The Storytellers Foundation | The Storyteller's Shelf Podcast @tstorypodcast.bsky.social https://thestorytellersshelfpodcast.com 📚 Kidlit experts. 📖 We demystify publishing! | 🥇 Top 100 & Spotify Award-Winning Podcast | Home of The Big Bang Notable Book List & The Storytellers Summit Series | summit.getstoryrise.com
Roxanne Khamsi @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social - contributing writer at The Atlantic
- author of BEYOND INHERITANCE, available now, including audiobook: http://amazon.com/dp/059354191X
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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social TRICKY CHOPSTICKS {‘24 @SimonKIDS} 🌟 SPARKLES FOR SUNNY: A Lunar New Year Story {‘25 @PenguinKids} 🌟 #SCBWI #12x12PB #PBParty #PBRisingStars #PBStudyBuddy Rep: @AgentHenkin 💜 food +☕+ writing STEAM PBs
Stephanie Jackson - seeking rep! @sjwritesforkids.bsky.social Kidlit writer, mostly PB & MG. '26 Honorable Mention, #PBRisingStars! Member SCBWI, The Authors Guild. Mom x4. 12x12 challenge. Words published w/ Cricket magazine, Dirigible Balloon, STEMTuesday.com. Seeking rep. StephanieWritesForKids.com
Kailei Pew @kaileipewbooks.bsky.social Children’s Book Author
THE MONSTER ABOVE THE BED
KID-VENTORS
I SEE COLOR
Repped by Emily Forney of Bookends Lit
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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social I write #PB & #MG with humor, heart & hope 💖
#PBParty host | #SCBWI FL Crit Group Coordinator | #12x12PB | http://linktr.ee/MindyAlyseWeiss | https://mindyalyseweiss.com/
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PB Rising Stars @pbrisingstars.bsky.social We give experienced picture book creators the platform to pull up-and-coming, historically excluded creators up the turbulent publishing ladder.
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Layla Fallah @laylafallah.bsky.social Agent Assistant at BookEnds Literary Agency
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Ebony Lynn Mudd (she/her) @ebonylynnmudd.bsky.social PEOPLE Magazine ✨ featured author
🎤 Just Like Tina (PRH • Jan 27th)
🌊Swim Like Them (S&S)
🩰 Junior Takes a Leap (Scholastic)
Now booking school visits for Black History Month ‘26 + beyond.
🌸Website: www.ebonylynnmudd.com
📚PB Courses: www.thepbretreat.com
Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social Blog about kids books? You bet (A Fuse #8 Production). Library degree? You know it. Books for kids? Seven. Books for adults about kidlit? Two. Podcasts about kids books? One (Fuse 8 n’ Kate). Having fun! https://afuse8production.slj.com
The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org Award-winning nonprofit news site chronicling the #LongCOVID crisis. Founded by @BetsyLadyzhets.bsky.social & @MilesWGriffis.bsky.social
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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social editor/co-founder @thesicktimes.org | journalist covering Long COVID & related crises | she/her/🏳️🌈
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Michael Moyer @mmoyer.bsky.social Executive editor quantamagazine.org
Eric Bender @ebender00.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Retired science writer. Follow the climate crisis, museums and research on type 1 diabetes.
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James Dinneen @jamesdinneen.bsky.social Science journalist reporting on Earth for @nature.com; writing book about the deep interior of Earth for @vikingbooks.bsky.social. Send tips via Signal @jamesnesw.44. Email is easy to find. Newsletter: northeastsouthwest.substack.com
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social Senior editor at New Scientist
Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social Ethnoecologist; Essayist; Poet
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Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social Science journalist. Yoga teacher. I'm an "indirect cost" writing for researchers at times.
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Crystal Chow @crystalcchow.bsky.social Hong Kong journalist
Harold Underdown @hunderdown.bsky.social I'm a children's book editor, teacher and workshop presenter, owner of The Purple Crayon website -- www.underdown.org --and part of Kid's Book Revisions Plus: @kbrplus.bsky.social.
I post about #kidlit and other things.
SciLine @sciline.org We offer free help to reporters with science. We offer help to scientists with media.
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On Wisconsin Magazine @onwismag.bsky.social Serving University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni and friends since 1899. One of the largest-circulation alumni publications and a gold-medal winner for best alumni magazine.
Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social Award-winning public health reporter at KFF Health News. Bylines at Nature, New York Times, National Geographic & more. AmyM@kff.org Signal: AmyMaxmen.25 www.amymaxmen.com & https://kffhealthnews.org/news/author/amy-maxmen
Laura Allen @laura-allen.bsky.social Writer, teacher, mother. Climate action, Eco-toilets, Water reuse. Grow food, protect trans youth, collective liberation. Co-founder- Greywater Action. Science writer for kids and aspiring PB author.
lauraallen.me
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Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social 📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe 
Marianna Limas @mnlimas.bsky.social Founder of the Science Writing News Roundup, a newsletter for science writers and journalists: https://sciencewriting.substack.com/
Emma Denes @byemmadenes.bsky.social Environmental journalist writing the world, one word at a time. Science writing master's student at Johns Hopkins University, ocean enthusiast, theatre kid. Marist University ‘25 ✍️🐳🎭🦊
Lauren Gravitz @lyrebard.bsky.social Reporter + editor specializing in health and science, particularly obsessed with neuroscience and the brain. Contributing editor for Scientific American. Bibliophile. Baker. Defender of the marginalized. Proselytizer of kindness. San Diego, CA
Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com Working at the intersection of art and neuroscience. Exploring sleep, memory, and perception.
🗓️ Nocturnal Worlds Opens Oct 1 @ Waterstone Gallery, PDX
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🦋 Nature explorer & 🍄🟫 mushroom forager
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Dani Sedbrook @birdstobosons.bsky.social Science writer based in Germany. Chemist/Ochem lecturer in a previous life. Writes about everything from…well…
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Claudia Lopez Lloreda @claudia-lopez.bsky.social Reporter at The Transmitter | PhD, Neuroscience from UPenn 🧠 | Prev: Science, The Open Notebook & ‘21 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at STAT News | Boricua 🇵🇷
UW Center for Journalism Ethics @uwethics.bsky.social Promoting high standards and fostering vigorous debate. Official account for the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison: https://ethics.sjmc.wisc.edu
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Della Ross Ferreri @dellarossferreri.bsky.social Children's Author
Rep:Rachel Orr, Prospect Agency
MOUSE BUFFET (Sleeping Bear Press)
HUGGLE WUGGLE, BEDTIME SNUGGLE (Beaming Books)
JANE THE TRAIN & THE CHRISTMAS STORM (Flamingo/PRH, 2028)
Now booking K-3 school visits.
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Sarah Derouin @sarahderouin.com Science journalist, writer, editor. Former geologist. Happiest when drinking a coffee, sitting outside, and petting a dog.
Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social Journalist covering the ocean and climate change / currently: columnist @sciencepolitics.bsky.social / former: POLITICO, The Washington Post, The Post & Courier / National Geographic Explorer / signal @clare.14
Sara Van Note @svannotes.bsky.social Science & nature writer for kids and adults. Also educator, naturalist, meanderer. 🌱 🦋 🦜
Member SCBWI, SEJ, NASW.
Represented by Kathleen Rushall at Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
New Mexico = home
Marla Broadfoot @marlabroadfoot.bsky.social Freelance Science Journalist, PhD Geneticist, Contributing Editor at American Scientist, Adjunct Faculty at UNC, Board Member at NASW, Past President at SCONC, 2022-23 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow.
Hannah Thomasy @hannahthomasy.bsky.social Science journalist & biology nerd. ❤️🧪 Be the best weirdo you can be.
Blythe Terrell @blytheterrell.bsky.social Science journalist & audio instructor
Joyfully editing Science Vs since 2017 (?!)
Fan of bad shark movies, horror & long or short walks in the woods
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social I cover infectious diseases for STAT (www.statnews.com). 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. I write about H5N1 (in all species), Covid, polio, flu, Ebola, RSV, mpox, STIs. Send me news tips on Signal: HBranswell.01
CouldThisHappen? @couldthishappen.bsky.social Science/tech writer, professional plant fanatic (esp. orchids), space enthusiast, sci-fi geek, probable cylon, ice hockey fan, tree-hugger, animal lover, and lecturer of writing / rhetoric at Boston University. www.joellerenstrom.com
Julia Michaels @juliamichaels.bsky.social Restoration Ecologist, Educator, and Ph.D. Researcher at Hedgerow Farms, a 300-acre California farm with over 35 years of history growing native wildflowers and grasses for restoration. 
Diya D @diyadwrites.bsky.social Freelance science & engineering writer
diyawrites.com
Biomedical engineer
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USC Alum ✌🏽
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#engcomm, a thing yet?
I hope ATproto + ActivityPub = Future W3C open standard
Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social Human. Taiwanese. Writer/Creator. Designing lasting impact for science, environment, and society.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
National Association of Science Writers (NASW) @sciencewriters.org Fighting for the free flow of science news since 1934. A 501(c)(6) professional membership organization.
💚 https://www.nasw.org
🎟️ https://www.sciencewriters2025.org
Siri Carpenter @siricarpenter.bsky.social Co-founder, executive director, & EIC of
@theopennotebook.bsky.social, journalist & editor, @Sciencewriters.org past president. siricarpenter@theopennotebook.com. She/her.
The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social Nonprofit equipping journalists to cover science: articles, tip sheets, trainings, courses, mentoring, pitch database, & more. Our new book THE BEST SCIENCE STORIES AND HOW THEY WORK: https://tinyurl.com/TBSSbook
Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social Sci journo, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. Highly caffeinated. All bad takes mine. She/her
Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social Book author, toxicology journalist, fascinated by poison and murder (current book project), and, oh yeah, I'm the former director of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT.
Kate Travis @katetravis.bsky.social Managing editor of Retraction Watch - https://retractionwatch.com/. NASW Science in Society Awards coordinator. Science journalist, project manager, Order Muppet (mostly). kate[at]retractionwatch.com, katetravis.05 on Signal.
Jyoti Madhusoodanan @smjyoti.bsky.social Science journalist, immigrant, mother. She/her. Words for Scientific American, Undark, Nature, Science, others. https://www.jyotimadhusoodanan.com/
Wudan Yan @wudan.bsky.social Narrative journalist, fact-checker, podcaster. Founder, Factual—a fact-checking agency
www.wudanyan.com
www.factual.work
Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social Writer. Comms person.
Mostly sci/tech/health.
Sometimes music/food/culture.
Eagles fan.
Former cook, bouncer, (bad) server, video store clerk, life model.
Let’s make the South better, y’all.
Stuff I write for fun: https://medium.com/@shiplives
Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
Sruthi Balakrishnan @sruthisb.bsky.social Academic editor, science writer, fact-checker, and unapologetic Oxford comma-lover | PhD in Biology | she/her
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Ed Yong @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
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