Queens Public Library @qplnyc.bsky.social No matter who you are, where you’re from, or where you want to go, at Queens Public Library, we speak your language.
Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social Yinzer in Philadelphia | photography | sustainability in higher ed | multispecies justice | social studies of space | star trek/friend of desoto | follow for today in tardigrade news
Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social SF mag from Canada | 2007-2013, 2020- | Opening to submissions on November 1st.
Publisher of Saros SF
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Ruby Rosenthal @rubyprosenthal.bsky.social arts & culture reporter, writer, second funniest person you know, was once called "garbage propaganda" on twitter and stands by it | All opinions are my own
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Michael Welch @mbwwelch.bsky.social EIC at @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. Words in Electric Lit, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, North American Review, & more. 
Kari Nguyen @knguyenwrites.bsky.social Writer. She/her/hers. karinguyen.wordpress.com.
Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
Buried Creek Collective @buriedcreek.bsky.social Creative Climate Resilience for Greater Philadelphia
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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social Writer, rusalka. TELL ME YOURS, I'LL TELL YOU MINE (Oct ‘25, Stillhouse Press). Stories in McSweeney's, Best American SFF, more. she/her 🌈!
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Hub City Bookshop @hubcitybookshop.bsky.social 864•577•9349 | Spartanburg, SC
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nic @nicdoeswords.bsky.social writer, reader, mental health professional, and general doer of words | she/they
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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Michelle Richmond @michellerichmond.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Coffee person. Books at michellerichmond.com Travel stories at wanderingwriter.substack.com. Essays on writing at caffeinatedwriter.substack.com
Literary Liberation @literaryliberation.bsky.social A community for writers, artists & activists across multiple creative concentrations working towards our collective liberation.
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Karla J. Strand @karlajstrand.com Feminist librarian, historian, educator, writer @msmagazine
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Adam Vitcavage @vitcavage.bsky.social Discover new voices and debut books at Debutiful
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The Paper Cat Bookshop @papercatbookshop.bsky.social Now online with a brick-and-mortar store opening in Tucson, AZ, we're a women-owned, independent bookstore with new and used books in a space that encourages curiosity and promotes equity. Learn more at PaperCatBookshop.com!
Scarlett Harris @scarletteharris.bsky.social Tomatometer-approved culture critic at Vogue, TIME, New York Times & elsewhere. Author & editor. I have a lot of opinions. Pay me to write about them 📩 scarlett.harris@y7mail.com she/her
scarlettwoman.com.au/about/
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Penina Roth @peninaroth.bsky.social Curator of Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Claire Jia @clairejia.bsky.social my novel WANTING is now available for preorder 🥹 out from tin house July 1, 2025 ☺️💕 www.clairejia.com
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
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Kimberly Glyder @kglyder.bsky.social Designer, Illustrator, and Letterer. 📚
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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social ⋆Queer Southern Novelist 🌿
⋆WHITE TRASH WITCHCRAFT (HH Fall, 2027)
⋆Rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social at Azantian
⋆✒️WTMP & 🩵 SmoochPit Mentor
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@davonloeb.bsky.social @davonloeb.bsky.social Husband, Dad, Teacher
THE IN-BETWEENS (WVUP)
Work at Men’s Health, Parents, The Sun Magazine, Slate, LATimes, Philly Inquirer, TODAY, the Washington Post, Best American Essay, etc.
claire @clairecomstockgay.bsky.social horoscopes at the cut, other stuff too
Caroline Fairey Meese @chfaireymeese.bsky.social she/her | associate editor at W. W. Norton in composition & literature | daily editor at Southern Review of Books | debut chapbook LOWERCOUNTRY (https://bit.ly/4lsWA6s) out now! | born, raised, educated in South Carolina | making a home in Queens
Jenna Abrams @jenna-abrams.bsky.social Writer. Fiction in Masters Review Anthology XI, Driftwood Anthology, and Epoch. jennalabrams.com
Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social Chicago | Writer | 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow | Tin House Summer 2023
Victor Suthammanont @victorsuth.bsky.social Author of HOLLOW SPACES (Counterpoint), LITTLE SURRENDERS (Audible). Lawyer. Opinions my own. Repped by Ellen Scordato at Stonesong
Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social 🇳🇮🇵🇷 Author of ALLIGATOR TEARS (‘25) and HIGH-RISK HOMOSEXUAL (‘22) / Lambda Literary Award. American Book Award.
Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social she/her 🏳️⚧️ Writer of queer things. Lover of dinosaurs
Stories in One Story, Witness Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, Lightspeed, and other cool places.
Represented by Erin Harris @ Folio Literary
nicanstett.com
Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land Chronically ill public health JD writing to make sense of the policy hellscape so you don't have to do it alone. Actionable analysis & trustworthy guidance for people the system wasn't built to protect. Free & paid: ShouldntNeed.com
Sr. Fellow DFP. 🏳️⚧️nb
Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social Writer | Dr. | Project Manager for Roxane Gay | Co-editor The Audacity | 🌈😷| Rep’d by Alyssa Jennette | Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social Disability Reporter @ Mother Jones • jmetraux@motherjones.com • She/her • Berkeley Journalism alum • Signal: @juliametraux.49
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com Reporting, rebelling and truth-telling from the feminist front lines for over 50 years. Read more at MsMagazine.com.
Emmeline Chang @emmelineschang.bsky.social WRITER ⛥ | Taiwanese Am | Fiction, NF, MG | Seal Press HuffPost BigCityLit | Tin House VONA Kenyon Review Ragdale VCCA Millay | MFA Columbia | Rep: Erin Harris at Folio
linktr.ee/emmelinechang
www.emmelinechang.com
Rich in Color @richincolor.bsky.social Rich in Color is dedicated to reading, reviewing & promoting YA books starring or written by BIPOC. 📚
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS out now! Words in Huff Post, The Normal School, Foglifter, and more. Tin House ‘21. They/she.📍NJ.
SJ Sindu @sjsindu.bsky.social author | professor | sjsindu.com | to be honest I’m not sure why I’m on social media but this seems like a nice place so hi
krys malcolm belc @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social I wrote THE NATURAL MOTHER OF THE CHILD and have another memoir, WHAT I MADE FOR DINNER, forthcoming from Catapult in 2026. I live in Saint Paul, MN.
Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir, and the essay collection RARE GOOD: ESSAYS ON ART, AUTISM, AND ASTONISHMENT. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
Sarah Ghazal Ali @sarahali.bsky.social poet & author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024) • poetry editor of West Branch • more at sarahgali.com 🍃
Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social writer • editor • road-tripper
dinarelles.com
Wendy Oleson @wendyoleson.bsky.social MFA & PhD. Work in BOTN, Ninth Letter, SmokeLong. Works for @SplitLiptheMag.bsky.social & WritersProgram. she/they #BLM 🏳️🌈
wendyoleson.com
Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social Michigan writer & stuff. auDHD. gender noncompliant. Fuck AI & Subst*ck.
https://aniking.net
— Family Night (Mason Jar Press, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/2jtf6t63
— SmokeLong Subs Editor
— EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (closed)
Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social Author of All Heathens and Leaving Biddle City, both from @sarabandebooks | Assistant Prof at Old Dominion University
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
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
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)
Deesha Philyaw @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Author of THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN (on sale 9.29.2026; pre-order: https://bit.ly/firstladyfreeman) and THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social PhD | Corporate Baddie | I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (Soft Skull ‘23, Winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award, 2024 Ohio Book Award) | RESTING BITCH FACE (August 2025) | she/her
www.taylorbyas.com
Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social Fiction writer with work in Story, Florida Review, Cream City Review. Instructional designer by day. Philadelphia!
ellenrhudy.com
Meghan Phillips @mcarphil.bsky.social former NEA fellow. chapbook ABSTINENCE ONLY (Barrelhouse).
https://meghan-phillips.com/
Anna Cabe @annablabs.bsky.social Writer. Co-Fiction Editor @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. Always hungry. She/her/hers. Header by @shing.bsky.social
vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social writer. bylines in 3 anthologies, NYT, Washington Post, NY Daily News, Catapult, Pigeon Pages. alumna of Hedgebrook,Tin House, Kenyon Review, Martha’s Vineyard. Immigrant Strong newsletter: immigrantstrong.substack.com
Sarah Grunder Ruiz @sgrwrites.bsky.social Author of LAST CALL AT THE LOCAL and other books about sad girls falling in love.
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Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, & Hawthorne Books.
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
Kait Yates @kaitayates.bsky.social writer
kaityates.com
Stephanie Habib @stephaniehabib.bsky.social Behind-the-Scenes @ids.ac.uk. Former reporter, forever language nerd, occasional DJ, always at the mercy of my own hair. Tackling media bias and literacy, one case study at a time.
Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social English prof + writer + Tori Amos fan. Debut novel, Doll Parts, forthcoming from Sourcebooks in 2025. Substack & more: http://linktr.ee/PennyZang
Hien Nguyen (mostly updates) @authorhien.bsky.social (she/her) Wigleaf Top 50, Pushcart nominated 🖋️
Clarion West NWW ‘26 class
📖 TWIN TIDES - out now 🌱 lady & mother of cats 🐈⬛🐱
https://www.authorhien.com/quick-links
Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈 @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social Full-time Mum • Writer • Associate Professor @ CUNY (Grad Ctr + Hunter) • PhDJ • out now ⬇️ my book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday). Manhattanite. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/
www.taoleighgoffe.com
Tessa Yang ~THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM~ @theptessadactyl.bsky.social Fiction Writer | Shark Enthusiast
THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM (novel): https://tinyurl.com/3szxwsh4
THE RUNAWAY RESTAURANT (stories): https://tinyurl.com/ythh37tj
Everything else: https://linktr.ee/tessayang
Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social Poet: Books: Lady Wing Shot (Blue Lynx Prize, 2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press, 2022)
Loved working with Driftwood so much, I became Managing Poetry Editor in 2023
www.saramoorewagner.com
richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com Author of THE LONG HALLWAY, a gay memoir about death | New York Foundation for the Arts and MacDowell Fellow in Nonfiction | National Book Critics Circle Member | 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
http://richardscottlarson.com
Arizona MFA @uamfa.bsky.social University of Arizona MFA in Creative Writing, a small, fully-funded increasingly interdisciplinary 3 year MFA. Apply for 2024's incoming class by December 15th. https://english.arizona.edu/mfa-creative-writing
Essay Daily @essaydaily.bsky.social Coming out of our cage and we're doing just fine. All things about the essay. Advent Calendar. Find us at http://essaydaily.org
Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social Grind line. Predator Studies. March Xness. DIAGRAM. New Michigan Press. The Assessment Matters Institute. Essay Daily. University of Arizona MFA. Working hard for the money. http://otherelectricities.com
Joel Michael Reynolds @joelmreynolds.bsky.social Philosopher of Disability & Bioethicist @Georgetown. They/he. Editor-in-Chief: @jphildis.bsky.social
Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
Amy Brady, PhD @amybrady.bsky.social Writing a book about maps | Wrote a book called, Ice: FROM MIXED DRINKS TO SKATING RINKS—A COOL HISTORY OF A HOT COMMODITY | historian & journalist | Newsletter: "Library of Wonders": https://libraryofwonders.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-library
Matt W Miller @mattwmiller.bsky.social Poet, Essayist, Educator, Husband, Dad, Surfer. Aender the River (Texas Review Press), The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry), Club Icarus (UNT), and Cameo Diner (Loom). Stegner Fellow, VCCA Fellow, Walter E Dakin Fellow. https://www.mattwmiller.com/
Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, Pantheon Books. Is this place a toxic snake pit yet? Asking for a friend . . .
Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold @lytagold.bsky.social writer, editor, sometime podcaster. DANGEROUS FICTIONS—about book bans, moral panics, & more—now available everywhere: https://bookshop.org/p/books/dangerous-fictions-the-fear-of-fantasy-and-the-invention-of-reality-lyta-gold/20737332?ean=9781593767709
Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social Putting the hag in hagiographer. Formerly @anne_theriault on Twitter. Anne.m.theriault@gmail.com
Hannah Soyer @soyernotsawyer.bsky.social childless cat lady / #writer / #CripTheVote #BlackLivesMatter / views 789% my own
hannahsoyer.com
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Pia Owens @piaowens.bsky.social Writer, negotiation coach, ombuds for Periplus Collective for BIPOC writers. Subscribe to my free monthly newsletter, "Negotiation for the Rest of Us," at https://piaowens.substack.com. 
Afton Gray Montgomery @aftongray.bsky.social sentences in Electric Lit, The Millions, The Common, Prairie Schooner, High Country News, Pleiades, etc. --> aftongraymontgomery.com 💫
at home in the Rocky Mountain West 🏔️
then: indie bookstore buyer; book marketing
now: audiobooks acquisitions @ Spotify
Molia (Molly) Dumbleton @moliadumbleton.bsky.social AFE @splitlipthemag // CuratorialBd @ragdale// PT Creative Writing Fac @DePaulU // Words in @thesunmagazine @ecotonemagazine @kenyonreview @NERweb @BestSmFictions www.moliadumbleton.com
Ruth LeFaive @ruthlefaive.bsky.social I teach artists & solopreneurs how to trust their own knowing. Certified Socratic Coach. Writer. Reader & Treasurer for Split Lip Magazine. Bookkeeper. she/her. ruthlefaive.com
reema @reemarp.bsky.social 🧿 fiction writer. 2024 jennifer weiner fellow (by blue stoop). best of the net finalist, wigleaf top 50 longlist, pushcart nominee. at work on short story collection & novel.📍CHI
www.reemarao.com | IG: reema.rp
**trying to be on here more, but IG is better
Moanin’ Obukhov @fivethirds.net Used to be a scientist. Maybe still am. Connoisseur of memes and existential dread.
Rachel Ranie Taube @racheltaube.bsky.social Writer, snacker in Richmond, VA. | Fabulist fiction and book crit. | Words in Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Catapult, The Millions, Hayden's Ferry Review, etc.
rachelranietaube.com
Xueyi Zhou @xueyizhou.bsky.social Chinese. PhD & VP Fellow @UUtah Associate Prose Editor @QuarterlyWest Former Editor @witnessmag Fiction MFA @MFAUNLV
https://www.xueyizhou.com/publications
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/
Desiree S. Evans @literarydesiree.bsky.social ✍🏾 📚 Author & Editor • Southern girl • Spinner of speculative tales for kids, teens + adults • BUY the Locus Award Winning + Ignyte Award Finalist + Indie-Bestselling THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE today! @Flatironbooks • linktr.ee/literarydesiree
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
Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social Historian, gender, West Africa, French imperialism, militarization, Author of Militarizing Marriage (Ohio UP 2020). Past-présidente of French Colonial Historical Society, BCDSS alum, recovering Oakland As Fan, PNW hiking/backpacking...w/ signature typoes
MoCo Underground Writers Showcase @mocounderground.bsky.social MoCo Underground is a free, bimonthly get-together in Sandy Spring, MD, where awesome writers can share their work with a live audience.
More info: https://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/program-guide/moco-underground-writers-showcases
Melissa Duggan Pace @melissadugganpace.bsky.social Speculative psycho-thriller author and all-around genre contortionist.
THE ONCE AND FUTURE ME Aug 19. 2025 from Holt/Macmillan. Rep’d by Elisabeth Weed at The Book Group.
i guess i’m doing this now @athenasleepsin.bsky.social 🫠
Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature since 1974.
bookcritics.org