Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
kristina kearns @kristinakearns.bsky.social publishing and nonprofit consultant
formerly fitzcarraldo and mcsweeney's
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Brittany K. Allen @britt-kathryn.bsky.social staff writer at Literary Hub 🌹
actor, prosewright, playwright
Big Chill apologist
words in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Lampblack, Kenyon Review, Epiphany, etc.
Seth Pollack @sethmpk.bsky.social Bikes, seltzer, NYC for life. Political organizer for hire.
Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social author of SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US (creature publishing 2027) + debut UPCOUNTRY (unnamed press 2023) IG: @scribblepost. words in electric lit, lit hub, the georgia review, etc. rep: pamela malpas/jennifer lyons literary
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Monique Truong @moniquetruong.bsky.social Writer & Librettist & Eater
https://monique-truong.com/
Alena Graedon @alenagraedon.bsky.social 
Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social Irregular contributor at The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Electric Literature, etc. Your Jewish mom friend.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Yalitza Ferreras @yalitza.bsky.social WICW Fellow | Rona Jaffe Award | Best American Short Stories | Steinbeck Fellow
she/her
www.yalitza.com
Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social Poet. Essayist. Educator. "Places I've Taken My Body" & "The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded" Co-author "In the Field Between Us" w Susannah Nevison. Editor in Chief @ Image Journal. http://mollymccullybrown.com
Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social COYOTELAND | FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming UPROOTED
Sarah Cypher @sarahcypher.bsky.social Writer + fiction editor + queer human in Austin. THE SKIN AND ITS GIRL (Ballantine/PRH). Aspires to stop making new social media profiles | she/her 🏳️🌈 www.sarahcypher.com
Josh Riedel @joshriedel.bsky.social Author of Please Report Your Bug Here (2023).
Editor of Thirty Cabins.
Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social Writer. Featured in Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Guardian and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and society.
Words: madness.ghost.io
Video: youtube.com/@readmadness
Jessica Anthony @jessicaanthony.bsky.social Fictioneer.
THE MOST (Little, Brown & Co.), ENTER THE AARDVARK (Little, Brown & Co.), CHOPSTICKS (Penguin), THE CONVALESCENT (McSweeney's)
thejessicaanthony.com
Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social Artist | Author of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES | Host of Sunday Salons | Rights of Nature 🌍 Long COVID 😷 Dysautonomia | Irish in NYC / Ardee | Born @331ppm | Climate Justice
Bio: https://www.katieholten.com/about
Language of Trees: https://bit.ly/LanguageTrees
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social Crafty southpaw.
Elizabeth Crane @elizabethcrane.bsky.social dog mom
@cathyparkhong.bsky.social @cathyparkhong.bsky.social 
Jessica Williams @jmwillz.bsky.social VP, editorial director @ William Morrow / HarperCollins
Cari Luna @cariluna.bsky.social Author of THE REVOLUTION OF EVERY DAY, winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. Words in The Nation, Guernica, Street Roots, Salon, Jacobin, etc.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social Chicago's 32nd Ward Committeeman. Host of Endless Urgency. Exposing MAGA and defending democracy. Entrepreneur, husband, dad, semi-happy Cubs fan.
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Victor Manibo @victormanibo.com Author of THE SLEEPLESS (2022), ESCAPE VELOCITY (2024), DEAD NOTE (2025), and THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED (2025) • NYC via MNL • he/him 🏳️🌈
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Nathan McClain @nathanhmcclain.bsky.social Author of PREVIOUSLY OWNED and SCALE from Four Way Books. Food and wine lover. Edits poetry for the Massachusetts Review.
@lizlizcountryman.bsky.social @lizlizcountryman.bsky.social poet; author of Green Island (Tupelo, 2024) and A Forest Almost (Subito, 2017); teaching in U of South Carolina's MFA program; co-editor of Oversound
John Vercher @jverchwrites.bsky.social Author: THREE-FIFTHS; AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT; DEVIL IS FINE (PEN/Faulkner and Aspen Words Literary Prize longlist); Artist-in-residence, Monmouth University; Faculty, Randolph MFA; Rep: David Hale Smith; Film/TV: Will Watkins; Speaking: The Tuesday Agency
Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social Lyrical dispatches from the apocalypse. THE MOURNER’S BESTIARY (Row House, 2024), and novel ALL THE WATER IN THE WORLD (St. Martin’s, 2025), Whiting Creative Nonfiction Award, finalist Gotham Book Prize, Compton Crook Award, Chirby 2X.
Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social THIS PARADISE: Short stories // Boiler House Press // http://tinyurl.com/RCTParadise // Shortlisted Edge Hill Prize; Longlisted Orwell Prize //
Full of state and woe
Michelle Young @michelleyoung.bsky.social Author, journalist, entrepreneur. THE ART SPY from @HarperOneBooks & SECRET BROOKLYN. Founder @UntappedNY Professor @ColumbiaGSAPP https://michelleyoungwriter.com/theartspy
Stephine Hunt @stephinehunt.bsky.social Managing Director of Literary Arts at Chautauqua Institution. American Studies PhD Candidate. Adjunct Professor. Avid Reader. Dog Mom. Views are my own.
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Pagan Kennedy @pagankennedy.bsky.social Author of "The Secret History of the Rape Kit" and 11 other books. Contributor to NY Times, Atlantic, New Yorker, etc. Former "zine queen" of the 1990s. 
Hila Ratzabi @hilaratzabi.bsky.social Poet, writer. Author of ecopoetry collection on climate crisis: THERE ARE STILL WOODS (June Road Press, 2022). Director of communications by day. Also my kid makes amazing comics: https://emilioscomics.bigcartel.com/.
Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social Writer
Lacy Crawford @lacycrawford.bsky.social Author of fiction & nonfiction, including NYT Notable NOTES ON A SILENCING (Little, Brown 2020). PhD dropout with lingering love for criticism & cultural theory. UK based. Raising sons. Always with a Malinois & sometimes the corgi, if she can be bothered
Anne Korkeakivi @annekorkeakivi.bsky.social Author of the novels SHINING SEA, AN UNEXPECTED GUEST and, coming in 2027, THE PERSISTENCE OF LIGHT. Reader, writer, traveler, New Yorker abroad. Anne not Anna.
annekorkeakivi.com
Jennifer Gilmore @jennifergilmore.bsky.social Novelist, Prof, New Yorker in PA (that was fun)
Jennifergilmore.net
Penina Roth @peninaroth.bsky.social Curator of Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki & Thasos @workshopsingreece.bsky.social Summer writing workshops and residencies on the Greek island of Thasos. Illustrious and supportive faculty, exquisite food and archaeology, restorative community, Greek language instruction, yoga. www.writingworkshopsingreece.com
Elizabeth Rosner @elizabethrosner.bsky.social I write books. www.elizabethrosner.com
(Third Ear; Survivor Cafe; Electric City; Gravity; Blue Nude; The Speed of Light)
"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world."
~Grace Paley
Alon-Lee Green 🟣 @alonlee.bsky.social National Co-Director of Standing Together
Lizz Winstead she/her @lizzwinstead.bsky.social Comedian. Co-creator of The Daily Show. Abortion Czar and Founder of @AbortionAccessFront. Host Feminist Buzzkills podcast. Author, "Lizz Free Or Die" Lizz Winstead on Substack
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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social 🍉 Neutron Muppet 🍉
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Kerri Schlottman @kerrischlottman.bsky.social Author of TELL ME ONE THING (out now) & DAYTIME MOON (Unnamed Press 2026) 📚
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
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Shane McCrae @akasomeguy.bsky.social Tries to write. You can see how that's working out. Harvard Law School '07
Mary Jo Thompson @mjtpoet.bsky.social Author of Stunt Heart, teacher, dogmom, Tim Walz fan
Brianne Barker @bioprofbarker.bsky.social Immunologist/Virologist teaching and doing research with undergrads at Drew University. 1x Jeopardy Champ. Science communicator podcasting on TWiV and Immune. Duke sports fan and cat mom.
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social Author of CULPABILITY, Oprah's Book Club summer 2025 pick, from Spiegel & Grau.
Sonya Huber @sonyahuber.bsky.social Writer & Professor. Voice First, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, Love & Industry, etc. Memoir, essays, chronic pain, labor, disability activism, Midwestern tater tot. A few beads, a loud laugh. www.sonyahuber.com she/her/they/them
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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Rasheed Newson @rasheed.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Bestselling Author of MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME and THERE’S ONLY ONE SIN IN HOLLYWOOD
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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. 🏳️🌈
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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
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S. Kirk Walsh @skirkwalsh.bsky.social lost between the social spaces. 
katherine hu @katherinehu.bsky.social checking facts @newyorker.com, fmr. assistant ed @theatlantic.com
Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social Author & queer historian. MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND is available for preorders now! Previously: The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) linktr.ee/HughRyan
Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social Debut novel THE SLIP out now from Simon & Schuster. Winner of 2025 Kirkus Prize for fiction. Paperback 6/23/26.
Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social Author, Y2K: How the 2000's Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was). The NYT called me “lean, nimble, and profoundly depressing,” but I think I’m pretty fun. I have a black cat named Camus and I live in Ann Arbor.
Daniel Saldaña París @dsparis.bsky.social Escritor de libros.
Cullman Center Fellow 2022. Finalista Premio Herralde 2021. Eccles Center & Hay Festival Writers Award 2020.
English y español aquí.
Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
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James Yeh @jamesyeh.bsky.social Writer, editor, journalist, professor of writing. Words in the New York Times, Guardian, the Drift, McSweeney's Quarterly, the Believer, Dissent, and elsewhere. Formerly an editor at McSweeney’s Quarterly, the Believer, and VICE
Jon Hickey @jonvhickey.bsky.social San Francisco. Novel BIG CHIEF (Simon & Schuster) available now wherever books are sold! Anishinaabe (LDF). Repped by Michelle Brower at Trellis Literary.
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Adrienne Westenfeld @awestenfeld.bsky.social writer, freelance book editor, ghostwriter, and book coach | formerly Books and Fiction Editor at Esquire
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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social Debut novel ENDPAPERS (Algonquin 2023), writer, cat person, #AuthorsAgainstBookBans, #5amWritersClub, production editor at Cornell University Press, she/they | jennifersavrankelly.com
Caitlin Kunkel @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social Funny writer of fiction and satire. INSIDE JOKES: A COMEDY AND CREATIVITY GUIDE FOR ALL WRITERS out March 10, 2026.
My newsletter on our creative wells: https://inputandoutput.substack.com/
Jinwoo Park @jinwoo-park.com Writer, Translator (Kr-En), Debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, coming in Sept 2025, 111k on TikTok
https://linktr.ee/jinwoopark0721
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto @megankkakimoto.bsky.social author of EVERY DROP IS A MAN'S NIGHTMARE, from Bloomsbury | Michener Center Fellow | Japanese & Kanaka Maoli writer, reader, pastry enthusiast
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
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Kate Dwyer @katedwyer.bsky.social words @nytimes @newyorker @thecut @wmag and many other corners of the web
Eugenia Leigh @eugenialeigh.bsky.social Poet. Author of Bianca + Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows
Senior Poetry Editor @ The Adroit Journal
Board President @ Brooklyn Poets
Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social Author and bookseller in Chicago. Owner of @jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social.
Antoine Wilson @antoinewilson.bsky.social Novelist (Mouth to Mouth, Panorama City, The Interloper), Contributing Editor (A Public Space), Photographer (Slow Paparazzo), Struggle Rapper.
Aileen Weintraub @aileenweintraub.bsky.social Author of KNOCKED DOWN: A HIGH RISK MEMOIR. Health, Lifestyle, and Travel Journalist. Words in Wash Po, AARP, Oprah Daily, BBC. One half of witchesofpitches.com
Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social Author of SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS (2022) and TOUGH LOVE (March 2027) / tajjaisen.com
Hannah Bae @hannahbae.bsky.social Writer, journalist, illustrator
2020 Rona Jaffe award winner
2019 AAWW fellow
½ of @eatdrinkdraw
AAJA for life
Alum of CNN, Newsday, U.S. Embassy Seoul & more
May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social Writer. Prof at SFSU. My Hungry Ghosts: Essays & Incantations…coming 9/22/2026! Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories; Useful Phrases for Immigrants; The Girl from Purple Mountain; etc. Board member of NBCC @bookcritics. Web: https://may-leechai.com/
Kate Doyle @katedoyle.bsky.social American writer in Amsterdam // “I Meant It Once" from Algonquin Books (US) and Corsair (UK) in 2023 // www.katedoylewriter.com
Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social I write about abortion every day at abortioneveryday.com Read my newsletter & find me other places here: linktr.ee/jessicavalenti
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social Wrote MADDALENA AND THE DARK (Flatiron), THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE and WHAT SHOULD BE WILD (Harper). The witch from next door.
Marcela Fuentes @marcelisima.bsky.social Author. MALAS, Viking Books, GMA Book Club Pick June 2024. Repped by Michelle Brower. http://marcelafuentes.com 
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.
Raluca @ralucawrites.bsky.social Writer ☾ Editor ☾ Woodworker ☾ Samoyed mom
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Andy Mingo @andymingo.bsky.social I do odd jobs.
Oregon Cascadia Party:
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The Crazy Shit Larry Says:
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Seariver Sanctuary:
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Lacy M. Johnson @lacymjohnson.bsky.social Writer of books & things | Contributing Editor @ Orion Magazine | Curator & Founder @ Houston Flood Museum | Professor & MFA Director @ Rice U | Guggenheim Fellow 2020 | Community storyteller @ Houston, Texas, Baby.
Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social writer (novels THE GARDEN, THE ILLNESS LESSON, and story collection WE SHOW WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED); faculty at the Randolph MFA and the University of Pittsburgh MFA
Lisa Wartenberg Vélez @lisawv.bsky.social 🇨🇴 • PEN / Dau • Best Debut Short Stories 2023, MQR, Nimrod, Ghost Parachute, others; forthcoming: Cutleaf • @UcrossFdn • 🏳️🌈
Monique Laban @moniquelaban.bsky.social Everywhere else I’m endorphinique. I write. https://www.moniquelaban.com
Kavita Das @kavitadas.bsky.social Writer, Author of Craft & Conscience and Poignant Song, OG New Yorker, Mama, Committed to Joy & Justice