Brittany Griffiths @bmariegriffiths.bsky.social Director of Editorial, Design, and Production @cornellupress.bsky.social
Into anything in the realm of publishing studies, nautical history, horror, urban studies, media studies, or WWII.
Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Arizona, director of UA Center for East Asian Studies
Author of Bandits in Print, available as a free download from Cornell University Press
Personal account; views are my own
Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
📚 Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sept 2025) & K-Pop Fandom (@uofmpress.bsky.social, Feb 2026)
📧 areumjeong@gmail.com
Jessica Zu @jessicaxzu.bsky.social scholar of Buddhist studies, jogger, writer, sci-fi fan, meditator
Zen Cho @zenaldehyde.bsky.social Malaysian in UK. I write fantasy and romance. BEHIND FRENEMY LINES out now!
Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social I teach Anthropology & Asian studies @ Cornell University. Formerly Director, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, in Stockholm; Cultural Attaché, Swedish Embassy in Beijing; 2nd secretary Swedish embassy in Tokyo. Views my own.
Allegra Martschenko @allegramartsch.bsky.social Agent at BookEnds Literary | Cofounder of Paths in Publishing | Airtable Enthusiast | probably reps your new favorite author
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allegramartschenko.com
James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social Historian of Taiwan & the World. Associate Professor, University of Washington Jackson School.
Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025)
Website: ocf.io/jameslin
he/him
Sabina Knight 桑稟華 @spoem.bsky.social * #Chinese #Literature: A Very Short Introduction * (Oxford)
& *The Heart of Time* (Harvard)
Translator & Interpreter: En/Fr/繁中/简中/Ru
雙語 @SabinaKnight.bsky.social
Care ethicist @FairbankCenter
#PIPfellow @NCUSCR.bsky.social
Prof Emerita WLT @SmithCollege
kiana @junkworld.bsky.social i make funny animal comics- J Jenna K Moran @jennamoran.bsky.social who are we to describe reality in words? As well to shout into the nameless sky
Cameron Reed (she|they) @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social Author of The Fortunate Fall (Tor Essentials, 2024) and What We Are Seeking (Tor, April 2026). I won the Otherwise Award under its deadname and my deadname. Represented by @laurenbajek.bsky.social. 🏳️⚧️♀︎♀︎
Wizards Vs Lesbians @wizardsvslesbians.bsky.social A podcast about books in which wizards fight lesbians.
Our home is on tumblr at wizardsvslesbians.tumblr.com. Inquiries can be sent there or to our e-mail, wizardsvslesbians@gmail.com.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
The Final Karen @lookninjas.bsky.social Retail manager, sometimes runner. Deeply midwestern. Lover of weird metal and weirder pop. I write stories about death.
My Ko-Fi shop: https://ko-fi.com/lookninjas/shop
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social Random lines from Moby Dick. Bot conceived, coded, and curated by @samplereality.bsky.social. Follow the companion bot @findmobydick.bsky.social for sources.- W Chuck Wooldridge @wooldridge.bsky.social Sometimes called 吳克強. Historian working on maintenance and repair, Chinese religion, Taiwan, Qing history.
Michelle Sybert @michellesybert.bsky.social Director at @illinoispress.bsky.social
Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/
Rebecca Lesses @argaman.bsky.social interests: pottery, Jewish studies, gardens, sarcoidosis
Nindokag daily pencil sketch comics @nindokag.bsky.social I draw a pencil-sketch comic page with a 1-hour time limit and post it here (almost) every day. I also sometimes post my music. I play accordion and Japanese taiko drums.
Mahinder Kingra @mahinder.bsky.social I recently retired as Cornell University Press's Editorial Director. I remain a National Park obsessive (238 and counting), a cineaste, and aficionado of crime fiction.
Rachel McVeigh 魏瑞秀 @remcveigh.bsky.social Medieval Chinese poetry and poetics: genre, form, animals | currently working on cranes, sometimes filmic dogs | PhD candidate at Harvard | formerly Oxford/PKU | she/her
Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social assoc prof @UVA_History. Specialist in 20th century Korea, Japanese Empire, and East Asian environments. Author of Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria (Open-access link: https://tinyurl.com/3susuy49)
Natasha Heller @nlheller.bsky.social Scholar of Chinese religion (mainly Buddhism) and within that scope especially interested in literature and trees at present
Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social First University Press in the US
Established 1869
http://cornellpress.cornell.edu
Stephen Saperstein Frug @stephenfrug.bsky.social I am writing essays (http://stephenfrug.substack.com) and a mosaic story (https://tinyurl.com/5n8h9a89) & wrote a graphic novel, Happenstance (https://happenstance.thecomicseries.com/)
emily bergslien @eudaemaniacal.bsky.social literal wizard & bookseller. helped write a novella called UNCOMMON CHARM. as an upright gentleman it is embarrassing for you to hold rabbits
blurds @trux.horse from internet
Tony Dowler @tonydowler.bsky.social An artist and writer living in Seattle. I make games and maps.
Tom Mazanec @tommazanec.bsky.social Author, Poet-Monks (Cornell UP). Assoc prof at UC Santa Barbara. Premodern Chinese lit & religion, translation, digital humanities. JASPA (formerly JAOS) editor. Father of 2. From NE Ohio.
https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/thomas-mazanec
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
Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social National correspondent, New York Times.
Previously: Staff Writer, The Atlantic.
Covering religion, politics, culture, and other low stakes subjects.
Mailing list: yair.substack.com
Music: bit.ly/azyashir
maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social Maimonides, as in the 12th Century Jewish philosopher - and Nutz as in “Deez Nutz.” (I’m not Maimonides but I’m definitely Nutz) she/her
Paths in Publishing @pathsinpub.bsky.social A scholarly pub mentorship program for the forks in the road (geared toward early-career folk) | Founded by Rachael Levay (@rlevay.bsky.social) + Allegra Martschenko (@allegramartsch.bsky.social)
https://linktr.ee/pathsinpub
Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese literature at Cornell, poet, translator. My current project is "On Stricture: Chinese Poetry and American Culture." More (incl links to open-access research) at nickadmussen.com.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Kat Weaver @anoteinpink.bsky.social illustrator, writer, parrot butler - birds, fashion, history, ttrpgs - she/her 🏳️🌈🦜
📍saint paul, minnesota
Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org How do you do, fellow squids? 🌊 We're your frondly Aquarium with a mission to inspire conservation of the ocean. https://www.montereybayaquarium.org
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social Editor in Chief at Cornell University Press acquiring in ancient, medieval, military, *and* European history. In a past life, completed a biology Ph.D. In this life, likes books, Criterion, rye, history, science, all the things in between, *and* donuts.
Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social acquiring editor for environmental studies, food studies, and regional books at the University of Pittsburgh Press
career in publishing resource doc: tinyurl.com/2jmmharu
bluesky list of university and indie presses: tinyurl.com/3y829vxv
Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚
Tips at newsletter.manuscriptworks.com & in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK and MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK (Princeton UP)
Courses + free resources at manuscriptworks.com
Knitter, 2X Jeopardy! champ 🤓
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Jenny Tan @byjennytan.bsky.social acquisitions editor, medieval/early modern, literature, anthropology of race, education, social justice @PennPress | phd, comparative literature @UCBerkeley
opinions do not represent those of my employer 
P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of [their] own tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous and scornful
links to work here: https://p-h-lee.com/
Leora @leorahugs.bsky.social SFF writer, queer, Jewish, snake parent, book hoarder