Apollo Alpha One @apolloalphaone.bsky.social All dogs are good dogs. Some are chaotic fury anarchists, and some are products of bad people. But dogs are genuinely the the best of us.
Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social Speculative literature by and for queer people of color. We are now OPEN for submissions! 💜
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Wolf @wolfsilveroak.bsky.social Marine, Martial Arts & Fiber Artist, Gamer, Gardener, Birder, Collector of Things- what things? All Things.
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Mariam Zama @mimsez.bsky.social Cranky crone, avid reader and mother of cats. Mostly reposts and likes, socially awkward even on social media. In love with Montreal.
John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025), THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS (2026). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
bookmarkedone @bookmarkedone.bsky.social Book blogger. Chaos bard. Probably a cryptid. Mad tea parties, weird folklore, flower language, & swords.
Alias @celanimori.bsky.social
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Megan Landon @meganlandonauthor.bsky.social Latina, scorpio, gen-X, over-educated, first-born, first-gen, and writer of sci-fi/fantasy romance & erotic fiction. Happily taken. I only follow creatives. 🔞🌶️📚💙 meganlandon.com 💦
Henry Barajas 🐴 @henrybarajas.bsky.social Death to Pachuco out now. ¡HUELGA! in stores 8/5. Gil Thorp runs Mon-Sat. I'm making comics six days a week. I rest on the seventh like you-know-who.
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Clara Madrigano @claramadrigano.bsky.social Brazilian writer. Bad jokes. Stories at Clarksworld, The Dark, Nightmare, F&SF, and more. Contact me: claramadrigano@gmail.com. I'm repped by Jennifer Jackson (@arcaedia.bsky.social) at DMLA. She/her.
Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social Writer. Traductora. Editor. Poet. Queer.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social A record of the plague years. Z”L.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
FieryHeart @thefieryheart.bsky.social #Resist - Musician, person of faith, morally grounded, proudly queer, and Anti-Trumpism! Truth, integrity, community, and people matter! He/They. #RGE4B
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social Slice of life fantasy. Pro-paying, open worldwide. @augursociety.bsky.social's little sibling.
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social
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Read now! https://augursociety.org/tales-and-feathers-magazine/
Ella Frænka 엘라 고모 @ellafraenka.bsky.social She/her, cis, het.
Aunty Ella, it's the best job in the world.
1 husband, 4 cats, lots of niblings.
Knitter and watcher of K-dramas.
Went back to University and am working on my BA in English, and did Korean classes just for fun (안녕하세요 🫰🏻)
C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social Spec fic writer, reader, artist. Wrangles, variously: words, data, two small children. Loves history, New Weird, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep: @clgslr.bsky.social | w: www.chpearce.net | IG: c.h.pearce
Andrea Sedai (she/her) 🤎🗡️ @andreawrites01.bsky.social Writer, librarian, knife-wielding sister of the Brown Ajah 
KarenA @karenada59.bsky.social I am 60 years old autistic person diagnosed late enjoying graphic novels,bird watching, theatre.
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
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TipJar: https://venmo.com/u/cat-valente
The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com Satirical news by & for autistic people (poor things). Founded by Sara Gibbs & Elsa Williams; run by Sara Gibbs & Sarah Amero
It’s a Superpower?? is out now: https://allmylinks.com/itsasuperpower
www.thedailytism.com
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Donovan Blake @donovanwrites.bsky.social Empowering Emerging Authors | Manuscripts Coach & Storytelling Advocate | Helping Experts Turn Ideas into Books
Sevenfold @s-evenfold.bsky.social Dark xianxia / kink-horror / danmei / 🔞 / gore / body-horror /
https://archiveofourown.org/users/Sevenfold_official - read for free
https://www.patreon.com/Sevenfold - tips maybe?
Matthew King @matthewkingart.bsky.social Artist & Author of Don't get Blood in my House books2read.com/matthewking
Likes Character Design, Gamedev, 90’s, Cooking, Sharpies, Beetles, Raccoons, Wrestling, The FGC, Baki, Capcom, Boardgames, DDR
P.S.C. Willis 🌈🖋️ Crying Out for Magic - Out Now! @pscwillis.bsky.social Pronouns: any
A meet cute across worlds: get 'Crying out for Magic' from Space Wizard Science Fantasy or https://books2read.com/cofm
Fan of tea, cake, and cats. Writer of optimistic queer sci fi and fantasy from flash to novel length
pscwillis.com
Coyote & Crow Games @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social Award winning tabletop game company focusing on raising Native creative voices and representation. http://coyoteandcrow.net Posts by owner/designer Kenna Alexander #IndigneousFuturism
Jadyn N. Marshall @jadynnmarshall.bsky.social Reader, writer, and happily human ☺️
Erstwhile publishing intern @ PRH 🐧 & JGLM 📚
Fairly digital nomad & one-woman stock photo gallery (camera roll closing in on 250k 🙈)
English professor in Tokyo 🇯🇵
Fulbright alumna 🇬🇷
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Matthew David Goodwin @latinxfiles.bsky.social Editor of the Latinx Archive Speculative Trilogy: Latinx Rising, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, and Not Your Papi's Utopia. Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UNM. Active agent in the Speculative Detective Agency.
Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social Together for Wildlife
Dybbuk Q Klezmer @dybbuk.bsky.social Queer Leftist Jew. Mostly here to comment on Talmud.
Marguerite @marguerites.bsky.social Soprano, tech person, fan conrunner. Not usually in that order. 
Kaitlin Schmidt @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social I'm a queer, neurodivergent author and editor. When I'm not writing or falling in love with the latest book I'm editing, I'm swing dancing the night away! https://www.kaitlin-schmidt.com
Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award–winning author | MFA, PhD English(c) | IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND, June 9 | SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME, Sept 29 | Rep-Lane Heymont | cynthiapelayo.com
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!
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him patreon.com/djolder
https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social Muñeca – queer gothic historical fiction – out 6/2/26: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211/muneca-by-cynthia-gomez/
2024 Ignyte nominee for "Lips Like Sugar." Member HWA. Rep @LaurenBajek.
cynthiasaysboo.wordpress.com
Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood horromance evangelist. Out now: THE HACIENDA & VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE & THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ. Up next: THE HOUSE OF GARDENIAS (Dutton Fall ‘26). | Bram Stoker Award Nominee | UChicago PhD
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Estella González @cholasalvation.bsky.social East Los writer living in El Tuce aka Tucson.
Author of the short story collection Chola Salvation and the novel Huizache Women. Both published by Arte Público Press.
www.eastloswriter.com
Leticia Urieta @leticiaasu.bsky.social (she/her) Tejana writer, teaching artist, editor and mentor. Author of Offerings to a Tumbled Temple with @purpleinkpress.bsky.social & The Remedy is the Disease, forthcoming in 2026 @undertakerbooks.bsky.social
Find my work at: http://linktr.ee/lurieta16
Tehlor Mejia @tehlormejia.bsky.social mostly I write books and look at the stars
(he/they)
Nancy Foster 😼💉🇲🇽 @drafoxter.bsky.social Spsfc volunteer judge Team Space Girls, Mexican-American dark fantasy author. Posteo fotos de tacos y garnachas. 🤭
nancyfosterauthor.carrd.co
Lisa M. Bradley @cafenowhere.bsky.social Queer, disabled Latina spec-fic poet/author/editor. Work in LeVar Burton Reads, Fantasy, Lightspeed, Uncanny, & F&SF. Poetry Editor for Strange Horizons. www.lisambradley.com
Aiden Thomas 🇵🇸 @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social author of NYT bestsellers “Cemetery Boys”, “Lost in the Never Woods”, “The Sunbearer Trials” and “Celestial Monsters”.
currently writing: “Cemetery Boys 2: Espíritu”
just Some Guy.
https://linktr.ee/aidenschmaiden
Richard Z. Santos @rzsantos.bsky.social Debut novel TRUST ME now available. Fiction, nonfiction, essays, etc in EQMM, Texas Monthly and others. Recovering politico. Seeking representation for 2nd and 3rd novels.
Author Millie Price @authormillieprice.bsky.social I write books for adults with monsters, mythos, and all things supernatural. Let me take you on a ride through the dark. 🖤🖤🖤
https://authormillieprice.com
Ernest Hogan @ernesthogan.bsky.social The Father of Chicano Science Fiction
M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social Mara can't spell.
🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽 Xicane futurist and horror writer, author of Sundown in San Ojuela. Ignyte finalist, longlister for Stokers. Clarion 22.
Stories at: olivasthewriter.wtf
Sundown available at: https://lanternfishpress.com/shop/sundown-in-san-ojuela
Celso Hurtado @celsohurtado.bsky.social Author of THE GHOST TRACKS and THE DEVIL'S PROMISE (10/3). International Latino Book Award Winner. Active HWA Member. San Antonian.
A.P. Thayer @apthayer.bsky.social 🪱 Los Angeles | Horror
🪱 Agent: Helen Lane at Ki Agency
🪱 pre-order my debut, TAPEWORM (out 8/18/26)
Carmen Baca @chicanacb.bsky.social Internationally published author of award-winning phantasmagorical & magical tales of the southwest. Wife, mother, former educator, cat nurturer.
Agatha Andrews @agathaandrews.bsky.social Writer. Professional Gothic Swooner
Host of the She Wore Black Podcast
Rep: Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
Active HWA member
Robert Perez @robertperez.bsky.social Psychological Counselor, Writer
HWA Active Member 
Lizz Huerta @lizzhuerta.bsky.social Author of The Lost Dreamer
& worker who likes to watch the sun rise. 
Lilliam Rivera @lilliamr.bsky.social Award-winning author. Bronx born, L.A. living. Latest: TINY THREADS (Del Rey Books), available where books are sold.
https://www.lilliamrivera.com
Zoraida Córdova @zlikeinzorro.bsky.social Writer. Cryptid. 
Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social Writer. THE BEWITCHING (2025), SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME, MEXICAN GOTHIC, and others books. https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/
melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social poet but don’t hold it against me • dreaming of you, candelaria @astrahouse
rep: arod@wmeagency.com
Emma N. Díaz @endiaaz.bsky.social Poeta y cuentista.
Preventa de mi libro de cuentos «En un desierto cercano» 🏜: https://casafuturaediciones.com/producto/enundesiertocercano/
Más información: https://linktr.ee/endiaaz
Contacto: https://endiaazblog.wordpress.com/
Christopher S.G. ✨🪡 is writing @comradebleu.bsky.social Latino writer of sci-fi, horror, and fantasy across mediums. Maker of music. Happy dad.
📚⚔️Prodigium: out now!
📚⚔️Twelve Tomes Book 2: in progress
📐⚫️Silver & Black anthology: coming soon!
🎲📕Twelve Tomes TTRPG: 2026
✨🪡 Kanushin and Zematura: in progress
Damián Neri @damianneriart.bsky.social Mexican SFF writer / painter / data analyst. Stories in Clarkesworld, Flash Fiction Online, and The Deadlands. EN/ES. Editor: @revistasofon.bsky.social / Website: damianneri.com
Jorge Salgado-Reyes @jorgesalgadoreyes.bsky.social Writer
Photographer
Investigator
Latin@ Literatures @latinoliteratures.org Latin@ Literatures is an online source for new Latinx writing and contemporary discussion on Latinx literature, art, and culture. Visit us at www.latinoliteratures.org.
A.L. Garcia @almaandthehorde.bsky.social I am a poet and my favorite flowers are dandelions. Horde @quillandcrowpublishinghouse
Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte Finalist • DISGRACED RETURN OF THE KAP'S NEEDLE is a Nebula finalist! • Reactor, Clarkesworld, Apex • Codex • He/him • Brazilian/Latino author
More: https://linktr.ee/renanbernardo1
💀Chris💀 @cotexican.bsky.social Writer, abortion storyteller, mom of four in Colorful Colorado.
Mostly writing posts, politics, and Muppet gifs.
🖖🏼🌹🇲🇽 🏔️
https://www.instagram.com/c.j.perez.writes
Gina Ruiz @ginaruiz.bsky.social She/her/ella. Native Angeleno and Chicana writer who occasionally gets around to writing stories. Bibliophile, stationary fiend, dog person, baker, foodie, and scholar.
E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social Taínofuturism nerd 🐚🪶🛖🤖; Award Winning Author of SORDIDEZ; ✍🏼 Science Fiction, CliFi, Fantasy, Horror 📚; SFWA; Cloud Anthropologist; RPG Connossieur 🎮; Cuir Boricua migrant in Europe | He/Him/Él 🏳️🌈🇵🇷👊🏼
www.egconde.com
Gabi Taboas @gabitaboas.bsky.social 🇵🇷(she/her)
YA horror and fantasy writer and editor
Website: gabrielataboas.com
Insta: gabit_writes
José Pablo Iriarte @labyrinthrat.bsky.social Spec fic author and award-nominated middle grade novelist. Cuban-American ceterosexual enby. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/labyrinthrat
Omar Morales @omorales81.bsky.social #Latinx Comic Book Writer: Amazon / ComiXology Originals, Mad Cave. Creator of Major Thomás graphic novel: https://a.co/d/d1SvuCa
NO comix gate, NO A.I.! #MakingComics #Metroid #GoBlue - Same handle everywhere!
DNTLZ @dntlz.bsky.social Brazilian artist
Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social SFFH Author | Winner-Apex Reader's Choice Award | SFWA & Codex Member | Bibliophilic ghost haunting libraries | she/her
Work forth/in Apex, The Dark, Heartlines, Small Wonders, Flash Point SF & more
Links: https://catherinetavares.com/links/
Clara Elena García, Author 🇵🇾 @claraelenadice.bsky.social Paraguayan Poet 🇵🇾 Elgin Award Nominee 🏆 SEVEN LEGENDARY MONSTERS | Moonrise 2025 📕 JUEGO DE PALABRAS | Valparaíso Ediciones 2023📗
www.claraelenawrites.com
Adrianna Cuevas @adriannacuevas.bsky.social Award-winning middle grade author. What Fell From the Sky and Rancho Espanto paperback out now! she/her 🇨🇺 Runs on pastelitos and BTS.
https://linktr.ee/adriannacuevas
Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social Blanco Cuban Writer of SFF. To Root Somewhere Beautiful: An Anthology of Reclamation and The Vanisher on Chain Letter Substack, both are OUT NOW! ¡Palestina Libre! No AI.
Unagented. Seeking representation.
L.P. Hernandez @lphernandez.bsky.social Horror author. Active HWA. MBA. Air Force officer. Publisher. Co-owner of Sobelo Books. Metalhead. Robust. Enchanting. Read me in Cemetery Gates, Dark Matter, a truck stop between Lubbock and Amarillo. Client of Becky LeJeune. Punch Nazis. I love you.
Abigail Guerrero @gailguerrero.bsky.social Author and cat lady 🐈 / Mexican / ESL / aro-ace / she|her / BSFA awards nominee and finalist / First reader at Diabolical Plots and The Skull & Laurel / Short stories and poems here: beacons.ai/abigailguerrero
Michael Zapata @michaelzapata.bsky.social Author of the novel THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU. Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago & Northwestern University. Descended from Andean farmers, poets, and union organizers.
michaelzapata.com
Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.geekdom.social.ap.brid.gy Ignyte-winning, Hugo-winning reviewer at Nerds of a Feather.
Also member of Strange Horizons and Galactic Journey.
Judge at the British Fantasy Awards.
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Hache Pueyo 🕷️🗝️ @hachepueyo.bsky.social South American arachnid with a human form 🕸 CABARET IN FLAMES (Tor/Titan, 2026) 🕸 BUT NOT TOO BOLD (Tor, 2025) 🕸 PT/EN/ES 🕸 Rep. Lee O'Brien
https://linktr.ee/hachepueyo
Ofelia J. Vazquez @ofeliawrites.bsky.social 🌸 Queer Comics and Book Writing. Currently writing about haunted tar pits. More active on Insta and TT. They/them. link.tree/ofeliawrites, Rep by @chamomeriam 🌸
Fabio Fernandes @fabiofernandes.bsky.social Writer, translator, editor.
Jornalista, pesquisador, professor.
Criador do Observatório do Futuro (PUC-SP).
Esquerdopata, surrealista, budista.
Autista nível 1 de suporte.
Posts in English e em Português.
https://fabiofernandeswriter.com/
Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social Talk like Sam Spade, live like Miss Marple. Real life: Buenos Aires. Fiction: THE SHAMSHINE BLIND (scifi noir alternate history!) from Atria Books: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-shamshine-blind-a-novel-paz-pardo/80bf4e7d932a98a6
Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social BSFA-nominated, Brave New Weird Winning writer, and all around TropiWeirdo. Stories in Typebar, Strange Horizons, BCS, khōreo, more. Host of @podside-picnic.bsky.social. He/Him 🇵🇷
Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social Award-winning Latina journo, SFF writer & author. Editor on the Opinion desk at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Opinions here are my own. She/her/ella. www.sabrinavourvoulias.com. Water is life. You can't drink data. No es sequía, es saqueo.
Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos @theninagalaxy.bsky.social Writer, space explorer. Sazón with some Opa! Sci-fi, sensual & literary.
Janus Point Press #WatchOutForWormholes
To Love Like Venus (March 2026)
Event Horizon
Louangie Bou-Montes💜 @loulawrites.bsky.social 🇵🇷 author of TILL THE LAST BEAT OF MY HEART (Harper) queer writer of queer YA stories. rep’d by Saritza Hernandez.
William Alexander @willalex.bsky.social National Book Award-winning author of unrealisms, mostly for young readers. SUNWARD (my first novel for grownups) was a finalist for the 2026 Philip K. Dick Award and is a current finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. He/him.
www.willalex.net
Roxanne Ocasio (querying!) @roxanne-ocasio.bsky.social Fantasy author querying her debut novel
Indígena Borikua 🇵🇷🩵 | 🖤🩶🤍💜Cleveland against the world
All we need is feminine rage, diverse books, & Stray Kids
she/her/ella
Mark Oshiro @markdoesstuff.bsky.social #1 NYT Bestselling Author of YA and MG | Rep'd by Jordan Hill and Trinica Sampson-Vera | Latinx | They/Them | Profile image by @dariusvoncel
Romina Garber @rominagarber.bsky.social Argentina 🇦🇷 ➡️ Miami ☀️🥵 Bestselling Author 📚 #Lobizona 🌟🌟 #Cazadora 🌟🌟 #ZodiacBooks ♍️⛎ #CastleoftheCursed 🇪🇸🩸#TheLastVampire 🦇 rominagarber.com
Nina Moreno @ninamoreno.bsky.social florida writer still playing pretend 🐊
YA: Don't Date Rosa Santos & Our Way Back to Always | MG: Maggie Diaz series
Vita Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social afro-🇵🇷. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Eisner nom'd bard class brawler. work @ Abrams, Black Mask, DC comics, Dynamite, IDW, Image, Macmillan, Marvel comics, Realm, Valiant, Vault. Repped by @grahamophones.bsky.social. Pro-Danny. Free Palestine ✊🏾🍉
https://linktr.ee/definitelyvita
Claribel A. Ortega @claribelortega.com NYT Best-selling raccoon enthusiast 🦝
Witchlings 4: Scepter of Memories out 9.16.25
I wrote Ghost Squad, the Witchlings series & the Eisner & Pura Belpré winning graphic novel Frizzy 🐓
https://linktr.ee/claribelortega
Ricardo López Ortiz @rlopezortiz.bsky.social Sup Bozos. Drawing comics in NYC with my dog. ✌🏼🇵🇷 Illustrator | Cartoonist | DC | MARVEL | TKO | BOOM! | IMAGE | ⚡️ rlopezortiz.com |
Maika Moulite @maikamoulite.bsky.social 👑 Author 📚 THE SUMMER I ATE THE RICH (2025 Fierce Reads) / ONE OF THE GOOD ONES / DEAR HAITI, LOVE ALAINE ⚡️Rep: New Leaf Literary 👩🏾🎓 PhD Howard University ✊🏾🇭🇹
Ann Dávila Cardinal @anndavilacardinal.bsky.social Writer, tattooed Gringa-Rican punk.