Joe Biel @joebiel.bsky.social autistic self-made publisher made by punk rock
Lauren Gellatly @lauren-gellatly.bsky.social Independent business policy advocate. Antimonopoly movement builder. Localist. On the team at Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Home = Charleston, SC.
NEWSLETTER: https://mailchi.mp/e7e4cd9a7332/hometown-advantage
Tristan Rader @twrader.bsky.social Cleveland born, Lakewood home, Environmental & Energy Advocate, Husband, State Rep. Fighting for a sustainable future.
CS Luxem @csluxem.bsky.social Songwriter and Bookseller
Piper Youtzy @piperyoutzy.bsky.social Clevelander, writer, Oxford comma enthusiast.
Amy Wheaton @amywheaton.bsky.social 🎉⏰🍳🐚🐜
Seminary Co-op Bookstores & 57th Street Books @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social The Seminary Co-op & sister store 57th Street Books are valued places of discovery and cultural institutions. Known for our academic books and our award winning children's book section, we became the United States' first not-for-profit bookstores in 2019.
Literary Cleveland @literarycleveland.bsky.social Fostering excellence, amplifying diverse voices, and building a vibrant literary community. litcleveland.org
Autofocus Books @autofocusbooks.bsky.social A literary publisher of artful autobiographical writing. autofocusbooks.com
Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social poet and high school English teacher living with her husband and dogs in Kansas
melissafitejohnson.com
opaque seasoning block @stahl.bsky.social i was once published in 2600 magazine
he/him
Yardstick Books @yardstickbooks.bsky.social Indie Bookstore: Your local in Algoma, Wisconsin (Cooler by the Lake)
Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social the cleveland of reviews of books
clereviewofbooks.com
Lila Hanft (aka LilaTovCocktail) @lilatovcocktail.bsky.social Lila Hanft, MA, MFA, MSSA, PhD. Wildly overeducated, desperately underpaid.
Writer/editor/artist/designer/coder. She/their. Bi, nonbinary. Lapsed academic. Diaspora Jew. Hannah Arendt was right about fascism and Israel. 
John Farrell @johnffarrell.bsky.social Distributed energy nerd | Anti-monopoly policy guy @ ILSR | Making clean power local + fair | 📍Minnesota dad energy 🔌💡
Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Latest book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
Josh Sisco @sisco.bsky.social bloomberg reporter covering monopolies and antitrust
Contact me securely on signal joshsisco.75
Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social We are a group of journalists & scholars in policy & economics working at the vanguard of antimonopoly to achieve victories that empower everyone. Learn more: openmarketsinstitute.org 
Another Story Bookshop @anotherstoryto.bsky.social Indie bookstore in Tkatoronto. Radically supporting 2SQTBIPOC writers since 1987
#ownvoices kidlit and YA experts/ founder: Sheila Koffman
315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6R 2M6
hosting events throughout GTA
anotherstory.ca
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
https://bookshop.org/
The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Two lovely bookshops in Dublin, Ireland - named after that famous Oscar Wilde quote... Store Manager Marta posts here whenever she gets a moment.
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
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The Booksmith @booksmith.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood independent booksellers. Haight Street, San Francisco. Est. 1976.
11AM - 7PM daily. Find the good stuff at booksmith.com
Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social An independent bookstore for all kinds of independent readers, near Tower Grove Park in St. Louis.
https://leviathanbookstore.com/
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for six months for just £12: lrb.me/social
Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop Queer feminist collective in Asheville, NC, operating a bookstore co-op & social movement space since 2008 on Tsalagi land. Ⓐ Ⓔ Ⓥ
Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social Here for some skeets!
I rarely see @s because Bluesky notifications are broken!
If you'd like to support my art — http://patreon.com/elivalley
Thanks!
dee mcelhattan @poetgirldee.bsky.social cat lovin’ feminist | bookworm | at home in the trees 🌳 🌻 🌈
Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support diverse voices on our library shelves, in our schools, and in our culture.
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
Brandi Larsen. @brandilarsen.bsky.social Writer. Speaker. Strategist. Helper. Mom. Co-writer, UNCULTURED: A Memoir. Writes books, reviews, and essays. BrandiLarsen.com.
Meghan Phillips @mcarphil.bsky.social former NEA fellow. chapbook ABSTINENCE ONLY (Barrelhouse).
https://meghan-phillips.com/
Kristin Gustafson @kristinthered.bsky.social poet (work in HAD, The Offing, Gone Lawn, etc.) & editor
stardew valley modder
anxious lil' guy 
Uriel Perez @uperez.bsky.social Sales Rep for Penguin Random House in the Midwest. Mostly bookish things. 📖
Chicago, IL 📍
Christine Froggatte @christinefroggatte.bsky.social Cleveland, TJ’s sign artist, lover of soups, stews, and slops
Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social poet, teacher, sometimes essayist. chapbook, Love That For Us, out now @andchangepoetry.bsky.social. craft book forthcoming @noemipress.bsky.social. two books @boa-editions.bsky.social.
abolish the police & free palestine.
https://www.chenchenwrites.com
tanya @tanyadillyn.bsky.social these tables are my livelihood
Ron Knox @ronmknox.bsky.social Researcher and policy advocate at ILSR. Antimonopoly is the party. rknox@ilsr.org
Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social Gavin J. Grant. He/him. Born: 323ppm. Peely-wally vegan Scottish immigrant. Equality? I like it. BLM. Antifascist. Trans rights=human rights. Long covid 12/21, meh. Tired. Wears masks, asks you to, too. smallbeerpress.com (closed) & LCRW. bookmoonbooks.com
Sean’s Pen {technically speaking} @seangon.bsky.social Community Broadband Evangelist at ILSR (co-parent of this baby here www.communitynets.org) • Internet Scribe • Telecom Infrastructure & Policy Plug • Monopoly Board Flipper • Books/Movies/Music Connoisseur • #BlackSky Walker
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social Poet, Translator, Essayist.
Susan Holmberg @susanrholmberg.bsky.social Proudly from Minnesota. Writer, Comms, looking for patterns in the economy. Associate Director for Research @ILSR. Former @rooseveltinstitute.org @PERIatUMass. PhD, UMass Econ.
Kris @sortanightblind.bsky.social 
John Bailey @baileyposts.bsky.social Development Director, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, cats and craft beer good, monopolies bad. 
Brenda Platt @zerowastequeen.bsky.social Localist. Zero waster. Composter. Starve the landfill & trash burner. Feed the soil. Feed the community. Ownership matters. Size matters. More fun! Less stuff.
Director, Composting for Community, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Washington DC region
Jordan A. Pittman 🦋 @jpittman.bsky.social Just trying to make a difference for the world around me
Institute for Local Self-Reliance @ilsr.bsky.social Fighting corporate monopolies and building local power since 1974.
Learn more: ilsr.org/newsletter-signup
Lakewood Citizen @lakewoodcitizen.com Bluesky: Lakewood, OH local news & events hub. Observing, documenting, and sharing information for the community. Stay informed with us.
DeAnne Cuellar @deannecuellar.bsky.social Tech Equity Advocate | Engagement Systems that Shape Internet, Responsible AI & Data Infrastructure
Russell Brakefield @russellbrakefield.bsky.social Writer: MY MODEST BLINDNESS (Autofocus), IRREGULAR HEARTBEATS AT THE PARK WEST (Wayne State Univ Press), FIELD RECORDINGS (Wayne State Univ Press).
Prof: University of Denver Writing
yrstrulyREL @yrstrulyrel.bsky.social same same different different
Noah Falck @noahfalck.bsky.social poems inside grain silos / on sidewalks / in the books that change our lives
Mackenzie Clark @mclarknews.bsky.social Reporter/founder, @lawrencekstimes.com, lfktimes.com.
She/her. Newzcat mom. Dismantling evil by moonlight. Loving life in #lfk. ❤️🔥🌈☀️
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social How could she breathe in that house so crowded with Norma Desmond?
Leah 'AntiTrustButVerify' Nylen @leahnylen.bsky.social "There is no democracy without journalism." Covering antitrust, currently at Bloomberg News and “making people feel uncomfortable.” Former Politico, MLex, CQ. Email me at lnylen2 at bloomberg.net. On Signal: leahnylen.88. Opinions are my own (obvi).
Antitrust Cases Bot @antitrust.bots.law Real-time updates on the latest Antitrust cases. Hosted by @free.law, curated by American Economic Liberties Project.
Also at @antitrust_bot@mastodon.social and @antitrust_bot on X.
Details: https://bots.law/little-cases/antitrust-cases/
Matt Weinkam @mattweinkam.bsky.social Executive Director of Literary Cleveland
Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social Ohioan. Poet. Librarian.
david james miller @davidjamesmiller.bsky.social i have better things to do.
parent / partner / poet / publisher
Sam Allard @samallard.bsky.social Reporter @Axios, emeritus malcontent @ClevelandScene, alum
@MedillSchool & @NEOMFA. News, movies, bball, intrigue. Occasionally, Bosnia. sam.allard@axios.com.
Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her
https://www.emmacopleyeisenberg.com
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Casey Plett @caseyplett.com Publisher (LittlePuss Press)
Professor (Ohio University)
Writer (✨✨✨)
https://linktr.ee/caseyplett
Athens, OH / Windsor, ON (forever Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba)
John Mesjak @mesjak.bsky.social Hi, it’s me, your friendly neighborhood web-swinging, starship-hopping, murder-solving, coffee-drinking, playlist-crafting publishers’ sales rep for indie bookstores @ Abraham Associates.
Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social stoic chaos / books
Nathan Willis @nathanwillis.bsky.social Writer. Stories in Swamp Pink, Moon City Review, Pithead Chapel, Split Lip, Passages North, X R A Y, & others.
nathan-willis.com
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social Jews for Palestinian liberation & Judaism beyond Zionism. JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.
https://linktr.ee/jvp
Nancy @nancys-w.bsky.social 
Mary Biddinger @marybid.bsky.social Writer & professor | The Girl with the Black Lipstick (novella-in-flash, Black Lawrence Press) Order from BLP at https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-girl-with-the-black-lipstick/
Larry Law @larrylaw.bsky.social ED of GLIBA / Illustrator / Chicago / books / art / prints & merch in bio / DM for commissions or book stuff / Distributed by @microcosm.bsky.social
Isaac Fitzgerald @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social 📚 NYT bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts
🍎 Next up: American Rambler—5/12/26 (Knopf)
📺 Talking books on the Today Show
🥾 I walk. A lot.
Susie Dumond (she/her) @susiedoom.bsky.social Author of QUEERLY BELOVED and LOOKING FOR A SIGN 🌈
Sr. Contributor at Book Riot 📚
Cupcake Enthusiast 🧁
Molly Fuller @mollyfulleryeah.bsky.social Writer / Poet / Academic (PhD student Kent State University) / Coffee & Champagne at the same time
Always a Body out now from Cornerstone Press 
Jacqueline Feldman @jackiefeldman.bsky.social Executive Director @ZygotePress | Writer | Dog Whisperer | immigrant from Kyiv, Ukraine | Words: @PitheadChapel @NovelNoctule @coffin_bell
She/Her
Candice Huber (they/them) @candice.tubbyandcoos.com 🏳️🌈📚 Owner of Tubby & Coo's, a queer traveling book shop
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ NB/trans
⚜️ NOLA
❄️ Cleveland
📚📚📚 BOOKS
👽⚔️ SF/F Nerd
🔮 Witchy
🏰 Disney
🚢 JoConaut
🎲 Board Games/RPGs
🇵🇸 Free Palestine
Callista Buchen @callistabuchen.bsky.social poet, author of Look Look Look: blacklawrencepress.com/books/look-look-look, "Taking Care": https://poems.com/poem/taking-care/
Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.bsky.social Book reviewer at angryalgonquin.com. Lover and supporter of independent bookstores; Starter Packs have 200+ indies! Nordic/Scandi Noir, Iceland, polar history & exploration. Libraries. Cats. Fan of #uglydogs. Sworn enemy of AI. #BOOKSMAXXER
Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨
sevenstories.com
Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Nathalie Léger, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Pip Adam, Laura Vazquez, Lana Lin, etc. dorothyproject.com
Grieveland @grieveland.bsky.social We publish books
Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social Owner of Phinney Books in Seattle, author of A Reader’s Book of Days and The Phinney by Post Book
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social “Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out on Flatiron.
Brad Johnson @ahablives.bsky.social A part of the Twitter Diaspora.
Also run East Bay Booksellers in Oakland, CA - @ebbooksellers.bsky.social
Laura Kendall @bookendedbyowls.bsky.social Bookstore owner of @2ndflightbooks & @mainbooksIN (Lafayette, IN). Sometimes writer. Tell me about your weird books & romcoms. Buy a book from my indie shop www.secondflightbooks.com
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion 
Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, & Soft Skull Press.
The Scouring of the Jersey Shore @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.
Posts: @carolinamata.bsky.social, AJ Jolish & @emotes206.bsky.social
https://splitlipthemag.com/
Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Ohio, bringing you ‘Books Too Loud To Ignore’ since 2005.
📚 imprint of Seven Stories Press
🦄 bookstore/cafe HQ: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters
Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
https://rebeccamakkai.com
ari linden @arilinden.bsky.social Professor of German in Kansas. Author of a book on Karl Kraus. Into critical theory, Marxism, and German Jewish Studies. Look left
Also like basketball
The radical is the rational
hex @hexliterary.bsky.social hex publishes brief speculative texts on a weekly-ish basis. We're @WPI. Editors @katemcintyre.bsky.social @danielmiller.bsky.social @joeaguilar.bsky.social. Subs closed for now. Read hexliterary.com
Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social Working to change public policy, rollback corporate power, rebuild local communities. Co-Executive Director at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Portland, Maine.
Maggie @magpipes.bsky.social Formerly @mizanthrowup
She/her. Magpie, Magpipes, Pipes. Never Mags. Aceflux. Trauma-informed Clippy📎 Nerd, bibliophile, writer, plant maven, animal friend, wannabe culinarian. 🦀
Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social James Beard Award (The Cooking Gene) and National Jewish Book Award (Koshersoul) winning author, culinary historian (Rice and Recipes from the American South) and historic interpreter, African- American, Jewish, LGBT public figure.
TheBookLoft @thebookloft.bsky.social 32 room Indie book store at 631 S. Third St Col. OH
bookloft.com