Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social Features Editor & Immigration Reporter @prismreports.org | co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com | tina@prismreports.org
Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social Lapsed novelist, #RoughBeast author, PREVAIL columnist & podcaster, co-host of The Five 8, enjoyer of Friday Manhattans. https://bio.site/gregolear
Jeana Edelman @jeanaedelman.bsky.social Artist, small business owner, caregiver, gardener. All photos are mine unless it’s a repost. No AI or color edits.
Susan Wickstrom @suwick.bsky.social Loving Portland. Baking addict. Burning down the patriarchy!! https://open.substack.com/pub/susanwickstrom
Jennifer Pashley @jenniferpashley.bsky.social Suspense writer.
Queer GenXer.
she/they
www.jenniferpashley.com
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social Writer and recovering book critic
Former historian
Grew up in the PNW
Advocate for habitat restoration and pollinator gardens
Petsitter and traveler
Shaindel Beers @shaindelr.bsky.social Poet, Professor, Animal Advocate and Rescuer
Kate Ristau @kateristau.bsky.social Folklorist. Author. Executive Director of Willamette Writers. President of SFWA. Blue hair. She/they. Bi/Pan. Rep Elisa Saphier.
Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
Anne Hawley💜🩶🖤🤍 @annehawley.bsky.social 💜🩶🖤🤍 Poster-crone for late bloomers. Writer. Editor. Bike rider. Portlander. She/her.
Anis Mojgani @mojgani.bsky.social Poet & picture maker. NOLA born & raised. Oregon’s 10th Poet Laureate Emeritus. Trying days, trying heart.
Chelsea Cain @chelseacain.bsky.social Person who writes. 
Michelle Ruiz Keil @michelleruizkeil.bsky.social Bruja, fabulist, talks to the animals
Author of All of Us With Wings & Summer In the City of Roses
www.michelleruizkeil.com
Debra Gwartney @debragwartney.bsky.social Oregon writer
Margaret Malone @margaretmalone.bsky.social Human. Writer. Mother. Mentor. Author of PEOPLE LIKE YOU. Lover of trees and books and records and nachos. Holding out hope for humanity, just barely. 
Andy Mingo @andymingo.bsky.social I do odd jobs.
Oregon Cascadia Party:
https://www.oregoncascadia.party
The Crazy Shit Larry Says:
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Seariver Sanctuary:
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pdxrachreads @pdxrachreads.bsky.social 📖Bookworm | Lost in the world of words ✨
🐉Fantasy🧚♀️|🌹Romance💋|🔭Sci-Fi🚀
https://linktr.ee/pdxrachreads
Current Reads
📖 The Last Time I Wore A Dress
🎧 Clean Air
📱Dissolution
Nick Dothée @nickdothee.bsky.social Writer, sober-gay-bulldog dad, and Bravo enthusiast in LA.
On May 27th 2016 I was hospitalized & detoxed from months of meth, booze and pills.
But my life was spared. Everyday since I’ve shared my gratitudes to keep me present, accountable, and sober.
Erin Ferrell @erinferrell.bsky.social Artist and Writer
Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Novelist & Short Story Writer | 🏡 Realtor | 💕 Mom | WFWA | Former Blogger at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Agent: Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group | IG: christina.hyun
My Indy short stories: http://amazon.com/author/christinahyun
Katie Yale @kjyale.bsky.social Digital editor at Orion magazine. Children’s book author. Former wildlife field tech and scriptwriter for SciShow and Crash Course. Enjoys literary endeavors, petting moss, and swimming in cold water.
Safiya Sinclair @safiyasinclair.bsky.social Author of HOW TO SAY BABYLON, memoir (@simonschuster & @4thEstateBooks) | Poet | Born & raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica | Booking: @shipmanagency.bsky.social
Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social I'm the NYT bestselling author of the novels The Dogs of Babel, Lost and Found, The Nobodies Album and Harmony. Humor in the New Yorker and the Rumpus, essays in Washingtonian and WSJ. She/her, bisexual, married, mom.
Saleema Nawaz @saleema.bsky.social Writer (TV, novels, musicals). Toronto & Montreal. Books: SONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, BONE & BREAD, MOTHER SUPERIOR. TV: MURDOCH MYSTERIES. Former columnist, game writer, narrative designer, person who liked being online.
Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social Rainey Royal was my last novel. She’s also my alter ego. List of All Possible Desires, linked stories, comes out May 2026.
SueWSilverman @suewsilverman.bsky.social Write memoir and essays. "How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences." Co-chair of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. I love irony, metaphors, obsessions. Recovering from election.
Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social Author of An Uncertain Age and House of Miracles. Labyrinth guide.
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www.ulricahume.com
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Read story: https://psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/13/call-us-not-weeds/
Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social Poet, storyteller, teaching artist.
Fellowships from PEN America, Kundiman, Aspen Institute. Studying at Randolph MFA. Fat bear nerd 🤎
www.tsunamee.com
Jim Tomlinson @jltomlinson.bsky.social Fictioneer, NEA Literature Fellow, author of THINGS KEPT, THINGS LEFT BEHIND and NOTHING LIKE AN OCEAN. Perpetually working on a novel.
Antioch MFA Program @antiochmfa.bsky.social Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing with a social justice mission. We offer degrees in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writing for Young People, Screenwriting, Playwriting, and Translation. Community, Not Competition!
https://linktr.ee/aulamfa
Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social author of First Love and Negative Space
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Cinema, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Cate McGowan @catemcgowan.com Author of four books: poetry collection—SACRIFICIAL STEEL, essay collection—WRITING IS REVISION, stories—TRUE PLACES NEVER ARE, & novel—THESE LOWLY OBJECTS. Prose & poems smattered everywhere. Em dashes rule!
PhD, MFA, MA.
https://linktr.ee/cate.mcgowan
Jess Lahey @jesslahey.bsky.social NYT bestselling author (Gift of Failure, Addiction Inoculation), host #AmWriting pod, mom, sober. Past: NYT columnist, Atlantic, WaPo. Teacher. Vermonter. Prevention works.
Carter Sickels @cartersickels.bsky.social Author: THE PRETTIEST STAR (Hub City 2020), THE EVENING HOUR (Bloomsbury 2012)
www.cartersickels.com
Isabel Kaplan @isabelkaplan.bsky.social Novelist (NSFW) battling Long Covid. Saying/writing/drawing the quiet parts out loud & on the page. Substack: isabelkaplan.substack.com
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
Shannon Brazil @shannonbrazilpdx.bsky.social Gen X feminist writer-woman • mother • skylover • very into clouds • houseplants • photography • and rocks • securely attached to sun >>Snow Avoidant<< • unfazed by zipper lanes • tmi • IIWII • polypansexualother
Mary Morris @marymorris.bsky.social Find reliable news sources. Double check 'facts'. Vote on the whole package, not just one issue. Be kind.
Writer. Word fiend.
My commas: Oxford.
Pro grey skies and rainy days.
Suicide Hotline 988 (It IS worth it. Promise.)
Kirsty Doole @otherkirsty.bsky.social Snr Publicity Director @atlanticbooks.bsky.social. Glaswegian down south. Mum. Books, cats, theatre, weird and spooky stuff. Swemo. Passionate about SEND issues.
Fiona McKay @fionamckay.bsky.social Writer | THE TOP ROAD (AdHoc Fiction 2023) | DRAWN AND QUARTERED (Alien Buddha Press 2023) | THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (AdHoc Fiction July 2025) | Words in places | Autistic + ADHD
Ally to 🏳️🌈 and 🏳️⚧️
Free 🇵🇸 and slava 🇺🇦
Exeter Library @exeterlibrary.bsky.social A warm hello from us all! We are a Libraries Unlimited library in the cathedral city of Exeter, Devon, UK. A cultural and community hub in the city. Events at http://linktr.ee/exeterlibrary. RTs not endorsements.
Carolyn Cooke @carolyncooke.bsky.social Author of Amor & Psycho, Daughters of the Revolution, and The Bostons. Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Writing at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland
Kara Watson @karawatson.bsky.social VP & Executive Editor at Scribner
Tyler Monson @tylerlazer.bsky.social He/Him / Literary agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. / PhD in American Literature / dog (Violet) and cat (Poppy) dad / Open to queries! 📚
https://www.sll.com/our-team
Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social Writer of feelings & the environment (Orion, NYT, Guardian, etc), teacher, author of Wolfish (winner of 2024 Oregon Book Award). Portland, OR. She/her. www.ericaberry.com
Grant Faulkner @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social Co-founder of 100 Word Story, Write-minded podcaster, Executive Producer of America's Next Great Author, Co-founder of Memoir Nation, tap dancer, alchemist, contortionist, numbskull, preacher.
And, oh yeah, writer.
BadToss @badtoss.bsky.social Guggenheim Fellow, Prof Emerita. Working on a book on America's home grown Soviet spy (37Ink). Oh, and tennis tweets. Expect them.
Lit rep: Mackenzie Brady Watson
Stacks at https://prendergastc.substack.com- C Carol Rifka Brunt @carolrifkabrunt.bsky.social Writer. TELL THE WOLVES I'M HOME (Dial Press/Random House)
Devon, UK via New York
Cohabit with a small flock of rescue parrots
Vegan for a million reasons
www.carolrifkabrunt.com
Frank Wynne @terribleman.com Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
Susan Cahill @susancahill.bsky.social 🌧THE WORLD BETWEEN THE RAIN 🌧 middle-grade children’s fantasy, out now!
🌟Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2025
🎙️STORYSHAPED: podcast about children’s books that shape us
https://linktr.ee/susancahillwrites
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social poet, editor, writer, CCNY MFA teacher, culture worker. He/him
Tia Keobounpheng @tiakeo.bsky.social Tia Salmela Keobounpheng
American Artist [Finnish & Sámi(SWE) descent] based in Minneapolis, Mni Sota
Tiffany Blankenship @tiffanyclarissa.bsky.social Queer. Texan. Veteran. Bookworm.
Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social poet-type person
Sonya Larson @larsonya.bsky.social Too school for cool
Liz Tigelaar @liztigelaar.bsky.social TV writer (Tiny Beautiful Things/Little Fires Everywhere) and Tonya Harding aficionado.
Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social ▪️Relentless optimist.
▪️Salt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️Best Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
Jenn M. Choi @jennmchoi.bsky.social I tell stories that empower.⚡️Writer, Coach, Mom, Child of Immigrants, Cycle Breaker. Self-help memoir in progress.❤️✍🏼
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
Russell Ricard @russellricard.bsky.social Writer. Author of THE TRUTH ABOUT GOODBYE. Veteran theatre performer. Founder, Calm Mindset Wellness,LLC.
russellricard.com www.calmmindsetwellness.com
Mark Russell @manruss.bsky.social Eisner, GLAAD, and Ringo award winning comic book writer and author. My website is at https://markrussellbooks.com/
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
Liz Enslin @lizenslin.bsky.social Author, Memoirist, Oregon Book Award Finalist, introvert, former high school teacher, recovering anthropologist, aspiring photographer, #neurodivergent. I live in a straw bale house on a farm with yaks, chickens, two cats, a dog and lots of wildlife. 
Michael Udesky💙 @udeskym.bsky.social Fighting the good fight for Democracy.💙 Playwright(ish). Previously wrote on Criminal Minds, NCIS LA, and feature, Garage Days directed by Alex Proyas (iRobot). Struggling to find my inner Gordon Lish. #BLM #Feminist
Suzy Vitello @suzyvitello.bsky.social Author and Managing Editrix for Sibylline Press. PREORDER upcoming novel GRIFTOPIA wherever books are sold. https://suzyvitello.com/
https://suzyvitello.substack.com/
Clare Drysdale @claredrysdale.bsky.social Book wench at @atlanticbooks.bsky.social
Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Teacher | Author of First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion 2025) | Columnist @ WCP
she/they 🏳️🌈 ❤️
www.hgrieco.com
Gin Phillips @ginphillips.bsky.social Writer. Ruby Falls (Coming March 2026). Fierce Kingdom, The Well and the Mine, Family Law, others.
Daniel Nester @danielnestermfa.bsky.social Poet, nonfiction writer, editor, Queen fan, Shader. Order my new book, HARSH REALM: MY 1990s. danielnester.substack.com
Stephanie Elsky @selsky.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, Rhodes College. Studying and teaching Renaissance lit, law and lit, women writers. Author of /Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature/ (OUP 2020). 
Amy Chen @amychenwrites.bsky.social Writer, editor, dog mom
Repped by Jennifer Newens, Martin-Newens Literary Management
Sandi Schwartz @sandischwartz.bsky.social Award-winning environmental author of “Finding Ecohappiness” and freelance journalist specializing in sustainability, nature, home & garden, wellness, lifestyle, and parenting. Grab a copy of my book: https://shorturl.at/bm5SF.
McKenna @blessinghearts.bsky.social 
Stephanie Merritt/SJ Parris @stephmerritt.bsky.social Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Reviews for The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
Amy Howard @a-e-howard.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Lover of Stories.
Gardener and Grower.
I’m not here for a long time, I’m here for a good time.
Eowyn Ivey @eowynivey.bsky.social Alaskan, author of The Snow Child, To the Bright Edge of the World, and coming in Feb 2025 ... Black Woods Blue Sky
David White @dlwhite.bsky.social Father, husband, teacher, writer. 
Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
https://www.joybaglio.com/
Seth Rogoff @snrogoff.bsky.social Author of six books, including the recently published novel The Castle (FC2) https://fc2.org/authors/rogoff/#castle
Stephanie Rostan @stephanierostan.bsky.social Literary Agent at Levine Greenberg Rostan
Danielle Paige @daniellepaige.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Writer of Books, Comics and Television. Known for #dorothymustdie. #dccomics #archiecomics #guidinglight #stealingsnow #theravens. my latest is #wishofthewicked. And just lucky to be on staff @ CBS' brand new soap #beyondthegates
Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social I hope to seduce you to read "Everything is Personal," named by Lithub one of the seven best literary publications on Substack. lauriestone.substack.com/subscribe
Jason Renaud @jrenaud.bsky.social Keeping it unprofessional.
Rhonda Hughes @rhondaroni.bsky.social Contributing Editor at Hawthorne Books, an imprint of the Catapult Group, Avid knitter. Painter. Animal Lover.
Nora Maynard @noramaynard.bsky.social Writer & editor in NYC. Fiction in Variant Lit., hex, Moon City Review, MoonPark Review, Gone Lawn, HAD & others. Soon in Citron Review. Runner, movie lover, beginner violinist. Co-ed. -ette @ettereview.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/noramaynard
Sarah Fain @sarahfain.bsky.social TV Writer/Showrunner, co-host of Happier in Hollywood podcast, knitter, dog lover, backyard chicken fan, gluten-free baker, and mom of the coolest kid ever.
Dan O’Keefe @dj0k3r.bsky.social TV writer for Seinfeld, Veep, Silicon Valley, Beavis & Butt-Head, The League, The Drew Carey Show, etc.
Joel Eisenberg @joeleisenberg.bsky.social Award-winning writer of The Chronicles of Ara novels. Author and screenwriter. Producer of film and television. WGA member. PEN America member. Words are my weapons and I wear my passion on my sleeve. Lit rep: Scott Kaufman at Buchwald.
anne t. donahue @annetdonahue.bsky.social writer and yapper
she/her