derecka purnell @derecka.bsky.social rooting for everyone resisting oppression | slowly transitioning from social media | get connected at my website derecka.com/contact | author, Becoming Abolitionists
Jhamar Youngblood @jhamar.com Running for Mayor of Newark in May 2026. My priorities are keeping our city clean, making our city more affordable, and ending corruption. Learn more: Jhamayor.com
analía cabello @analiacabello.bsky.social ✨📚🏳️🌈| backyard gardener🌻| associate literary agent @ ABLA |
Andrea Brown Literary Agency @andreabrownlit.bsky.social We are a full service literary agency repping the best books in the world since 1981. (Not that we're biased.) We LOVE books and their creators! www.andreabrownlit.com
Zee Thee Mischievous @ziajd.blacksky.app Esq. Yapper. Not with the shits.
NYC.
#CurlyZ, #ReadWithZ, #NYCWithZ, #DressWithZ. #MistyTheCat & #MaisieTheCat. She/her. I miss you, #MonaTheCat.
Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social Candidate for US Senate | Congresswoman #TX30 | Civil Rights & Criminal Attorney | Progressive | Fmr. St. Rep. HD100 | DST 1913 🐘🔥| She/Her/Ella | #TEXASTOUGH
Dayna Lynn Nuckolls @thepeoplesoracle.com Host of DIVINATION FOR LIBERATION Podcast • div4lib.transistor.fm || Personal Divination & Therapeutic Coaching: orcle.me/services
Writer+ Musician+ Singer + Songwriter+ Producer • Jazz & Tea Lover
Chicago raised, New Orleans living
Jed Banta @jedb.bsky.social He/Him
Fun loving player of TTRPGs, enjoyer of sports (Jazz, Penguins, SF Giants, and Univeristy of Utah athletics), and creator of food
Aja Barber @ajabarber.bsky.social Here’s why you don’t need that $10 dress. Author of Consumed. Contributing editor at ELLE UK. 
@torresveronica.bsky.social @torresveronica.bsky.social 
Natalie McCabe Zwerger 🇵🇷she|her|ella🇵🇷 @nataliezwerger.bsky.social Natalie McCabe Zwerger (she/her/ella) is a white Puerto Rican, cis hetero non-disabled educator, advocate, non-profit leader, & mami with significant class privilege. Natalie is a settler on Wappinger, Pequonnock, Paugussett, and Schaghticoke land.
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Jesse @ssritrek.bsky.social He/him. Sometimes comics maker. Union liker.
Many different users state that they do not like or want me posting.
I block with great abandon. Sometimes just to feel alive.
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Ken 🥰 @kboogieee.bsky.social Ibn 💜👼🏾
Morty 🫡🕊
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Ms. Amanda Seales @amandaseales.bsky.social Artistic Intellectual | ✊🏽🇬🇩❤️🇵🇸
"Too polarizing & not consistently funny"
@shelbicole.bsky.social @shelbicole.bsky.social 
Just Jo @munsonjo.bsky.social Teacher. Mom. Lover of candy.
she/her/hers
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app 
Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com Dragon Slayer,bandit,play cousin,not✌🏿good✌🏿, necessary, leader faith community, Beautiful Mess, problem, $smissouri https://www.solomonrmissouri.com/
Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social Reader ❁ Writer ❁ Teacher ❁ Learner ❁ She/Her
Sara K Ahmed she/her 🍉 ✌🏾 @sarakahmed.bsky.social Author of Being the Change & Upstanders. Director of Curriculum Integration. Speaker. Staff Developer. Sports. Snacks.
Bookings: The Author Village
Heinemann @heinemannpub.bsky.social Heinemann delivers world-class educational resources, including curriculum, books, media, and learning tools to enhance teacher practice and advance student outcomes.
https://blog.heinemann.com/
JoEllenMcCarthy @joellenmccarthy.bsky.social 
Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social Books, movies, navel-gazing. librarians against fascism. Rad fatty. she/her
tyrone (ty, they, he) martinez-black @teachnexttmb.bsky.social On a quest to be ubiquitous (at least to my closest kin)
Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social I am a high school teacher. Earnest posting (at the moment it’s mostly grief-posting) until the end. Profile pic is my mom. (she/they)
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Anita G @gillilandanitac.bsky.social Reader, writer, hopeful traveler, rescue dog Mom, coffee lover
AP Lang, Dual Credit Comp
30 yr HS Eng T, Grad student in Rhetoric & Comp
Read to Kids & Pets
Work for Justice & Freedom
hema khodai @hkhodai.bsky.social Amma | தமிழ் | Educator | Instructional Coordinator - Equity, Indigenous Education & Community Engagement
Patrick, Not Pat @patricknotpat.blacksky.app I’m here to kick it with my boys and my gworls.
Dr. Crystal M. Watson @crystalmwatson.bsky.social Audacious dreamer. Straight forward, dope human doing dope things. Student voice, choice, and identity advocate! 🖤🖤
#educolor #hiphoped #blackedusky #edusky #blackademics
Views my own. she/her
Jose Vilson, PhD @thejosevilson.com The educator Gotham deserves. Math teacher turned sociologist + policy, studying contemporary and historical teacher professionalism and work , best-selling author, executive director, adjunct, father.
Join the movement 👇🏾
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Jes The Activist Teach @jessycamathews.bsky.social Racial/Environmental/Institutional Racism Activist ✊🏾 Award-Winning Teacher✌️🏾Writer & Public Speaker 🤎
Bookelicious @bookelicious.bsky.social ❤️ Bookmoji Book-Matching Technology
📚 Curated Online Children's Bookshop
🎒 Virtual Author Visits
🧑🏫 PD Webinars
🛍️ PopUp Shops Fundraisers
Mae Respicio 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @maerespicio.bsky.social ✨ Writer of Books / Eater of Snacks
✨ APALA Honor Award, NPR Best Books
✨ www.maerespicio.com
✨ Author brand: tender+joyful+Filipino dad jokes
✨ Agent: Jennifer Laughran
Aliza Werner @alizawerner.bsky.social Educator. Literacy Consultant. Reader. Writer. NCTE. Traveler. Knitter. Wife. Dog Mom x2. Jewish. she/her
Lisa Yee . . . is confused about social media @lisayee.bsky.social New York Times Bestseller, Newbery Honoree, National Book Award Finalist, Procrastinator Extraordinaire, #KidLit Author
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Carla Shalaby @cshalaby.bsky.social Teaching love and learning freedom. Believer in young children and their teachers.
Detroit, MI
she/her
https://thenewpress.com/books/troublemakers
Cait O’Connor @justteachingela.bsky.social 8th grade ELA teacher, 2023 Outstanding Middle Level Educator, mental health peer, Buddhist, avid reader, lover of iced tea, alternative education enthusiast, social justice advocate, fat studies scholar, fiercely pro-student.
The Joyful Teacher Librarian @thejoyfultl.bsky.social Former English teacher. Now a high school librarian working for a better world one book & uncomfortable convo at a time. she/her.
📍Chicago
Annie Tan @annietan.com educator, activist, storyteller (she/her) #writing a #memoir #WIP #writersky! VT Studio Center, Tin House, & Bread Loaf '23! #AAPI #BLM annie@annietan.com
Most of my old posts were transferred & archived here from my old Twitter account annietangent, RIP
Erica B. @ericabuddington.bsky.social Enthusiastic antiquarian. Educator. Public historian. TV Writer. Harvard Student. #WGA. Future @harpercollins author. Fndr: @LangstonLeague. erica@langstonleague.com
Awaken Librarian @awakenlibrarian.bsky.social Activist. Super nerd. Librarian. Speaker. AI Critic. Know it so you can grow it! Posts reflect my mind. No DMs. Open your mind like you would a parachute! https://awakenlibrarian.com #EduSky #TLSkyChat #EdTech #GoogleEDU #AwakenLibrarian
Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social bi & black (she/her); academic librarian; Ignyte Award nom'd SFF author; Clarion West alum (Novel Workshop '25). Stories in Fantasy, Reactor, FIYAH, & more (🔗s on jencbrown.com).
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Annie Ward @annietward.bsky.social Educator, mother. Lover of kids, books, and dogs in most any combination.
Christine Esposito @msespo.bsky.social Gifted specialist working with and for all students. VA Gilder-Lehrman TOY '09. Co-conspirator who still gets it wrong. I'm the annoying one asking hard questions. she/her
If my mouth doesn't say it, my face definitely will.
https://msespo.substack.com
Carol Jago @caroljago.bsky.social Teacher, reader
Cathy Potter @cppotter.bsky.social Middle School Librarian & Tech Integrator, NBCT, co-chair of Lighthouse Award for Nonfiction, Sibert 25th Anniversary Task Force, #TLSky #EduSky
Nettie Griffin @nerdiegriffin.bsky.social Freshly Retired Teacher. Lifelong learner. KidLit Lover. Looking for my next adventure!
Contemplating moving back “home” to Ireland. #Ireland has my heart and soul. 🇮🇪
Dr. Tonya Breland @drforjustice.bsky.social Passionate leader|Co- author of "Today's Classroom"|Entrepreneur for equity and justice in schools & organizations|DEIB Advocate|CEO of TESO Consulting Group|Pres. Nat'l Coalition of 100 Black Women, CNJ| Milken Educator
Kelly Boswell @kellyboswell.bsky.social Author l Education Consultant l Teacher Professional Developer
I help teachers & schools enhance writing instruction and writing achievement.
Books:
Every Kid a Writer: Strategies that Get Everyone Writing
Write This Way
Jenn Hayhurst @hayhurst3.bsky.social Literacy Coordinator, Benchmark Author. Interests: education, research, data driven instruction, and SEL.
Wire For Agency Four Simple Moves That Transfer Learning: https://a.co/d/8oiXxp8
Laura Ascenzi-Moreno @ascenzimoreno.bsky.social Bilingual Education Professor @BrooklynCollege;
Academic Mama, Biliteracy & Equity, Colombiana-Americana de Queens, Co-Author of Rooted in Strength
Kory Graham @korytellers.bsky.social She/Her
Professional Hypewoman to people worldwide
Skilled at connecting the right people at the right time
Also very skilled in asking all sorts questions and rambling on and on
A Jersey Girl, with a huge heart for the Midwest, currently in Rochester, MN
Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com 🇨🇦 Author/illustrator. Illus books by Judy Blume, Michael Ian Black, others. Author news, more: https://debbieohi.com/links/ Atmosphere updates: https://debbieohi.com/standard-reader
📚 I WANT TO READ *ALL* THE BOOKS
🎨 I'M BUSY
DebbieOhi.com
EduSky @edusky.bsky.social Update - as Bluesky and #EduSky rapidly expand, Alice has created a team to best support the community! > Please now go follow @Eduskyteam.com
Jillian Heise @heisereads.bsky.social {Hi-Z} | 2026 Caldecott Committee | Elementary Librarian | MLIS | Former 7/8 ELA Teacher | NBCT | #ClassroomBookADay founder | she/her | *views are personal & do not represent my employer
https://campsite.bio/heisereads
heisereads.com
classroombookaday.com
Eliot Schrefer @eliotschrefer.bsky.social Author, science writer. Prof @hamlinemfac, NYT bestseller, Printz Honor, 2x Nat'l Book Award finalist. Sh-RAY-fur. 
Minh Lê @bottomshelfbks.bsky.social author of The Blur, Real to Me (Knopf/PRH) | Lift, Drawn Together, more (LBYR) | Green Lantern Legacy (DC) | A Lotus for You (Parallax) | WNDB board | Hamline MFAC faculty
Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social I write books for young people, picture books and middle grade novels. I’m the founder and President of The Author Village. Mets and Nets fan. LGBTQ🌈
Ellen Oh @ellenoh.bsky.social I write MG & YA books that win awards from people not related to me. Founding member of WENEEDDIVERSEBOOKS. Fight Book Bans!!!
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Quinta Brunson @quintabrunson.bsky.social Hi.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
David Bowles @davidbowles.us Writer. Translator. Nahuatlahtoh. Chicano. He/él/yehhua. Pan [💖💛💙]. Representation: Full Circle Literary. Associate Professor at UTRGV. Ca notoca Tlahzotic Mazacnihuitl.
Dan Santat @dansantat.bsky.social NY Times bestselling children's book author of Beekle ('15 Caldecott) A First Time for Everything ('23 National Book Award) Creator Disney's The Replacements
Shawna Coppola (she/her) @shawnacoppola.bsky.social #AuDHD • Educator• Doctoral Student • Author of Literacy for All & Writing, Redefined • Wanna be a sociolinguist when I grow up #FreePalestine 🍉🏳️🌈
Sarah Mulhern Gross @thereadingzone.bsky.social NBCT, English @ High Tech, past chair @alanorg Walden, AIP MAT Bio @ WCS, NYTimes Learning Network, #nerdcampNJ organizer
Teacher Mugabo @mugabo.bsky.social Engineer, educator, organizer
Berkeley Everett @berkeleyeverett.bsky.social Math Coach and Consultant who cares about Justice. Website: www.berkeleyeverett.com
Kevin Wong 黃浩文 @kevinwongla.bsky.social Associate Professor @Pepperdine • #BilingualEducation & #Multiraciality • Aspiring picture book author • Editor of CATESOL Journal & The Teacher Advocate • #PhDad • Ephesians 2:10 • he/他/佢
www.kevin-m-wong.com • YouTube➡️@TheBilingualProfessor
Gene Luen Yang @geneluenyang.bsky.social Cartoonist and Comic Book Writer
🧧American Born Chinese
🏀Dragon Hoops
🐢Secret Coders
🗡Books of Clash
🦸🏻♂️Superman Smashes the Klan
👊🏼Shang-Chi
🐵Monkey Prince
☁️Avatar
LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social Queering up your shelves, one rec at a time. Check it out at LGBTQReads.com
Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli.bsky.social Education consultant, trainer. Author of Fair Isn't Always Equal, 2nd Ed.; Metaphors & Analogies: Power Tools for Teaching any Subject; Summarization in any Subject, 2nd Ed, Differentiation: From Planning to Practice. Website: www.rickwormeli.com 
Allison Jackson ❌👑🐸 🇺🇦 @azajacks.bsky.social Teacher of 3rd graders
she/her
lover of books/teaching/learning
Learning how to be anti-racist
#RedForEd #StopVoucherExpansion
Kristen Picone @kpteach5.bsky.social Mom, 5th grade ELA/SS teacher, nErDCampLI organizer, book lover 
Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social NYT & international best-selling chaos machine
📚 Gumiho duology | K-Verse Books | GODS & COMICS
🔜 HOUSE OF FORGOTTEN SOULS (Bloomsbury, 2027)
🇰🇷🌈
📱 tiktok/IG katchowrites
https://www.katchowrites.com/links
she/her
Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social OH FFS, do I have to
Okay fine, FINE, I'm a children's writer and artistttnnnggghhhh that still feels so weird to say, I'm also Korean American and autistic and a messy emotional glob who constantly gets sentimental on main, you've been warned
Lamar Giles @lamargiles.bsky.social I write Black kids & DC Comics (Static: UAN) & Star Wars (Sanctuary: A Bad Batch Novel). Big Dad Energy. #GirlDad
https://www.lamargiles.com/links
박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social Associate Professor iSchool University of Illinois; Asian American Youth Lit; Asian American Studies; Critical Adoption Studies; RDYL co-editor #VeryKorean #VeryAsian sarahpark.com
Cover art: Nancy So Miller
Agent: Tricia Toney Lawrence (Aevitas CM)
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social 🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You.
Next: The Adopted Kids’ Guide to Surviving Seventh Grade (Crown, Spring 2027)
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
Kate Messner @katemessner.com NYT bestselling author of 80+ books for kids. Educator. Speaker. Adirondack 46er. Passionately curious. Coming soon: KEEP THE GHOST LIGHT ON
www.katemessner.com
Aisha Saeed @aishasaeed.bsky.social Author
Lea Kelley @leakelley.bsky.social Bad at small talk. Also, teacher. she/her from Tacoma.
Nawal Qarooni / NQC Literacy @nqcliteracy.bsky.social Educator. Author of Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Exalting Home Experiences + Classroom Practices for Collective Care. Adjunct faculty at NYU. Board member of Library of Congress Literacy Advisory + NCTE Build Your Stack. Mama of 4. NQCLiteracy.org
Andrew Hacket @andrewchacket.bsky.social Picture book author & elementary educator
Up next:
IN THIS CLASSROOM (Spring 2026)
SQUIRREL & TURTLE: THIS BOOK HAS BIG WORDS (Fall 2027)
https://t.co/YSBfW8Jq3
Amie Reed @amiereed.bsky.social K-8 literacy coach. Usually posting about teaching and learning but sometimes books, Taylor Swift, cats, crafts or dance. #EduSkyIL
Google Innovator, Trainer & Coach | Teach Plus Policy Fellow Alum | ISTE Certified Instructional Leader
Nora Wiltse @nswiltse.bsky.social School librarian in Chicago Public Schools. 📚Reader. 📖 Northern MI raised. 🌊⚓️❄️ Unionist. ✊🏽Traveler. 🌍 Backpacker. 🏕
Tasha Hilderman | Writer @tashahilderman.bsky.social Reader, Writer, #KidLit, 12x12,
📕METIS LIKE ME Tundra Books
📗LIGHTS AT NIGHT Tundra
📙MINI GOLF FUN Random House 2026
📘Candlewick 2027 TBA
📕Kids Can Press 2027 TBA
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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social TRICKY CHOPSTICKS {‘24 @SimonKIDS} 🌟 SPARKLES FOR SUNNY: A Lunar New Year Story {‘25 @PenguinKids} 🌟 #SCBWI #12x12PB #PBParty #PBRisingStars #PBStudyBuddy Rep: @AgentHenkin 💜 food +☕+ writing STEAM PBs
mel katz @melkatz.bsky.social higher ed • adjunct prof, WGSS • former esl teacher • M.Ed, literacy with reading specialist cert • MAT, urban ed with K-12 ESL cert • K-6 elem ed •
Dr. Noreen Naseem Rodríguez @nrdz.bsky.social motherscholar, teacher educator, co-author of Social Studies for a Better World and Teaching Asian America in Elementary Classrooms