Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D. @ktcapuchin.bsky.social Anthropologist/Primatologist🐒;
Professor at Saint Louis University;
Alumna of U.C. Berkeley & Univ. of Alberta; inspired by nature 🌿, travel 🗺️, music 🎶, food 🍲
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katherine_Mackinnon2
birukti @biruktiwrites.bsky.social 'brick-tea.' author. TOO PRETTY TO LIE with viking/PRH. rep: jennifer march soloway. 🍉
linktree: https://shorturl.at/b9sAh
Addie Leak @addieleak.bsky.social Translator (AR/FR>EN), lover of languages/lit/travel. 🐈 mom, future Jordanian citizen, avid hiker/backpacker. Website: https://addieleak.com/
London Reads the World book club @ldnreadsworld.bsky.social A friendly group reading world lit in English translation, formerly meeting in London pubs, now online. Open to all. Next: Mon 7th September 19:00 BST. DM to join!
Our backlist: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/136083.London_Reads_The_World_book_club
Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
https://hararereview.com
📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
Attention Elsewhere @attentionelsewhere.bsky.social No medium is off limits. Everything is worth our attention.
On their podcast, Alasdair & Eli spotlight overlooked, underappreciated, and/or up-and-coming entertainment media, folding in external research to develop a deeper understanding of each piece.
Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, teaching-track associate professor (knowledge transmitter), board game and cat enthusiast, archer, teller of Dad jokes. Sarcasm doesn't have to be mean. Also a "damn greenblooded hobgoblin". Ursula said I'm cool. I read a lot.
🏳️🌈🧫 👨
Leah Korican @leahkorican.bsky.social Writer, artist in Oakland words in Split Lip Mag, Heartwood Lit Mag, Literary Mama
Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social Writer, editor, cofounder @coyotemedia.org. Erstwhile culture editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies
emmasilvers.com
COYOTE @coyotemedia.org Independent Bay Area journalism — with a BITE!
www.coyotemedia.org
Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social I'm @hyphy_republic on Twitter, aka The Oakland Observer, an Oakland journalist. Newsletter @ https://oakland-observer.ghost.io/ :One time contributions to the OO instead of subscription https://oakland-observer.ghost.io/#/portal/support
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Oakland Ballers @oaklandballers.bsky.social 2025 Pioneer Baseball League Champions! https://www.oaklandballers.com/
@meronhadero.bsky.social @meronhadero.bsky.social www.meronhadero.com
Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social Co-Creator of HALT AND CATCH FIRE.
Showrunner of THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER, full season now on AMC+ and SHUDDER.
LANTERNS Season 2.
And I write comic books.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Kate Finlinson @katefinlinson.bsky.social writer, reader, mother
Kristine Chung Salcedo @kchungsalcedo.bsky.social At work on a novel
Skyler Melnick @skyskkyy.bsky.social fiction writer · stories in Fairy Tale Review, Wigleaf, HAD, Hunger Mountain, Fractured Lit · MFA Columbia
https://linktr.ee/skyskkyy
Susan Holcomb @h0lc0mb.bsky.social Writer / mama / ex-technologist. My chapbook flash collection is WOLFBABY 🐺✨
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/
Laura Spence-Ash @lauraspenceash.bsky.social Writer. BEYOND THAT, THE SEA, Celadon, 2023.
Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social I tell people I’m a writer; it’s a semi-autobiographical story. Pushcart Prize ‘26. Bread Loaf ‘25. Fiction editor: @literarymama.bsky.social. She/her
Little Village @littlevillage.bsky.social Iowa news & culture in the alt-weekly tradition, online and in print. Independent, locally owned and always free. Est. 2001 and celebrating 25 years! Support our work: littlevillagemag.com/subscribe
Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. ancawrites.com.
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation @literaryexchanges.bsky.social We are a literary magazine run by MFA students at the University of Iowa's Literary Translation Workshop. exchanges.uiowa.edu/faqs-translation
Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social Author of the adult literary novels Half-Life of a Stolen Sister (2023), Good on Paper (2016), and A Highly Unlikely Scenario (2014). Now writing speculative MG/YA. Flailing but I mean well. She/her. www.rachelcantor.com
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
https://writerbeware.blog
https://victoriastrauss.com
Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social TV Writer: Dinosaurs, Buffy, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, The OC, Gilmore Girls, Once Upon a Time, Jessica Jones, Foundation, Artful Dodger, Fallout...
Rakesh Khanna @blaftrakesh.bsky.social (any/all)
Books, ghosts, math, marine invertebrates. Co-founder & editor @blaft.bsky.social.
Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India
https://www.blaft.com/products/ghosts-monsters-and-demons-of-india
Matt Lively @mattblively.bsky.social 🎙CBS Sports Bay Area
🏈 Covering 49ers, Valkyries, Giants, & Warriors
Wannabe bogey golfer
ASU Cronkite School Grad
Patrick Beaudry @77tonyg.bsky.social Lover of the arts, still, a believer in humanity and science; master of nothing. Going up river with my son now firmly at the bow, my brother always at the sterrn, and me, senses fully awake tucked in the middle, taking in all the beauty.
Fade In Awards @fadeinawards.bsky.social 🏆 Win $, Hollywood Pitch Festival Pass, NextLevelScribe mentor session, Greenlightmymovie subs & more
💫 #Screenwriters Submit a script, short, web series
Fadeinawards.com
Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever (stories, Stanchion), & Stepdad on the Dance Floor (stories, Unsolicited) out now.
All We Knew Were Our Hearts (novel, Unsolicited) coming in '27.
Editor at The Loveliest Review.
timothyboudreau.com.
He/him
Valhalla.Basketball @valhalla.basketball https://Valhalla.Basketball: Women's professional basketball in the SF Bay Area
https://Overseas.Valhalla.Basketball: Women's basketball around the world
Eric Apricot, FIBA World Pug @ericapricot.bsky.social Warriors/Valkyries videos. Credentialed Valkyries reporter. Founder, http://ValkyrieNation.org, DubNationHQ.com. Videos for Warriors org. Past: SB Nation, BBallBreakdown.
Videos: youtube.com/@EricApricot, YouTube.com/@EricApricotJam
Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: https://data.post45.org/
Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social Writer, fiddler, teacher, professor.
www.gregoryspatz.com
www.thejaybirds.com
Kim Samek @kimsamek.bsky.social O. Henry Prize-winning author of debut story collection I AM THE GHOST HERE with Dial Press, out now. Pushcart Prize winner, Emmy nominated tv writer.
Dominica Phetteplace @fetaplace.bsky.social writer, futurist, math tutor, two Pushcart Prizes, Steinbeck Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, Clarion West Board of Directors
Marian Palaia @mpalaia.bsky.social Writer, wanderer, shit disturber
Kelly Cressio-Moeller @poetkellycm.bsky.social Poet & Visual Artist in Northern California | author of "Shade of Blue Trees"
@twosylviaspress | https://linktr.ee/poetkellycm | she/her www.kellycressiomoeller.com
🖋️🎨🎼🎶🌲🌌⚡️♒️🧘🏻♀️🕯️☕️ 🎯❤️🔥
Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social Purveyor of words & images / Author of PYRRHIC SYMPHONY (UNIV. OF NEBRASKA, 2026) & INDEX OF HAUNTED HOUSES (SARABANDE, 2020) & its hotline: 619-329-5757.
www.adamodavis.com
Dan Alter @arlozoroff.bsky.social Poet translator father man of many trades - My Little Book of Exiles, Eyewear 2022. Take A Breath, You're Getting Excited (translations) Ben Yehuda, 2024. Hills Full of Holes, Fernwood 2025.
danalter.net
Jeneé Skinner @jskin94.bsky.social Writer. Iowa Writers' Workshop. Tin House. Kimbilio. Work in One Story, Catapult, Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, MQR, elsewhere.
Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social Poet, artist, apprentice to light. 3rd poetry collection CORVUS AND CRATER (2023) ED: Storyknife Writers Retreat & Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. BEI Fellow. At the end of the road in Alaska.
http://www.beingpoetry.net
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social 🫂🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🫂
writer/producer of the middleman, the witcher, lost, the dark crystal age of resistance, from, cowboy bebop, blood and treasure, the 100, and, of course, seaQuest 2032.
www.linktree.com/okbjgm
Allie Tagle-Dokus @allietagledokus.bsky.social LUCKY GIRL fall 2025, Tinhouse
Rep: Lauren Scovel
PREORDER:
https://tinhouse.com/book/lucky-girl/
@hollykins.bsky.social @hollykins.bsky.social I work in Infection Prevention and I read, rather a lot, rather widely-all genres. Let me recommend you a book… 2026 reading theme: 🪐 Outer Space-Recommend me a book!
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
Cody Shrum @cshrumly.bsky.social Just some guy. Author of Oakaville (Alien Buddha Press) and Green Acre (Choeofpleirn Press). Words in HAD, Maudlin House, BULL, Cleaver Mag, JMWW, et al. Fiction editor: Identity Theory. http://codyshrum.com
Steph Cha @stephcha.bsky.social Author of Juniper Song novels and Your House Will Pay. Series editor of Best American Mystery & Suspense. TV writer.
Carrie Conners @carrieconners.bsky.social I like poems. Author of: Species of Least Concern (2022), Laugh Lines (2022), and Luscious Struggle (2019). LaGCC English prof. WV roots. https://linktr.ee/connerscarrie
d.S. randoL @dsrandol.bsky.social she/her/they •
hardcoreEnthusiast 🦦 •
Fool POET fighting complacency⚡ •
My published work is on https://linktr.ee/dsrandol 🌳 •
PLEASE talk to me about birds🐦
Patrick Crerand @patrickcrerand.bsky.social “Built for comfort, not for speed.” Writer, teacher, Director of DeSales MFA Program. Not the Man Utd player, but I wrote about our shared name here: https://xn--wgiaa.ws/3-united-a-story-by-patrick-crerand-x-on-x
Elizabeth Endicott @elizabethendicott.bsky.social Writer and textile artist
Primarily on IG @weirdbirds
✍️ New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, LA Times, SciAm, Elle, Orion, etc
Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social Sasha Brown is a Stoker-nominated writer whose stories have been called “Creative! But in a bad way.” He’s in lit mags like Passages North and Wigleaf, and in genre pubs like Bourbon Penn and Weird Horror. He’s online at sashabrownwriter.com.
Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1, forthcoming in Iowa Review // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
Lacey N. Dunham (she/her) @bookbent.bsky.social 🖤 Author
🖤 THE BELLES (S&S / Atria, 2025) southern gothic x dark academia
🖤 FALL OF THE HOUSE OF GRAYSTONE (S&S / Atria, coming 2027) Sapphic Tim Burton meets Grey Gardens
🖤 ME: https://www.laceyndunham.com/links
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Sarah Hotchkiss @sahotchkiss.bsky.social Artist and writer, senior editor for kqed.org/arts, "thoughtful reviews" since 2011 (she/her)
Meghan Louise Wagner @mlouisewagner.bsky.social Writer/teacher from Cleveland, OH. Writing in AGNI, Story, Cutleaf, Nashville Review, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere.
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/
ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Sabina Knight 桑稟華 @spoem.bsky.social * #Chinese #Literature: A Very Short Introduction * (Oxford)
& *The Heart of Time* (Harvard)
Translator & Interpreter: En/Fr/繁中/简中/Ru
雙語 @SabinaKnight.bsky.social
Care ethicist @FairbankCenter
#PIPfellow @NCUSCR.bsky.social
Prof Emerita WLT @SmithCollege
lameese hassen @lameese.bsky.social lover of music, films, tv // lit manager @ marathon management // palestinian and proud
Jordan Stempleman @jordanstempleman.bsky.social Poet and professor. Author of the forthcoming collection, Spilt, winner of the 2025 Wishing Jewel Prize, Green Linden Press. Editor for The Continental Review, Windfall Room, and Sprung Formal. jordanstempleman.com
Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social book: HIGH PRIESETESS OF THE APOCALYPSE
https://elj-editions.com/high-priestess-of-the-apocalypse/
she/they
Sonia Harmand @sharmand.bsky.social Archéologue préhistorienne lithicienne africaniste spécialiste de paléocognition plus vieux outils Kenya
chika unigwe @chikaunigwe.bsky.social WRITER, MOTHER, WIFE,PROF.
Jane Kalu @njanekalu.bsky.social PhD candidate at USC | MFA from UNM | Stories in American Short Fiction, Narrative, Boston Review, Isele Magazine, Hopkins Review
Website: www.janekalu.com
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Jonah Wedekind @jowedekind.bsky.social Researcher, currently @abi-freiburg.bsky.social + freelance. The nature of the state and state–nature in #Ethiopia. Political ecology, land conflicts, agrarian change, resource frontiers, and transitional justice. Berlin based, Addis raised.
Sarah Vaughan @sarahvaughan.bsky.social long-term observer Ethiopia and the Horn 
Erin (P) Swan @erintheswan.bsky.social Writer, reader, teacher. Ready ear for your rage, welcoming shoulder for your woes. Debut novel WALK THE VANISHED EARTH (Viking, 2022)
Megan Gogerty @megangogerty.bsky.social Playwright, solo artist, professor, delightful person.
Damon Lindelof @damonlindelof.bsky.social Writer. Producer. Frustrator.
Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social Paleoanthropologist, human evolution, Neanderthals, modern human origins, S-E Europe and Greece.
Dog enthusiast!
Professor, University of Tübingen, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironments. Opinions my own.
East Bay Yesterday @eastbayyesterday.bsky.social Local history podcast, tours, events, and even a puzzle. #oakland
https://linktr.ee/eastbayyesterday
Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social Author: TACOMA; A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. journalist. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project. contact me: dm, signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
Wendy @roguereader7.bsky.social I love cool days, grey skies, a good book, movies, my hounds, and most of all my awesome family!
#bassethound
#mansbestfriend
#books
#read
#photography
#travel
Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social writer | translator | friend | out now: THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY | HOMESICK | up next: NOTES ON POSTCARDS | croftwork.net | https://bookshop.org/lists/books-i-ve-translated-or-written
Jarrod Murray @theofficialword.bsky.social Literary Manager, Producer (1BR, JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH), drummer. 
Pavla Horáková @pavlahorakova.bsky.social 
Soo J. Hong @soojhong.bsky.social 📚wordlover | 🌀karma believer | ✍️ Narrative, CQR, Raleigh Review | Bread Loaf ‘25 ‘26 McCormack (fka Tin House) ‘26 Community of Writers ‘25, PEN Emerging Voice LA ‘25 | always grateful💃🪩❤️✌️
https://linktr.ee/soojhong
Will Pei Shih @williampeishih.bsky.social Words in Best American Short Stories, VQR, Joyland, McSweeney’s, Boston Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Los Angeles Review, Ursa, & elsewhere. Fiction Editor at Guernica Magazine.
williampeishih.com
Jo Murray @jomurraywrites.bsky.social Author | Ex-criminal barrister
Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social Writer, gadabout, author of a novel I think you'll like called THE ISLAND OF LAST THINGS. Buy it here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-island-of-last-things-emma-sloley/K4KD2ktViQqEW3A8?ean=9781250329257&next=t&digital=t
Sarah Jean Grimm @sarahjgrimm.bsky.social 
Ryan Fleck @ryanfleck.bsky.social Writer/Director of a bunch of stuff. Freaky Tales 4.4.25
Drew Calvert @drwclvrt.bsky.social Writer and teacher
https://www.drew-calvert.com
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
Colby Day @colbyday.com I wrote the movies IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE (Hulu), and SPACEMAN (Netflix), worked on the TV series For All Mankind (S5 on Apple TV now) and write a newsletter about how writing for hollywood is normal and good
Hollyweird.colbyday.com
Shannon Sanders @shanders.bsky.social THE GREAT WHEREVER (forthcoming from Holt, summer ‘26); COMPANY, 2024 winner of the L.A.Times Book Prizes Award for First Fiction: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/company. Mom, twin mom, lawyer, Silver Springer. She/her
Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social The Voice of Translated Literature: a YouTube channel featuring translators reading from their own work | Founded in 2020 & run by Charlotte Coombe & Tina Kover 👯 | www.translatorsaloud.com