Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Seth Emerson @sethemerson.bsky.social Senior writer for The Athletic, covering college football with a focus on the SEC. Longtime Georgia beat writer, still based in Athens.
Stevie Trujillo 💙🦋💃🏽 @stevietrujillo.bsky.social Writer, mama, American dreamer in despair. Fighting the good fight with words in The NYT, The Guardian, WaPo, Huff Post, Salon, Vogue, etc.
Drove The World's Longest Road. Resides in Spain. Huge crush on FDR. Votes BLUE 💙
Born + raised in L.A
Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social Author of NBCC finalist HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Nonfiction ghost story forthcoming with Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster). Freelance editor based in Portugal.
Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social author of First Love and Negative Space
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
River Selby @riverselby.bsky.social Writer and former wildland firefighter. My memoir, HOTSHOT, debuts on August 12th. they/them
Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social Writing about belonging & diaspora. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024). https://linktr.ee/graceprasad?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=89b54520-7f8d-4182-91dd-cb30d74a6cd7
Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social Critically acclaimed writer. Books include Twentynine Palms (praised by Hunter S. Thompson as "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer") and Blood Brothers (starred Kirkus, Newsweek excerpt, praised by Doug Brinkley, Thomas Powers).
Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social Weather, climate, writing, #scicomm, teaching, LIW, history, sports, wagering, equity. Author of WILDER WEATHER, published by SDHS Press. Nebraska/Midwest/Michigan. She/her. #binders #amwriting
Alison Kinney @alisonkinney.bsky.social Author: UNITED STATES OF REJECTION: A STORY OF LOVE, HATE & HOPE (UGA Press, May 1, 2026): https://www.ugapress.org/9780820377230/united-states-of-rejection/
Lina Lau @linalau.bsky.social writer—mostly flash. mother. owner of too many notebooks.
Flash reader at Hippocampus Literary Magazine
Lori Tucker-Sullivan @lorit-s.bsky.social Author, I Can’t Remember if I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy. Backbeat/Bloomsbury. Words in NYT, WaPo, Salon, +others. Pushcart nominee. Best American Essays HM. Detroiter, rocker, mom, widow.
Emily Halnon @emilyhalnon.bsky.social Story collector & teller. Trail runner. Dilly's best friend. Ran the Oregon PCT to celebrate my brave mom. Wrote a (bestselling) book about it. TO THE GORGE, out now: www.emilyhalnon.com/book
Substack-ing at: https://emilyhalnon.substack.com/
Sofia Ali-Khan @sofiaalikhan.bsky.social Storyteller. Ceramicist. Lawyer.
Award Winning Author: A Good Country (PRH)
Words at NYT, LATimes, WaPo, Time, LitHub, The Moth, Joe’s Pub/Srsly Entertaining
linktr.ee/sofiaalikhan
Kate Walter 🏳️🌈 @katewalter12.bsky.social Author/Essayist/Teacher
www.katewalter.com
No DMs
Katherine Schaefer @klschaefer.bsky.social Writer of creative nonfiction, memoir, and short stories.
@annareisman @annareisman.bsky.social Primary care doctor, professor of medicine, critical medical humanities, flute player, writer (bylines include NEJM, Slate, NYT, Atlantic).
www.annareisman.com
Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social Author of Bellwether: A Telephone Operator, a Landmark Court Case, and the Women Whose Voices Connected a Nation (Union Square March 2027). History and culture writer. Words in The Atlantic, NPR, Salon, Washington Post. she/her
@tracychats.bsky.social @tracychats.bsky.social TracyChats.com
Dr Michelle Anya Anjirbag-Reeve @anjirbaguette.bsky.social UK based. Disney/fairy tale adaptation/deep stories/literature/libraries/culture. she/her
same handle on the hellbirb; not sure how much I'll be here
Insta: @michelle_anya; www.michelleanjirbag.com
Rita Kasperek @rita-k.bsky.social Writer. Cat lady. Refugee from Xtwitter.
Trileigh Tucker @trileightucker.bsky.social Writing about meaning in nature, integrating science, spirit, mythology. Birder, artist, musician, PhD geologist. Tetrachromat wannabe. Pubs, art, and bio at NaturalPresenceArts.com.
Anna Leah @annaleah.bsky.social Journalist. Filmmaker. Dawn Enthusiast.
annaleah.com
Sofia Perez @sofia-perez.bsky.social Writer, editor, New Yorker, https://sofia-perez.com // Words in BBC Travel, CNTraveler, Forbes, LitHub, Saveur, Travel+Leisure // ‘24 Sustainability Award (for Spain reporting), ‘23 ASJA Writing Awards Finalist // Beats: food/drink, travel, art, eco-issues
Estelle Erasmus @estelleserasmus.bsky.social TEDx Speaker. Author, WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED. NYU writing prof. Contrib. Editor, Writer’s Digest. Freelance Writing Direct podcast host. Award-winning journalist with bylines in The New York Times, Washington Post, Slate + https://EstelleSErasmus.com
Donna Behen @donnabehen.bsky.social Writer, editor, content marketer.
Former Brooklynite now living in Upstate NY.
#woolfer
K.L. Sullivan @klsullivan.bsky.social Writer. Biologist. Whistleblower. Rock n roll singer. Recent escapee from that incel-sodden catastrophe cluster that is X. Repped by Lisa Amstutz at Storm Literary.
@agasendorf.bsky.social @agasendorf.bsky.social Fiction & CNF writer. Dressing the Saints Short Story Collection, Black Lawrence Press, 2024. Latina. She/her
@candyschulman @candyschulman.bsky.social Essayist. Memoirist. Creative writing professor. Wife. Mom. Native New Yorker. She/her. Award-winning publications include NY Times, WashPo, The Cut, McSweeney’s, AARP, and anthologies.
@nuevohombre.bsky.social @nuevohombre.bsky.social 
Sucheta Rawal @suchetarawal.bsky.social - Food & travel writer Travel+Leisure, NatGeo, HuffPost, AAA, Fodor’s.
- Keynote professional speaker. 3 TED talks.
- Founder of nonprofit ‘Go Eat Give’.
- Author of ‘Beato Goes To’ children’s books.
- Columnist Georgia Trend & Khabar.
- 120 countries
Janie Emaus @janieemaus.bsky.social Author of blended holiday picture books, upmarket fiction and paranormal romance. And a frequent contributor to AARP, where I write about the humorous side of life. 
Nicole Graev Lipson @nglipson.bsky.social Author of MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS (coming March 4, 2025) | Best American Essays 2024 | Pushcart Prize | Words in The Sun, Virgina Quarterly Review, LA Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe + more
www.nicolegraevlipson.com
Mashaw McGuinnis @writermash.bsky.social Writer. Chronic Lyme survivor. Member of the Zipper club since 2019. Words at Good Housekeeping, The Sun magazine, Brevity Blog and more.
mashawmcguinnis.com
Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com Sociologist and Makai Livingstone-GBV-Survivor, who coined the term, "Access Intimacy Abuse" to capture vile violations from which I may never recover, so contributions welcome here: https://ko-fi.com/equitableforall
https://linktr.ee/KrystalKavitaJagoo
Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social I👻IWriter. Book maven. Unlikable female protagonist. Aspiring time traveler. Words @electriclit, @crimereads, @Kveller, @mental_floss, etc. @litmaven on Threads.
Kavita Das @kavitadas.bsky.social Writer, Author of Craft & Conscience and Poignant Song, OG New Yorker, Mama, Committed to Joy & Justice
Kelly what’s left of a real cool chick Thompson @tnwwyatnw.bsky.social They would not listen, they did not know how. There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was) ™
https://thompsonk.substack.com/about Born&raised2x2 #religioustrauma @LAReviewOfBooks @GuernicaMag @BOMB Founding editor #VoicesOnAddiction @TheRumpus.net
Jacque Gorelick @jacgorelick.bsky.social Writer. Overthinker. Dogs, Music, Books & Sometimes People. she/her
✍🏼 estrangement, found family, motherhood
MAP OF A HEART about ❤️s (medical & metaphorical)VineLeavesPress '26 Website www.jacquegorelick.com
No, YOU Tell It! @noyoutellit.bsky.social No, YOU Tell It! storytellers work together to develop true tales on the page, then swap stories to embody their partner’s culture, identity, and life experience on stage.
Visit noyoutellit.com for more info and to listen to our podcast.
Sue Repko @suerepko.bsky.social Writer. Book Coach. Teacher. Binder. Essays in The Manifest Station, Hippocampus, Brevity Blog, The Independent, Hazlitt, MicroLit Almanac. https://linktr.ee/suerepko
Jennifer Militello @jennifermilitello.bsky.social poet & memoirist 🌎🌻✨📚
Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
author of THE PACT (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books) and KNOCK WOOD (Dzanc Books)
https://jennifermilitello.com/
Cara Meredith @carameredithwrites.bsky.social freelance writer, author type, occasional minister, slightly funny human. Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation releases in April! Oakland, CA.
Amre Klimchak @amreklimchak.bsky.social Writer, Writing Coach, Mindfulness Instructor
www.amreklimchak.com
Briallen Hopper @briallenhopper.bsky.social Author of HARD TO LOVE (Bloomsbury) and GILEAD REREAD (Columbia UP, forthcoming). Teaching at Queens College CUNY. Repped by Rob McQuilkin at MMQ&A.
Nicole Byrne 🏳️🌈 they/she @nicolebyrnepoet.bsky.social Queer poet kept alive by snacks, rock n roll & sheer force of will▪️Assistant Poetry Editor for @splitlipthemag.bsky.social▪️Poems in several defunct journals & some that are still kickin'▪️Wabanaki Land (Portland, ME)
New York Writer @newyorkwriter.bsky.social Writer. New to this platform. Bylines @ NYT, Washington Post, Time, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Business Insider, Seattle Times, HuffPost, Marie Claire & many others.
Kerry Neville @kerryneville.bsky.social Books Essays Palaver 📚 Momma May Be Mad (forthcoming 2025), Necessary Lies, & Remember To Forget Me. PhD
@Fulbright_Eire 🌊 NYer↪️GA but ❤️ ↪️ Luimneach🇮🇪
@sarahterez.bsky.social @sarahterez.bsky.social Writer ("Herself When She's Missing"), Teacher (U Chicago Graham School/Story Studio Chicago) Creative Coach/Developmental Editor 
Bettina @bettifly.bsky.social Writing/Social Impact/Public Health/Resistance from my perch in rocky coastal Maine. #amediting.
Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social Literary fiction & essay whisperer
Writing from Station 99 on the Underground Railroad
Blue Tip Match: Great Migration stories transmitted to today's Black lives.
@franciearenson.bsky.social @franciearenson.bsky.social 
Kim Steutermann Rogers @kimsrogers.bsky.social Writer. Photographer. Journalist. Covering science, nature, Hawaii, life. Bylines in NatGeo, SmithsonianMag, AudubonMag; prose (CNF and fiction) in Ghost Parachute, Moon City Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, Fictive Dream, and elsewhere.
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Constance Ford @constanceford.bsky.social Writer/Los Angeles
PhD English/CW
Leigh Ann Henion @lahenion.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author of Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark + Phenomenal / Boone, NC / www.leighannhenion.com 
Katherine Dykstra (she/her) @katherinedykstra.bsky.social author of WHAT HAPPENED TO PAULA: An Unsolved Death and the Danger of American Girlhood (W.W.Norton); words in New York Times, Washington Post and elsewhere; mother; gardener; teacher; woman
Samantha Drake @sjvdrake.bsky.social Writer and editor in Doylestown, Pa.
Royal history dork. Corpse flower groupie. A 21-year-old cat's snack bitch. Em-dashes 4 lyfe!
Published by @nytimes @washingtonpost @mentalfloss @penngazette, among many others. Read my work at samanthadrake.com.
Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharni.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Cutler @elizabethcutler.bsky.social Writer, improv teacher/performer, Bachelor(ette) enthusiast.
Creative writer | Improv Teacher/Performer/Facilitator | Playwright | Storyteller | Bachelor(ette) Enthusiast |
Learn more about the first four: https://www.thisiselizabethcutler.com/
Robin Rinaldi @robinrinaldi.bsky.social Author, auntie, and anti-fascist.
Rachel Kramer Bussel @rachelkramerbussel.bsky.social Writer on books, culture, my life. Editor, @opensecretsmag.bsky.social
https://opensecretsmagazine.com
Author, How to Write Erotica. Editing anthology about our attachments to our belongings. https://linktr.ee/rkbwriter and rachelkramerbussel.com
Andrea Hoag @andreahoag.bsky.social Champagne Socialist | Book Critic | Writer | Traveler
No DMs. 🚫
She/Her
Lawrence Kansas 🌻
Nina Badzin @dearninafriendship.bsky.social Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship—Top 1% charted podcast | Writing about friendship since 2014 | Quoted in WSJ, WashPost, Guardian, TIME, etc.
https://linktr.ee/ninabadzin
📍Minneapolis
Amy Rogers @amyrogers.bsky.social Food and culture writer. Editor and indie lit publisher. Hunger fighter. Have spatula, will travel.
Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social New York Times bestselling history author. Latest title: SISTERS IN SCIENCE. Editor, Everyday Health. Regular contributor, NatGeo. Journalist. Essayist. Feminist. Mom. Lover of cats, books, baking, tea, & thrifting
Emily Strasser @emilystrasser.bsky.social Writer - HALF-LIFE OF A SECRET from @KentuckyPress. Words in Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Catapult, Guernica, Bitter Southerner, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and others. Professor of the Practice at Tufts University. www.emilystrasser.com
Elizabeth DeWolfe @edewolfe.bsky.social History professor by day, writer by night. Bird watcher in between. Author of the forthcoming Alias Agnes: the Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy (University Press of Kentucky, April 2025).
elizabethdewolfe.com
Danielle Zaccagnino Maes @daniellezacc.bsky.social English teacher, new mom, EIC of Fast Flesh Literary Journal, and author of Suppose Muscle, Suppose Night, Suppose This in August.
Megan Reilley @meganereilley.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Co-editor of true, a nonfiction craft magazine. Writing prof at Penn State. Memoir in progress.
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.
@jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social Writer, runner, stray cat whisperer. Midwestern transplant with Southern roots. Words in The Sun, Ms., Cleaver, JMWW, Matter News, & more. 2025 Ucross Fellow. Senior editor @muthamagazine, book reviewer @publisherswkly, & CNF reader @mudseasonreview.
Linda K. Wertheimer @lindakwert.bsky.social Author of Faith Ed, Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance. Independent Journalist, formerly of Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News. @medillschool alumna; @FellowsSpencer; @theopedproject #skatermom of ice dancer. I'm not the NPR Linda
Deenie @deeniewrites.bsky.social ❤️ Essays in NYT Modern Love, Longreads, Slate & more
✏️ Editorial for CNET Voices & The Quality Edit
💻 Career Copywriter, currently at Willow
📖 Writing a memoir on grief, motherhood, Mississippi & mysticism
💌 BLURT Substack
Nicole B. Wallack @graphiteink.bsky.social Essay and Writing Studies teacher-scholar. Pie-maker and singer. Want to know what are you making for supper, what you are reading, and how we can make school a meaningful place for all students and teachers.
Etta Madden @ettamadden.bsky.social 
Elana Rabinowitz @elana718.bsky.social #Writer #Teacher #Punster #Brooklyn #HudsonValley
Words in New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, USA Today and many more #Littlewhitehouse airbnb.com/h/littlewhitehousegermantown
proud #cat mom
Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social Tired freelancer, misanthrope, talker. Midwesterner stranded. National bestseller D-DAY GIRLS: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged Nazis & Helped Win WWII & FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINA blind ♿️ ✡️ SarahRose.com prh.com/ddaygirls
Mieke Eerkens @miekeeerkens.bsky.social American-Dutch dual citizen writer & educator living in Amsterdam. MFA U of Iowa. @theatlantic.com @Catapult.co @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social etc
Book with Picador (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250117809/allshipsfollowme)
Áine Greaney, author @ainegreaney.bsky.social Irish writer in Boston area. Words: New York Times, Boston Globe, Books Ireland, Best American Essays, et al. 5th book, "Trespassers" available now. Free wellness and writing resources + workshop list (and my 5 books!) at https://linktr.ee/ainegreaney
Caroline Catlin @caroline-catlin.bsky.social writer, photographer, grief worker.
queer & disabled. art as resistance.
Alison Stine @alisonstine.bsky.social Writer of books, most recently: DUST. Next in 2027: THE RAVEN ENGAGEMENT @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social @macmillanlib.bsky.social NEA winner, Philip K Dick Award https://linktr.ee/alisonstinewrites
Michele Christle @michelechristle.bsky.social writer in "Maine" / Wabanakik | featuring: big hair, rabbit holes, and eels
https://michelechristle.com/
https://hells-bells.ghost.io/
https://elversphere.net/
Lisa Kanarek @lisakanarek.bsky.social Bylines: NY Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Independent, WIRED, and Newsweek. End-of-Life doula and therapy animal team with @therapydoggaia
Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social Reader, writer, dreamer. I listen for owls in the night and peer too closely at bees. NOT A THING TO COMFORT YOU (Univ of Iowa Press 2019)
H.E. (Helene) Fisher @hefisher.bsky.social Poet. Author. Editor. Late bloomer, early riser. She/they. STERILE FIELD (Free Lines Press, 2022), JANE ALMOST ALWAYS SMILES (Moonstone Arts Press, 2022). Co-Ed: @reideasjournal. https://www.hefisher.com/
NO DM’s.
Jacinta V White @jacintavwhite.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Facilitator. Tantra teacher. Coach. #camelcityunited
Leila.C.Nadir.PhD @leilanadir.bsky.social Afghan-American Writer | Artist | Fiction & Nonfiction Editor
Editor, Los Angeles Review of Boolks
MacDowell | Hedgebrook | Periplus | Art Omi | VCCA Fellow
rep: AyeshaPandeLiterary
https://linktr.ee/leilanadir
www.leilanadir.com
Mary Cartledgehayes @mcartledgehayes.bsky.social Theologian - writer - collage artist - part owner of a stray cat sanctuary -
Melissa Holbrook Pierson @perfectvehicle.bsky.social Writer, motorcyclist, gadabout-in-training
Nicole Walker @nikwalk.bsky.social Two books forthcoming from Bloomsbury: Writing the Hard Stuff and How Plant a Billion Trees. Writer of 8 (weird) books.Trying to withstand the onslaught of fascism by building community. Prof, Nonfiction Editor at DIAGRAM and UGA Press's Crux Series.
Anna Leahy @amleahy.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Teacher.
Author of If in Some Cataclysm, Tumor, etc.
https://amleahy.com
Anne Liu Kellor @anneliukellor.bsky.social Seattle-based writing teacher, coach, author of HEART RADICAL & editor of MIXED ROOTS: Writers on Multiracial Identity & Both/And Belonging (Beacon, 10.13.26).
Bridge builder, non-binary thinker.♥️
➡️ anneliukellor.com
Kelly Shire @kellyshire.bsky.social Essay writer, work in Brevity, Catamaran, Hippocampus, et. al.
Fiction in Palm Springs Noir anthology. MFA. Elementary school librarian.
Finishing a memoir about my California familia.
Maya Gottfried @mayabidaya.bsky.social Author of books for children and grownups. Essays in Oprah Daily, STAT, Oldster. Articles in Lilith, Los Angeles Magazine. Half-Jewish / Full vegan
Deborah Derrickson Kossmann @debkossmann.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist, Author of LOST FOUND KEPT: A MEMOIR (lostfoundkept.com) and devoted servant to Sofia Carmela, a cat with a whole lot of “tortitude.”