS Notable, BAX, 10 books, won CBC fiction x2; on Patreon at HamiltonArt.
April Salazar @aprilsalazar.bsky.social Writer. Storyteller. Costco enthusiast.
Credits include The Moth, The New York Times, and Latino USA. #Binder (she/hers)
aprilsalazar.com
Sarah Minor @sarahceniaminor.bsky.social visual essayist, hype man, collaborator, prof
Author of Carousel (Yale University Press, 2026), Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press, 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press, 2020)
www.sarahceniaminor.com
Jessie Chaffee @jessielchaffee.bsky.social Author of Florence in Ecstasy. Living with and writing about #longcovid
https://lithub.com/a-single-ray-of-light-on-ray-bradburys-all-summer-in-a-day-and-living-in-the-shadow-of-long-covid/ www.JessieChaffee.com
Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com Sometime poet, historian, software engineer, novelist, union man. https://www.benjaminharnett.com https://thehappyvalleynovel.com
@spoperate.bsky.social @spoperate.bsky.social 
Writer/Artist#StopFemicide 🇨🇦📚🧑🏻🎨🇵🇸 @writerartisteh.bsky.social Visual art, writing
📚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ♿️ 😷🇨🇦 AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic, MG, mason bees etc. General musings, rants, politics site for a Cdn artist and writer with 10 books. Happy to see resisters, but block if you block fundraisers. writing: @eatonhamilton.bsky.social
Muffy Bolding @muffybolding.bsky.social Mother. Writer. Director. Suffragette. Witch. Knitter. Embroiderix. Cummari. Chingona. Siciliana. Latina. Filipina. Lyin’ Whore. Trollop. Shitkicker. Thief.
Withered Debutante.
“Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of my stature.”
stefanie lejeunesse @lejeunesse.bsky.social having metastatic breast cancer is my most expensive hobby but I also like ballet and beekeeping • podcaster and author • "smug twat" - craigslist Rants & Raves 
LaToya Jordan @latoyajordanwriter.bsky.social Writer • Mom • Shirley Jackson Award Winner • Author of the 2023 debut novella To the Woman in the Pink Hat (Aqueduct Press) • Reader, Wigleaf Top 50 • latoyajordan.com
https://linktr.ee/latoyajordanwriter
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com Brief elaboration of a tube.
Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com
Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
Steve Adams @adams-steve.bsky.social Write @mlbtraderumors.bsky.social
Travel geek. Food geek. Beer geek. Video game geek. Baseball geek. Cat geek.
Currently playing: Fantasian Neo Dimension
Steve Mentz @stevementz.bsky.social #bluehumanities, Shakespeare, swimming, eco-poetry. English prof at St. John's (NYC). 
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
josher71.bsky.social @josher71.bsky.social Stoke City USA/I have eight cats and love to see good cat news/Baltimore
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Jillian Steinhauer @jilnotjill.bsky.social Journalist, editor, teacher, organizer. I write about art and comics. Short, with tall energy.
jilliansteinhauer.com
jilnotjill.beehiiv.com
Emily Schultz @emilyschultz.bsky.social Producer and writer. Novels: Brooklyn Kills Me, Sleeping with Friends, Little Threats, The Blondes. Cofounded Medium Cool, and prev. Joyland. Brooklyn 🏳️🌈
www.themediumcool.com
www.emilyschultz.com
Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social pizza advocate; english professor
Holly Golightly @hollygolight38.bsky.social Vermissen ist nur ertragbar, wenn beide es tun.
Michelle Legro @michellelegro.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Inc. Previously: WIRED, Medium, Topic, New Republic, Lapham's Quarterly. 
Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social Writer. Reader. I live in a box of paints. She/her. Banner: a detail from Remedios Varo’s Vampiros Vegetarianos. Three vampires in fantastical golden outfits sip fruit through extra long straws.)
Bess Lovejoy @besslovejoy.bsky.social Wrote Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses & etc. Now: research, podcasts, journalism, weird fiction.
BessLovejoy.wordpress.com
Moustafa Bayoumi @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social Guardian columnist, journalist, author, professor. www.moustafabayoumi.com
Lydia Pyne @lydiapyne.bsky.social Writer, Historian, Tortoise Enthusiast. Currently writing about ochre. Author of ENDLINGS ('22.) Also, GENUINE FAKES, BOOKSHELF, & SEVEN SKELETONS, etc.
Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social Matmos guy with my husband @lordchiefjustice / English professor at Hopkins / also known as The Soft Pink Truth.
Evan Kindley @evankindley.bsky.social "The New York School: Poetry, Art, and Friendship in Midcentury Manhattan" forthcoming from Knopf, March 2027 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737462/th
Angela Chen @chengela.bsky.social Science journalist and editor, currently at Asterisk Magazine, previously Vox, WIRED, MIT Tech Review, WSJ. Author of Ace. angelachen.org
Hannah Bae @hannahbae.bsky.social Writer, journalist, illustrator
2020 Rona Jaffe award winner
2019 AAWW fellow
½ of @eatdrinkdraw
AAJA for life
Alum of CNN, Newsday, U.S. Embassy Seoul & more
VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag.bsky.social Independent online classical music magazine published weekly in English and German. Strong personalities welcome. www.van-magazine.com
Anthony Lydgate @anthonylydgate.bsky.social Features editor at WIRED
anthonylydgate.01 on Signal
Yana Kuchirko @yanakuchirko.bsky.social Associate Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Jason Diamond @jdiamond12.bsky.social 
Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social CEO and Publisher of @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, a nonprofit newsroom in beautiful Baltimore City.
ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
Jenny Yang @jennyyangtv.bsky.social jennyyang.tv
💪🏽 standup comedian, tv writer, actor
🎙️ food, culture, community
📍 Los Angeles, CA
@whatshouldwepod @selfhelpmeshow
contact@jennyyang.tv
jennyyang.substack.com
Andrew Dell'Antonio @dellantonio.bsky.social ADHD music scholar at U TX Austin - #UDL - #Neurodiversity - #Accessibility
he/him/his
https://adellantonio.com
https://sites.utexas.edu/rigorouslycompassionate/
Dr. Laina Dawes @lainad.bsky.social Post-Doctoral scholar @CWRU. Music Critic. Metalhead. Author, "What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal: https://www.amazon.com/What-Are-You-Doing-Here/dp/1935950053
Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social Historian of Early America, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY. Leading AHA wit. Latest AmRev book: "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" 🔥 Dad, Mets fan, fantasy reader
Mary von Aue @maryvonaue.bsky.social creative rage
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social queer 🇲🇽🇵🇷 aesthete, associate professor at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center | bylines: TSQ, Lit Hub, Camera Obscura, TIME, elsewhere| Agent: Lauren Abramo
Omotara @omotarajames.bsky.social 🌈 NAACP Image Award nominated debut, “Song of My Softening” OUT NOW 🌱 PaD Guest Editor @poetsorg
"Worth the wait." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post 👇🏾
https://linktr.ee/omotarajames/?fbclid=PAAaY1S3Las3Dwvt9XE5-EtE
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
Jessica Mesman @jessicamesman.bsky.social Senior editor of The Christian Century
Writer specializing in religion and culture
Michele Thomas @bedstuysomm.bsky.social Witer, editor, educator, sommelier. LOTR & Melville geek. Native NYer.
http://www.bedstuysomm.com/
Debbie Weingarten @cactuswrenwriter.bsky.social writer, editor, coffee, thunderstorms, introvert, sonoran desert --> western nc, former vegetable farmer, currently writing about organic seeds and writing a book. 
Gayle Brandeis @gaylebrandeis.bsky.social Writer, teacher, gentle rabble rouser. Co-proprietor of Secret World Books in Highland Park, IL.
Maggie Mertens @maggiemertens.bsky.social Journalist
Author: BETTER FASTER FARTHER, 2024, @algonquinbooks.bsky.social
Radio Host: The Forecast Seattle's Weekly Women's Sports Show www.kvru.org/shows/the-forecast/
Co-Founder: https://www.talkscratch.com/
Professional laugh-er
Contains Multitudes
Anna Cabe @annablabs.bsky.social Writer. Co-Fiction Editor @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. Always hungry. She/her/hers. Header by @shing.bsky.social
Sejal Shah @sejalshah.bsky.social Writer & author of THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE: Essays, an NPR Best Book of the year & HOW TO MAKE YOUR MOTHER CRY: fictions, long-listed for the 2025 Story Prize. More at www.sejal-shah.com. #invisibledisabilities #neurodiversity #ADHD
Stevie Trujillo 💙🦋💃🏽 @stevietrujillo.bsky.social Writer, mama, American dreamer in despair. Fighting the good fight with words in The NYT, The Guardian, WaPo, Huff Post, Salon, Vogue, etc.
Drove The World's Longest Road. Resides in Spain. Huge crush on FDR. Votes BLUE 💙
Born + raised in L.A
Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social author of First Love and Negative Space
Aileen Weintraub @aileenweintraub.bsky.social Author of KNOCKED DOWN: A HIGH RISK MEMOIR. Health, Lifestyle, and Travel Journalist. Words in Wash Po, AARP, Oprah Daily, BBC. One half of witchesofpitches.com
Lina Lau @linalau.bsky.social writer—mostly flash. mother. owner of too many notebooks.
Flash reader at Hippocampus Literary Magazine
Lori Tucker-Sullivan @lorit-s.bsky.social Author, I Can’t Remember if I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy. Backbeat/Bloomsbury. Words in NYT, WaPo, Salon, +others. Pushcart nominee. Best American Essays HM. Detroiter, rocker, mom, widow.
Katherine Schaefer @klschaefer.bsky.social Writer of creative nonfiction, memoir, and short stories.
@annareisman @annareisman.bsky.social Primary care doctor, professor of medicine, critical medical humanities, flute player, writer (bylines include NEJM, Slate, NYT, Atlantic).
www.annareisman.com
Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social Author of Bellwether: A Telephone Operator, a Landmark Court Case, and the Women Whose Voices Connected a Nation (Union Square March 2027). History and culture writer. Words in The Atlantic, NPR, Salon, Washington Post. she/her
@tracychats.bsky.social @tracychats.bsky.social TracyChats.com
Rita Kasperek @rita-k.bsky.social Writer. Cat lady. Refugee from Xtwitter.
Trileigh Tucker @trileightucker.bsky.social Writing about meaning in nature, integrating science, spirit, mythology. Birder, artist, musician, PhD geologist. Tetrachromat wannabe. Pubs, art, and bio at NaturalPresenceArts.com.
Sofia Perez @sofia-perez.bsky.social Writer, editor, New Yorker, https://sofia-perez.com // Words in BBC Travel, CNTraveler, Forbes, LitHub, Saveur, Travel+Leisure // ‘24 Sustainability Award (for Spain reporting), ‘23 ASJA Writing Awards Finalist // Beats: food/drink, travel, art, eco-issues
Estelle Erasmus @estelleserasmus.bsky.social TEDx Speaker. Author, WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED. NYU writing prof. Contrib. Editor, Writer’s Digest. Freelance Writing Direct podcast host. Award-winning journalist with bylines in The New York Times, Washington Post, Slate + https://EstelleSErasmus.com
Donna Behen @donnabehen.bsky.social Writer, editor, content marketer.
Former Brooklynite now living in Upstate NY.
#woolfer
K.L. Sullivan @klsullivan.bsky.social Writer. Biologist. Whistleblower. Rock n roll singer. Recent escapee from that incel-sodden catastrophe cluster that is X. Repped by Lisa Amstutz at Storm Literary.
Sucheta Rawal @suchetarawal.bsky.social - Food & travel writer Travel+Leisure, NatGeo, HuffPost, AAA, Fodor’s.
- Keynote professional speaker. 3 TED talks.
- Founder of nonprofit ‘Go Eat Give’.
- Author of ‘Beato Goes To’ children’s books.
- Columnist Georgia Trend & Khabar.
- 120 countries
Janie Emaus @janieemaus.bsky.social Author of blended holiday picture books, upmarket fiction and paranormal romance. And a frequent contributor to AARP, where I write about the humorous side of life. 
Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com Sociologist and Makai Livingstone-GBV-Survivor, who coined the term, "Access Intimacy Abuse" to capture vile violations from which I may never recover, so contributions welcome here: https://ko-fi.com/equitableforall
https://linktr.ee/KrystalKavitaJagoo
Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social I👻IWriter. Book maven. Unlikable female protagonist. Aspiring time traveler. Words @electriclit, @crimereads, @Kveller, @mental_floss, etc. @litmaven on Threads.
Jacque Gorelick @jacgorelick.bsky.social Writer. Overthinker. Dogs, Music, Books & Sometimes People. she/her
✍🏼 estrangement, found family, motherhood
MAP OF A HEART about ❤️s (medical & metaphorical)VineLeavesPress '26 Website www.jacquegorelick.com
Cara Meredith @carameredithwrites.bsky.social freelance writer, author type, occasional minister, slightly funny human. Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation releases in April! Oakland, CA.
Nicole Byrne 🏳️🌈 they/she @nicolebyrnepoet.bsky.social Queer poet kept alive by snacks, rock n roll & sheer force of will▪️Assistant Poetry Editor for @splitlipthemag.bsky.social▪️Poems in several defunct journals & some that are still kickin'▪️Wabanaki Land (Portland, ME)
Kerry Neville @kerryneville.bsky.social Books Essays Palaver 📚 Momma May Be Mad (forthcoming 2025), Necessary Lies, & Remember To Forget Me. PhD
@Fulbright_Eire 🌊 NYer↪️GA but ❤️ ↪️ Luimneach🇮🇪
@sarahterez.bsky.social @sarahterez.bsky.social Writer ("Herself When She's Missing"), Teacher (U Chicago Graham School/Story Studio Chicago) Creative Coach/Developmental Editor 
Bettina @bettifly.bsky.social Writing/Social Impact/Public Health/Resistance from my perch in rocky coastal Maine. #amediting.
@franciearenson.bsky.social @franciearenson.bsky.social