Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social Award-winning author. 📍Kentucky
HAZELGREEN & OTHER HAUNTS is forthcoming in ‘27 from WVU Press;
PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press)
💙 cats, trees, music | wesblake.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
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
linktr.ee/cassrmorris
Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social Author, most recently, of "The Weedy Garden" (for children) and "The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year" (for adults).
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.
Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof.
www.andrewporterwriter.com
@silashouse.bsky.social @silashouse.bsky.social 
Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social writer & sex educator | NYU mfa
zoebflavin.substack.com
Josh Boldt @joshaboldt.bsky.social Nature, books, dogs. Writer of mystery & southern gothic | Editor @brownhoundpress.bsky.social.
Lexington, KY.
joshboldt.com
Charles Dodd White @charlesoddwhite.bsky.social Award-winning writer and naturalist living in East Tennessee.
Newsletter: https://substack.com/@charlesdoddwhite
Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social Writes sometimes. Has always lived by the sea.
Send interview pitches for X-R-A-Y to Rebecca at: rebecca@xraylitmag.com
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
Jody Hobbs Hesler @jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social Writer & Writing Teacher
Without You Here, Winner Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction, 2025
What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better, story collection
https://linktr.ee/jodyhobbshesler
www.jodyhobbshesler.com
She/her
Erin Hoover @erinhoover.bsky.social My new poetry collection, Consent, will be published in May 2027 by Black Lawrence Press.
erinhooverpoet.com
Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social “Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social #Author. Words in Invisible City, Storm Cellar, elsewhere. Controlled Conversations, a novel, finalist for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award. In love with a painter. Father of strange children. He/him. Next novel seeking literary representation.
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and the national bestseller ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Magazine, Time, Esquire, Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social Writer / Editor - I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES: SHORT STORIES, Autumn House, 2025- HOMING - essay collection, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2024 - Co-editor FLASH FICTION AMERICA, W. W. Norton, 2023 - Sr Editor SLQ 
Rachel León @rachellayown.bsky.social writer | editor | social worker
runs on too much coffee and wide-eyed optimism
managing director @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
debut novel HOW WE SEE THE GRAY
editor of THE ROCKFORD ANTHOLOGY
(she/they)
https://linktr.ee/rachelleon
Isaac Fitzgerald @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social 📝📚 Author of back-to-back instant NYT bestsellers Dirtbag, Massachusetts + American Rambler (+ others)
📺 Talking books on @todayshow
🥾 I walk. A lot.
Heather Higdon @heatherhigdon.bsky.social Lover of Human Story. ❤️ Literary fiction writer represented by Kat Foxx at The Rights Factory. IG: heatherhigdonwrites
Morgan Talty @morgantalty.bsky.social Writer / pαnawάhpskewi from the Penobscot Indian Nation / NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ and FIRE EXIT: A NOVEL (Tin House 2024)
Founder & Director of Talty Literary
morgantalty.com
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
Rita Chang-Eppig (she/they) @rchetypes.bsky.social Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (Bloomsbury, 2023)
The Ones Who Do Not Wake (Archer, 2028)
Stories: Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, One Story, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, etc.
rchetypes.com
https://youtube.com/@astrotextual
Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social Author THE MORTALITY SHOT (hybrid collection), coach, editor, artist, certified yoga teacher, theater maker, now working on researched memoir about liberation at 57 of being a fashionably late-diagnosed #Autistic: TheUnadaptedOnes.com
Ann VOTE EARLY Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social Writer, occasional podcaster, visual arts dabbler, recovering academic, childless cat lady (she/her)
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
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.
Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. Scold-proof.
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
www.marksarvas.com
@itsmesarahlabrie.bsky.social @itsmesarahlabrie.bsky.social NO ONE GETS TO FALL APART: A MEMOIR (Harper, Oct 2024)
M Hendrix @mhendrixwrites.bsky.social Ⓜ️ is for EMpathy
✍️ Author of THE CHAPERONE (Sourcebooks Fire)
📍Jersey Girl ➡️ Kentucky Colonel
📚 booksky
https://www.mhendrixwrites.com
Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social Third-culture kid from Brazil 🇧🇷
✍️ writing in @underthesunonline.bsky.social, JMWW, Bellevue Literary Review, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, @rfpress.bsky.social & others
📖 read CNF for @triquarterlymag.bsky.social
✨ linktr.ee/kristiferguson ✨
Vic Sizemore @vicsizemore.bsky.social www.vicsizemore.com
https://substack.com/@vicsizemore?
Rebecca Fishow @rebeccafishow.bsky.social writer | reader | artist | educator
The Trouble With Language (TRNSFR, 2020) | The Opposite of Entropy (Proper Tales Press, 2018)
C.H. Hooks @chhooks.bsky.social Author of CAN’T SHAKE THE DUST and ALLIGATOR ZOO-PARK MAGIC
Jessie Glenn @jessieglenn.bsky.social Director/Mindbuck Book Publicity, occasional prof, freelancer @NYT, Salon, WaPo, others. They/them.
vida james @vidajames.bsky.social a messy bitch who lives for commas | Boricua | she/her | AFAB | ACAB | stegner, center for fiction, NEA, periplus | stories in NER, Witness, Epiphany, Story | http://vidajames.com 🏴
Chad Luibl @chadluibl.bsky.social book dad. metal and hockey.
lit agent at Janklow & Nesbit.
www.chadluibl.com
Wes Gift @LCTC 1111 @weswritesstuff.bsky.social Marketing Professor, Comic Book Editor, Wrestling Fan.
Dylan Fisher @dylanfisher.bsky.social The Loneliest Band in France (Texas Review Press, 2020) ¶ Colorado Book Award, American Library in Paris Coups de Cœur, Clay Reynolds Prize ¶ www.dylanfisher.net ¶ he/him ¶ T1D ¶📍PDX
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).
Ananda Lima @anandalima.bsky.social Author of CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL forthcoming @torbooks in 2024 (available for pre-order)
& MOTHER/LAND (Black Lawrence Press)
Rep: Sarah Bowlin (Aevitas)
Work in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast +
Hugo Dos Santos @hdossantos.bsky.social 
Ryan McGill @ryanpm1.bsky.social I write things and take photos of stuff.
https://www.rmcgillphotos.com/
Elad Haber @eladhaber.bsky.social Writer, Dad, Music Nerd. Stories in Lightspeed, Simultaneous Times Podcast, Underland Arcana, Even Cozier Cosmic, Silly Goose Press, Bulb Culture Collective, and more!
Debut collection, THE WORLD OUTSIDE, out now from Underland Press.
eladhaber.com
Amy DeBellis @amykdebellis.bsky.social Books: All Our Tomorrows • Methuselah • The Widening Gyre🖤
Also in X-R-A-Y, The Pinch, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, HAD, Hobart, etc.
https://linktree.com/amykatherrrine
Glenn Orgias @glennorgias.bsky.social TEETH KICKER (HarperCollins), MAN IN A GREY SUIT (Penguin 2012), www.glennorgias.com
Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social Writer of the weird and experimental flash. Words @FracturedLit, @Xraylitmag, @NecessaryFic, @TBQuarterly, and elsewhere.
Debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, out now @MoonCityPress.
Read more at http://avitusbcarle.com
Brittany Terwilliger @brttnyblm.bsky.social Author of THE INSATIABLES from @ChiReviewPress and THE HOUSE OF BUGMAN forthcoming from Maudlin House, Managing Editor at @pitheadchapel, future ghost
www.BrittanyTerwilliger.com
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Child Craft: bellepointpress.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social |
Katherine Plumhoff @kplumhoff.bsky.social fiction @ places
elated Pushcart, BotN, BSF nominee
2025 fellow @smokelong.bsky.social
organizer @saloneurope.bsky.social
reader @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
katherineplumhoff.com
valencia, es
Crystal Wilkinson @crystalwilki.bsky.social Novelist, Food Advocate, Professor. National Bestselling Author of PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS, PERFECT BLACK, BIRDS OF OPULENCE
https://linktr.ee/CrystalWilkinson?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d3c6b47f-690c-483b-9898-8faed08cd35d
Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social Author of CRAWL (Graywolf Press): https://bookshop.org/p/books/crawl-stories-max-delsohn/22144102
Aaron Hamburger @aaronhamburger.bsky.social Author of the novels Hotel Cuba, Nirvana Is Here, and Faith for Beginners, and the story collection The View from Stalin's Head. www.aaronhamburger.com
Carolyn Forché @carolynforche.bsky.social Poet, memoirist
Cassie Mannes Murray @cassmannes.bsky.social Writer. Founder & director at Pine State Publicity. Mom to P & E. 🐝
http://pinestatepublicity.com
Pinestatepublicity.substack.com
Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Lit Agent Talcott Notch, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter
Oona Island @oonapatrick.bsky.social I get mad about books a lot. Reskeeting cheese news and good birds. writer/editor she/her https://linktr.ee/oonapatrick 🇵🇹
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
Alissa Nutting @alissanutting.bsky.social Writer
Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social Novelist. WGA Screenwriter. TV Creator/EP. Guggenheim & 2xNEA fellow. Reassuring Dad. Kid of immigrants 🇺🇦 🇬🇷. Known Professor of Cinema. Reps: CAA & Literate Mgmt.
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/
Adam Clay @adamclay.bsky.social Poet and Professor at Louisiana State University. Most recent book is Circle Back (Milkweed Editions, 2024).
Maria Robinson @mariaaarobinson.bsky.social Writer of fiction & sometimes non-. Work in Electric Lit, Wigleaf, The Forge -> Best Microfiction 2023, Rejection Letters, Catapult, BLR, cream city review, and more. Cupboard full of beans (I make a lot of soup).
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
Andy Hunter @andyhunter777.bsky.social Founder and CEO, Bookshop.org; co-Creator and Publisher, Literary Hub; co-founder and Chairman, Electric Literature
Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social Novelist, memoirist, co-founder of The Los Angeles Review of Books
CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social FREELANCE WRITER
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Annie Liontas @aliontas.bsky.social SEX WITH A BRAIN INJURY
& LET ME EXPLAIN YOU
yeah, I could eat
✨ http://annieliontas.com
Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social Author of THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS & FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE @doubledaybooks. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist. Descended from shamans and ghost whisperers
Jenny Quintana @jennyquintana.bsky.social Author. The Missing Girl, The Hiding Place, Our Dark Secret
@MantleBooks @panmacmillan
Agent @davidhheadley.bsky.social
Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social 'Maybe America isn't ready for a superstar in a wheelchair.' - Ian MacKaye
New book! Out with Harvill in 2026. THERE IS NO MEANT TO BE.
Debut novel THE COWARD w. @canongate.co.uk
jarredmcginnis.com
Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social Author/Mom/Wonder Woman/Queen of the North
She/her/hers
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. 🏳️🌈🦌🐊🦀
Hilary Bell @hilarybell.bsky.social https://www.hilary-bell.com/
David DeGusta @davidwrites1.bsky.social Writer / fiction / Iowa Writers’ Workshop / MacDowell / Yaddo | Ethiopia / literary translation from Amharic | Previously a paleoanthropologist.
www.davidwrites.net
Translator of the Ethiopian novel Oromay by Baalu Girma.
www.davidwrites.net/oromay
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Nathan Willis @nathanwillis.bsky.social Writer. Stories in Swamp Pink, Moon City Review, Pithead Chapel, Split Lip, Passages North, X R A Y, & others.
nathan-willis.com
Monica Macansantos, alias Butchay @missmacansantos.bsky.social Shearing Fellow, Black Mountain Institute, 2024-25. Author of RETURNING TO MY FATHER'S KITCHEN: ESSAYS (forthcoming from Northwestern University Press) and LOVE AND OTHER RITUALS: STORIES. Work in Colorado Review, The Hopkins Review, Bennington Review, etc
Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere
Best of the Net 2024 finalist
Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner
Cork via New York
Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social Writer, retired teacher, sometime sage. 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship. Stories in Kenyon, Witness, Zyz, AQR. 4 collections from small presses. “The Divide” from Cornerstone Press, 2026. MFA from Montana, long time ago.
evanmorganwilliams.com
🦧 giulia 🪱 @giulia-ak.com writer / video producer / fat tail sheep
giulia-ak.com
On Viewless Wings @onviewlesswings.bsky.social Writing, reading, running, teaching.
Poetry PhD.
Am actually writing.
Interested in the amplification of working class voices, northern voices, & kind & talented voices.
Writing, I swear.
Meliorist, still.
Liz Bergstrom @lizbergstrom.bsky.social Writer in Passages North, Bennington Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, NYT... Queer & chronically ill. (they/them) lizbergstrom.com
(PFP: Person w/ purple hair & light skin wearing a teal jacket. Header: Living, Together anthology)
Laura Evans @yetanotherevans.bsky.social LITTLE WILD coming June 2026 (Mantle, UK; Holt, US; Fazi Editore, IT)
Rep'd by Cathryn Summerhayes, Curtis Brown. Will work for croissants.
Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social Author & Filmmaker
arjoyan.com
Contributor to STOKER AWARD-WINNER Silk & Sinew🧿Maudlin House🧿Deadlands🧿Pleiades🧿JMWW🧿Ghoulish Tales🧿River Styx🧿Gone Lawn🧿Shotgun Honey🧿Roi Fainéant🧿Cold Signal🧿Apocalypse Confidential🧿Cleaver🧿Hobart🧿Monstrous Angels🧿BULL
Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social Appalachian, prison reform advocate, mother, author of The Stone Catchers: A Novel (UP Kentucky, 2024) and Jaws of Life: Stories (West Virginia UP, 2018). Words in STORY, North American Review, Florida Review, others.
www.lauraleighmorris.com 
Shelley Hastings @shelleyhastings.bsky.social Writer | Producer | Artist Facilitator | Kitchen Raver | Arts & Dementia: Resonate Arts | Winner: Sean Ó Faoláin Prize & Aurora Prize | Stories: Irish Times, Desperate Literature, Southword, Miro, Chroma Editions…
www.shelleyhastings.co.uk
Eshani Surya @eshanisurya.bsky.social debut novel RAVISHING 💄💉 ✨ out now from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic | disabled & chronically ill | philly-based | surya means sun ☀️ | eshani.surya@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/eshanisurya
Amy Twigg @aetwigg.bsky.social SPOILT CREATURES (2024) @tinderpress • Observer 10 Best New Novelists • 🏳️🌈 • Rep'd by 📚 @ce_seymour 🎥 @emilyhaywardw