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
Jbrookewrites.com
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
JR Fenn @jrfenn.bsky.social Writer, teacher, parent, dreamer | TINY VESSELS out from Red Mare Press | Words in or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Orion's Belt, DIAGRAM, Split Lip, Witness, Boston Review, Gulf Coast | Ucross Fellow | Syracuse MFA | Prof at SUNY ESF | www.jrfenn.com
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social Ph.D. Languaging and Literacies. Immigration. Musings on my interdisciplinary academic life, pop culture, and politics. 双语 who loves travel (views my own)
Gabrielle Plastrik @gplastrik.bsky.social MG and YA reader, curator of learning experiences, parent, executive function coach, baker, and poet. I work toward a more just world with little choices every day.
Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social News re. Jail, Prison, Abolition, Decarceration, Criminology, Addiction, Sex Work, Blood Borne Pathogens, et al. ($) = Paywall.
Sara Candela @scandela9.bsky.social Community Manager | Poet | Former HS Eng Teacher | Lit mags & fiction 🤍
Los Angeles 🌴
Host of Unquiet: A Night of Creative Resistance, monthly in LA
Michael Bench-Capon @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social I have a PhD in philosophy and now I work in a library. He/him.
michaelbenchcapon.blogspot.com
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
brownhoundpress.com
Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, muting mansplainers since 2010, (cheerfully) uncoupled since February 2020. Just an old lady trying to eat a taco. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
Meaghan Mingo @mingome.bsky.social Postdoc @NotreDame | PhD @CornellSoc. Ever evolving ethnographer. Studying school punishment, race, and place in the rural South. She/her.
www.meaghanmingo.com
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
Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social Marxist, wife guy, union man, ne'er-do-well. Concerned with words, generally. Chicago-based eating enthusiast. CPS, DSA, THC. Crime, baseball, communism.
http://immortal-science.com
Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ).
Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton)
Wigleaf 50 2024, 2025; Best Small Fictions '23, '24; Best Microfiction '23
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurajedeed
Amy Stornaiuolo @amystorn.bsky.social Professor of literacy studies at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, studying digital literacies, youth media, & writing; lover of beaches & dystopian fiction (vs real dystopias); triple scorpio; she/hers
Rebecca Chambers @metismamamb.bsky.social Columnist & project lead for the @WinnipegFreePress.com media literacy platform at www.winnipegfreepress.com/education, high school teacher, grad student @UManitoba.bsky.social, lifelong learner, Autism mom, love warrior.
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app imagining freedom
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov Husband to my college sweetheart. Father to two troublemaking baby boys. U.S. Senator for New Jersey.
Account run by staff. Posts from Senator Kim signed –AK
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social Professor, Education Finance & Policy
Personal Website: https://schoolfinance101.com
School Finance Indicators Database: https://www.schoolfinancedata.org/
Books: https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/author/bruce-d-baker/
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social pragmatic optimist and well-known email author. lawyer never giving legal advice. views are mine alone.
cohen489.substack.com
americandemands.com
BOOK RECS THAT PAY ME + LOCAL STORES: https://bookshop.org/shop/cohen489
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social Freedom Writers Collaborative is a multi-state Indivisible chapter that is truly a grassroots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies.
https://freedomwriterscollaborative.org/
Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social W/Henry Farrell, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023/Penguin); Georgetown; This is a private account.
Scott Jarvie @scottjarvie.bsky.social Assistant professor at San Jose State studying the ambiguities: English ed, curriculum, affect, teacher experience.
Read my work here: https://sjsu.academia.edu/ScottJarvie & here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Scott-Jarvie
Antero Garcia @anterobot.bsky.social Associate Professor at Stanford University. NCTE President Elect. Education. Speculative Imagination. Healing. Dad of twins. he/him/his
lacuenta.substack.com
Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org The greatest city in the world should have the greatest streets in the world 🗽
Join us: transalt.org/connect
Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org The only website devoted to covering all the livable streets and public space news you need. Visit us at http://nyc.streetsblog.org. Retweets/posts are NOT endorsements.
@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social HS English teacher in Canada. Here on weekends and holidays; during the work week, elsewhere and sometimes deactivated.
Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul @sonjacherrypaul.bsky.social Educator * 2x NYT Bestselling Author * Founder of Red Clay Educators * Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy * she/her/hers * linktr.ee/sonjacherrypaul
Jennifer Gonzalez @cultofpedagogy.bsky.social Teacher of teachers. 
Cornelius Minor @corneliusminor.bsky.social Dad. Warrior-nerd. Fugitive pedagogue. Urban cyclist. Video game, HipHop polymath. ATLien. Bringing pens to swordfights since 1978. He/Him
Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social HS English teacher clinging to what the legendary Gwendolyn Brooks wrote: "we are each other's / harvest:" (yes, that line break feels heavier than ever these days)
Also: I share writings, resources + thoughts on education at thebrokencopier.substack.com!
Emily Pitts Donahoe @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social Associate Director at the University of Mississippi's Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning. Pedagogy, alt grading, teaching writing and lit. Substack: Unmaking the Grade. Opinions are my own. https://t.co/8ABfZoim4C
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social Arkie. Anti-Dirtbagist. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contrib. Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com
Words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net
Writing a book (Broadleaf)
Go Knicks
He/Him
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
Become a member: https://hammerandhope.org/membership
Read new issues and sign up for our newsletter: https://linktr.ee/hammerandhope
Nicholas A. Emmanuele, PhD (he/him/his) @naemmanuele.bsky.social ELA Teacher & Department Chair in Erie, PA | Chair, Conference on English Leadership | President, LitAGE | Adjunct Lecturer, Gannon University | PhD | 🏳️🌈 | he/him/his
Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social she/her | literacy studies phd @PennGSE
playful writing, participatory methods, critical childhoods, arts-based research
Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co Fmr. Political Consultant | AmeriCorps VISTA Alumni | M.S. Intelligence Management | B.S. Business Management | 🖖Trekkie | 📍Jersey City | michaelmartinez.co
Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan ✍🏻 Baltimore Review, Hunger Mtn, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel, Passages North, OSU The Journal, Tiny Molecules; soon in Fractured Lit | BSF 2023 | Wigleaf Top 50 2026
https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social Former Navy helicopter pilot & federal prosecutor. U.S. Rep. Mom of 4. Governor of the great state of New Jersey
Magenta @magentab.bsky.social Progressive Democrat from Jersey City
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
David Sankey @davidsankey.bsky.social Illustration & design in Jersey City / Board member, @bikejc.org / Probably listening to the 2021 ambient/jazz masterpiece Promises by Pharoah Sanders & Floating Points
http://davidsankey.net
Lexi K Woodward @lexikwoodward.bsky.social PhD Student at the University of Arkansas.
Multilingual Literacies. Places, spaces, and identities <3
Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social MOTHER TONGUE, out now.
Also TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR
🧏🏻 deafie | they/she/👉🏼 |📍Philly
https://buttondown.com/signs+wonders/archive
https://linktr.ee/Novic
Maggie Bryant @maggiebryant.bsky.social Interested in literacy identity, sociality, & reading communities🤓
7 years teaching HS English 👩🏻🏫 Book lover 📚 ~ @sdstate B.A. & @vupeabody M.Ed. & @baylor Ph.D.
FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social FWC is a multi-state Indivisible Group and a grassroots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies.
https://indivisible.org
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation.
💻: thetriibe.com
📩: https://thetriibe.com/newsletters/
Support us: https://buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhkbXaaeA6Zy03
Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social Lawyer/Poet. Poems appear or are forthcoming in EPOCH, Washington Square Review, Indiana Review, New Letters, Shenandoah, Southeast Review, and elsewhere.
Jed Brown @jedbrown.org Prof developing fast algorithms, reliable software, and healthy communities for computational science. Opinions my own. https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown
https://PhyPID.org | aspiring killjoy | refuse epistemicide | he/they
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Kyle P. Smith @kpsinedu.bsky.social Former HS English teacher | Doctoral Candidate in Ed Studies at the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan | English Ed and Literacies | Queer YA | 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social I research and create educational videos about misinformation, propaganda, climate change, and sometimes (unfortunately) AI
Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social Dad to school kids, professor to law students. Focused on education rights
SchooLawCracy: https://edlawprof.substack.com
Homepage: joshuaweishart.com
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social Host: Government That Doesn't Suck
PoliSci Prof. Official Congress e-news DB: DCinbox.com & CB8 member. Book on Parenting, Politics and Civic Ed (HowtoRaiseaCitizen.com), Political Communications & Electoral Systems.
https://dcinboxinsights.substack.com/
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
Margaret DeVico @margaretdevico.bsky.social Middle School teacher, New Jersey resident, slow runner, political junkie, former equestrian, self-taught knitter, mother of 2, married to @andrewpkatz.bsky.social
Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social 🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.15/word. nightshadesmag.com
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
Matt Weiland @mattweiland.bsky.social VP & Senior Editor at Norton; co-editor of STATE BY STATE, THINKING FAN'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD CUP, and COMMODIFY YOUR DISSENT; midfielder from Minneapolis.
Yore: Ecco, Paris Review, Granta, The Baffler, MPR, Minnesota Kicks camp.
www.mattweiland.com
Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social Former rainforest biologist, now freelance writer/editor focused on biodiversity, forests, climate, etc. Two newsletters: Global Nature Beat https://thenaturebeat.substack.com/ and Planet Ficus https://planetficus.substack.com
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
Education Law Center @edlawcenter.bsky.social 
Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social Late night TV Writer/Producer. Horror-comedy coming 2027: The Big Kill
Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Alice Griffin Professor Emerita of English, Former Director-Carter G. Woodson Institute, U of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.
The Reader Berlin @thereaderberlin.bsky.social ✍️ Berlin's Platform for Creative Writers since 2011 ✍️
www.thereaderberlin.com
Creative Writing Workshops & Writing Classes / Mentoring / Readings / The Berlin Writing Prize
Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social Teacher | Writer
https://adrianneibauer.substack.com/
https://adrian-neibauer.com/
Brett Vogelsinger @thevogelman.bsky.social I’m a high school English teacher in Bucks County, PA. I present PD and authored the books Poetry Pauses (2023) and Artful AI (coming June 2025).
Poem of the Day to start each class!
https://brettvogelsinger.com
#poetry #ai #teaching #aplit
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social Work in: The Sun Magazine, Colorado Review, Off Assignment, Wigleaf, The Razor, The Independent, Wired, HuffPost, Writer's Digest, The Belladonna, Slackjaw, One Story Conf '23, Bread Loaf '25, she/her, BLM https://angiemccullagh.weebly.com/
JC Policy Circle @jcpolicycircle.bsky.social Advocating for more effective, evidence-based policy in Jersey City, Hudson County and New Jersey
Kara Imm @karalouiseimm.bsky.social 
Yen Ha @yhaduong.bsky.social Artist | Writer | she/her
Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social Parlei Rivière is interested in language, anti-colonialism, and space. Member of SWFA and Codex. My work can be found in Uncanny Magazine. Parleiriviere.com
Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social CEO, Vet Voice Foundation (@vetvoicefoundation.bsky.social) & Senior Advisor, VoteVets 🗣️ | Marine Corps Veteran 🇺🇸 | Defiant optimist | “If you're going through hell, keep going” | Tweets my own.
Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social Terrain.org is the world's first online literary journal of place. An award-winning environmental magazine, we publish poetry, nonfiction, fiction, artwork, editorials, interviews, reviews, community case studies, and more, all free to access + ad-free.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Courtney Walker @courtneywalker.bsky.social Jersey City resident. Data enthusiast. NY Liberty fan 🗽
Patrick Hart @patrickhart.bsky.social Queer local policy geek in Brooklyn. Gets unreasonably excited about things like nonprofit procurement reform and loves community-building at all levels. Negative 2 dexterity modifier. Works at CUNY ISLG (but all opinions here are my own!).
Scott Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Literacy in a School of Education | Former English teacher who designed and sustained public high schools | Social Justice Pedagogies | Adolescent Literacies | Critical Aesthetics | Machine Learning | Nerd | (he/him) 🏳️🌈
Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social Better Blocks NJ advocates for better urban land use so New Jerseyans can build more housing, businesses, parks, and transit to sustain our vibrant communities.
https://betterblocksnj.org/