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Georgina (Zina) Roche @georginaroche.bsky.social Ecofeminist | Editor & Translator | Passionate about dismantling systems of oppression in relation to each other and to the 🌍 | Social and behaviour change
Writing and thinking about #VAWG #ecofeminism #AIethics #neurodiversity. Views my own.
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Catherine Jampel @catherinejampel.bsky.social https://catherinejampel.com/
freelance scholarly editor * phd, geography * writes about disability and work * she/they
~ haphazardly getting onto BlueSky + might turn over a new leaf + participate more actively than on bird app, where I learned so much
Norton Critical Editions @nortoncriticals.bsky.social A classic works reprint series by W. W. Norton & Company, Independent & Employee-Owned. Share what you're teaching & your dream NCEs! Read along with us here: https://seagull.wwnorton.com/nortoncriticaleditions
Tara de Queiroz, ELS @alpinewriting.bsky.social She/her | Board-certified Editor in the Life Sciences | member, EFA | Steering committee, Freedom to Read Nevada | anti-AI | Hampshire College F90
Rhea Classical Reviews @rheaclassical.bsky.social An online, open access book review journal that prioritizes emerging and underrepresented scholarly voices in Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Website: rheaclassicalreviews.com
Alejandra González-Jiménez 🫒🌿 @heliconide.bsky.social Classical Studies, UNAM | Digital Humanities | Admin of Desde Themyscira: desdethemysciraffyl.mx | Admin of EPN, UNAM: iifilologicas.unam.mx/pnovohispano | https://alejandragj.com/
Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social Assistant Director of the Institute of Advanced Columbo Studies; Certified Meth(eny) Head
(the handle is a clue)
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Jo Davies | Proofreader & Copy Editor @platinumproof.bsky.social Word nerd, bookworm and serial exercise avoider.
www.platinumproofreading.co.uk
www.linkedin.com/in/jodavies1
Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social I’m a Latin professor and book historian working on slavery and scribal labor in Ancient Rome. Co-edited volume “Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Roman Mediterranean” out now from OUP. Find my other writing in The Nation.
Jenn Rossiter @jbrediting.bsky.social Freelance editor and grant writer supporting academics and non-profits 🇨🇦 🐈⬛ ☕️ jennrossiter[dot]com
(she/her)
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social academic book indexer: interested in how we make sense of the world through the humanities specializing in the arts, esp fine arts, social justice and material culture.
Curler, settler 🇨🇦, she/her, & klutz extraordinaire 🏳️🌈
www.fedorakindexing.com
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Natalie Van Deusen @nvandeusen.bsky.social 
Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social Historian living in Rome. 🏳️🌈 Author of "The Families who Made Rome, a history and a guide" (Chatto, 2004). Currently writing a single-volume urban history of Rome for OUP.
Only by knowledge of history can we know our context. Plus, it's fun!
Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social Writer and editor
Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Anya Hastwell @editorialcat.bsky.social Editor of non-fiction ⏃ Writer of whimsy ⏃ Yoga Siromani certified ⏃ Wanderer of enchanted landscapes ⏃ Incense and insensibility (She/Her)
⏃ https://linktr.ee/languawitchery
Jaime Sperling @diedofennui.bsky.social Copyediting, proofreading, cats, running, insomnia. Not necessarily in that order.
Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social JWIL has been at the forefront of publishing Caribbean writing and criticism since 1986.
https://www.jwilonline.org/
Shivaun Hearne 🇯🇲🇨🇦 @shivhearne.bsky.social Editor at House of Anansi / Writer of sorts / Reader of not enough / Mine of useless information
Eloquenti 🧪✍️📚 @eloquenti.com Supporting researchers and authors with professional editing 📝 grant writing 💰 manuscript proofreading👩💻 book editing📚 medical writing✍️ scientific consulting👩🏻🔬 author services 📖
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Jennifer Holmes @jenmededit.bsky.social Freelance Medical Writer and Editor | Bookworm | Communicating science well--for healthy people and a healthy planet 🌳
William McJunkin @wmcjunkinmcjunkin.bsky.social Academic editor | Translator from German to English
@wordmacrotools.bsky.social @wordmacrotools.bsky.social 
@heurtebiseange.bsky.social @heurtebiseange.bsky.social 
Philippa Tomlinson @philippajtomlinson.bsky.social Editor and proofreader, educational publishing. Professional member of CIEP. Always learning
Sam Kelly @samkellyproof.bsky.social Brit in Argentina. Bad pool player and good reader for pleasure; proofreader for money (also good at that, or at least so I like to think).
Professional Member of the CIEP | https://undisputedproof.com
Also podcast @handofpod.bsky.social
@kenyon295.bsky.social @kenyon295.bsky.social 
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Mahriana Rofheart @mrofheart.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, teaching comp and researching African lit and comics. Still have the same 3 favorite things I had at age 5: reading, swimming, and cats.
Rebecca du Plessis @rebeccadp.bsky.social Copy-editor, proofreader | Advanced Professional Member CIEP | academic humanities | fiction translations from French
https://rebeccafduplessis.wixsite.com/editor
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship promotes the study of the patristic age, the Middle Ages, and the early modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies. 
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social Poet, publisher of Threadsuns, book designer. Pain Olympics champion.
Antonn Park @bfediting.bsky.social Freelance editor, economics and justice policy research (https://www.blueflowerediting.com) 🏊🏾♀️ 🚴🏾♀️
Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Madelon Franssen @exterindexing.bsky.social Book indexer at Exter Indexing and Reviews Editor of The Indexer. www.exterindexing.com
Dave Nelsen @thegrammargeek.bsky.social Copy editor, proofreader, deputy editorial manager at Dragonfly Editorial. Oxford comma agnostic. What you learned in ninth-grade English might be wrong. He/him.
Maya Berger (she/her) @mayaberger.bsky.social #ResearchAdmin #GrantEditor #copyeditor & #proofreader.
Creator of #TheEditorsAffairs (TEA).
#CIEP Advanced Professional Member.
#AmEditing, #EroticaEditor, #ConsciousLanguage, #BasicIncome, #UBI, anti-oppression.
https://www.WhatIMeanToSay.com/
Rachel Small @rachelsmall.bsky.social Book editor, reiki practitioner, coffee drinker
(she/her)
CIEP Advanced Professional Member
https://rachelsmallediting.com
Pierke Bosschieter @pierke.bsky.social Avid reader and book indexer. Specialised in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, Jewish and Holocaust studies, and Asian studies but also in general history and art. Loves cooking (and eating) and nature photography, especially creepy-crawlies.
Bridgette Werner | Developmental Editor @drbwerner.bsky.social Developmental & line editor for academic authors. Historian of Latin America. Former postdoc @Princeton. PhD @UWMadison. She/Her. views mine. https://www.throughlineediting.com/
Shirley Rash Editing @shirleyrashediting.bsky.social Editor | History Buff | True Crime Enthusiast | Library Associate | Tarheel in the Ozarks
shirleyrashediting.com
Jennifer Dinsmore @jenniferdinsmore.bsky.social Editor & Professional Proofreader; Vice Tea Mistress of The Editors Tea Club; Member of ACES & the EFA; Lifelong bookworm & lover of "weird" fiction. (she/her)
Let me help turn your manuscript into a masterpiece: https://jenniferdinsmoreeditorial.as.me/
Rachel Lapidow @editrix-rachel.bsky.social Copyeditor, proofreader, & developmental editor of TTRPGs, comics, board games, sci-fi, & fantasy. Newbie indexer. Lover of apple cider doughnuts. Knitter. Generative AI sucks. She/her 📚 www.rachellapidow.com
Brainstormer in Chief: #StetChat @stetchat.com
Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚
Tips at newsletter.manuscriptworks.com & in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK and MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK (Princeton UP)
Courses + free resources at manuscriptworks.com
Knitter, 2X Jeopardy! champ 🤓
Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social Jewish romance writer; sci-fi, fantasy, and romance editor; university writing coach; Jane Austen enthusiast
✍✡️📚
Repped by Christina Miller at Nancy Yost Literary Agency
📍Halifax, Nova Scotia
She/her
Find me professionally at www.rookwoodediting.com
Joan Detz @joandetz.bsky.social How To Write & Give A Speech, "A how-to classic" (Washington Post) Books translated into Chinese, Spanish+ #libraries #literacy #HTWGAS #CanYouSayAFewWords?
Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social Freelance medical editor, alto, digital packrat, occasional traveller, trying to make things better. If you tell me a tomato is a fruit not a vegetable, you’ll get a lecture. 🇨🇦 She/her. https://linktr.ee/rmarwick
Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, line editor, and indexer in the arts and humanities. She/her/Dr. It's pronounced "mar."
Nadia Geagea Pupa @nadiageageapupa.bsky.social Podcast Host of The Editor's Half Hour
Co-Founder and CEO of Pique Publishing, Inc.
SciEditor—Adrienne Montgomerie @scieditor.ca Awesomer of hard words, teacher of tech and editors, sea-kayaker, SciEditor.ca, eiw365.com
Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social Writer of dictionaries and books about nerd fights at the dictionary factory (WORD BY WORD [2017]; TRUE COLOR [2026]; more TK). niila myaamia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2106554/kory-stamper/
Allison Van Deventer @allisonvandev.bsky.social Developmental editor for academic authors. Author: The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook (UChicago Press). Workshop facilitator. She/her. Comp lit PhD. https://www.allisonvandeventer.com/
Katelyn E. Knox @katelynknox.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., c20&21 Francophone immigration literature and culture; author of Race on Display in 20th and 21st Century France and The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook. She/her. https://go.dissertationtobook.com
Amy J. Schneider @amyjschneider.bsky.social Copyeditor. Crazy dog lady. Singer. Wife. Runner. Wino. Not necessarily in that order. (she/her)
Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS @kokedit.bsky.social Medical editor helping researchers in 20+ nations get published in 60+ medical journals. No GenAI/LLMs. Member of ACES, AMWA, BELS, CSE, EFA. Board-certified editor in the life sciences. She/her. https://www.kokedit.com
Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social Full Professor @ FLACSO Mexico. I study comparative public policy, water governance, waste management, public administration, environmental politics, homelessness, eldercare and care work, mixed/experimental methods.
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Laura Poole @laurapoole.bsky.social Editor, baker, modern quilter, pluviophile, pasta enthusiast, rhubarb lover. Retroflex r. Short and mighty.
She/her
The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social What's hot and cooking in Scholarly Communications. Blog from the Society for Scholarly Publishing -- account run by Editor David Crotty
Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social A global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. Read UP! https://aupresses.org/ Got a question about university press publishing? Ask UP! https://ask.up.hcommons.org/
Ellen Jovin is at the Grammar Table @grammartable.bsky.social Roving grammarian hooking up words and phrases and clauses, now in rollicking grammar road trip movie! https://www.rebelwithaclause.com/
Licia Corbolante (@terminologia) @terminologiaetc.it Terminologa. Affascinata da lingua, lingue e linguaggi.
https://www.terminologiaetc.it/
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto.bsky.social The largest museum in Canada - we showcase art, culture, and nature from around the world and across the ages.
Tanya Izzard @tanyaizzard.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 I'm a book indexer working on scholarly humanities titles. Other hats include being the Marketing lead for the UK Society of Indexers and my E.M. Delafield website. https://tanyaizzard.co.uk/about/tanya-izzards-links/
Iva Cheung @ivacheung.com Certified Professional Editor • cookbook indexer • plain language trainer • mental health researcher • adjunct prof • #AngryJellyDonut • #LyricsPrompt prompter • #ParticipateInResearch booster • author, #AfterTheFeast • she/her • www.ivacheung.com
Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social Fellow of the Society of Indexers, ex-archaeologist, also family historian, mum, bell ringer, knitter and learning the cornet. Easily found elsewhere. https://abookindexer.com/ 
Jess Shulman @jessshulman.bsky.social Freelance editor, crossword constructor, also busy with kids, music, books, paddleboarding, youth baseball, TV, cats/dogs... she/her
University of Texas Press @utexaspress.bsky.social Publisher of international scope serving UT Austin, the people of Texas & knowledge seekers around the globe through books, journals & digital media | Learn more at utpress.utexas.edu!
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social Dictionary ambassador, Merriam-Webster.
Forthcoming book:
"By Definition: The Surprising History of the English Dictionary"
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250347589/bydefinition/
American Society for Indexing @asindexing.bsky.social Non-profit professional association of indexers.
We advocate, educate, and provide the central resource for indexing. https://www.asindexing.org/
Editorial Freelancers Association @efafreelancers.bsky.social EFA freelancers include editors, writers, indexers, proofreaders, researchers, desktop publishers, translators. Free job listing service. Courses & webinars for members & guests. https://linktr.ee/efa_editors
Editors/Réviseurs Canada @editorscanada.bsky.social Canada's national editorial association. Editors/Réviseurs Canada is a not-for-profit organization promoting professional editing and supporting editors at every stage of their careers. #HireAnEditor www.editors.ca / www.reviseurs.ca
Catherine Dunn @catherinedunn.bsky.social I right books. No job too odd! Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP. Hobbies: snakes, drawing, painting, knitting, crochet, Valheim, gardening, geocaching. Occasional spinner. Noise-maker. She/her. Insta: bearlycat / CatherineDunnArtwork. 📝🐍🎨🧶🐻❄️🫀❤️🔥🎲🌱🫧
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
Aalap Trivedi — Editor @aalaptrivedi.bsky.social Drafted Editorial Services. Member of Editing Globally, a global editorial collective.
Joe Haining (he/him) @joehaining-editor.bsky.social Developmental and copy-editor, specialising in HaSS non-fiction.
Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP (@the-ciep.bsky.social).
Sports tragic. Music/literature obsessive. 🏳️🌈
https://www.blenheimeditorial.co.uk/
Joanie Eppinga @eagleeyeeditor.bsky.social Editor, writer, reader; aikidoist for 24 years. Advanced Professional Member, CIEP. Co-author: Powerless to Powerful: Leadership for School Change. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475822366/Powerless-to
Kelly Urgan | Fiction Editor @editegrity.bsky.social Fiction editor: historical, fantasy, sci-fi & contemporary novels @Editegrity
Avid hiker, museum goer
In a constant tug of war between coffee and tea
Reading, of course
Louise Harnby @louiseharnby.bsky.social Crime fiction and thriller editor (she/her): harnby.co/fictionediting. Co-host of The Editing Podcast
The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) @the-ciep.bsky.social The UK’s only chartered body for the editorial profession. Championing excellence. Supporting growth. Connecting professionals. Shaping the future. https://www.ciep.uk/directory.html
Denise Cowle @denisecowle.bsky.social Copyeditor & proofreader. Advanced professional member & vice-chair of the CIEP. Cohost of The Editing Podcast. https://linktr.ee/denisecowle
Dr Kathrin Luddecke @kathrinluddecke.bsky.social Hannoverian permanently resident in historic Oxford (30+ years); dual national. Art lover, translator, editor, social and co-op activist. Sweet tooth! Freelancer and printmaker: see my website https://t.co/M74fehA9M6
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Erin Brenner (she/her) @ebrenner.bsky.social Author of "The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors." 📘
2024 winner of the Robinson Prize. 🏆
Builder of editing teams for small and growing organizations. 💪
Advocate for conscious language. 💬
Anna Williams @editoranna.bsky.social Editor (mostly music) living in Edinburgh
Professional Member of the CIEP
Oboist, occasional choral singer, lapsed pianist- H Hilary – Cadman Training @hilaryc01.bsky.social Helping editors everywhere to save time and improve quality
Ema@TheClarityEditor @theclarityeditor.bsky.social Editor and plain language advocate. Edits for the social sciences and international development. Based in Bangkok/Tokyo. AmE/Japanese speaker (and some Spanish, German & Thai). Amateur classical singer. https://linktr.ee/theclarityeditor
Louise Duckling @louiseduckling.bsky.social Editorial Services for Academics | www.louiseduckling.com Intermediate Member of the CIEP | Literary Historian (18c women writers) | Reviews editor for Women's Writing journal