Laura Roettiger @ljrwritenow.bsky.social KidLit Author, Photographer, Educator
2 trad pub #PB #STEM + #Kindness
Here to connect with #Teachers, #Librarians, #Kidlit #Edusky
https://lauraroettigerbooks.com/
@picturebookgold.bsky.social 🚫DM
#HaikuSaturday #WordlessWednesday
Sara Catterall @scatterall.bsky.social Writer. MLIS. So many interests. She/her. Author of Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-Fashion Icon. Blog etc at saracatterall.com
Hannah Posts @hannahposts.bsky.social having a nice time
Mrs. N @btwnthesepages.bsky.social Reader, mother, former teacher, terrier lover, very amateurish baker. #genealogy
Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app John 3:16 | Founder of The Thurman Perry Foundation | Women’s Incarceration Expert | Political Commentator | Author: BAD GIRLS (coming soon)(Hachette) | Epidemiologist | Words: @WashingtonPost @ESSENCE #writingcommunity
https://linktr.ee/gabrielleperrymph
Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social Iowa-born, NYC-influenced, Spain living. Former sports journalist launching a sports tourism company, Gata Sports Tours. Runner, traveler, pro-democracy, love to read. My own opinions. Signal @Democracy.23
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social Former Dem staffer. UCI, King's College London, Johns Hopkins. | INFINITE SKY (Bloomsbury 2026) + more | Many bylines. | AAJA/SCBWI | Rep: Eric Smith/Becca Podos, Neighborhood Literary
emily sunshine @threnody.northsky.social fiction writer • roommate to 2 cats with rich interior lives • parmesan enthusiast • interrobang evangelist
stories: prairie schooner 98.4 • hopkins review 15.4 • south carolina review 55.2 • post road 40 • 2023 clmp pride reading list
Sarah Pinborough @sarahpinborough.bsky.social Author and screenwriter. Sunday Times #1, & NYT Bestselling author of BEHIND HER EYES on Netflix and INSOMNIA on Paramount+. Ted owner. WE LIVE HERE NOW coming Summer of 2025
Madeline Miller @madelinemiller.bsky.social Writer (The Song of Achilles, Circe), reader, theater lover. Cats, Long Covid. She/her. 
Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist. Politics, literature, tech.
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Contributing editor, The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/authors/virginia-heffernan
Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social 🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR
📖: WANNABE: RECKONINGS WITH THE POP CULTURE THAT SHAPES ME: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris
https://linktr.ee/aishaharris
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios) 
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Stephanie Zvan @stephaniezvan.bsky.social Former feral child figuring out community. Unpredictably abled activist. Remarkably successful dilettante. Sometimes very silly.
If the name sounds familiar but you can't place me, maybe try here: https://stephanie.zvan.net/
She/her
Aaron J. Brown @minnesotabrown.bsky.social Minnesota author, MN Star Tribune columnist & historian from the Mesabi Iron Range. Read and subscribe for free at http://www.minnesotabrown.com
I had a pony! @meghancolleen.bsky.social Why would anyone leave a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country?
she/her
Native Charlottean🦄
Carolina alum 🐏🩵
Had a viral tweet on buzzfeed once
Life in the hands of a rock n roll band.
PLEASE DO NOT E-MAIL MY WIFE
Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
The Creative Company @thecreativecompany.bsky.social Since 1932, we have published children’s books of the highest quality. Across four generations of family participation, we remain committed to crafting internationally sought-after picture books & superb nonfiction for readers of all ages.
Amicus Publishing @amicuspublishing.bsky.social Board Books | Picture Books | Nonfiction 📚 Publishing captivating and friendly books for young readers since 2010
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.
rebecca onion @rebeccaonion.bsky.social senior staff writer at slate - www.rebeccaonion.com
i don't really post here - more active at:
https://www.instagram.com/rebeccaonion
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/13150472-rebecca-onion
and
https://letterboxd.com/rebeccaonion/
Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social I write books, like the "ONE & ONLY" series, WISHTREE, ODDER, DOGTOWN, and POCKET BEAR.
My new novel, WOMBAT WAITING, is out now!
I post with some help from Two Cats Comm.
Megan E. Freeman @meganefreeman.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Poet. Wildflower enthusiast. Novels ALONE and AWAY available from Simon & Schuster. Rep’d by East West Literary. I love connecting with readers and educators for school author visits. linktr.ee/meganefreeman
Claribel A. Ortega @claribelortega.com NYT Best-selling raccoon enthusiast 🦝
Witchlings 4: Scepter of Memories out 9.16.25
I wrote Ghost Squad, the Witchlings series & the Eisner & Pura Belpré winning graphic novel Frizzy 🐓
https://linktr.ee/claribelortega
Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social Father, friend, believe love conquers hate, and truth wins over prevarication. 
Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Bookaholic Bex @bexbookaholic.bsky.social Book-obsessed, theatre-loving feminist with a liberal outlook on life. Mental health champion. Award winning book blogger.
https://bookaholicbex.wordpress.com/
Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social Book lover. Book reviewer. On the other socials as @JanetEmson
UK
fromfirstpagetolast.wordpress.com
Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social I am a Colorado-born and raised, Boston-based writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist. I am the author of "The Westerners" (2026), “Saving Yellowstone” (2022) and “The Three-Cornered War” (2020). More details at https://megankatenelson.com
Marcia Kochel @overbooked.bsky.social A middle school librarian on a mission to bring age-appropriate books to 13-15 year olds #youngteenlit
My manifesto is here: https://teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2024/05/30/a-manifesto-in-support-of-middle-school-books-a-guest-post-by-marcia-kochel/
Claire Dederer @clairedederer.bsky.social Author of MONSTERS: A FAN'S DILEMMA, a New York Times Notable Book and a national bestseller. Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Fresh Air, The Washington Post, Esquire, Kirkus, Vulture, Electric Lit & more.
Wild Rumpus Books @wildrumpusbooktore.bsky.social For young readers and the young at heart. We're the independent children's and young adult bookstore with a little purple door. Posts mostly by Rumpian Timothy.
Est. 1992
Minneapolis, MN, USA
https://linktr.ee/wildrumpus
Parnassus Books @parnassusbooks.bsky.social An independent bookstore for independent people in Nashville, TN (shop + airport + blog + bunch of shop dogs) Owned by author Ann Patchett📚
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Mary Ellen @maryellenreads.caviaporcell.us Mary Ellen, not Mary. She/they. Librarian, knitter, voracious reader of sci-fi/fantasy/horror. Progressive Christian,liberal as heck. Guinea pig and cat servant, ace/queer/genderqueer. Spouse of @jscartergilson.bsky.social. Trans rights are human rights.
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social 
Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social Opinions are my own
https://linktr.ee/gbbranstetter
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social Was: reporter, writer, librarian| Now: social justice comms| Always: huge nerd
Chicago
And what shall we do, we who did not die?
(June Jordan)
Writing: http://bit.ly/43664OI
Me & Israel/Palestine: https://bit.ly/4hQmiQl
LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/3XbgmJ4
Curtis Sittenfeld @csittenfeld.bsky.social Prep, American Wife, Eligible, Romantic Comedy, etc.
Show Don't Tell: Stories out 2/25/25
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social just trying to hold steady on the righteous path
Anna Young @annayoungpie.bsky.social Library Associate, artist, reader, writer, nature lover, LGBTQ+ social warrior
Suanne Laqueur @suannelqr.bsky.social Readeur. Writeur. Loveur. Nappeur. New Yorkeur. Cancer killeur. Autheur of The Fish Tales, Venery, and The Great Dane. Sort of an artiste. Very anti-fasciste. NY-17, fuck Lawler.
Books: https://lqrwrites.com/shop
Art: https://www.youtube.com/@suandala
Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social Founder & Agent, Headwater Literary Management. Host of the award-winning Print Run Podcast. AALA Member. Treasurer for Literary Agents of Change. Publishers Weekly industry MVP. She/her & Ms/Mx. Open to queries!
PRINT RUN @printrunpodcast.bsky.social The Book Bird Cometh
https://www.printrunpodcast.com/
https://patreon.com/printrun?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink
🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org ✍️I write Pocket Observatory, an attention reclamation project.
🗞️My work also appears in places like Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, Slate, BBC and NPR.
https://linktr.ee/megconley
Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social Writer. I review films at Ebert. Essays at Criterion, monthly column at Liberties Journal. NYFCC / NSFC member. I’ve been blogging at sheilaomalley.com since 2002. I have a newsletter: https://sheilaomalley.substack.com/ I write a LOT about Elvis. TCB! ⚡
Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social Never getting any taller. Senior Reports Editor @ The Verge.
Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social cherished idiot / writer on SHŌGUN and KENNEDY (2027) and POINT BREAK (2027)
Tom Klitus @tklitus.bsky.social Filming and editing. Fascinated by science, history, genealogy, interviews. Betsy-Tacy, Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, anything by Baldwin. All music!
Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social Reader, writer, and librarian. Author of George & Lizzie: A Novel; the Book Lust series, and The Writer's Library (with Jeff Schwager)
Melissa Wiley @melissawiley.bsky.social Author of THE NERVIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD & other books for kids. Cohost of the Brave Writer Podcast with Julie Bogart. Obsessive handstitcher. She/her. PDX. melissawiley.com/blog
Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Erin Murphy @agentemurph.bsky.social Partner at Aevitas Creative Management and Aevitas Kids & Illustration. Member AALA. Knitter. Gamer. Cats and dogs. She/Her. Views expressed here are my own. Header photo is my backyard in Maine.
Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social Former mayor of Minneapolis, MN
Current writer|advisor|consultant|speaker
www.betsyhodges.com
representation: info@serendipitylit.com
Always up for Springsteen, Star Wars, Swift, Die Hard, dogs, cats, and good news.
Alexandra Jacobs @alexandrajacobs.bsky.social I am a book critic for The New York Times and the author of STILL HERE, a biography of Elaine Stritch.
Jasmine Guillory @thebestjasmine.bsky.social Writer, Oakland.
Michelle Legro @michellelegro.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Inc. Previously: WIRED, Medium, Topic, New Republic, Lapham's Quarterly. 
Susan Branch @dearsusanbranch.bsky.social Happy gene, NY Times bestselling author, watercolor artist, love Joe, girlfriends, cooking, my central coast garden, riding train & QM2 to England❤️ Heart of the Home. www.susanbranch.com
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Anne Libera @alibera.bsky.social I run a BA in Comedy Writing and Performance. I have worked at The Second City for longer than I am comfortable admitting to. I read a lot of books.
Abigail Cahill @aecahill.bsky.social Marine biologist studying inverts, larvae, connectivity. Based in the Great Lakes, i.e. not at all marine. Intrepid knitter, academia, France. |she/her|
Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social Writer. Culture, books, celebrity, and gender. Previously at Vox, other bylines at The Toast and The AV Club. Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other.
Bethanne Patrick @thebookmaven.bsky.social SUBSTACK:
The Book Maven Unbound
https://thebookmavenunbound.substack.com/
Critic @LATimesBooks
LIFE B memoir: https://bookshop.org/p/books/life-b-overcoming-double-depression-bethanne-patrick/1874245
https://linktr.ee/bookmaven
Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com 
Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social Mostly bookish. NBCC Board Member/VP Membership and Tech. Books newsletter: Reading Indie on Substack. Co-host of One Bright Book podcast. #KateBriggs24 #AContinuation25 she/her
You'll find me on my ebike.
Lyz @lyz.bsky.social Men Yell at Me. I write books.
Barbara Dee @barbaradee.bsky.social Award-winning author of middle grade novels like TEAR THIS DOWN, UNSTUCK, MAYBE HE JUST LIKES YOU, and VIOLETS ARE BLUE.
Gretchen Scott @gretchenscott.bsky.social head of marketing at The Met & The Met Cloisters, formerly @gretchen_scott on Twitter/X
Kate Washington @washingtonkate.bsky.social Writer, editor, swimming hole enthusiast, author of Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America (Beacon, 2021) and Midstream: A Life Remade in 50 Swims (coming July 7, 2026!)
Laurie Muchnick @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social Fiction editor at Kirkus Reviews. Welsh by marriage. 🏴✡️📚
Ariel Dumas @arieldumas.bsky.social Head Writer and Supervising Producer for The Late Show. IG @arieldumaspubicaccount
Teresa Robeson @teresarobeson.com Author/Artist * Asian Pacific American Librarians Association PB winner * #Kidlit * 🇭🇰🇨🇦🇺🇸 * she/her * SO: @indianaclimate * sign up for my newsletter at teresarobeson.com to get free art+story * 🚫 DMs or MAGA
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Cybils Awards @cybilsawards.bsky.social Celebrating books for children and teens since 2006.
https://linktr.ee/CybilsAwards
Cindy Schwind @cindyschwind1.bsky.social Reader! BookPosse Member! Indie Book Crawl! Friday Night Raffle! Retired Reading Specialist!
Priscilla Gilman @priscillagilman.bsky.social Author of The Anti-Romantic Child (Harper) & The Critic's Daughter (Norton). Former English prof @ Yale & Vassar. Mother, Writer, Critic, Teacher.
www.priscillagilman.com
Faith Salie @faithsalie.bsky.social 
Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social That’s not me asking for money, it’s someone spoofing me. I promise.
Non-stop book reviewing lady! Also writer, editor, aunt, godmother, curmudgeon. I love books and birds.
No DMs, sorry! I am extremely shy.
Meg Waite Clayton, Author @megclayton.com Author 9 novels, most recently the instant USA Today bestseller TYPEWRITER BEACH and the international bestsellers THE POSTMISTRESS OF PARIS and THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON. Knows the secret handshakes for NBCC, The Writers Lab, OpEd Project, CA Bar. #GoBlue!
Greta Kaul @gretakaul.bsky.social 📰Subscribe to your local newspaper.
🏙️Covering the Twin Cities built environment at the @StarTribune.bsky.social.
How's the way your city's built affecting your life?
Send tips: greta.kaul@startribune.com
Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic @grubreport.bsky.social I write NYT-bestselling things. Things that children read.🖖🏻 Books in 2026: THE NEW CAT. More coming. MN-raised, CA-aged. She/her Rep: Jenn Laughran/ABLA Profile art: @cpark.bsky.social Go Blue!
https://www.stephanielucianovic.com
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Erin Blakemore @erinblakemore.bsky.social Journalist, bookworm, feminist, historian, library school dropout, knitter, Angrian-Gondalian, author of THE HEROINE'S BOOKSHELF. (She/her)
I used to be heroinebook on Twitter
erinblakemore.com
Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
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
Danny Lavery @dannymlavery.bsky.social Vera said that?
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com- B @booksilene.bsky.social @booksilene.bsky.social