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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social Award-winning Author. Associate Professor, School of History, University of Leeds. Author of The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Research: Black people, Women, Slavery, Freedom, Law, Jesuits.
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Bridgett M Davis @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social Author of the memoirs LOVE, RITA (March ‘25) & THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FANNIE DAVIS and writer/director of the newly rediscovered film NAKED ACTS. Proud native of Detroit. Substack: https://substack.com/@bridgettmdavis
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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
The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social Online lit mag. Authoring change. From the people who built these cities.
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Jenny Morris - Ethical Guide to Murder 🔪⚖️🔪 @drjennymorris.bsky.social Writer, behavioural scientist and aspiring mushroom forager. Ethical Guide to Murder out now.
a (dil)emma ✨️ is AGENTED! @emmailene.bsky.social DAGGER OF THE TSAR 🔥🗡 • fantasy author • oh no, she writes + pasta lover • leo ✨ • she/they • keep up with me ➡️ https://www.emmailene.com/ • rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social
Tiffany Troy @tiffanytroy.bsky.social Author of Dominus (BlazeVOX), Managing Editor at Tupelo Quarterly, Associate Editor at Tupelo Press, Book Review Co-Editor at the Los Angeles Review and Ass. Poetry Editor at Asymptote
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Libre @librelit.bsky.social A southern literature & arts mag bent on brain pain, taking the narrative back, jiggling it open, extracting the oyster from its background of compressed pain to reexamine what it means to scavenge for agency in liminal states of illness.
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Kimbilio @kimbiliofiction.com Kimbilio® means “safe haven” in Swahili. We are a community of writers and scholars committed to developing, empowering and sustaining fiction writers from the African diaspora and their stories. Projects include readings, presentations at professional co
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Melissa Faliveno @mlfaliveno.bsky.social writer, editor, teacher, rock/roller | author of TOMBOYLAND and HEMLOCK, out now from Little, Brown | asst. prof at UNC | she/they
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Alicia Swain @aliciamswain.bsky.social Author of Steel Slides and Yellow Walls
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Samantha Crewson @shelvesofsamantha.bsky.social 🍒 Author of EVERY SWEET THING IS BITTER (Crooked Lane, 4/22/2025)
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Teretha G. Houston @teretha111.bsky.social Best-selling author of the thriller #NoWhereToLand. ⚡️BookLife Editor's Pick.Director, producer, screenwriter, film editor, actress, and singer.
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Ash McCurry @amacwriting.bsky.social I write (very) short fiction. LL: Bath Flash Fiction Award, Welkin Writing Prize • SL: NFFD Competition • Honorable Mention: Scribes Writing Prize • Finalist: Five Minutes Micro Contest ✍️ Fiction Reader @okaydonkeymag.com
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