Cynthia Caraturo @caraturo.bsky.social J-E translator & editor | trying to fight burnout, but it's not working 🫠
🌐 https://yaku-cindy.com
Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social Narrative Designer by day (Mass Effect, Dragon Age), Novelist by night (The Palace Job, Feeder). (they/them, views strictly mine, OC do not steal)
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social A BlueSky exclusive storytelling hype/pitch event designed for storytellers to uplift and encourage one another and connect with industry professionals. All works are welcome, regardless of the stage they are in. (https://bluepit.carrd.co/)
Mei Amaki☂️ @amaki.bsky.social 日英マンガ翻訳家・同時配信の #魔法少女ダンデライオン #あわいの焔刃 #ギャルとギャルの百合 #グレイキースの魔界語訳録 #尾守つみきと奇日常。 等訳してます・Viz／Kodansha／SQEX／Red String等・下手な絵もたまに描きます 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@manganonymous.bsky.social @manganonymous.bsky.social 
Anna Cairistiona 🌺 @annacairistiona.bsky.social Singer, Illustrator & J-E Translator｜🏴→🇺🇸｜Tomoyo on YT
https://linktr.ee/annacairistiona
Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social The Daigo Umehara of dating sims and the Tony Hawk of Tokimemo. Also your neighborhood Japanese game translator for over a decade. DM for work inquiries.
日英ゲーム翻訳者。日本語のメッセージも大歓迎！
📖 Blog: https://dateemups.com/
✍️ Portfolio: https://freelansations.com
Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social literary agent with a lot of opinions 👀 also a podcast 👀 also my puppy looks like baby chewbacca! www.jenniferlaughran.com / www.andreabrownlit.com
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Marin M. Miller @marinmmiller.com | Nimbus in Destiny2 | Namari in Delicious in Dungeon | Caretaker in Dragon Age: Veilguard | Enkidu/Kingu in Fate |
Actor/Writer/Vocal Coach
THEY/THEM
💙 ♥️ 🖤 🩷 💛 🩵 🖤 🤍 💜 🩶
Rep: Atlas Talent
https://marinmmiller.com
Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social Author. Many books, including SABRIEL, the five other Old Kingdom novels; THE LEFT-HANDED BOOKSELLERS OF LONDON and sequels; THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM series, lots more. And stories. Adult SF/horror MASSIF out Sept 2026. www.garthnix.com
Omoi: Manga App & Publisher @omoi.com Formerly known as Azuki. Read thousands of official manga chapters on Web, iOS, & Android 💖 Start your Premium free trial today ✨ Try us for free 💓
https://omoi.com
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
ホーリン @tanteikid.bsky.social Translator/翻訳者: The Decagon House Murders『十角館の殺人』、The Labyrinth House Murders 『迷路館の殺人』, The Clock House Murders 『時計館の殺人』, Death Among the Undead 『屍人荘の殺人』、Death of The Living Dead『生ける屍の死』and more
Twitter: @tantei_kid
Instagram: tantei_kid_honyaku
SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Supporting quality children’s books & the artists who make them since 1971.
Alyssa Weldon @alyssaweldon.bsky.social Japanese to English manga translator
Website and portfolio: weldontranslations.com
Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social Translator for Even a Replica Can Fall in Love, The BS Situation of Tougetsu Umidori, Recommendations for Bad Children, Bofuri, Reign of the Seven Spellblades 4+, Overlord 14+, Haruhi Suzumiya (Intuition+), Witches Can't be Collared, Rascal Does Not Dream
Faye Duxovni @ ANYC @duxovni.com Japanese-English translator (Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, The Hero-Killing Bride, The Despicable Duke Settles His Affairs)
she/her
🏳️⚧️ 👩❤️💋👩
Website and portfolio: https://duxovni.com
日本語OK!
Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social Queen of Lasers, Mother of Storms, & NYT/USAToday bestselling author of Fairyland, Space Opera, Deathless, & many more. Any/All
Art: http://patreon.com/catvalente
Politics: http://catvalente.substack.com
TipJar: https://venmo.com/u/cat-valente
Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
Denpa Books @denpabooks.bsky.social Eng language translators for KAIJI, Gundam, Emiya Family, Shuzo Oshimi, panpanya, Hagio Moto, Mitsuru Adachi and many more
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
UDON Entertainment @udonentertainment.bsky.social Art collective & publisher of original comic books, graphic novels, and art books. UDONStore.com to shop exclusives & collectibles.
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org CAT champions literature in translation and global voices. We program events with authors and translators in the Bay Area and beyond, publish books @twolinespress.com, and run an education program (Poetry Inside Out). More at www.catranslation.org.
Open Letter Books @openletterbooks.bsky.social Publishing world voices that are extraordinary and influential, works that we hope will become the classics of tomorrow!
Fictionable @fictionable.bsky.social The online literary magazine with short stories and comics from all around the world.
Find us at https://fictionable.world
@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social Book*hug Press is a radically optimistic Canadian-owned publisher working at the forefront of contemporary book culture.🍁
Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
electricliterature.com
Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social Award-winning independent literary press.
Read independently. https://linktr.ee/biblioasis_books
@worldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social 🌟non-profit helping readers of all age discover diverse, translated and global children's books and YA
🌟anti-racism through reading
🌟year round, and especially September #WorldKidLitMonth
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social Online lit mag. Authoring change. From the people who built these cities.
theoffingmag.com
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
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
Neem Tree Press @neemtreepress.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning books that change and broaden perspectives 📚
Honford Star @honfordstar.bsky.social Publisher of translated East Asian fiction 🌟 Buy our books/ebooks direct at http://honfordstar.com 🌟 Sign up to our newsletter: https://t.co/v9Oozdt652
Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social Publishing award-winning literature from around the world in the San Francisco Bay Area.
www.transitbooks.org
Sublunary Editions @sublunary.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Seattle, WA, devoted to small books of unmissable writing.
Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
https://linktr.ee/wordswithoutborders
Katherine Heller @katherineh.bsky.social Translation Studies researcher. PhD project explores the influence of fan culture on professional manga and anime translation (specifically, Sailor Moon!).
Also JA-EN translator.
Really an advocate for all things naff.
日本語OK!
Takami Nieda @tnieda.bsky.social Instructor at Seattle Central College
JP-ENTranslator of GO, Finger Bone,The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park, The Lucky Ride. NEXT: Traveling Practice
Info: https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/takami-nieda/
Diptych Press @diptychpress.bsky.social Diptych Press is a new independent publisher of literature from around the world. https://diptychpress.com
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social I post about Japanese literature and the like. And I guess that includes folklore😅
大阪在住の日本文学愛好家、異文化交流（アイルランド文化）イベント企画者。国立ダブリンシティ大学で日本語・翻訳学を専攻して学士。岩手親善大使（元岩手県国際交流員）、松江親善大使（ラフカディオ・ハーンのエッセイコンテスト受賞者）。現在、日愛愛日文芸翻訳家を目指して先祖の言葉アイルランド語を十数年ぶりに学び直そうとしているところの日英翻訳者。
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Louise Heal Kawai @louisehk.bsky.social Japanese to English literary translator, occasional actor, film and theatre fan, proud 浜っ子
Patrick McHale @patrickmchale.bsky.social Creator of miniseries called OVER THE GARDEN WALL. Worked on ADVENTURE TIME & FLAPJACK. Co-writer of Guillermo del Toro's PINOCCHIO. http://www.oldsidelinghill.com/2021.html
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Robert Nordström (PhD) @rnords.bsky.social Assistant Professor (non-tenured) at Waseda University. Discussing politics and social issues in Japan. Posts are my own views. He/him🌈 EN/日本語/SWE/FI
website: robertnordstrom.jp
Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com Translator, writer. How to get used to Japanese (Additional topics: Murakami, New Orleans, Chicago, beer, writing, translation, basketball). Based in Osaka. http://linktree.com/howtojapanese
Robear @robearific.bsky.social He/Him || 32 || My body is made out of fried rice
James W @soukoutaigi.bsky.social JP-EN translator
Working/worked on Mythical Hero, AZNANA, Evermaiden and secrets
I talk about games a lot I'm sorry
ファティーマ🪬Fatimah Haji-Asiri @saffronapplepie.bsky.social JP➞EN translator/localizer,日英翻訳者/ローカライズ, linguistic/cultural/media consultant, I don’t shut up about manga demographics and urban planning, politically correct afro, DM for work
日本語OK
Website + Links: https://linktr.ee/saffronapplepie
Leaked Experience @leakedexperience.xyz H.C. and D.A talk about things we're very passionate about (icon: ネコにんげん @ picrew https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/35494
Ella ・ エラ @nanokaneko.bsky.social UK-based JP → EN manga translator ☆
Looking to take on more work in manga translation, subtitling, localisation, or proofreading!
I love RPGs, rhythm games and otome games/dating sims ♡
Avatar drawn by me.
I don't post much, sorry TwT
日本語OK!
AshesIntoFlame @ashesintoflame.bsky.social Ex-Librarian, Freelance Manga and Web Novel Editor, 🎮 LQA, JP - EN Translator, and Cat Mom. 日本語OK!
For inquiries: ashesintoflame@outlook.com
🎮pengu💬@Kei-con 🦢 @pengutranslates.bsky.social Japanese↔️English #translator #interpreter #editor
日↔️英 #翻訳 #通訳 #ネイティブチェック
https://pengu-translates.carrd.co/
Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
MentalCacophony @mentalcacophony.bsky.social Just a guy
🔔♪♬SASHA♬♪ 🔔 @sashalalabelle.bsky.social JP-ENG Translation and Localization Specialist || 日英翻訳家 || N1 Cert || She/her, cis/bi/ace, 30+ || All opinions are my own. || 日本語OK || Always posting kitties and fanart.
Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷 @sparkleponycass.bsky.social JtoE game translator. Mostly romance/VN. 17+ years pro translating! 1 puppy, 2 kitties. She/her, disabled, neurodivergent, queer. I 💖 UTA-PRI & YUMEKURO & BMC!! & bacon.
FYI: I block follow farmers by default.
~somewhere in Aussieland~
Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social 📚 Book Editor, Fr→En Lit Translator, Educator
🍽📖 Working on/devouring speculative fiction, horror, memoir, IF, comics
⭐ Teaching and coaching editors and writers
📘 Faculty @ Emerson's MFA in Popular Fiction
🌈📚 RSM team
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♿🪫🇨🇭🎨
🚫gen AI
www.TanyaGold.com
Jennifer Sherman @jaasherman.bsky.social World's Okayest Loc Editor of Manga/LNs/Game Tie-in Books | 日本語OK! | She/Her 
iyasu at Work @iyasun.bsky.social Japanese/English (US) translator ✍️📚 日本語愛も拡大中
Recent translation:
Shakespeare Manga Theater by Osamu Tezuka https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Manga-Theater-Osamu-Tezuka/dp/1684971861
Derek L.H. @derekexmachina.com Writer, Localization Editor, Game Dev, JRPG Enthusiast. He/Him. 29.
Love yapping about games, movies, localization, and anything else that catches my interest. Open to writing/editing/localization opportunities, DMs open!
https://derek-lh.com
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social Lecturer & Literary Translator JPN -> ENG
Current: DILEMMAS OF WORKING WOMEN by Fumio Yamamoto
21 July 26: CAPITAL FROM ZERO by Kōhei Saitō
Soon: LOVEAHOLIC by Fumio Yamamoto
Tarte 🥧 and Butt 🌈 Enthusiast (à Montréal)
IG: instagram.com/asa_no_burei
Anton Hur @antonhur.com Translator, bilingual author, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him.
🔗: antonhur.com
Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social Permanent resident of Japan. Neuro-affirming parent. Amateur photographer of a certain age. Shitamachi supremacist. Sober 19yrs. Survivor. I write stuff sometimes, but don’t tell anyone. 日本語👌
Profile: @nakimushiart.bsky.social
Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com 40+ yrs in print, 50+ novels, asst'd TV/film, NYT B'seller List every now & then, blah blah blah. Ireland-resident. Ebook store: https://ebooks.direct. Now with added Ko-Fi! (https://ko-fi.com/dianeduane) I miss @peter.petermorwood.com.
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social she/they | Canada → 日本 | Japanese to English translator | English, Français, 日本語
https://taylordrew.me/
Behind The Manga @behindthemanga.com Behind the Manga is a group dedicated to discussing the manga and anime industries.
Hosted by
MangaAlerts and WinterVenom
Email: contact@behindthemanga.com
Website: https://www.behindthemanga.com/
Jocelyne Allen @brainvsbook.bsky.social アレン・ジョセリン
I write. I ramble. I translate. And interpret.
筆者／翻訳・通訳家／取り留めの無い人
(she/they)
brainvsbook.com
kaikatsu.ca
sara linsley @sara.pizza writes code for VIZ, designs fonts, letters comics/manga, she/her, nyc
Tutorials: https://github.com/saraoswald/lettering-tutorials/wiki
Fonts: https://ko-fi.com/salinsley/shop
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/sarasfonts
Rebecca @stlrebecca.bsky.social 💙 Writer, runner, resister, wanderer, translator and professor, flood survivor. Debut novel The Kimono Tattoo. www.rebecca-copeland.com
Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com a podcast about Japanese fiction + some of its best works | posting updates on new Japanese fiction | apologies for the typos | blocking new follows that look like bots | DON’T buy or read AI translations | all stories are political
🖤🩶💜Dreamer & the Cosmic Horror Show💚🤍🖤 @wanderindreamr.bsky.social Aggressively aroace nerd with lots of opinions on everything, politics included. Manga/LN reviewer theoasg.com, co-host on the Manga In Your Ears podcast @taiikupodcast.com, she/her (cis), level 30+, 🔞, won't follow-back unless defeated in a duel.
トリスタン🏳️🌈フェリックス B. @tristora.bsky.social エミリ・バリストレーリ、日英翻訳者: 上田健次、大前粟生、森見登美彦、角野栄子、朽木祥、市川拓司、など。夢がでかいぞ。LGBTのGのT🙆🏻♂️ In English: @tristiger.bsky.social 生成AIに死ぬまで抵抗する。
Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com Director of publishing, editor, translator. Manga, democracy, civil rights, foster kittens, sci-fi, beer. Another world is possible. He/him. Portfolio etc.: benapplegate.com (pfp: Marume Goshika)
DigiZoidian @thetranslatorian.bsky.social Translator by day, nerd by night. Or something like that. Currently working on Hell Mode S2! 翻訳家兼アニオタです。日本アニメをアメリカで配信するための英語字幕の翻訳をやっています。よろしくお願いします。
Yen Press @yenpress.com The official Yen Press Bluesky account. Manga, light novels, Korean comics and more!
Jim Rion・ライオン ジミー @jimrion.com Peace, please, peace for all.
Translator (Strange Pictures, Strange Houses, etc.). Japanese horror devourer. Bird picture taker
Co-host of Sake Deep Dive podcast.
英訳者：「悪魔がきたれて、笛をふく」「変な家」「変な絵」等等
執筆者：「Discovering Yamaguchi Sake」
20年以上日本在中
山口県万歳🙌
shay | シェイ @shaylathegreat.bsky.social 日英 translator | English OK | 日本語 OK | yes, talk manga to me. Learning Japanese? Send me a DM
(im onigiriforears/onigiristudies etc)
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social Kansan in Thailand, translator of Japanese children's literature, believer in #worldkidlit www.averyfischerudagawa.com
Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com
organizing with @indivisibleatl.bsky.social | co-editor for JLit @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social | MSt English lit, 650-1550 | queer (historical/SFF) romance reader | ATL | genderqueer (all pronouns)
Ginny Tapley Takemori @ginnytkmr.bsky.social Literary translator from Japanese
Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings, Life Ceremony, Vanishing World (Sayaka Murata), The Little House, Things Remembered And Things Forgotten (Kyoko Nakajima), Mornings Without Mii (Mayumi Inaba), and plenty more!
サラチ@EmptyLot @emptylot.bsky.social Game Translator in Japan (Language Pair: 🇺🇸🇬🇧＞🇯🇵）
創作大好きな英日ゲーム翻訳者。
Portfolio: http://tabularasaloc.com
LocQuest 🛡️ Ethical Localization @locquest.bsky.social Multilingual localization studio focusing on high-quality, human-powered translation and ethical practices.
Roots of Pacha, Halls of Torment, Minami Lane, Tavern Talk, Frog Detective, and much more
Inquiries: hello@locquest.com