Catherine Parnell @victoriancat.bsky.social Writer, editor, educator. Director of Publicity, Arrowsmith Press. Editor, MicroLit. CatherineParnell.com
Sue Repko @suerepko.bsky.social Writer. Book Coach. Teacher. Binder. Essays in The Manifest Station, Hippocampus, Brevity Blog, The Independent, Hazlitt, MicroLit Almanac. https://linktr.ee/suerepko
Cindy Lamothe @crlamothe.bsky.social Poet/Essayist. Writer in Guatemala. Turning caffeine into words. Bylines in NYTimes, TheAtlantic, Vogue, Catapult | Writing a memoir. #Binders lamothewriter@gmail.com
Laine @laurie.bsky.social They/she. Writer. Editor. 🏳️🌈
Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social Writer | Mother | Immigrant | Managing Editor @mlnjournal.bsky.social | PhD Hispanic Lit | Fulbright (Brazil) | Bylines WaPo, Time, Guernica, etc. (she/her)
Book forthcoming w Bloomsbury Academic
Human Generated: https://victorialivingstone.substack.com/
Abby Alten Schwartz @abbys480.bsky.social Healthcare writer. Journalist. Essayist. Memoir in progress. Pushcart and BOTN nominee. Bylines WaPo, NYT, HuffPost, WIRED, AARP, HAD, Hippocampus, Citron Review, Brevity and others. linktr.ee/abbys480
Maria E. Andreu @mariaeandreu.bsky.social Author, LOVE IN ENGLISH, THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY. Words in WaPo, Newsweek, Teen Vogue. Trying to find hopium wherever it lives. Mostly escaping to Saint Denis.
Tiffany $ @tiffanydollar.bsky.social Nature-worshiping feminist, union organizer, sometimes writer.
Astronomy nerd and speculative fiction lover.
Previously: AFLCIO, OI & AFSCME, IU
🏡 Oregon ➡️ Pennsylvania.
#1u 😻 🏳️🌈
Rebecca Gummere @rgummere.bsky.social "An agnostic ex-pastor on the hunt for God in a small RV with two big dogs. What could go wrong?" Memoir, essays. Words in HuffPost, TIME, Oprah Daily, Daily Beast, NYT, Boston Globe. NC
Mystery, Memoir, and Meaning @ https://rebeccagummere.substack.com
Julie Brill @juliebrill.bsky.social HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: A FAMILY MEMOIR AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE HOLOCAUST IN SERBiA is out in April and is available for preorder now.
JulieBrill.com
Theresa Haney @tmhaney.bsky.social Writer, creative arts therapist and lover of animals and nature.
Memoir in progress. #querying
Lina Lau @linalau.bsky.social writer—mostly flash. mother. owner of too many notebooks.
Flash reader at Hippocampus Literary Magazine
Maria Smilios @mariasmilios.bsky.social Award winning author The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Adjunct Columbia University SPH
Keynote speaker
@penguinrandomhouse
#endtb #gunsafety #factsmatter #womenmatter
(https://www.mariasmilios.com)
vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social writer. bylines in 3 anthologies, NYT, Washington Post, NY Daily News, Catapult, Pigeon Pages. alumna of Hedgebrook,Tin House, Kenyon Review, Martha’s Vineyard. Immigrant Strong newsletter: immigrantstrong.substack.com
Suzanne Cope @suzannecope.bsky.social Narrative journalist, professor. Author of upcoming WOMEN OF WAR: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis (4/2025) & POWER HUNGRY: Women of the Black Panther Party and Their Fight to Feed a Movement. suzannecope.com
Elizabeth Collins @elizabethcollins.bsky.social Writer/Comedian/#Queerspawn
Words @ MarieClaire, McSweeney’s, Salon, Slate, Vice
www.ElizabethCollins.com
H-Town to LA
Cindy Eastman @cindyeastman.bsky.social Easily distracted human. Also a writer & teacher.
👇🏻 Tap here for Latest Essay & more.
https://linktr.ee/cleastman
Rachel Kramer Bussel @rachelkramerbussel.bsky.social Writer on books, culture, my life. Editor, @opensecretsmag.bsky.social
https://opensecretsmagazine.com
Author, How to Write Erotica. Editing anthology about our attachments to our belongings. https://linktr.ee/rkbwriter and rachelkramerbussel.com
Genevieve Anna Tyrrell @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social Anti-Fascist. Memoirist. Visual artist. Editorial illustrator. Flash nonfiction. Essayist. Experimental form nonfiction. Scriptwriting. President of Kerouac Project Board. Assistant Editor @GhostParachute
Karen Dempsey @dempsek.bsky.social Writer. She/her. 617 and 716.
#binders #billsmafia
@marianryan.bsky.social @marianryan.bsky.social Writer & editor waylaid in Berlin. Granta, NYT Well, Women's Review of Books, Slate, Southern Humanities Review, others. Memoir-ish-in-progress: Autobiography of My Brother. Here be disabled folk. 
Kelsey Francis @kelseyfrancis.bsky.social Writer & Teacher. Essays in NYT, WaPo, HAD, Longleaf Review, Adirondack Life Magazine & elsewhere
www.kelseyfranciswrites.com
Lisa McCarty @lbmccarty717.bsky.social Writer + Journalist. Health + Wellness.
✍️ Words: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Cut, TODAY Show, HuffPost, Women’s Health Magazine, Slate, The Guardian, Self Magazine and more. Working on a book.
https://bit.ly/4f9fN9c
IG: @Lbmccarty717
Marjie Alonso @marjiealonso.com Writer. Former executive director of animal behavior nonprofits. Currently working to help friends with big projects. Manager of family. Regularly bested by my beagle. MarjieAlonso.com
https://open.substack.com/pub/piecesofstring
C. Avie Lowe @c-avie-lowe.bsky.social Editor, writer, lovable rogue.
ManuscriptMagician.com
#Binders #FLX
Muffy Bolding @muffybolding.bsky.social Mother. Writer. Director. Suffragette. Witch. Knitter. Embroiderix. Cummari. Chingona. Siciliana. Latina. Filipina. Lyin’ Whore. Trollop. Shitkicker. Thief.
Withered Debutante.
“Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of my stature.”
Madhvi Ramani @madhvi.bsky.social Multidisciplinary writer. Troublemaker. Berliner.
Robin Raven @robinraven.bsky.social I'm a travel writer, author, vegan, journalist, liberal, Swiftie, SAG-AFTRA actress, songwriter. I am the author of The Little Book of Self-Soothing, The Kindness Workbook, and Santa's First Vegan Christmas. New books are coming soon! 
Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social Author of BRAVER THAN YOU THINK and the forthcoming 50 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU’RE FIVE. Really good at traveling and coffee-ing.
Allison K Williams @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social Formerly GuerillaMemoir over there
Writer, editor at Brevity, literal fire-eater
Give yourself permission.
linktr.ee/guerillamemoir
Mieke Eerkens @miekeeerkens.bsky.social American-Dutch dual citizen writer & educator living in Amsterdam. MFA U of Iowa. @theatlantic.com @Catapult.co @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social etc
Book with Picador (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250117809/allshipsfollowme)
Brooke Kowalke @brookekowalke.bsky.social English prof working at the intersection of memoir, MedHum, & disability studies. Mid-west-coaster. Mom of 3 amazing kids—2 here, 1 in heaven.
Vicki Mayk @vickimayk.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Feminist. Dangerously Liberal. Author, GROWING UP ON THE GRIDIRON: FOOTBALL, FRIENDSHIP, AND THE TRAGIC LIFE OF OWEN THOMAS (Beacon Press). www.vickimayk.com
Heather Sommerlad @hmsommerlad.bsky.social Writer, musician, teacher, survivor, and house builder. Sick of sociopaths. And my dog is cute. she/her
heathersommerlad.com
Robin Rinaldi @robinrinaldi.bsky.social Author, auntie, and anti-fascist.
@jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social I write essays, humor, CNF. Memoir MOTION DAZZLE (9/2025): a birth, a death, figure skating, and zebras. MFA, Pushcart nom. Words in: The Offing, HAD, Colorado Review, Litro Mag, Belladonna, NYT, Slate, WIRED. https://www.jocelynjanecox.com
Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social Essayist, educator, Zillow stalker, hockey fan, pet pic poster. Usually tired; probably mad. Words at The Common, Catapult, Avidly, River Teeth, NYT, The Rumpus, Guernica. CFA-UAW she/her
https://linktr.ee/bethmachlan?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Caroline Topperman @carolinetopperman.bsky.social Was on Sesame Street. Danced. Moved to Europe on a whim.
Author, Your Roots Cast a Shadow (HCI Books) &
Tell Me What You See
Book Coach
Co-owner MountainAsh.press
Lori Tucker-Sullivan @lorit-s.bsky.social Author, I Can’t Remember if I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy. Backbeat/Bloomsbury. Words in NYT, WaPo, Salon, +others. Pushcart nominee. Best American Essays HM. Detroiter, rocker, mom, widow.
Amy McHugh @amymchughwriter.bsky.social 
Rebecca Swanson @rebeccalswanson.bsky.social ND writer. Words at NYT, WashPo, Boston Globe and more. Repped by Sara Crowe at Sara Crowe Literary.
Rebecca Liebendorfer @becslieb.bsky.social writer • vegan • seltzer enthusiast
Jennifer Lunden @jenniferlunden.bsky.social Author of AMERICAN BREAKDOWN: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life. She/her.
Jenny Bartoy @jennybartoy.bsky.social Writer & Editor | NO CONTACT: WRITERS ON ESTRANGEMENT (Catapult, 2026) | Author profiles, interviews & book reviews | Developmental editing & manuscript critique | PNW lefty
Molly Wadzeck @mwadzeckkraus.bsky.social Journalist & essayist. Co-host of The Women’s Current pod.
https://linktr.ee/mollywadzeck
Shelley Mann Hite @shelleymannhite.bsky.social Writer, editor & mom in Columbus, OH.
✨Write Like Taylor Swift✨ prompts & classes at shelleymannhite.com
Taking on diet culture at @agirlsguidetohatingyourbody
Agata Izabela Brewer @agatabrewer.bsky.social author The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland (winner Gournay Prize and BWR Creative Nonfiction Prize); Empire and Pilgrimage; editor Critical Approaches to Joseph Conrad; coeditor Asymmetries: South Africa, Ireland, and Postcolonial Comparison
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
Lisa L. Owens @lisalowens.bsky.social Kidlit author, freelance editor & writer. Authors Guild, #SCBWI, EFA, #binders. Greyhound minion. Genealogy enthusiast. Jazz singer. Iowa Hawkeye. PNW dweller. She/her/hers.
Laura Stanfill @laurastanfill.bsky.social Author, THE NEIGHBORHOOD DAMES (Ooligan Press, Nov. 2026). Publisher, Forest Avenue Press. Publishing consultant. Delete Key is my roller derby name.
Laura Rink @laurarink.bsky.social Writer. WIP: piecing together the story of how my grandmother and her two sisters survived the Armenian Genocide. Rainier Writing Workshop ‘21. Website/Blog: LauraRink.com. PNW forest dweller. She/her.
Mirella Stoyanova @mirellastoyanova.bsky.social Writer, therapist. Recovering perfectionist. Adoptee.
Words @writeordiemag @huffpost @businessinsider & more.
Mostly on IG @mirellastoyanova.
mirellastoyanova.com
Susanna Donato @susannadonato.bsky.social Writer, editor, communicator, terrier squire | Work in Redivider, Proximity, Entropy, Electric Literature, A HARP IN THE STARS | she/her
Kelly what’s left of a real cool chick Thompson @tnwwyatnw.bsky.social They would not listen, they did not know how. There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was) ™
https://thompsonk.substack.com/about Born&raised2x2 #religioustrauma @LAReviewOfBooks @GuernicaMag @BOMB Founding editor #VoicesOnAddiction @TheRumpus.net
Jackie Lieske @jackielieske.bsky.social Reader, writer, nonprofit survivor. Lives in and loves on the Hudson Valley. Bylines in Business Insider, Chronogram, Salon, and more.
Jeniah “Kookie”Johnson @jeniahjohnson.bsky.social Writer, gardener, nature lover, bread baker, catlady.- K kalindi vora @kalindivora.bsky.social Writer, thinker, teacher.
Books: Life Support, Surrogate Humanity, Reimagining Reproduction
Prof. at Yale
#criticaltheory #sts #cres #feministsts #futureofwork #surrogacy #medicaljustice #criticalAIstudies
kalindivora.com
Tabitha Blankenbiller @tabithabee.bsky.social The rise and fall of a Pacific Northwest Princess. 🌈
Substack: https://tabithablankenbiller.substack.com
Essays in Salon, Tin House, Electric Lit, etc.
Former columnist and teacher at Catapult
Tamiko Nimura @tamikonimura.bsky.social Writer, community journalist, public historian. Memoir A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE coming 4/26. Words in SF Chronicle, Zocalo Public Square, Smithsonian, Discover Nikkei, The Rumpus. 4ever English major. <3: @joshpar.bsky.social Rep: Transatlantic Agency
Patty Caya @pattycaya.bsky.social Professional writer and editor deeply involved in UX/CX research as my day job and just as deeply involved in creative nonfiction as my side hustle. Sometimes, these two pursuits merge, and sometimes, they swap places.
Danielle Zaccagnino Maes @daniellezacc.bsky.social English teacher, new mom, EIC of Fast Flesh Literary Journal, and author of Suppose Muscle, Suppose Night, Suppose This in August.
Kelly Caldwell @kkc212.bsky.social Writer; dean of faculty @GothamWriters. she/her I live in NYC but still say gapers' block.
Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social author of First Love and Negative Space
H.E. (Helene) Fisher @hefisher.bsky.social Poet. Author. Editor. Late bloomer, early riser. She/they. STERILE FIELD (Free Lines Press, 2022), JANE ALMOST ALWAYS SMILES (Moonstone Arts Press, 2022). Co-Ed: @reideasjournal. https://www.hefisher.com/
NO DM’s.
Cynthia Marie Hoffman @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social Poet. Exploding Head (an OCD memoir in prose poems), Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, Sightseer.
Essays in TIME, The Sun, Lit Hub. (she/her) www.cynthiamariehoffman.com
Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social Writer.Artist.Geek.Muse.
I’ve been called "the Cyndi Lauper of journalism.” I take awesome + advocacy seriously.
Work in Wired, Business Insider, Playboy, Marie Claire, BBC Travel, Cosmo, & more.
Portfolio here:
http://museforhire.contently.com/
Nancie Laird Young, Author @nancielairdyoung.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Traveler, Mom, and NanNan. Author of “Tea with Dad, Finding Myself in My Father’s Life,” Green Writers Press/Green Place Books (2021). WIP “Grace’s Way”
Aileen Weintraub @aileenweintraub.bsky.social Author of KNOCKED DOWN: A HIGH RISK MEMOIR. Health, Lifestyle, and Travel Journalist. Words in Wash Po, AARP, Oprah Daily, BBC. One half of witchesofpitches.com
Hattie Fletcher @hattiefletcher.bsky.social Editor and reader of all sorts of prose. Short Reads. Autumn House Press.
Almost always up for a good walk.
Lauren Wellbank @laurenwellbank.bsky.social Freelance Writer | Plant Lady | She/Her | #binders |
📧 lauren@laurenwellbank.com
Pris Blossom @prisblossom.bsky.social Journalist. Essayist. Critic.
Queer Latina Mama.
Watches too much TV and won't shut up about Pedro Pascal💖
A short glass of caffeinated anxiety and good intentions.
she/her/ella
Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell @gallawaymitch.bsky.social Writer. Gardener. Giver of care. Tired.
Words in Boulevard, Arts & Letters, Bat City Review, Florida Review.
Find me on substack: https://leeannegallawaymitchell.substack.com
@christinewright.bsky.social @christinewright.bsky.social Font of useless info. Occasional PITA. Perpetually curious and exhausted. 
Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social Writing about belonging & diaspora. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024). https://linktr.ee/graceprasad?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=89b54520-7f8d-4182-91dd-cb30d74a6cd7
Amy Probst @amyprobst.bsky.social Writer, typewriter poet, instructional designer, saver of worms, lover of dogs and trees. Raised blue-collar intellectual. Memoir in the works.
Workshops: amyprobst.com
I love Drummond Island.
Jacque Gorelick @jacgorelick.bsky.social Writer. Overthinker. Dogs, Music, Books & Sometimes People. she/her
✍🏼 estrangement, found family, motherhood
MAP OF A HEART about ❤️s (medical & metaphorical)VineLeavesPress '26 Website www.jacquegorelick.com
Briallen Hopper @briallenhopper.bsky.social Author of HARD TO LOVE (Bloomsbury) and GILEAD REREAD (Columbia UP, forthcoming). Teaching at Queens College CUNY. Repped by Rob McQuilkin at MMQ&A.
Chris Boese @chrisboese.bsky.social 📸 Photographer ✍️ Writer
🤖 Working on cyberpunk novel
🗒️ Journalist 📊 UX Lead
💻 Internet Researcher PhD
Opinions are my own or emerging from the hive mind. #binder #amediting (she, her)
https://www.chrisboese.photo/
https://christineboese.net
K.L. Sullivan @klsullivan.bsky.social Writer. Biologist. Whistleblower. Rock n roll singer. Recent escapee from that incel-sodden catastrophe cluster that is X. Repped by Lisa Amstutz at Storm Literary.
Jennifer Militello @jennifermilitello.bsky.social poet & memoirist 🌎🌻✨📚
Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
author of THE PACT (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books) and KNOCK WOOD (Dzanc Books)
https://jennifermilitello.com/
Helene Kiser @helenethewriter.bsky.social 👉 www.helenekiser.com
Writer and recovering poet; editor; book coach; reluctant grief expert; I love words and cannot lie. Memoir in progress. Human who writes for humans. Weekly newsletter: editorialnotes.helenekiser.com
Anne Horowitz @annehorowitz.bsky.social Editor of fiction, narrative nonfiction, and memoir.
https://www.annehorowitz.com/
https://www.5eeditors.com/
Gail Gaspar @gailgaspar.bsky.social I help career dreams come true. Author of Carrying My Father's Torch. Handy with a (real) camera. Relax to music, reading, meditation, hiking, and baking. Love dogs and morning coffee.
#Writing #Leadership #Photograpy
Trina J Wood @trinajwood.bsky.social CA based writer, photographer moving through life with curiosity, hope and a good supply of snacks. Seeking rep for memoir.
Words: Washington Post, The Rumpus, Brevity blog, 100 Word Story
#binders
Kathryn Kysar @darklake.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Professor. Friend. Minnesotan. She/They. Poetry Books: Pretend the World, Dark Lake. Recent words in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Mollyhouse, Voicemail Poems, Water~Stone Review.
sonya ewan @sonyaewan.bsky.social Writer, observer, passionate about evolving and rolling over dirt trails on two wheels.
Cindy House @cindyhouse.bsky.social Author of Mother Noise
Amanda Jaros Champion @amandakjaros.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Hiker. Treehugger.
www.amandakjaros.com
#Binders
Editor of Labor of Love: A #LiteraryMama Staff Anthology
Author of 100 Things to Do in #Ithaca Before You Die and In My Boots: A Memoir of Five Million Steps Along the #AppalachianTrail
Sari Fordham @sarifordham.bsky.social Memoir: WAIT FOR GOD TO NOTICE | newsletter: https://coolitclimateaction.substack.com/ | Married to Bryan Bradford | Mender of socks, baker of piirakka | She/her | #NY22
Shari MacDonald Strong @sharimacd.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor (nonfiction) at Broadleaf Books (www.broadleafbooks.com). Editor of THE MATERNAL IS POLITICAL (Seal Press). Freelance fiction editor (www.strong-words.com). Fiction writer. Located in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. 
Julia Park Tracey @juliaparktracey.bsky.social Whoa, Nelly! Little House+childhood trauma on a train--w/ footnotes!
Historical, lit fic: Silence, The Bereaved, Tongues of Angels
(she/her) 🟦🟧🌻🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✍🏻🧙♀️
Donna Talarico @donnatalarico.bsky.social Writer, higher ed storyteller, lit mag founder (Hippocampus). Co-ed, Getting to the Truth: The Craft & Practice of Creative Nonfiction. In-progress YA memoir. Curious. Loves diners, road trips, ephemera, wordplay, crosswords & board games.
Anne H. Putnam @ahputnam.bsky.social Writer, editor, person who makes cakes (and mom).
📚 Navel Gazing (Faber, 2013)
📚 Make Do and Mend (2026)
✍🏻 A novel (title TBA)
Bylines in BuzzFeed, Catapult (RIP), Cosmopolitan UK, HuffPost, The Rumpus, etc.
www.annehputnam.com/writing
Melissa Blouin @melissablouin.bsky.social Writer of science and other things that spark my curiosity. Currently editing the second draft of my memoir. Resilience seeker. Outdoorswoman. Aspiring yogini. Dancer. Wanderer. French speaker. Baker. Knitter. Cat lover. Cheese enthusiast. 
Kari O’Driscoll @karilodriscoll.bsky.social Writer, parenting coach, non-profit consultant, grief and rage educator. West coast gal who believes we all belong to each other www.kariodriscollwriter.com
Podcast: It’s Relatable on MindBodySpirit.fm
Andrea Tate @andreatate.bsky.social Writer/Teacher
HuffPost, Brevity Blog, Manifest Station, Hippocampus. Antioch University MFA Alum. Speak your mind. Write your truth.
andreatate.net
Rachel K Anderson @rachelkanderson.bsky.social A fan of Marking What Matters with ritual—big or small, spiritual or secular, private or public.
https://markingwhatmatters.substack.com
@joellefraser.bsky.social @joellefraser.bsky.social 
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