Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social Writer, book critic, prof. MIGRATING FICTIONS (Ohio State UP 2018). RIPPLES INTO THE WILD (Cornerstone Press 2027). Pushcart Prize winner. Writing at Threepenny Review, LitHub, Mass Review, Pleiades, and HAD. https://abbymanzella.weebly.com/
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social feral woman • writer • librarian • bi af • on a constant quest for comfortable silence • tweets as if it’s all ephemeral
AnnElise Hatjakes @anneliseknows.bsky.social 
Shala Erlich @shala-24.bsky.social Doctor, writer, cold water immersionist, hardened door-knocker, technophobe.
@barrymaxwell.bsky.social @barrymaxwell.bsky.social 
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social Independent journalist, features editor at bioGraphic, contributing editor at Adventure Journal, essayist, mom, "queen of delicious verbs." 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦
Cheri Lucas Rowlands @cherilucasrowlands.com Senior editor, @longreads.com.
Longreads @longreads.com Sharing and publishing the best longform stories at longreads.com since 2009. Sister site of @atavist.com.
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
Katie Brown (she/her) @kayteebrn.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist
Drummer
Marimbist
Lucian Mattison @luciannumerouno.bsky.social 🇦🇷🇺🇸 Poet, translator, Oakland
Curare (C&R Press)
Reaper's Milonga (Yesyes Books)
Peregrine Nation (Dynamo Verlag)Oakland
🕸️ - Lucianmattison.com
🎶 - https://polyp1.bandcamp.com/
Dan Alter @arlozoroff.bsky.social Poet translator father man of many trades - My Little Book of Exiles, Eyewear 2022. Take A Breath, You're Getting Excited (translations) Ben Yehuda, 2024. Hills Full of Holes, Fernwood 2025.
danalter.net
Brandon Young @brandonyoung.bsky.social PhD poet @UUtah || poetry editor @QuarterlyWest || MFA @VCU || @sewaneewriters scholar || poems found/forthcoming in @poetrymagazine @Gulf_Coast @OSUtheJOURNAL
Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social Poet and essayist @USC_CWPhD, author of Salaam of Birds; editor of Stained (@PressQuerencia 2023) #stainedanthology, Fulbright Scholar 2023-2025 translating Holocaust poet Abba Kovner, #Fulbrightscholar
John Allen Taylor @johnallentaylor.bsky.social TO LET THE SUN • Univ. of Arkansas Press 2025
Writing Center Coord • University of Michigan-Dearborn
johnallentaylor.com
Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social Poet | SENTENCE (Nine Syllables Press, 2026) | MORE FLOWERS (Trio House Press, 2026) | DRESSING THE BEAR (Louise Bogan Award, Trio House Press, 2024) + 3 📚| Mayah 🐶 | Indianapolis, IN | www.susanlleary.com
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. 🌈
Kathryn Waring @kathrynwaring.bsky.social essayist | PhD candidate | writing a book about America's 1st epileptic colony | childless 🐱 lady | she/her
kathrynwaring.com
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/
Stephen Reid @reidstephen.bsky.social Publishing Manager at The Lilliput Press. Editor of books and so on and so forth and so on. 
donated words poetry @donatedwords.bsky.social poems/experiments by K Weber (she/her) featuring 900+ donated words (& more!) from 370+ people since 2018! 8 FREE online collabs: kweberandherwords.com
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social Writer/Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
besmilr brigham bot @camjarboe.bsky.social 🔩 author of SISSY (2024) ⛓️ transsexual rage ⛓️💥 missouri is home 🔨 they/he 🪛
Aimée Baker @aimeebaker.bsky.social Writer/poet, author of DOE, subject of the documentary SHE, host of SHE GOES BY JANE abt missing women, with the newsletter GIRLHUNT www.girlhuntmedia.com
she/her
Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social Writer (Julia, The Heavens, The Men, How Not to Write a Novel, etc.)
she/they 
Jeremy Michael Reed @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social writer, editor, professor | creative writing, 20/21C US lit & cultural studies | edits @swiftslitmag.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/jeremymichaelreed
Emilie Menzel @emiliemenzel.bsky.social Poet & Librarian of hybridities ∙ Author of The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (Hub City Press, 2024)
Mary Peelen @ohmary.bsky.social Poet, author of QUANTUM HERESIES. Writing in Massachusetts Review, Colorado Review, MQR, AQR, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Daily, Poetry Review (UK) Website: marypeelen.com
Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
She/They/Dr/Bruh
Matt Alcorn @mattwritesstuff.bsky.social https://www.matthewalcornwriter.com/home
Teacher and occasional writer of strange stories. Maker of typos.
The Pinch @pinchjournal.bsky.social A biannual literary journal produced by MFA students at the University of Memphis— pinchjournal.com
Ricky Ray @rickyraypoet.bsky.social Poet | Essayist | Eco-Mystic | Disabled | Neurodivergent | MFA @ Bennington | Books with Diode Editions, Broken Sleep & Fly on the Wall Press | Sings & things at rickyray.earth
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
Adam Clay @adamclay.bsky.social Poet and Professor at Louisiana State University. Most recent book is Circle Back (Milkweed Editions, 2024).
Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social Midwestern writer and east coast schoolmarm. Not coming back for thirty percent. (he/him)
Jill Mceldowney @jillmceldowney.bsky.social poet-lawyer: poems are not legal advice. OTHERLIGHT YesYesBooks // editor Madhouse Press // tax lawyer // she / her // 🎠🐎
https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/otherlight
Aarik Danielsen (he/him) @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social Debut essay collection PIECES OF THE NIGHT forthcoming (Cornerstone Press, 2027)
Recovering newspaperman
Promised to Holly
#SFGiants forever
Wants to be with you alone and talk about the weather
https://aarikdanielsen.com
Brenda Shaughnessy @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social Poet, friend. Wrote Sensorium Ex, an opera, with composer Paola Prestini (2025.) Books of poetry: TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016) Our Andromeda (2012) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999).
Carmeb @therealcbrad.bsky.social Peanut butter la croix ✨. (She/they)
W. Todd Kaneko @toddkaneko.bsky.social Author: This Is How the Bone Sings & The Dead Wrestler Elegies. Co-author: Slash / Slash, Poetry: Writers Guide & Anthology. Writing teacher. he/him/dad
https://linktr.ee/toddkaneko
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Author, he/him
Tarik Dobbs @tarikd.xyz assistant professor of English (creative writing-poetry) | running poetry.onl | poems: Nazar Boy (Haymarket Books, 2024); Dearbornistan (Haymarket Books, forthcoming) | 🏳️🌈🇱🇧🇸🇾 | 🇵🇸
George Abraham 🍉 @intifadabatata.bsky.social Palestinian Poet | Editor @ Mizna | Teaching @ Amherst | 📖 BIRTHRIGHT (Button Poetry) & 🇵🇸 poetry anthology (Haymarket Books) | Bookings @TSP_Writing | they/هو
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social Poet, prof, she/her. Books at @MilkweedEditions @W.W.Norton (forthcoming) #resist
https://kathyfagan.com
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L. A. (Liz) Johnson @lajohnson.bsky.social Poet. Author of the chapbook Little Climates from Bull City Press. 
Sebastian Páramo @sebastianparamo.bsky.social PORTRAIT OF US BURNING from Northwestern UP • Founding Editor The Boiler • He/Him
https://linktr.ee/sebastianparamo
Ross White @rosswhite.com Publisher: @bullcitypress.com. Poet: CHARM OFFENSIVE & three chapbooks from Unicorn Press. Professor: UNC #GoHeels. Views my own. Host: @triviaescapepod.com. Goofus. Durham, NC.
> Site: rosswhite.com
Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social Poet / Faculty @spaldingwriting.bsky.social
Oliver de la Paz @oliverdelapaz.bsky.social Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA. Author and editor. Kundiman. NEA Fellow. Teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the low res MFA at PLU.
Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org