Girl Well Read (Erin) @girlwellread.bsky.social Book reviewer, polka dot wearer, wine & coffee drinker, dog petter, Depeche Mode worshipper. 
Bryon Quertermous @bryonquertermous.com NYT Bestselling Author. Detroit(ish). He/Him. ADHD Survivor.
http://bryonquertermous.com/links
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 🌈!
linktr.ee/kristinaten
Kris Clink, author & podcast host @krisclink.bsky.social Author, mom of lovely humans and doggos, & host of Writing Table podcast who isn't letting hate sink her ship. krisclink.com
April Henry @aprilhenry.bsky.social I kill people, but only on paper. New York Times bestselling author of over 30 thrillers. Out May 12: IN THE BLOOD. I love snacks, scary things, Brazilian jiujitsu, and democracy.
Kristen Robinette @kristenwrites13.bsky.social Pub'd and querying author. Big Aries energy. So many words. #WFWA #ITW #AmWriting #ManuscriptAcademy #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #booksky
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
Daniel Ford @writersbone.com Author of Black Coffee & Sid Sanford Lives!, Writer’s Bone host, journalist. "Thank you, Producer in the Sky." Stevie Van Zandt #WBPN #106 Loyal Littles Pod
David Valley @sonicdave2112.bsky.social Film Composer, Songwriter, Progressive coffee enthusiast and music nerd, Ally to all. No DM's🚫 No crypto🚫
Ask me about the Black Sheep Social Club!
It's finally out!
#Blueresisters
@stephenkiernan.bsky.social @stephenkiernan.bsky.social Novelist and journalist, longtime VTer, musician, dad to giants.
Career Authors @careerauthors.com A trusted Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers, where industry experts help you write better, get published, sell more books, & stay inspired. Sign up for our FREE monthly e-newsletter so you never miss a post: https://www.careerauthors.com/
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Latest Book: WITHOUT CONSENT. Author, SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN.
http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social Columnist, novelist, j-prof.
NYT bestselling novel, The Daughters of Erietown. Next novel: Because You Asked. On Substack at Hopefully Yours. I’m with Sherrod.
https://connieschultz.substack.com/
Emma Straub @emmastraub.bsky.social Novelist and bookseller. 
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, muting mansplainers since 2010, (cheerfully) uncoupled since February 2020. Just an old lady trying to eat a taco. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Dog person, cat person, native plant restoration person. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/maudnewton
Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social Author/Mom/Wonder Woman/Queen of the North
She/her/hers
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social NYT-bestselling, Hugo Award winning monster and myth maker. Most recently, VERGIL! A Mythological Musical (Audible) , Beowulf: A New Translation, The Mere Wife, & many other items in the wondertale category & beyond. https://linktr.ee/mariadahvanaheadley
J. Smith-Cameron @jsmithcameron.bsky.social Actress and goofball
#Succession #WacoTheAftermath #TheYearBetween
Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social Author of 10 books.The latest: A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THE AMNESIAC out 2027. Newsletter here: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com #1000wordsofsummer
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social Formerly the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses
Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social "Elegante y muy cabrona."
I labor at the word factory for Alta, NYRB, The Atlantic, Fresh Air, KCRW, NYT and others.
https://c-monster.org
https://linktr.ee/Cmonstah
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social Complete fiction
Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social Gen X, middle child, Leo. I mostly write about books.
Sari Botton @saribotton.bsky.social Bestselling Author/Editor/Teacher/Oldster Memoir: And You May Find Yourself… Anthologies: Goodbye to All That and Never Can Say Goodbye Newsletters: @oldstermag.bsky.social, @memoirland.bsky.social, Adventures in *Journalism* http://saribotton.com
Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social Author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today. Freelance book critic all over the place. Get in touch: rachelvorona@gmail.com. @RVoronaCote on Instagram. She / Her.
Tayari Jones @tayari.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author of KIN and AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. (Oprah’s Book Club x2) Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
Laurie Muchnick @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social Fiction editor at Kirkus Reviews. Welsh by marriage. 🏴✡️📚
Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social Atlanta-area author of Southbound, The Parted Earth, and Ballot, out from Bloomsbury Academic on 2/5/26; Affiliate Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles MFA; proud poll worker. linktr.ee/anjalienjeti.
Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social Author: IN THE SIGHT; EX-MEMBERS; POLITICAL SIGN; REEL; TRANSITORY. Next up: KILL LIST (Bloomsbury Academic)
NBCC Board. Freelance writer. Coffee drinker.
https://linktr.ee/tobiascarroll
Michael Taeckens @mtaeckens.bsky.social Co-founder, Broadside PR
Lit Agent, Massie McQuilkin & Altman
https://michaeltaeckenspr.com/about-me/
Michele Filgate @readandbreathe.bsky.social Writer. Editor of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (2019) and WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (May 2025).
www.michelefilgate.com
Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social Writer and recovering book critic
Former historian
Grew up in the PNW
Advocate for habitat restoration and pollinator gardens
Petsitter and traveler
Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com 
Rioncarnated @reeamilcarscott.bsky.social Camouflage fatigues & dashikis. Somewhere in between Ralph Ellison and PE
📚:🔥INSURRECTIONS🔥(PEN/Bingham winner) and THE W🌍RLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU
I write love notes to black people & dis songs to white supremacy. 90% love. 10% dis.
I deserve it all.
Luis Alberto Urrea (& Cindy) @urrealism.bsky.social Author and reader, husband & grandpa, scribbler in notebooks, wanderer. Team Urrea is always on the scenic route.
Tod Goldberg @todgoldberg.bsky.social Crooks. Gangsters. Rabbis. Burned spies. Noir holidays.
todgoldberg.com
Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social 7th/Newest book: Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (June 24). Substack: honoreejeffers
Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social Author of five books—next up The Dry Season 6/3/25
Thoughts my own and not representing any institution.
https://linktr.ee/melissafebos
melissafebos.com
https://www.prairielights.com/pre-order-dry-season-june-2025-prairie-lights-0
Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her
https://www.emmacopleyeisenberg.com
Cheryl Strayed @cherylstrayed.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Portlander. Traveler. Cat/dog lady. Author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Torch, and Brave Enough. Also: Dear Sugar.
Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social Reader/reviewer. Tall. Bookseller by profession, Humanist at heart. Support Trans 🏳️⚧️ lives.
📍Chicago
Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social Attorney & Chief Program Officer (Legal, Policy, Organizing)—@ACLU of Virginia. Poet—NECK OF THE WOODS, Alice James Books. Teaching Law & Lit—UVA Law. Legal aid alum. Former bartender. she/her.
Words here = mine alone.
Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. 🏳️🌈🦌🐊🦀
Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social I write about books at https://roncharles.substack.com/
Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social AI is disrupting higher ed: how can we be ahead? Writing at https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com. Former Dean of Humanities & now Special Advisor for Humanities & AI at UUtah. Former Dean @ Sonoma State University. PhD Princeton, MPP Harvard KSG
Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Teacher | Author of First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion 2025) | Columnist @ WCP
she/they 🏳️🌈 ❤️
www.hgrieco.com
Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social Writer, editor, journalist. Book and nature lover. Author, CLUTTER: AN UNTIDY HISTORY. Words in WaPo, TLS, NYT, LARB, CHE, EdSurge, etc. She/her. Reading, writing, and gardening in DC.
Newsletter: https://jenniferhoward.substack.com/
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
www.megireid.com
Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social Literary Publicist / Cheerleader
Proud co-founder Broadside PR
Native Californian in New York
Kathleen Schmidt @kathmschmidt.bsky.social President, KMSPR. Book publishing, marketing, consulting, strategy. I write Publishing Confidential on Substack.
Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social Busting out my brains for the word. 1/3 of the podcast An Embarrassment of Prog. Asst. to The Amazing Sargasso. Editing things @WSJBooks. Opinions dumb, and my own.
Melissa Faliveno @mlfaliveno.bsky.social writer, editor, teacher, rock/roller | author of TOMBOYLAND and HEMLOCK, out now from Little, Brown | asst. prof at UNC | she/they
www.melissafaliveno.com
Andy Hunter @andyhunter777.bsky.social Founder and CEO, Bookshop.org; co-Creator and Publisher, Literary Hub; co-founder and Chairman, Electric Literature
Laurie Hertzel @lhertzel.bsky.social On substack: https://lauriehertzel.substack.com. Also, book reader, book critic, author "News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist" and "Ghosts of Fourth Street," and teacher at MFA program at UGA-Athens.
Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social Editor-in-chief, Washington Independent Review of Books. Loser-in-chief, "Jeopardy!" season 39. "Making it worse? How could it be worse? Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!"
Megan Stielstra @meganstielstra.bsky.social writer, editor, teacher, axe-thrower 🪓
meganstielstra.com
Kerri Arsenault @kerriarsenault.bsky.social Author MILL TOWN; Director @storytellingstudio.bsky.social & @nsota.bsky.social; Write @ WaPo, NYRB, NYT, Boston Globe. 🇫🇷 kerri-arsenault.com
Julie Klam @julieklam.bsky.social New York Times Bestselling author, NYC 🗽, gun control, mom of trans person 🏳️⚧️, intake coordinator for Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue, WNBA. I only have 1 kidney. She/Her- W Kevin Smokler @weegee.bsky.social
Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social Writer, walker, and mandolin player. Probably that guy you saw looking at something on the ground. Faculty and MFA program director at Emerson College, and editor at https://necessaryfiction.bsky.social/.
http://www.stevehimmer.com
Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher, karenpalmer.com. Memoir SHE'S UNDER HERE (Algonquin Books). NEA, Best American Essays, Pushcart Prize. If I had to choose between reading and eating, I'd be dead in a week. She/her
Lily Mars @lilymarswrites.bsky.social Playwright/librettist/mystery writer. Crime plotter. Yacht rocker. Yarn looper. Snoot booper. she/her
Jessica Francis Kane @jfkane.bsky.social Author of five works of fiction. The latest, FONSECA, out now.
Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social What you call me depends on how you know me. Editor, writer, insufferable know-it-all. Natitude, Hoya Saxa, AMDG. https://lambletters.com/
Arlene Wszalek @arlenewszalek.com ❤️ travel, tech, food & wine & spirits, arts & entertainment, F1. Marketeer. Gift whisperer. Smithie.
Leslie Pietrzyk @lesliepwriter.bsky.social Writer of novels & short stories: ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE (2021), SILVER GIRL (2018), THIS ANGEL ON MY CHEST (2015), etc. Fan of classic cocktails, Carolina BBQ & almost every pie. She/her
Kathy Daneman @kathy-daneman.bsky.social Book publicist of the independent variety at Kathy Daneman PR. She/her. kathydanemanpr.com
Sarah Russo @sarahrusso.bsky.social Founder of @pageonem.bsky.social, literary publicity and marketing for authors and experts. www.page1m.com
Previously, global head of audience engagement at Oxford University Press. Brooklyn, NY
Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social Writer, mostly about books. Designed with American values in mind. www.markathitakis.com
James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social Reader, writer, (THE TELLING, CURRENCY, essays etc in The Rumpus, The Guardian, Salon, HuffPost, Brevity Blog, novel COIN OF THE REALM forthcoming from TriQuarterly Books), Chicago, bikes > cars
Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social “Most Insufferable Man in Publishing.” Loves baseball, hates most pitchers. Sucks at email. Is usually editing or writing for Substack or podcasting.
Laura Bogart @ldbogart.bsky.social Writer. Dog Mom. Always aspiring.
Book is Don't You Know I Love You (Dzanc 2020)
Jessica Handler (she/her) @jessicah.bsky.social Author "The Magnetic Girl," (Southern Book Prize, Indie Next, Bitter Southerner picks.) "Invisible Sisters,” too. Drummer. Southerner. Abortion rights are human rights. www.jessicahandler.com. New novel, “The World To See” coming in 2026.
Leslie René ✨ @leslier.bsky.social Reader & writer of SFF and romance ✍🏻. MAGGIE AND ARTHUR'S MAGIC MOMENT👻✨ (Berkley, Summer 2026) Also: Mom. Science writer. She/her. Rep: Brent Taylor at TriadaUS.
🐦: @byleslierene
🧵📷 :@leslieshouldbewriting
https://byleslierene.com
Lisa Unger @lisaunger.bsky.social NYT bestselling author. Co-president of ITW.
SERVED HIM RIGHT is on sale now.
Elizabeth Crane @elizabethcrane.bsky.social dog mom
Amanda Stern @amandastern.bsky.social Native New Yorker. Author of 13 books. Everything I own is stained.
The How to Live newsletter delivers weekly psychological gems for anyone suffering from the chronic condition of being human. Join 13K+ readers. 👇
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Anne Korkeakivi @annekorkeakivi.bsky.social Author of the novels SHINING SEA, AN UNEXPECTED GUEST and, coming in 2027, THE PERSISTENCE OF LIGHT. Reader, writer, traveler, New Yorker abroad. Anne not Anna.
annekorkeakivi.com
Cary Barbor @bksandauthors.bsky.social Reporter for WGCU-FM in Ft Myers, FL. Recent MFA grad from Randolph College.
Delia Cabe @deliacabe.bsky.social Author, STORIED BARS OF NEW YORK (Countryman Press, division of W.W. Norton), magazine writer, gardener, bookworm, writing prof, imp.
Bill Roorbach @billroorbach.bsky.social I'm a good writer with bad habits. Newest novels are BEEP, about a monkey smuggled to NYC by a plucky tween named Inga.Together they save the world! And LUCKY TURTLE, a NYTBR Editor’s Choice. “A thrilling, blistering tale of young love and old hate.”
MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social I'll need to think on this. I read. A lot. I used to sing. A lot. I write - just for me. I'm a gay man past 40 - so, basically, dead.
Anita Felicelli @anitafelicelli.bsky.social author of the short story collection HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and other works of fiction. books editor at Alta Journal, critic, essayer.
Lacy Crawford @lacycrawford.bsky.social Author of fiction & nonfiction, including NYT Notable NOTES ON A SILENCING (Little, Brown 2020). PhD dropout with lingering love for criticism & cultural theory. UK based. Raising sons. Always with a Malinois & sometimes the corgi, if she can be bothered
Alice Anderson @aliceanderson.bsky.social Poet: HUMAN NATURE and THE WATERMARK
Memoirist: SOME BRIGHT MORNING I’LL FLY AWAY
Winner of the Bobst Prize for literature, lesbian, mama, lover of forests and whales and starry skies ✨
Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social I'm the NYT bestselling author of the novels The Dogs of Babel, Lost and Found, The Nobodies Album and Harmony. Humor in the New Yorker and the Rumpus, essays in Washingtonian and WSJ. She/her, bisexual, married, mom.
Jennifer Gilmore @jennifergilmore.bsky.social Novelist, Prof, New Yorker in PA (that was fun)
Jennifergilmore.net
Bud Simpson @budzilla.com I photograph what I like, I write when I can. Digital Old School. Still learning. Age neutral. Enjoy every sandwich.
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/bud-simpson budsimpson.substack.com
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
Heather O’Beirne Kelly, PhD @heatherkellyphd.bsky.social Clinical psychologist: inaugural Director of Wellness and Prevention at US Naval Academy. Former House Veterans’ Affairs Committee staffer and nonprofit advocate for military personnel, veterans, their families, caregivers, survivors, and communities.