Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social querying my speculative coming-of-rage novel WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN | HWA member|Postdoc at Georgia Tech | 2026 Lambda Literary Fellow | words in Black Warrior Review, Minnesota Review, Fabulist, Pushcart Prize Nominee https://galenbunting.substack.com/
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Rachel Trousdale @rvtrousdale.bsky.social Poetry, criticism, tomfoolery, rabble-rousing. She/her. Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry (criticism, Oxford University Press); Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem (poetry, Wesleyan University Press)
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Jess Gulliver @jessgulliver.bsky.social Occasional publicist; accidental poet; proper doodler.
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Exie S. Owens 🌈 @exieowens.bsky.social Mystery Writer | Emerson College MFA Candidate | University of Oklahoma Alumna | She/Her
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Models of Diversity @modelsofdiversity.bsky.social Advocating for diversity in models, demanding the fashion industry recognises beauty in people of all races, ages, shapes, sizes & abilities. Charity# 116492
Alexis M. Wright @alexismwright.bsky.social Writer | Educator | Tin House Scholar '23, Reading Fellow '24 I Rep:Julia Kim I Pubs: The Common, The Maine Review, Shenandoah I Instructor: The Loft, GrubStreet, midnight & indigo I Interests: estrangement, discarding, lyric essays I www.alexismwright.com
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Elizabeth Gonzalez James @egjames.bsky.social Screenwriter and author of The Bullet Swallower, Mona at Sea.
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Cat Scully @catmscully.bsky.social Southern Goth in Salem, MA. Author of BELOW THE GRAND HOTEL (Clash Books 2025) Freelance Illustrator. Game Dev. Book rep: Jolene Haley at Donald Maas Lit
Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social
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Nicky Gonzalez @nickygee.bsky.social Debut novel MAYRA forthcoming from Random House 7/22/25
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
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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.
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Eren Aslan @erenaslanauthor.bsky.social Sci-Fi Author (he/him) | Cyberpunk/Dystopian Enjoyer | Daytime Scientist | Debut publication coming soon
Julie J Lee @jjlee.bsky.social grad student in investigative journalism, formerly nerd @ aclu ma 📍 New York, NY 🌐 julielee.net 📱signal: julielee.101
Massachusetts Authors Against Book Bans @massaabb.bsky.social Massachusetts Authors Against Book Bans is a state affiliate of Authors Against Book Bans, book creators fighting for our freedom to read. #MassFreedomToRead https://www.massfreedomtoread.org/ www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
Hub Comics @hubcomics.bsky.social Comics for Everyone!-- in Union Square, Somerville MA. Open 7 days a week.
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Wallflower Magazine @the-wallflower-mag.bsky.social The Wallflower is an independently published magazine by and for queer people. We reserve the right to make everyone feel welcome here. We quietly protest and find joy in the little things in life.
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Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social Read me and weep
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Jesaka Long @akajesaka.bsky.social writer | educator | auntie | VCFA MFA ‘20 | faculty at Loft Literary, Lighthouse Writers Workshop & others | Tin House Winter ‘25 | they/she | 🏳️🌈
Skye Quinlan @skyequinlan.bsky.social YA Author of DON'T BE A DRAG & FORWARD MARCH 📚 | They/Them 🏳️⚧️ | Ace/Lesbian 🌈 | Autistic & Disabled ♿ | Agent: Moe Ferrara at Triada 📖
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Jaimee Garbacik @jaimee-g.bsky.social NYC-based book editor of lit fic / YA.
Author of Gender & Sexuality For Beginners.
Ed./curator of Ghosts of Seattle Past.
Takes authorship seriously, battleship less so.
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CallMe.Tippy @callme-tippy.bsky.social She/her, 33, Black American - Soulaan, Nilsexual, Maladaptive Daydreamer, Witchy, Reader, Artist, Thrifter, Elder Emo, Cat mom.
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Owen Egerton @owenegerton.bsky.social Films: WHISTLE, MERCY BLACK, BLOOD FEST, FOLLOW…
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Asst. Prof of Screenwriting - Emerson
K Amato @kmamato.bsky.social Writer / Teacher
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Tin House Winter Workshop '25
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r kay (they/them) @r-kay.bsky.social they/them. director @brooklynpoets.bsky.social in western mass from southern appalachia. occasionally online / chronically ill / always gay 🇵🇸 poems in HAD, Copper Nickel, Catapult & hiding around the internet. Tin House '25.
FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social FWC is a multi-state Indivisible Group and a grassroots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies.
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Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social Zines about pop culture and identity, microgrants, programming and more!
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Haeden @haedenroswell.bsky.social They/Them
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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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Riel @riel-thing.bsky.social 
KILLABITE // Javi @killabite.bsky.social 👹 Oni King of Boston 👹 drag king, artist
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Hannah Moushabeck @hannahmoushabeck.bsky.social Palestinian American 🇵🇸 Book worker @interlinkbooks 🏳️🌈Author of: Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine📍Western Mass
Kimm Topping @kimmtopping.bsky.social author of Generation Queer and founder of Lavender Education 🏳️⚧️🩷 they/them
Dana Marie Miroballi @noshesthebear.bsky.social Children’s Book Author
IF MY HAIR HAD A VOICE (Beaming Books) • INVENTIONS TO COUNT ON (Abrams Appleseed) • Rep: Ammi-Joan Paquette
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Jack @kniferoomba.bsky.social Of many trades
S. E. Landon @sydneyelandon.bsky.social Fantasy YA & NA writer ✨ and MFA grad from Emerson College 💜.
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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit revolutionizing what we read to create a world where everyone can find themself in the pages of a book.
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SF Bay Area based, but not scared of a road trip.
BIPOC and LQBTQ+ inclusive.
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Melissa vR @melissa-vr.bsky.social Photographer. Former journalist. Queer. Neurospicy. Progressive AF.
Always curious. Always learning.
We should ALL be anti-fascist.
She/They 🏳️🌈
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Robin Alvarez 🌟 Author 🌟 @robiiehood.bsky.social 🌊 Author of When Oceans Rise
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📚 Star-crossed love | Alternate universes | Emotional fantasy
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Elizabeth Donald @edonald.bsky.social Author. Journalist. Professor. Photographer. Traveler. she/her
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Niki Smith @nikismithcomics.bsky.social Maker of fine queer comics (and some pretty trashy ones too). Author of MIDSUMMER SISTERS, SEA LEGS (with Jules Bakes), THE GOLDEN HOUR, THE DEEP & DARK BLUE, and more. She/her. ENG/GER
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Liz Garton Scanlon @lizgardensalad.bsky.social Poems, picture books, chapter books, and middle grade novels.
All the world is all of us. 🌏♥️ She/Her
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Katta Kis (she/her) @kattakis.bsky.social Witchy, queer indie romance author with chronic pain conditions 🖤✨
📕Love in the Liner Notes out now
📗Love at the Rock Show out now
📘No Love in LA out now
📙No Love is an Island... out 10/20!
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Sarah MacLean @sarahmaclean.bsky.social Writer. Podcaster. Third-act break-up evangelist. I’m somewhere talking about romance novels.
Tiana Smith @tianasmithbooks.bsky.social Author of closed door adult romcoms and sweet YA. THE SPY AND I and MR. NICE SPY out now from Berkley/Penguin Random House. Represented by Eric Smith.
https://www.tianasmith.com/links
Jenny Adams @jadamswrites.bsky.social agatha award-nominated novelist, school librarian, & believer in happily ever afters.
💀 A DEADLY ENDEAVOR
🍸 A POISONOUS SILENCE
Rep: @kissedbyink.bsky.social
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Sarah Zachrich Jeng @sarahzj.bsky.social Speculative thrillers: WHEN I'M HER and THE OTHER ME (Berkley)
Rep: Joanna MacKenzie
Tech worker/tech skeptic
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Saratoga (they/them) 🔪 @saratogaishere.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling author of SERIAL KILLER SUPPORT GROUP, TRAD WIFE, THE LAST TIME WE DROWNED & A THOUSAND MONSTROUS FORMS 🖤 rep: Amy Giuffrida
TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social Bestselling author of 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ romances.
A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS out now.
Rep: Larissa Melo Pienkowski @ Azantian
DM's/@'s not checked regularly. Contact me via my website:
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Susan West of Mars @westofmars.bsky.social Editor to authors of fiction; line edits are my jam
Contemporary fiction author
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http://books2read.com/susan-helene-gottfried
Justin Aclin @justinaclin.com Graphic novel writer/novelist. New book coming soon from @papercutzgn.bsky.social! Video game PR at Golin. Former ToyFare editor. Husband & father to wonderful people. He/Him. justinaclin.com | newsletter.justinaclin.com
Melanie Greene @melaniegreene.bsky.social Contemporary romance author, reader of all the things, she/her
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Nicole Lesperance @niclesperance.bsky.social Author, editor, book monster 🌈
A Spell to Wake the Dead, The Depths, The Wide Starlight, The Nightmare Thief
She/her
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Rachel E. Pollock @labricoleuse.bsky.social Writer/blogger, costume-maker, professor, cat mom to Clea
Yvonne Ventresca @yvonneventresca.com Author of IF I'M GONE, coming May 18, 2027, Poisoned Pen Press.
Writing workshop presenter. Repped by Liza Royce Associates. #VCFA MFA.
YvonneVentresca.com
curiosityjones @curiosityjones.bsky.social aka author Kelly Jones (she/her/hers) I write funny books for kids. Happily for Now, the Unusual Chickens series, and more.
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social 2x Eisner, Harvey, Ringo, and Ignatz-nominated cartoonist! Gay, they/she, a ghost with a skeleton inside it. I write and draw mystery, horror, and love
THEY GLOW IN THE DARK | HELLO SUNSHINE | SUNFLOWERS | http://keezyyoung.com | rep'd by Andrea Colvin
Eija Sumner @eijasumner.bsky.social Children’s Author | Idahoan | AABB | Hamline MFAC
The Good Little Mermaid’s Guide to Bedtime🧜♀️😡
Crocodile Hungry 🐊🦩😭
Cats, eels, books, etc.
www.eijasumner.com
Christen Randall @bycrandall.bsky.social Bestselling YA Author. Queer. Fat. Neurodivergent. ACCORDING TO PLAN (2/3/26) and THE NO-GIRLFRIEND RULE (Out Now). They/She.
Lowell Mick White @lowellmickwhite.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher. Author of Normal School, Burnt House, Professed, That Demon Life, and Answers Without Questions....
@lkblackburne.bsky.social @lkblackburne.bsky.social 
P. H. Low @ph-low.com THESE DEATHLESS SHORES • poetry ed @Anathema • short fic/poetry/essays in Strange Horizons, Reactor, Fantasy, &c. • Ignyte, Rhysling, & Locus noms • 🇲🇾🇺🇸🏳️🌈 (they/them) • linktr.ee/lowph
yves. @yvesdot.bsky.social Queer Jewish speculative fiction author (Something's Not Right, 2023). Plot & vampires.
Tumblr (home base): @yvesdot
Website: https://yvesdotbooks.com/
Find oodles of free fiction, including erotica, here: https://yvesdotbooks.com/works/
Kam Asanyi (they/them) 🏳️🌈 ♿️ @kamasanyi.bsky.social 💛🤍💜🖤
#kidlit author
Stonewall Award Honoree
MARLEY’S PRIDE (Barefoot Books)
OUR WORLD USA (Barefoot Books)
MADINA'S BIG, FABULOUS, WIN (Disney Hyperion '27)
BELLY GROWLS (Henry Holt '27)
🇭🇹 |♿️|🐈⬛+🍄 ❤️
Rep’d by James McGowan
Jen Karner @articulatedream.bsky.social Award Winning Author of queer horror & fantasy || Feral forest queer & book gremlin || Probably a crow in cosplay || Bone enthusiast, spooky bitch, and feminist banshee || she/they || JenKarner.carrd.co
Alexandra Ott @alexandraott.bsky.social Author of The Wish Ring Cipher (Norton 2026), Seekers of the Wild Realm and Rules for Thieves series (S&S). Freelance editor. Agent: Victoria Doherty Munro at Writers House.
www.alexandraott.com
Nadia Fisher @ariadelsole.bsky.social Author-illustrator•Illustrator•DC•No AI
Preorder AT THE COOKOUT ‘26 (✍🏽🎨)
Latest: I AM THE SPIRIT OF JUSTICE (🎨) ‘25 • LPBD: SIMONE BILES ‘24 (🎨)
Rep’d by @Jemiscoe.bsky.social @starlingliterary.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/Ariadelsole
Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social Writer, grad student, amateur kazooist (she/they)
The Splinter in the Sky (2023), This World Is Not Yours (2024), The King Must Die (2025), assorted short stories, and some other stuff
kashinggiwa.com
Joanna Ho @joannahowrites.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author • Intl speaker • Educator. Eyes that Kiss in the Corners. We Who Produce Pearls. The Silence that Binds Us.
Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social New York Times-bestselling author of THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD. Also: A KIM JONG-IL PRODUCTION and THE MAN WHO INVENTED MOTION PICTURES. — He/him.
Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social YA fantasy: A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE and TO A DARKER SHORE / adult romcom: MY KIND OF TROUBLE / sadder but wiser / autistic / fat / 🌈 / 🇮🇹 / theater / (she/they) Repped by: Alex Land/Mad Woman Literary
https://linktr.ee/leanneschwartz
s. m. hallow @smhallow.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author of The Halls of the Dead (Harper Voyager, 2026)
Indie Ink finalist for How to Survive This Fairytale
Rep: @lzats.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/smhallow
Sarah misses Zoe @sarahmchen.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Chinese-Canadian in SoCal | Writer of many crime short stories ✍️| Foster mama 🐾 | she/her | Zoe's human 🐶
linktr.ee/sarahmchen
the double life of véronique emma houxbois @emmahouxbois.bsky.social trans woman pornographic romance cartoonist, she/fae
comics: houxbois.itch.io
patreon.com/houxbois
ig: @houxbois
portfolio: houxbois.org
Ronni Davis ✨ @lilrongal.bsky.social author of YA books THIS NIGHT IS OURS & WHEN THE STARS LEAD TO YOU
copy editor • MFA • poet • traveler • cozy gamer • cat mom • dreamer • survivor 💜✨
rep: eric smith
ronnidavis.com
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Jo Knowles @joknowles.bsky.social Author: http://www.joknowles.com #kidlit #AABB #PB #MG #Tween #YA
Editorial Services: https://www.revise-and-shine.com/jo-knowles
Author visits: https://www.joknowles.com/school-visits
Teacher: Mountainview #MFA Center For Cartoon Studies (summers)
Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social Author (The Ember of Elyssia Quartet, Fortune's Calling Trilogy, THE BRIDAL PARTY, THE PRINCE WITH SIX FACES). Dice roller. Disabled in the library. All opinions mine. All around nerd.
https://linktr.ee/annaholmeswritesbooks
(She/they) ♿️🏳️🌈
C.W. Allen 📚 @cwallenbooks.bsky.social Writing long stories for kids and short stories for former kids
• RELATIVELY NORMAL SECRETS
• THE SECRET BENEFITS OF INVISIBILITY
• TALES OF THE FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS
🚫 AI is the worst
League of Utah Writers President
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