Brian Benson @mrbrianbenson.bsky.social Writer, teacher, wanderer. He/him. Books: GOING SOMEWHERE, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. Essays: Tahoma Review, Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, Sweet, Hippocampus & elsewhere. brianbensonwrites.com
nicole cunningham @nicolecunningham.bsky.social literary agent at trellis literary management 📚
Sarah Lynn Knowles @sarahspy.com Fiction writer, Storychord.com founding editor, Tin House Winter '24 & One Story Summer '23 alum || eavesdropper, signal booster, she/her, Massachusetts || https://sarahlynnknowles.com
Kate Redstone @kateredstone.bsky.social Suspense Novelist. Loves putting complex characters in tight spots. MWA, SinC. Finalist for the 2024 CWA Debut Dagger.
Jenna Satterthwaite @jennaschmenna.bsky.social Author of MADE FOR YOU, out now, THE NEW YEAR'S PARTY (Nov 2025) and BEACH BODIES (PRH UK, summer 2025)/ A KILLER GETAWAY (Sourcebooks) under pen name Sienna Sharpe.
Literary Agent at Storm Literary.
Tenacious.
CR Westbrook @cazzawrites.bsky.social ‘Bloody author’. Get your copy of dark comedy psycho-thriller romcom Troublemaker at: https://shorturl.at/2eCrv.
Trio House Press @triohousepress.org Publishing diverse, distinct poetry since 2012 - and, in 2024, creative nonfiction and more! @KrisBigalk.bsky.social - executive editor; @NatashaKane.bsky.social - marketing/acquisitions editor
https://www.triohousepress.org
Annie McGreevy @anniemcgreevy.bsky.social some writing:
Ciao Suerte, @NouvellaBooks, @lareviewofbooks @lithub @Electriclit @pdxreview @StoryLitMag @the_rumpus @TheNormalSchool
www.anniemcgreevy.com
working on a literary thriller
views are mine
Annette Ramirez @hiuhnet.bsky.social
Suzanne Casamento Author @suzannecasamento.bsky.social Author of FINGERPRINTS & CHOOSING TALLY. Querying a memoir about healing trauma & chronic Lyme disease in a country with for-profit healthcare. Agents say unless I’m a celeb or have a million followers, no one cares about my story. Let’s prove them wrong.
Rebecca Schankula @rlschankula.bsky.social A lot.
Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social Writer, teacher, walker of many trails. Novels published with @unvpress.bsky.social. Novella published with @miamioh-press.bsky.social. Novella forthcoming with @regalhouse.bsky.social. #authorsguild https://lawrencecoates.com/
J Brooke @jbrookewrites.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Filmmaker
Author of: I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side (Driftwood Press, 2026)
Book Reviews Editor: The Rumpus
Poetry Editor: Trans Poetics Archive
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Emily Smith @esmithwrites.bsky.social NYC 🌈 Words at Newsweek, Business Insider, The Rumpus, Buzzfeed, and so on.
Aaron Teasdale @aaronteasdale.bsky.social Writer, editor, photographer, adventure seeker.
Polly Hansen @pollyhansen.bsky.social Award-winning memoirist A MINOR, UNACCOMPANIED. Words in The Sun Newsweek Grande Dame Literary, Midwest Review Ekphrastic Review Call Me [Brackets] others. I interview NF writers @ https://viewpointsradio.org/producer/polly-hansen/
http://pollyhansen.com
Bunkong Tuon @bunkong.bsky.social Khmer-American. Pushcart-winning poet and writer. Debut novel Koan Khmer out now. Father. Husband. Teacher. Former refugee. Cosmic surveyor.
https://www.bunkongtuon.com
Lena Crown @whichistosay.bsky.social Colgate University Nonfiction Fellow, PEN/Faulkner Writer in Residence, host of Awakeners Podcast on Lit Hub Radio, book editor at Autofocus, words in Guernica, Gulf Coast, Narratively, The Rumpus, etc. she/her ✨ X & IG: @which_is_to_say
A.L. Gordon @a-l-gordon.bsky.social Writer, teacher, old-ass kickboxer and newly annoying pickleball player. See my writing at www.al-gordon.com
Seb 🌊 @sebendary.bsky.social Cofficionado, devoted dog parent and recreational novelist, ex-translator. 📚
Love a bit of Hallyu, but learning 日本語
Always on the lookout for a good recipe. 🥙
Susan Lerner @susanlitelerner.bsky.social Assistant memoir editor at Split Lip Magazine, assistant editor at Brevity. Reader for River Teeth, Fourth Genre, TriQuarterly
Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social High-functioning slacker.
B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Coach—editor of the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship; Founder, Severancemag.com
Théo @tlpavlich.gay Writer, editor, sports gay, transy they/them
Essay Editor @ theoffingmag.com
Capo @ bostonisa.com for #BostonLegacyFC #UpTheSwans
ACAB includes Ted Unkel | #Crew96 #VamosRayo #FCSP #SCFC
My skeets don't reflect the views of my employer
✨✨noam✨✨ @noamkeim.bsky.social Jewish Arab flâneur & writer. Free 🇵🇸 from the river to the sea. they/them. in The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts review,Foglitfter and others. The Land is Holy.
Buy it, sign up for newsletter here
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Maxie Jane Frazier @maxiejanef.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction, educator, editor, reader. Gourmet meal provider to geriatric beloved animals. Mighty Mule Editing. Book at https://necessaryturbulence.com
Tiffany Yo @tiffyo.bsky.social writer / community organizer / essays team at the rumpus 🌱 tiffyo.com
✍🏼 the rumpus, sierra nevada review; memoir in progress
Annelies @anneliesz.bsky.social Quote of the moment: "Now is the winter of our discontent." Making pots of soup, mixing words into poetry, and trying to not be too saucy.
Maxwell Suzuki (He/Him) @papasuzuki.bsky.social Writer | Staff: @therumpus.net, @splitlippress.com | Voyager 2, This is Voyager 1, Over (Gold Line Press, ‘24), Bust of an Athlete (@ironhorselitrev.bsky.social, ‘24)
Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social Writer/Essayist in NJ.
Cortney Lamar Charleston @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social Poet & Author
• TELEPATHOLOGIES (Saturnalia Books, 2017);
• DOPPELGANGBANGER (Haymarket Books, 2021);
• IT'S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER (Northwestern Univ. Press, 2026)
https://www.cortneylamarcharleston.com/important-links
@davonloeb.bsky.social @davonloeb.bsky.social Husband, Dad, Teacher
THE IN-BETWEENS (WVUP)
Work at Men’s Health, Parents, The Sun Magazine, Slate, LATimes, Philly Inquirer, TODAY, the Washington Post, Best American Essay, etc.
Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social Author of UNREFORMED (Vine Leaves Press, 2027), contributing writer at Electric Literature, '23 Barbara Deming memorial grant for feminist nonfiction, lapsed librarian, essays in Literary Hub, Action Spectacle, & more, Pilates instructor, she/hers
@andiemillares.bsky.social @andiemillares.bsky.social
Sergio Muro @sergiofmuro.bsky.social writer 🇲🇽🦅// senior editor & insider prize director: american short fiction // editor: the rumpus // austin
Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. PhD UofU. MFA NMSU. Owner of Field Works Writing & Photography. Fiction Editor Waxwing. Books: ALL THAT BLUE & BODIES OF OTHER WOMEN. Chapbooks: STITCH, EDGE OF THE SEA & WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY
allisonfieldbell.com
Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social novelist, historian, amateur hoofer | www.dianejosefowicz.com | THE GREAT HOUSES OF PILL HILL is just out from @sohopress
D.E. Hardy @dehardy.bsky.social EIC of @claudineliterary.bsky.social
On staff at The Offing and Chestnut Review.
Links to words at dehardywriter.com.
katiy heath @katiyheath.bsky.social Interested in opinions from strangers (she/her)
keheath.com
Janet Rodriguez @janetrodriguez.bsky.social Writer, teacher, loud laugher. Interviews Editor The Rumpus. Author of Making an American Family, A Recipe in Five Generations.
https://linktr.ee/Janet.Rodriguez
Jennifer Franklin (she/her) @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social Poet, author of 4 poetry collections including A Fire in Her Brain (Princeton University Press, Jan 27) Teaches at M’ville MFA, 24Pearl St, Poets House, The Frost Place & privately on Zoom
Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau.bsky.social The Years of Blood, Fordham Press ‘25
Wallace Stegner Fellow ‘25.
Cave Canem Fellow.
Editor-in-Chief, Agbowo Magazine.
Rep: Salma Begum (Greyhouse Literary Agency)
blkcowrie 🌺 @blkcowrie.bsky.social "And she,
a flower blooming in the water,
that was she."
🧜🏿♀️🦋
~Yvonne Vera, 'Butterfly Burning'
poet mermaid butterflying beauty & empathy collectively conjuring we/i&i anew 🌺🌺🌺🦋🧜🏿♀️🦋🌺🌺🌺 #muse
Anne Holub @izatchu.bsky.social Poet and dog mahm in Montana. ** Writer-in-residence 2024 Yellowstone Art Museum, poetry reader @TheRumpus.net, freelance writer, crafty community leader @wildwares Newsletter: anneattheyam.substack.com
Goings on: linktr.ee/izatchu
Hannah V Warren @hannahvwarren.bsky.social poet & translator / fulbright scholar / monster from MS / PhD & naturalist / slaughterhouse for old wives’ tales (2024) / kenyon review fellow ‘25-‘27
Elissa Bassist @elissabassist.bsky.social Hysterical
Kelly what’s left of a real cool chick Thompson @tnwwyatnw.bsky.social They would not listen, they did not know how. There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was) ™
https://thompsonk.substack.com/about Born&raised2x2 #religioustrauma @LAReviewOfBooks @GuernicaMag @BOMB Founding editor #VoicesOnAddiction @TheRumpus.net
Marisa Siegel @marisaemily.bsky.social Burning down the patriarchy since 1983. She/her. https://marisasiegel.com/
Stephanie Trott @sctrott.bsky.social writer/editor/small dog wrangler | she/her 🏳️🌈 | views my own | sctrott.com
Brian Spears @briankspears.bsky.social Senior Poetry Editor at The Rumpus (Ret.), author of A Witness in Exile and Another Poem to Love https://brian-spears.com I also crochet stuff.
New Patreon: Eating Popeyes in Romania https://www.patreon.com/BrianSpears?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator
Elizabeth Zertuche @writerezertuche.bsky.social Writer filling blank pages. Reading line after line. (she/her)
Fiction Reader @therumpus.net
https://linktr.ee/WriterEZertuche
https://therumpus.net/2025/12/12/an-exodus-and-a-beginning-a-conversation-with-joanna-choi-kalbus/
Kai Coggin (she/her) 🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @kaicoggin.bsky.social Hot Springs Poet Laureate, Teaching Artist, Master Naturalist, Gay Mama Bear, Host of Wednesday Night Poetry. Editor at SWWIM, TERRAIN.ORG, and RISE UP REVIEW. www.kaicoggin.com
Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social Stories in CRAFT Literary, Vestal Review, Bending Genres, more. 🐈⬛ Learned from Rutgers-Camden MFA '18, Tin House '22, and Lambda Literary '25. Fiction reader for Okay Donkey. catherinebuck.com
Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social Just trying to put words together. God Elegy forthcoming from BOA Editions 2028. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull), House Is an Enigma (Bull City). TMI in your inbox here: https://substack.com/@emmabolden
Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social Senior Essays Editor: @therumpus.net / Associate Writing Professor / Program Director: MA in Writing / Books-in-progress: 1) CNF: A history of Jerusalem's City of David 2) Flash Fiction: Bill Murrays / Robbie & James Talk Music: https://bit.ly/RandJTM
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Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social Nonfiction editor at the Rumpus, writer other places
Kelli Short Borges @kelliborges2.bsky.social Writer. Words in many lovely places. Into travel, photography, kind people. Best Microfiction 24’ 25’ 26’ Wigleaf Top 50 LL. Pubs and more info: https://www.kellishortborges.com
Melanie Lan @melanielan.bsky.social mom, artist, & watercolor teacher in NYC
melanielan.com
Katie Runde @katierunde.bsky.social Emotional beach reader, Jersey Shore Midwesterner, dad rock & Taylor Swift car singer
Author of The Shore (2022)
katierundewriter.com
Zeke Cork @elcork17.bsky.social Writer in Missoula, MT. Love child of Anne Sexton and Nick Hornby.Words at xraylitmag, Pigeonholes, BendingGenres, SavantGardeMag &more. Nominated for Best of Net and Pushcart Prize. New work forthcoming. Suspiciously Happy .
Kelly Foster Lundquist @kfoslundquist.bsky.social Author, Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage (Eerdmans, Fall 2025). Community College Instructor. Mississippian who now lives in Minnesota.
Pre-order my book:
https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802884732/beard/
https://www.kellyfosterlundquist.com/
Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social Novelist: DUET FOR ONE is out! So is THREE MUSES. Literary and cultural critic. Board member PEN/Faulkner Foundation, member National Book Critics Circle.
www.marthaannetoll.com
https://marthaannetoll.substack.com
Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe (Autumn House Press Book Prize). Winner of Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the TX Institute of Letters. Longlisted for PEN/Bingham Prize. DC based. laurendwoods.com
N @nahtothenah.bsky.social Author of Chain-Gang All-Stars & Friday Black
Jimin Han @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social Writer
DREAMT I FOUND YOU
THE APOLOGY
A SMALL REVOLUTION
Becs Tetley @becstetley.bsky.social Nonfiction writer and editor in Wellington, New Zealand.
📝 Essays in Tahoma Literary Review, The Spinoff, Roi Fainéant, Reckon Review, Headland Journal, and elsewhere.
📚 Reviews in Kete Books.
🎓 MA Creative Writing - AUT.
📷 Ebony Lamb
Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir, and the essay collection RARE GOOD: ESSAYS ON ART, AUTISM, AND ASTONISHMENT. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
Nina Miller @ninamiller.bsky.social Physician, Fencer and Creative
Wigleaf top 50
https://ninamillerwrites.com/
Hybrids/Photos @ Cutbow Quarterly and Raw Lit
Prose/Poetry @ Sci-Fi Shorts, Bright Flash, Five South, Roi Fainéant, Five Minutes and more.
Identity Theory @identitytheory.bsky.social Classic online lit mag (founded 2000). Interviews, fiction, CNF, micro, poetry, etc. We may or may not be edited by a corgi. Read us at identitytheory.com.
C. Jeffery Evans @cjevans.bsky.social Former economist and land use planner. Screenwriter and author with some love on the contest circuit. Husband, father, grandfather, crip rights activist. Big-P progressive.
Ragers and rude posters will be blocked.
Staci Perkins Kleinmaier @stacikleinmaier.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Like cats, crocheting, and swearing.
Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social NEA Poetry| CantoMundo |Fulbright | Calif Arts Council | Author of 4 poetry books. Work in Paris Review, Witness, APR, Laurel Review and Nimrod. #Portuguese #poetrycommunity #Binders #Yaddo https://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/
Rachel Laverdiere @rachellaverdiere.bsky.social Writer, potter, editor, educator, coffee-lover, joy enthusiast.
Annie Marhefka @anniemarhefka.bsky.social Writer. Exec Director @ Yellow Arrow Publishing. HR Consultant @ The Vivi Group. MFA candidate at UBalt.
stschorey @stschorey.bsky.social writer | editor | PhD, UNC Chapel Hill | 🏳️🌈
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.
Claire O’Connor @claireoconnor.bsky.social Writer, teacher, rambler. Repped by Hellie Ogden at WME. I’m currently the author-in-residence at Linfield University in Oregon, but I usually live with my wife in Scotland. She/her. 🌈
TJ Fuller @tjfuller.bsky.social finally gonna figure this posting thing out
www.tj-fuller.com
Anna Abraham Gasaway (she/her) **IT'S THE GUNS** @annagasaway.bsky.social xvangelical, disabled poet of the body. MFA SDSU. Words in Cream City Review, Poetry International, Literary Mama, One Art and others, Black, Brown, Trans and Palestinian Lives Matter.
Mark Stocker @markstocker.bsky.social Writer. NCW Escalator Class of '22. Stories published here and there. Novel in progress.
TriQuarterly Magazine @triquarterlymag.bsky.social Writing, Art, Video. Since 1958. Published by Northwestern University's Litowitz MFA+MA and the SPS MA graduate creative writing programs. www.triquarterly.org
Cheryl Skory Suma @cherylskorysuma.bsky.social FIC/CNF/poetry. Pub US/UK/CA. Multi-Pushcart nominee. 51 comp placements since 2019. MG fantasy novel w Chicken House Press out now! Past Flash CNF Contributing Editor Barren/reader Reckon Review. Canadian mix heritage Aboriginal/Ukrainian/Brit
Wild Willow Magazine @wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social A literary magazine that showcases the wonderful, weird, and wild aspects of the human condition.
🌿 EIC: Melissa Ashley Hernandez 🌿
Saga Harne🇨🇦🏳️🌈 @sagaharne.bsky.social Writer of dark fiction. Lover of fiction, art, music, film, and television. Fighting the good fight. Empathy. Feminism. BLM. She/Her. Slava Ukraini.
Doris W Cheng @dwycheng.bsky.social 🇹🇼🇺🇸 Debut novel KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE (Deep Vellum, Aug 2027) | Fiction Ed @Bellevue Lit Review | PEN/Bellwether Finalist | she/her
Aditya Gotu Desai @adityadesai.bsky.social me jobs: writer, editor, phd student in lit.
their job: literature nonprofit programming.
Star Wuerdemann @starwuerdemann.bsky.social Writer/Educator/Acupuncturist in Washington State. Bread Loaf '23 alum. Pronounced WORD-a-man.
Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social Poet. Editor. Late bloomer. Trans ally. she/her. Reader at Tinderbox. Poems in Many Nice Donkeys, Rise Up Review, Stone Circle Review, Inflectionist Review. Coming: Okay Donkey. Talk Smack to a Hurricane (Ice Floe Press, 2022). https://icefloepress.net/tal
Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social I'm a poet. Cancer survivor. Feminist. Reader OBR. Writes in Baja, MX & Los Angeles. MFA CalArts. Multiple BOTN & Pushcart nominations. Penn Review. Mantis. Pinch Journal. Frontier Poetry. Redivider. The Maine Review. Poetry Salzburg Review. 150 + journals
Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS out now! Words in Huff Post, The Normal School, Foglifter, and more. Tin House ‘21. They/she.📍NJ.
Ruth Brandt @ruthabrandt.bsky.social Writer & creative writing tutor.
Words: Fly on the Wall Press, Bridport Prize 2018, Bristol Short Story, Litro, The Phare, Ellipsis Zine, Fictive Dream, Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology and other lovely folk ...
website: www.Ruth@ruthbrandt.co.uk
chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social writer/journalist in paris. work in the paris review, granta, nplusone, among others. debut novel STATES OF EMERGENCY from unnamed press, sept 2024
chrisknapp.net | substack.com/@chrisknapp
https://www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/states-of-emergency
Paulette Livers (Lye-vers) @paulette.bsky.social Author CEMENTVILLE, a novel (Counterpoint Press) Elle mag Readers' Lettres prize. Fiction and cnf at Hypertext, Read Her Like an Open Book, The Southwest Review, DosPassos Review &. Hey Thomas Wolfe, I did go home again. Louisville KY. paulettelivers.com
Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social CNF and textile art girlie. Uses the f-word in every way possible. Switches between sarcastic & painfully sincere without warning. 💁🏻♀️ irleywrites.com
Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2026). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. More poems at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
Kerry P (Author & Editor) @kerrypwrites.bsky.social 💻 Editor. CIEP professional member.
💞 Author of contemporary romance and romcoms with heart, heat & HEA.
💜 WIP: Hearts Adrift.
🧠 Neurodivergent.
Kaitlyn Arford @kmarford.bsky.social I’m a freelance writer who would love to share your stories. Work w/ me: kaitlyn.arford[a]gmail.com kaitlynarford.com
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Romance reporting, Romancelandia jobs @theunapologeticromancereader.com