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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social poet, translator, prof | the deering hour (Ornithopter) | The Space of Disappearance (SUNY) | Cartographies of Exile (Routledge) | dir. The Elegy Project | dir. Rutgers Translation Studies Initiative
Meg Eberle @megpdx.bsky.social Writer, media watchdog, former journalist and communications strategist
Mahogany L. Browne @mobrowne.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Alchemist.
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.
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
kenny mellman @kennymellman.bsky.social Kiki and Herb , The Julie Ruin, Our Hit Parade. queer (he/him)
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist: https://chanda.science First book: https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos BUY MY NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime Blog: news.chanda.science all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️‍🌈/agender/woman. Posts by/for me🖖🏽
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc. out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press) https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social Poet.
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. 🦃
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️‍🌈 http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social Poet & Scholar | Trans & Queer Academic | Books: The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep (Saturnalia 2025), Since I Moved In (Chax 2019), Arrive on Wave (Chax 2016), Troubling the Line (Nightboat 2013) | Editor of @eoagh.bsky.social | She/her tracepeterson.com
Hannah Ensor @hensor.bsky.social poet. they/them. https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-108-ensor
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project. #DisabilityJustice feed I created: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:65kss3ewg5ida5mjyuk73v5r/feed/aaaba7ikg4sho More about me https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him 📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm Edyong.me
Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷SOCIAL DISTANCING out March 2027 from Semiotext(e)💐 ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK out Fall 2027 from Haymarket 🌸 https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
Joanna Fuhrman @joannafuhrman.bsky.social Poet, 7 books including To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021) and Data Mind (Curbstone/Northwestern 2024). Co-ed. Hanging Loose Press and Rutgers professor, joannafuhrman.com
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social Philly poet https://linktr.ee/pattiemccarthy
Min Jin Lee @minjinlee.bsky.social New York State Author Laureate 2025-2027. Writer. New Yorker. Late Bloomer. www.minjinlee.com
Jenn (fka McCreary) DiGuglielmo @jenndig.bsky.social Philly poet // aging against the machine
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague @hadeejasouffle.bsky.social living empanada, fortunately a poet, unfortunately an academic
Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Faculty in English @ U of Iowa | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
Christy Davids @wootchristywoot.bsky.social CD 🌵 philly poet 🪼 teacher 🐦‍⬛ birder https://linktr.ee/ChristyDavids?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=28c3feb4-5753-4a9d-a032-e74b8d91f175
David G Haskell @dghaskell.bsky.social Writer, biologist 🌻How Flowers Made our World, now in bookstores! Sounds Wild and Broken 13 Ways to Smell a Tree The Songs of Trees The Forest Unseen
Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social Poet, photographer, occasional visual artist. Latest book of poems is Hold Your Own from Copper Canyon Press (2024). https://www.patreon.com/nikkiwallschlaeger
jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social they + she art historian poet Fil Am messing with Renaissance practices U Delaware + Philly co-founder of the journal Selva https://linktr.ee/henkaipantomime for books and pubs
Timothy Yu @timpanyu.bsky.social Poet, scholar, Cubs fan. Author of 100 Chinese Silences, Diasporic Poetics, Race and the Avant-Garde; editor of the Cambridge Companion to 21st C American Poetry.
Carleen Tibbetts @carleentibbetts.bsky.social Sometimes poet. Haver of many English degrees. Rat lover and crystal collector. Virgo INFJ. Bipolar rock ‘n’ roller. Will block both red and blue MAGA. Venmo @Carleen-Tibbetts
Kenning JP García @kjpgarcia.bsky.social Ace Afro-Absurdist Juyorican diarist, monologuer, and pansy. (xe/xyr // one)
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts. propublica.org
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social Lit prof, newly minted beachcomber, and SF writer in Japan. Words in Analog, F&SF, and elsewhere. Debut novel—If the Stars Are Lit (Luna Press).
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social Author of ENTERING SAPPHO, TRANSLINGUAL POETICS, DOWN, & SECURITY POSTURE. My newest book is HERE IS A FIGURE: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/
Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social podcasts (on MST3K, "great books", old trivia): megaphonic.fm || songs with bitter words: theminorthirds.bandcamp.com || instrumentals: themesquad.bandcamp.com || crosswords, poetry, photography, and more: chrispiuma.com || pronouns: 🤷
K. Lorraine Graham @klorraine.bsky.social Artist poet hero, card-reader & harried techno courtier. Things I like: mixed-media fiber art & line breaks. Tarot. Impossible taxonomies. Beans. https://www.klgstudio.com/divination-philosophy/
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social poet-in-residence of the astral realm / fog aficionado / Toska (Deep Vellum, 2023) / 🥨 Philly IG: @alina_pleskova alinapleskova.com
Carolyn Forché @carolynforche.bsky.social Poet, memoirist
Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social www.IlyaKaminsky.com
Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social Author of Modern Poetry, frank: sonnets, Still Life w Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, all from Graywolf Press, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (Univ. of Massachusetts Press), Chancellor for Academy of American Poets.
Rachel Zucker @rachzuck.bsky.social Me. Also, host of Commonplace. Also teacher, Mom & friend.
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
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
Emanuel Xavier @emanuelxavier.bsky.social Poet, author, and LGBTQ+ activist. Exploring identity, resilience, and survival through storytelling and art.
Andrea Lawlor @anderlawlor.bsky.social parent, partner, cat dad, writer, prof, etc. arms embargo now & forever! IG: @anderlawlor website: www.anderlawlor.com substack: https://pocketlawlor.substack.com
Aditi Machado @aditimachado.bsky.social Poet of EMPORIUM and SOME BEHEADINGS (both Nightboats). Does translation, essay writing, teaching, gardening, wine consumption.
Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
Susan M. Schultz @susanmschultz.bsky.social Poet (in prose), Lilith walker, Cards fan, photographer. Recents: _Lilith Walks_ (BlazeVox); _Meditations (Dec 2019 - Dec 2020)_ (Wet Cement). _I and Eucalyptus_ (Lavender Ink), _More Lilith Walks_ (BlazeVox). Lives in Hawai`i.
Julie Carr @juliecarr.bsky.social Books: Underscore; Mud, Blood, and Ghosts; Real Life: An Installation; 100 Notes on Violence; Someone Shot my Book. RAG. &others. Ac-job: Chair of WGST; teach poetry; CUB. juliecarrpoet.com; counterpathpress.org; aprilinstitute.org.
Bloof Books @bloofbooks.bsky.social Tiny by Design. Bloof is a small press publishing poetry in paperback & handmade chapbooks. Hi Water offers hand-printed art & goods. // Our links: https://bloofbooks.com/links/
Cynthia Arrieu-King @arrieuking.bsky.social writer teacher quilter auntie cat valet
Aldon Nielsen @aldonlynn.bsky.social Poet, Scholar
Orchid Tierney @orchidtierney.bsky.social Ph.D. | poet | NZ in Ohio | no person is illegal | Essay Press and Calamari Archive author | William P. Rice Associate Professor of English at Kenyon College | Senior Editor Kenyon Review | She/her | BEI Fellow | www.orchidtierney.com
John Beer @jrbeer.bsky.social PDX/van
Daniel Kane @dkanepoetry.bsky.social Living in Copenhagen, working in Uppsala. European editor for Textual Practice, associate editor for Studia Neophilologica. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/love-joe/9780231203425 https://cup.columbia.edu/book/do-you-have-a-band/9780231162975/
Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social possibles, infinites, gaps, nothings, in-betweens new book in fall 2025 (Coach House Book) Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University https://ericschmaltz.com/
M M Gessen @mashagessen.bsky.social Columnist at The New York Times. Distinguished Professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of NY. Author at Riverhead Books
Jen Coleman @jenc44.bsky.social Poet, environmental writer, Minnesotan in Portland OR, gleeful absurdist
Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Author of SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Kasey Mohammad @deathrockroadtrip.bsky.social Poet, teacher, cat dad. I like both kinds of music.
Jen Benka @jenbenka.bsky.social
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
Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social Cheerleader for other poets' poems | Founder of Conscious Writers Collective | www.consciouswriterscollective.com
LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net Books Booze Belles Balls | Publisher | http://littlepuss.net | We're a feminist press run by trans women | Buy PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID and MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS | Ecclesiastes 12:12-13
Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review. lambdaliterary.org lambdaliteraryreview.org linktr.ee/lambdaliterary
Michelle Tea @michelletea.bsky.social DOPAMINE Books: OUT NOW WITCH Anthology NEXT UP Self-Romancing by L Scully Dopaminebooks.org Me: Little F out this October Knocking Myself Up Against Memoir Modern Tarot Black Wave Valencia + more
Donna de la Perrière @cronepoetics.bsky.social Three cats. Five poetry collections. Wearing all black since 1983. #cronepoetics
Chris McCreary @chrismccreary.bsky.social [ poet & teacher ] https://linktr.ee/Chris___McCreary
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Elizabeth Scanlon @elizabethscanlon.bsky.social poet author of Whosoever Whole (Omnidawn, 2024) & Lonesome Gnosis (Horsethief Books, 2017) EIC of The American Poetry Review elizabethscanlon.net
Danielle Pafunda @daniellepafunda.bsky.social ALONG THE ROAD EVERYONE MUST TRAVEL (Saturnalia 2025) poetry worldbuilding altering fabric of space and time in a counter-clockwise loop she/they parent partner moss starfat salt 🏳️‍🌈 SPITE, BESHREW, THE BOOK OF SCAB, THE DEAD GIRLS SPEAK IN UNISON etc
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism. https://linktr.ee/lithub_
The American Poetry Review @ampoetryreview.bsky.social Poetry all the time since 1972. We never close. aprweb.org
Carrie Hunter @cshunter.bsky.social MA/MFA Poetics MA TESOL “The Flow of the Poem’s Display of Itself” from Roof Books 2025
Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social poet/documentarist/devotee of literary, scholarly, visual & performance arts UChicago prof battling assaults of planetary life 1 word at a time Columbia: Poetry After Barbarism; Killing the Moonlight Atelos: Republic of Exit 43 UChi: Locomotrix oikost.com
The Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting @tulogancenter.bsky.social Community-based investigative reporting at Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communications. linktr.ee/tulogancenter
Cheryl Strayed @cherylstrayed.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Portlander. Traveler. Cat/dog lady. Author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Torch, and Brave Enough. Also: Dear Sugar.
Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social editing @ atria and @wspbooks.bsky.social
adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social writer. gardener of healing ideas. emergent strategist, pleasure activist. earthling. good witch. homecoming southerner. https://linktr.ee/adriennemareebrown
Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social Poet, editor, author of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY; Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre; Poet Laureate of Calgary (2014-2016) and Banff (2022-2024) -- located in Banff, Alberta, Canada. He/him. online at: www.derekbeaulieu.ca
Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social a nonprofit, independent publisher https://www.floodeditions.com For news, subscribe: http://eepurl.com/jqTiAw
Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social Writer of all shapes and sizes at The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Frieze, the Village Voice, New Republic, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Organizing at Freelance Solidarity Project. he/him and very gay 🇵🇸 danielfelsenthal.com
Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social Futurepoem is a NYC-based not-for-profit poetry press. We champion innovative writing and writers. linktr.ee/futurepoem
Justin Marks @justinmarks.bsky.social Poet, parent, co-founder and editor Birds, LLC. If This Should Reach You in Time available from Barrelhouse books.
Julia Bloch @julivox.bsky.social Author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson, Valley Fever, The Sacramento of Desire, and Lyric Trade.
Ben Friedlander (he/him/his) @mongibeddu.bsky.social Poet, editor, scholar in Maine. Now available: Nice: The Collected Poems of David Melnick (https://nightboat.org/book/nice/). Free 🇵🇸; end the genocide now!
Shanna Compton @shannacompton.bsky.social Artist printmaker & poet.🦻Getting inky in Blue Hill, Maine. 🖼️ ARTPM 2026 at Buoy (Mar-May) + It’s the Small Things at Camden Public Library (May) 📚 Freelance book designer & cover artist for small presses. // See also @bloofbooks www.shannacompton.com
Samuel Ace @ourweather.bsky.social Writer most recently of “I want to start by saying,” "Portals" (with Maureen Seaton), “Our Weather Our Sea,” “Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash.” linktr.ee/samuelace
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community. http://linktr.ee/The_Rumpus2.1
Jared Stanley @weedlet.bsky.social Poet. So Tough. Antifascist. Satan is a friend of mine. https://jared-stanley.info ♏️ Nevada/California
CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social Poet. Editor in chief at Two Lines Press.
Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, Distinguished Visiting Prof at Barnard College. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed & The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
Mickie Kennedy @mickiepoet.bsky.social Pushcart nominee. Gay poet. Baltimore. POETRY, Threepenny, TSR, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel. First book Worth Burning coming Feb. '26 Black Lawrence Press. https://mickiekennedy.com
Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social Community-organized press publishing chapbooks and books. New chaps in 2026 from Bob Holman, rob mclennan and others, as well as books by Daniel Bouchard and Elizabeth Marie Young, Kimberly Lyons’ selected, and Steve Carey’s collected.
American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association. Find us at https://ala.org. We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
E. Tracy Grinnell @etracygrinnell.bsky.social Poet & other things.