Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social Host of The Joy Reid Show, best-selling author, writer, documentary filmmaker, and happy warrior blerd 'bout town. Subscribe at thejoyreidshow.com and joyannreid.com!
Oak Tree Comics @oaktreecomics.bsky.social An independent children’s book publisher 📚
Where imagination meets environmentalism🌍
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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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Laura K Zimmermann @laurak-pbwriter.bsky.social Children’s Author | Professor | Rep’d by @KaitlynLeann17.bsky.social at @Bradfordagents.bsky.social | MUSHROOM RAIN | UNDER THE FOREST FLOOR coming Spring 2028 | #SCBWI | she/her
Brittany Mazique @brittanymazique.bsky.social Writer | Marketer | Mom | represented by @jmcgowansbks
Evelyn Bookless @evelynbookless.bsky.social Children’s Author - mostly picture books
JINX! Out now
🌏Award winning environmental series:
CAPTAIN GREEN AND THE TREE MACHINE (2021)
CAPTAIN GREEN AND THE PLASTIC SCENE (2019)
www.evelynbookless.com
Marcia Strykowski @marciastrykowski.bsky.social Children's Book Author~MG~PB~SCBWI~Librarian~Art~Music~Ocean www.marciastrykowski.com
nala khan ✩ @nalakhan.bsky.social ✎ Author • Illustrator • Menace
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* Debut PB coming 2027+2028 via Scholastic! *
Laurie Brown @laurie17brown.bsky.social MG and cozy writer. NH girl by location NYC girl in spirit. Personal chef to three dogs. My debut #MG novel DON'T FRET, FRIDA comes out in fall of 2026
Inked Voices @inkedvoices.bsky.social Inked Voices helps writers find community, motivation and feedback to fuel their writing process. Human-centered, all online. www.inkedvoices.com
Author Jason J. Willis @jasonjwillis.bsky.social Equalist, geek, reader, poet, and lover of art.
Author of System Apocalypse Liberty: Head of the Class
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CarsonDrewIt @carson-drew-it.com 🇨🇦 picture draw-er and game designer. | partnered twitch streamer | https://carsondrewit.com/
Elizabeth Land Quant @elizabethlquant.bsky.social MN Writer, queer, #autistic, wife, mom, #disabled 🐈⬛Moss enthusiast
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🐈⬛Cosy mystery F*CK THIS MURDER out now!
CK (They/Them preferred but any) @ckwritesbooks.bsky.social Born Intersex (Bigender easier for peeps to understand ) Autie///Chkee/Chsaw/white///HI///Repped by Page Turner///POPI'S ALL SOULS SONG///A COSTUME FOR CHARLY (Crystal Kite Finalist)///#kidlit #12x12 Insta: https://www.instagram.com/ckmalonewrites/
Terri Stefanko @terristefanko.bsky.social whimsical art & illustrations
reminding you that *you are magic*
mfa in visual communication design
adjunct faculty at kent state
find me at art festivals: Light the Wild
terristefanko.com
lightthewild.com
Christopher Lepage @calepage.bsky.social PB author
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#12x12
#kidlit
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Jodie Apeseche @jodieapeseche.bsky.social Artist, author/illustrator, SCBWI, Courage to Create, Writers' Loft Hudson, MA, avid gardener, hiker, and fundraiser. Former teacher, librarian, and environmental specialist. Current dog mom! https://jodieapeseche.weebly.com
Kirk Rafferty ✨is 👀✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com Dad, husband, award winning author, killer of darlings (he/him)
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with @thecrumpet.bsky.social
Rep Tommy Dean at Talcott Notch
"Villain, I have done thy mother"
Sharalyn Edgeberg @sedgeberg.bsky.social I’m a children’s picture book writer. I’m inspired by nature & wildlife. I love to paint with watercolors and draw. @
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Big Bearded Bookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Expert bookseller with a very big beard
Books read: 82/100
📚 A Werewolf Ate My Homework
📺 The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
In My Good Books Podcast @inmygoodbookspod.bsky.social 🎧Twice-weekly podcast episodes with authors & book lovers
📚Book reviews & recommendations
🏴Scotland
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Ernie Chiara @erniechiara.com Senior Agent at Fuse Literary ⟡ erniechiara.com ⟡ links.erniechiara.com ⟡ Co-editor & contributor for @starsandsabers.bsky.social Oz anthology
Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social Writer and illustrator of silly things.
Britt Siess @agentbrittsiess.bsky.social Founder of Britt Siess Creative Management/ Literary Agent/ Graphic Novels/ Cosplay/ Cake/ 🇲🇽🇩🇪/ Banner Art by @lazyfishy
Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social Senior Literary Agent, Spencerhill Associates. Twin mom+1 📚 Eclectic in life & books. I 💙 Jane Austen & SFF in equal doses. #TeamSpencerhill Ali-ens 👽 rock! My site/MSWL: https://aliherringwrites.wordpress.com & how to query: www.spencerhillassociates.com
Victoria Marini @litagentmarini.bsky.social Literary Agent at high line literary
Www.highlineliterary.com
Running the fiction dept
Not tall, just loud.
#MSWL big plots, bold characters
Kelly Van Sant @agentkellyvansant.bsky.social Senior literary agent and Contracts Director with KT literary. I open to queries the first 7 days of every month.
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Maria Vicente @mariavicente.com senior literary agent & senior advisor | P.S. Literary
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Author James Fuller @authorjfuller.bsky.social Best Selling multi-genre author.
Cemetery Caretaker, and fitness guy on the side.
One day, I'll write the story you'll all remember me for.
Find my books here and everywhere else books are sold:
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Emmeline Pidgen @emmelinedraws.bsky.social Kidlit illustrator/author & comic maker 🌿🌞
Literary agent: Thao Le. She/Her.
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Marietta B Zacker @agentzacker.bsky.social Book enthusiast & champion, agent at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency
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Morgan Wilson @authormorganw.bsky.social Junior Agent at Belcastro. AALA Member. SFF Author. Enby. ND. Demi.
They/Them
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Mia - Book Blogger / Author @paradiselibrary.bsky.social 📚 Award-winning #book & #theatre critic.
✍🏻 #Writer querying high concept novels.
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Abi Cushman @abicushman.com Kidlit Author/Illustrator
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🐻 Wombats Are Pretty Weird | Flamingos Are Pretty Funky
🐹 The Quiet Forest | The Quiet Ocean
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Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong, Lit Agent @charmstrong.bsky.social Literary Agent at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency
#WritingCommunity
⭐️ Above all else, be kind and have empathy for others. ⭐️
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J.L. DuRona, Middle Grade Author 👻 🎃 @jldurona.com Spooky middle grade author, music and movie friend, fledgling DM. #SCBWI #HWA. 🚫AI
Troupes are the ropes on which we joyfully swing!
Michelle Jing Chan (she/her) 🌈 @michellejingchan.bsky.social ✏️ 🎨 Kidlit Author-Illustrator
💜 Rep: @jemiscoe.bsky.social
📚2025: PRIDE, 100 DAYS, WEIWEI'S WINTER SOLSTICE
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Tammi Sauer @tammisauer.bsky.social Children’s picture book author repped by Laura Rennert at Andrea Brown Literary Agency
tammisauer.com
Caffeinated Reviewer @caffeinatedreviewer.com Kimberly. Book & audiobook reviewer & blogger. Read What Makes You Happy. Addicted to many genres & series. Coffee Addict, Wife, Nonna, Whovian, Cat Owner #AudiobookChallenge | owner @caffeinatedpr.com | https://linktr.ee/caffeinatedreviewer
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claire harris | literary agent @clairemharris.bsky.social literary agent at helm literary
website: clairemharris.com
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NickiMags @ Secret Library Book Blog @nickimags.bsky.social #reading Feminist History for Everyday of the Year by Kate Mosse 📚📖 #listeningto Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth 🎧
Closed to review requests!
https://secretlibrarybookblog.com
Ben Davis @bendavisauthor.bsky.social Author of the Carnegie nominated THE SOUP MOVEMENT and the LENNY LEMMON series. And other stuff. Remember to breathe.
https://linktr.ee/bendavisauthor
Shelly Swann @shellyswann.bsky.social author/illustrator based in Portland, Oregon.
portfolio: www.fairywulf.com
Rep’d by Jemiscoe Chambers-Black at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. ✍🏽📚🎨
Lynda Mullaly Hunt @lyndamh.bsky.social New York Times best-selling author of ONE FOR THE MURPHYS, FISH IN A TREE, WISH IN A TREE, SHOUTING AT THE RAIN (Nancy Paulsen books/Penguin) Founder of #AuthorsLoveTeachers she/her
Elys Dolan @elysdolan.bsky.social Illustrator, author and all round good egg. Lecturer on the MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art. 
Jeanie W @jeaniewogaman.bsky.social Art & Anthropology.
Artist. Illustrator. Writer. #KidLit.
Posts are my own.
jwogaman.weebly.com
Becca Kate Blogs 📖 Book Blogger 📚 @beccakateblogs.bsky.social Mama. Wife-to-be. #bookblogger. Publishing postgrad, English Lit & Creative Writing graduate. Open to review requests 💌
https://beccakateblogs.wordpress.com
April Berry | KidLit @aprilberrybooks.bsky.social Introvert, travel writer, children's book author, host of Picture Books Postcard blog. Rep'd by Katie Monson of SBR Media. #kidlit #writingcommunity #12x12PB #KidlitChuckleChallenge
AprilBerryBooks.com
Cat Ross ✨ @catross.bsky.social Lawyer. Writer.✨Lover of all things fantasy✨
Laurie (THE QUEEN OF CHESS) Wallmark @lauriewallmark.bsky.social Award winning children’s book author. (THE QUEEN OF CHESS / GRACE HOPPER: QUEEN OF COMPUTER CODE / CODE BREAKER, SPY HUNTER / and more. Repped by Liza Fleissig at Liza Royce Agency. www.lauriewallmark.com
Shawn Proctor #middlegradeauthor #author @shawnproctor.bsky.social Middle Grade author. MGNarwhals! WriteMentor 2021. Rosemont MFA. WYRM's Gauntlet Champ. Library fan.
Kathy Halsey @infowoman.bsky.social Kid lit Author | 📚🖌 Ask Infowoman: A Library Consult |PBChat Mentee |Corgis | NFNerd |Former Storyteller Academy Community Manager | Retired Librarian | https://www.kathyhalsey.com/
Twitter handle: @infowoman1
Carmella Van Vleet @carmellavanvleet.bsky.social Children's author, part-time ninja, model maker, photographer, and Team Interrobang. CarmellaVanVleet.com (she/her)
Shennen Bersani @shennen.bsky.social A children’s book author and illustrator I’ve illustrated 45 picture books (currently working on more). I also create fine art, portraits, & share 🍀 with others. www.Shennen.com Find free puzzles, coloring pages and crafts at www.achoowhypollencounts.com
Amanda Carbonell @amandalitagent.bsky.social Former junior literary agent📚
She/Her/Ella. 🇵🇷
Editing Services: editingtales.com
Misc: linktr.ee/amandacarbonell
Katie Dwyer @katiedwyer.bsky.social Picture book illustrator/author
BEAR'S FRIEND Fall '27
Repped by Kaitlyn Sanchez at Bradford Literary
katiedwyerillustrations.com
Clare Helen Welsh @clarehelenwelsh.bsky.social Former teacher, children's author, writing tutor and founder of #BooksThatHelp
Rosecliff Literary @roseclifflit.bsky.social DC-based literary agency | where stories find their path | founder @jessicaberg.bsky.social
Mary Helen Berg @maryhelenberg.bsky.social Children’s book author | ENOUGH TO SHARE @TielmourPress l Soon: Bushel & Peck Books | #PBParty Finalist ‘25 & ‘23, HM ‘24, l Writementor ‘22 | #SCBWI | #12x12PB | #Kidlit #PB
Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com YA and Romance Author/Anthologist. LGBTQReads founder. Macaron aficionado. SOON BY YOU out now from SMP. Rep: Patricia Nelson. She/her. Update your website.
Edward Underhill @edwardunderhill.bsky.social Trans author, cat guy, plant nerd. 🏳️⚧️🌈 The In-Between Bookstore and In Case You Read This are out now! | up next: The House of Now and Then (2026)
Justine Pucella Winans @justinepwinans.bsky.social Award-winning author, cat lover, and aspiring Pokémon trainer. Most recent: HOW TO SURVIVE A SLASHER Next up: A LITTLE TOO HAUNTED (9/30/25) They/She
www.justinepucellawinans.com/links
Kate Fussner @katefussner.bsky.social 📕 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE (HarperCollins, March 18, 2025)
📕 THE SONG OF US (KTegenbooks/HarperCollins)
✍ DVMentor '22
✍ MFA Lesley ‘21
🏳🌈Queer she/her
rep: Eric Smith @P.S. Literary
ronnie.🏳️⚧️ @mxronnieriley.com they/them. nonbinary lesbian author. canada.
🌎 JUDE SAVES THE WORLD (2023)
📚 ASKING FOR A FRIEND (2024)
🎀 LOOK PRETTY (sometime in the future)
www.mxronnieriley.com/links
there is nothing more truly artistic than loving people 🌱
Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social A dude named Jude. They/them.
& author of If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come ☄️
Robbie Couch @robbiecouch.bsky.social Author
Another First Chance | If I See You Again Tomorrow |
Blaine for the Win | The Sky Blues
clare edge ✨ @clarewonders.bsky.social cozy, jewel-toned corgi witch ✨
buy ACCIDENTAL DEMONS now 😈 👇🏻
MIXING MAGICS (11.11.2025) 💫
NATURAL SELECTION (2026) 🐻
lit rep: Jennifer Azantian 🐉
#t1d 🩸
https://linktr.ee/clarewonders
Amanda Woody @amandawoody.bsky.social Author of THEY HATE EACH OTHER (Viking PRH) | Rep: Suzie Townsend 🍃 | they/them
Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social "Kyle Lukoff? Isn't he, like, the trans Maurice Sendak?"
"No, Maurice Sendak is the cis Kyle Lukoff."
Michael Leali @michaelleali.bsky.social Award-winning author. THE CIVIL WAR OF AMOS ABERNATHY | MATTEO | THE TRUTH ABOUT TRIANGLES. Rep by Sara Crowe. He/him/his. 🏳️🌈
Michelle Mohrweis @michellemohrweis.bsky.social Educator. Author of nerdy mg fiction (🤖THE TROUBLE WITH ROBOTS 🛰️THE PROBLEM WITH GRAVITY) and adventurous young reader books (📜 KINGDOM OF PAGES series). Really likes space. Autistic/ADHD. They/them.
Lu Bunker @grandylu.bsky.social Eccentric Empathetic Enby Elder (they/them)
Robin Easter (they/them) @vellichorvictim.bsky.social Cartoonist & certified horse they • on all platforms @vellichorvictim
Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social Comics & Novel Writer. Out now: Star Trek Celebrations, Overwatch. Dark Horse, Scholastic, Tokyopop, IDW, Oni Press, Simon & Schuster. Repped by @inthesestones.bsky.social. Benkahncomics.com. (They/Them)
Taylor Tracy 🌊✨🍝 @tayberryjelly.bsky.social New Jersey trash panda. Bunmom. Stonewall Honor-winning #kidlit author. Saltier than the sea. 🌊🍝🌈
MURRAY OUT OF WATER (out now, QuillTree Books)
PASTA GIRLS (Fall 2025, Quill Tree Books)
Rep: @mariavicente.com at P.S. Literary
www.taylorismyfirstname.com
Deke (Dikla) Moulton @dekemoulton.bsky.social kidlit author
Up next: THEY CARVED US TO BE PERFECT summer 27
DON'T WANT TO BE YOUR MONSTER🥈STBA honor book
BENJI ZEB IS A RAVENOUS WEREWOLF
Xiran Jay Zhao @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social #1 New-York-Times-Disqualified & Hugo-Award-disqualified author of IRON WIDOW and ZACHARY YING AND THE DRAGON EMPEROR (They/Them)
Jenn Reese @jennreese.bsky.social They/She. Author of A Game of Fox & Squirrels, Every Bird a Prince, Puzzleheart, Above World. Also an artist, TV show binger, and massive geek. Queer. Agent: Holly Root (Root Literary)
Lee Knox Ostertag @leeknoxostertag.bsky.social He/him
Books:
THE WITCH BOY series 🔮🕯️
THE GIRL FROM THE SEA 🦭🌊
THE DEEP DARK 🐉🏜️
The DUNGEON CLUB series 🎲⚔️
STRONG FEMALE PROTAGONIST 🦸💪
WATSON’S SKETCHBOOK 🕵🏼♂️📚
TV:
THE OWL HOUSE & more
www.ostertag.substack.com
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page powars @pagepowars.bsky.social next: AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES (spring 2025). agent: LGLM. he/him.
Adam Sass @theadamsass.bsky.social Award-winning author | Next: HELLO, I LOVE YOU, GOODBYE (April 27, 2027) | Part Nora Ephron, part John Carpenter | Represented by Michael Bourret, DG&B
Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social Horror(omantasy) author 👻 HOLLOW (Peachtree Teen, Sept 30, 2025), THESE DREAMING SPIRES (Titan, Sept 2, 2025), LETHAL KISS (TOR Nightfire, Fall ‘26), MBT (Peachtree Teen, Spring '27) | MFA ‘24 | BLM | 🍉 | Rep: Victoria Marini
Ryan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social yassified RL Stine & bestselling horror author of The Dead of Summer, The Honeys. Also: Beholder, Reverie, Be Dazzled.
My cat's name is Haunted Little Girl.
https://www.ryanlasala.com/the-dead-of-summer/
Carli J. Corson @icarli.bsky.social author of It's a Love/Skate Relationship (HarperTeen Jan '25) ⛸️👩❤️💋👩 | she/her🏳️🌈 | philly phan🦅🔔 | ✍️rep: claire friedman @ inkwell ✨
linktr.ee/carlijcorson
character art: emma gillette
book cover art: nicole goux
Leah Johnson @byleahjohnson.bsky.social Writer. Bookstore owner. Midwest Princess.
BLACK GIRL POWER out now! 💕
BREE BOYD IS A LEGEND out 3.4.25 ✨
Mary Averling @maryaverling.bsky.social Author of Bram Stoker Award finalist THE CURSE OF EELGRASS BOG and THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY with Penguin Young Readers. Next: THE BURN BEAST (Putnam, Fall 2026)
Rep'd by Kelly Sonnack at ABLA
Kyle Mewburn @kylemewburn.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Writer (70 titles and counting). Dabbler in semi-self-sufficiency on 5 acres in the rural depths of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Any mention of crypto, Jesus/God/MAGA or US flag in profile is immediate block.
www.kylemewburn.com
Lyra K Verdi @lkverdi.bsky.social I like pizza a whole lot
Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster @emilyriesbeck.bsky.social ⚧️ she/her. A mixture of delicious and freak; fearfully, wonderfully made. Author: It's Your Funeral, Mountain, The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl. Repped by Au Literary Management.
Website: https://emilyriesbeck.com/
Victoria K. Chapman (she/her) @weyakindesigns.bsky.social Whimsical Art & Stories of Nature & Spirit. Illustrator. Author. Fine Artist. Musician. Dancer. Nature-lover. Mom to humans, dog, and plants. Rep’d by Joyce Sweeney & Rosa Frazier at The Seymour Agency! #12x12PB #KidLitArt www.weyakindesigns.com 💙💜🩷 🌈
Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social author 🏳️🌈 | race & regency scholar | fiction editor @mentmagazine.bsky.social | lillyluwrites.com | rep: @palindrometodd.bsky.social | she/they
Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social writer of things, lover of puns 🏳️🌈
debut YA romance TART 🍓 (Bloomsbury, Aug ‘25) available to pre-order now!
rep’d by ASH Literary ✨
S. J. (Sam) Taylor @jsamtaylorauthor.bsky.social Author of fantasy steeped in folklore | Up Next: HELGA THE FAIR (Atheneum, Summer 2026) | Out Now: MADSI THE TRUE, BEING ACE, WE ARE THE FIRE (as Sam Taylor) | Repped by Sandra Proudman of Gallt Zacker Literary Agency | 🖤🩶🤍💜
www.sjtaylorbooks.com
Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social Author. Opinions=own. She/Her.
Writing your fav characters. Rep: Michael Bourret.
Co-host on the Official Marvel Podcast.
Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot is out now!
www.preetichhibber.com
Profile illustration by James Lancett
Anne Ursu @anneursu.bsky.social I write books, herd cats, and mostly stay under the bed. Latest release: Not Quite a Ghost. Minneapolis, always.
anneursu@mac.com
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich @olugbemisolabooks.bsky.social olugbemisolabooks.com
Tracey Baptiste @traceybaptiste.bsky.social Author. Educator.
sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social writer, roué. POSSESSION ISLAND out in december 2026 it's got vampires in it https://linktr.ee/sarahmccarry
Tessa Gratton @tessagratton.bsky.social NYT bestselling queer SFF author. #MXTX trash. STRANGE GRACE, THE QUEENS OF INNIS LEAR, LADY HOTSPUR, NIGHT SHINE, STAR WARS: The High Republic, THE MERCY MAKERS! nonbinary, they/she
Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social I wrote some books, once upon a time.
Posting about stories, brain injuries, adorable animals, rhubarb recipes, nature facts, human rights, and how we can make this world safe and kind and good. You are precious to me, and I love you.
kellybarnhill.com