Abigail Segel @abigailsegel.bsky.social Freelance writer. Women's soccer contributor for Defector. Editor for The IX Soccer and the Equalizer. Bylines in the Guardian, the Cutback, and the Montreal Gazette. Former Normal Gossip intern. She/her. More info at abigailsegel dot com
Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social Edgar-and-steel-dagger-winning author of SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, EVERYBODY KNOWS, THE LAST KING OF CALIFORNIA and LOVE AND OTHER WOUNDS.
A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE: "The Noir Novel of Our Times" -- The New York Times
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social Advice blogger, soon-to-be-author. You may remember me as CAwkward on that other site, but I have reclaimed my full title and powers! Here to make new internets to push the bad internets down. 
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
rithika ramamurthy @rithikaram.bsky.social writer, editor, organizer | let’s take history into our hands
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Read me: HamiltonNolan.com
My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
Email: Hamilton.Nolan@gmail.com
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. Home: Brooklyn, NY. http://www.jody-rosen.com
Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social US Southern Bureau Chief and Investigations Correspondent - The Guardian
Presenter of the news documentary series Anywhere But Washington
Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social https://www.harpercollins.com/products/one-more-than-one-jessica-winter?variant=45306334806050
heather @heatherchen.bsky.social formerly a defector intern and managing editor at the columbia daily spectator
sohini @sohini.bsky.social Writer living in Brooklyn.
skooks @skookses.bsky.social they told me we'd be finished by now
📍New Orleans
Carrie Lorig @carrielorig.bsky.social Poet / school psychologist / flower / stone / headdress.
Author of The Blood Barn (2018, Inside the Castle) and The Pulp vs. The Throne (Artifice, 2015)
PhD student at GSU studying trauma, targeted school violence, and violent extremism.
She / they
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
www.megireid.com
Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him patreon.com/djolder
https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social Author of 10 books.The latest: A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THE AMNESIAC out 2027. Newsletter here: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com #1000wordsofsummer
Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social Senior editor @ LARB, freelance culture writer, mom in the DC burbs. Here for the nuanced takes, the good faith arguments, and the jokes
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social Wannabe
eleanor @eleanoir.bsky.social writer, unfortunately
Rob Harvilla @harvilla.bsky.social Host of 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90S: THE 2000S, old guy at THE RINGER, tentative embracer of new social-media platforms
🧢 @abebeame.bsky.social Rap & Bluesky. abebeame74@gmail.com
pete segall @petesegall.bsky.social word talking guy | ny rev of arch, the drift, defector, etc
Nate Rogers @naterogers.bsky.social ungainfully employed. bylines @ LAT, NYT, NY Mag, Ringer, Stereogum, etc.
https://www.naterogers.work/writing
Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
OUT OF FASHION: RUDI GERNREICH & THE LIBERATION OF STYLE (2027)
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
www.benwritesthings.com
Mychal Denzel Smith @mychaldenzelsmith.bsky.social Books: Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching/Stakes is High/one in progress about Virginia. Smoking cigars, drinking coffee, playing chess. I dunno man, what even matters now?
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social Author of SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS (2022) and TOUGH LOVE (March 2027) / tajjaisen.com
eel, i @eliacugini.bsky.social writer & end-stage PhD student. i work on literary culture, sex, queer life, child liberation, and anti-trans persecution. contributing writer @ Vashti, work @ Baffler, Dazed, Defector, &c. he/him.
📍 manchester / belfast
Emma Sarappo @emmasarappo.bsky.social a books editor at The Atlantic and spreadsheet lady for its union. once described as "friendly" on eBird
Ami @amidanruo.bsky.social dew point evangelist
sports, books, felines, feelings, new york city, go blue. ann arbor raised, wellesley college made.
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Maddie @maddiewhittle.bsky.social you and me and the moon
Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social Author, EVERYBODY LOSES: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling (Jan '26)
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everybody-Loses/Danny-Funt/9781668062029
Reporting in @WashingtonPost.com, etc.
dannyfunt1@gmail(dot)com
dannyfunt.substack.com
Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social editorial director, new york magazine
Michael Macher @michael-macher.bsky.social Sub specie aeternitatis
Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social Yukon-based author, writer, editor
Western Canada Editor, Canadian Geographic
Contributing editor, High Country News
My books are NERVE and NO SLEEP 'TIL FAIRBANKS
Romance reader, slow but enthusiastic cyclist, wife guy
stale cooper @stalecooper.bsky.social Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. 
Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social senior tech editor, the verge
nadira 🙃 @calllmenadira.net staff writer @slate.com | amateur @ life
📍 philly cream cheese; ny bagel
Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social Book worker at University of Texas Press | Formerly a bookseller, at Paris Review | Occasional writing at places like Defector, LARB, Full Stop, The Millions, elsewhere | joelpinckney@gmail.com
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
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Vikram Murthi @fauxbeatpoet.bsky.social A "reasonable man" (get off my case) / Contributing writer @thenation / Editor @downtime / Also @reverseshot @filmmakermag @vulture / vikrammurthi1 at gmail
Paul Blest @pblest.bsky.social play music in Long Relief, work at More Perfect Union. The real truth about it is, we’re all supposed to try
Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social Features Editor, New York Magazine
Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Faculty in English @ U of Iowa | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
tove lovesitwhen @meghanclare.bsky.social Write a work that intersperses love with landlords.
- Bernadette Meyer
ed @macaulaybalkan.bsky.social I am going to kill and eat Peppa pig
David Veloz @3daydog.bsky.social Testudinal but cromulent.
Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social NEWSLETTER: https://www.premiereparty.com/ | Partnerships & sponsorships 📩 sarah@collective.media
Mitch Therieau @mitchtherieau.bsky.social East
angelina mazza @angejmazza.bsky.social culture writer & romance critic. brooklyn by way of montreal 🌈
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
joanna @nutsandgum.bsky.social wine mom and laundry specialist
donald @boringstein.bsky.social look upon my works, ye mighty.... c'mon.... look upon my works why don't ya
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/
Video at Highlight Reel.
patreon.com/highlightreel
Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com Apprentice philologist. Poetry translation and history teaching. Chair-leg hero.
Emeritus: Signal to Noise, Chicago Review
reader-in-chief of Caliber, an occasional newsletter of translation and reading
[ask at calibernewsletter at gmail dot com]
Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social Author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today. Freelance book critic all over the place. Get in touch: rachelvorona@gmail.com. @RVoronaCote on Instagram. She / Her.
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social orca enthusiast / cat media theorist / contingent academic
Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social Writer. Not too annoying. Books: American Cheese, Away With Words, You Blew it. Bylines: Many of the good places.
Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude
Send me tips: kate_knibbs@wired.com / Signal: kateknibbs.09
Alone Crawford @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
WornRagged🇨🇦 @wornragged.bsky.social Dare-devil. Spy. Noted kook. Doctor of medieval bizarreties. Writes things down. Albertan in Canada. Canadian in Occitanie.
Grant (Cardboard Pusher) @pushingcardboard.bsky.social I host the Pushing Cardboard podcast, YouTube channel and pushingcardboard.com. Military, history, and political boardgames.
Discord: https://discord.gg/vBz4KCtR4z
Cube4me link: https://cube4me.com/?r=push
Noble Knight link: https://bit.ly/nk1460usa
Ben Mauk @benmauk.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Cleveland/Berlin.
http://www.ben-mauk.com
http://benmauk.substack.com
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 🍉
wayne @rodinal.bsky.social 
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social I live in Denver and I have a pug. College football sicko. Also an editor.
Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social 
sara “THE RED SACRAMENT” hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social books: THE RED SACRAMENT, my debut novel, is out now!
Also costume design: ACD/shopper on The Off Weeks, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order: Organized Crime, Monsterland & more!
USA 829 IATSE, lit rep Isabel Kaufman. she/her
Jeremy Davis @jeremydavis.bsky.social philosopher in the peach state. research in ethics of war, bioethics, ethics of tech/AI, ethics of travel, etc. my own views.
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Cole Stangler @colestangler.bsky.social Journalist, author, lecturer in France
📚 Le Miroir américain (Les Arènes, 2025)
Paris Is Not Dead (The New Press, 2023)
🎙️EP 6 WHAT DO WE WANT?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXgADGJ8CDQ
www.colestangler.com
cole.stangler@proton.me
Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social Leaked photo of heaven
She/her NYC
https://linktr.ee/kathbarbadoro
Max Fox @maxfox.bsky.social 
regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social 교포 입양자 KAD 🇰🇷 (adoptee) she/her
not a journalist. don’t be weird!
Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social Comedy doer, improv coach, basketball enjoyer, film watcher, dog owner, mayor of fujo city. Sometimes writer.
Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social Writing on books, movies, the arts: NYT Magazine, Baffler, Washington Post, Atlantic, Liberties, Commonweal, Mubi, Paris Review, Nation, etc. robjrub@gmail.com
Stassa Edwards @stassa.bsky.social Forever in my heart a Florida woman
Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
pjmaciak.substack.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social Independent conservation journalist writing a book about fish. Author of CROSSINGS, on #roadecology, and EAGER, on beaver belief.
Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social Yahoo Sports guy, area bird enthusiast
jane hu @hujane.bsky.social 
Matt Hardigree @matthardigree.bsky.social Publisher of The Autopian, car lover, dad, WGAE.
michael wave @michaelwave.bsky.social creature enthusiast.
Worm From Home where all good podcasts are sold 🪱
https://linktr.ee/wormfromhome
The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social Cultural critic and historian, author, podcaster, non-Zionist Jew. Co-host: CHARM OFFENSIVE. Writer: THE METHOD: HOW THE 20TH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT
Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social your pal | writer | associate editor at Protean Mag | sometimes lawyer
let me write for you: jakeromm@icloud.com
keegan @franziamom.bsky.social writer, guitars in Camp Trash
Caitlin 🫧 @cvh.bsky.social if you're not gonna be good to yourself / then you're not gonna be good to others
clinic escort & abortion funder & other stuff too
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Adam Harris @adamhsays.com writer, southern.
Co-host, Radio Atlantic.
Author of The State Must Provide. Writing Is This America?
More: www.harrisadam.com
@hermionehoby.bsky.social @hermionehoby.bsky.social 
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social Shareholder value = 3 eggs
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd
Lizzie.oleary@slate.com
Signal: Lizzieohreally.31
Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social Founder and Agent, Headwater Literary Management
Co-host of Print Run Podcast
www.headwaterliterary.com
www.printrunpodcast.com
fiction and essays in Triangle House / Welcome To Hell World / Typebar Magazine / Mount Hope / elsewhere