Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com I read, I write, & I pet cats. Column, news, & book reviews at @reactorsff.bsky.social; publicity, prize, & more for @ursulakleguin.com. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. PDX.
https://reactormag.com/author/molly-templeton/
Shadi Bushra @shadib.bsky.social Reporter, photographer, data wrangler. Cohost of The NYT newsletter The Local: Twin Cities
Caitlin Schneiderhan @schneiderjamz.bsky.social 🎶Schneiderhan, Schneiderhan. Does whatever a Schneider can🎶
STRANGER THINGS
FLIGHT OF ICARUS
MEDICI HEIST
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER- C Claire Kirch @claireinduluth.bsky.social Journalist by day for book publishing industry magazine, Duluth woman about town the rest of the time. California expat and proud of it.
University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social Book publisher, est. 1925.
The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social The nation's oldest continuously published daily college newspaper. thecrimson.com
Zack Filipovich for MN Auditor @zackformn.bsky.social Accountant running for MN State Auditor. Former Duluth City Councilor. Progressive. Board game enthusiast. Join us at ZackforMN.com
Silvia Killingsworth @silviakillings.bsky.social No
Marnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social Editor; Writer; Creative Producer; Aspiring Podcast Guest (she/her)
Heather Rule @hlrule.bsky.social Sports Journalist/Writer/Author
NHL.com
Bylines: Minnesota Wild, Star Tribune Sports, USA Hockey, Breakdown Sports
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Socials: @hlrule
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Brian Arola @brianarola.bsky.social Greater MN Reporter at MinnPost. Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.minnpost.com/greater-minnesota-newsletter/
Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social Host of the Empire Film Podcast, wrangler of words for Empire magazine, LFC fan, utterly inept golfer.
Minnesota Power @minnesotapower.bsky.social Minnesota Power proudly serves 150,000 electric customers in NE Minnesota.
em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social a guy drops one piece of ham in the snow and he never hears the end of it. co-owner/editor of @racketmn.com, em@racketmn.com. (she/they)
THE 7TH Movie Official @the7thmovie.bsky.social Action-adventure sci-fi independent feature film / Pre-production 2027
In a future where earth's environment is on the brink of collapse, a young Lakota girl must fulfill an ancient prophecy to restore balance and rewild the planet. www.the7thmovie.com
Star Tribune Going Out @stribgoingout.startribune.com We are Going Out, the Minnesota Star Tribune's guide to the best food, drink, concerts, theater and culture 🕺 we have fun here
Bob Collins @mylittlebloggie.bsky.social Builder of airplanes. Professional grandfather. Baseball usher to the stars
Gaelynn Lea @gaelynnlea.bsky.social she/her
🎻 + 🎙️ + 📕+ ♿ + 🌞 + 💖
★ Musician
★ Author of IT WASN'T MEANT TO BE PERFECT – Out 4/14 on Algonquin Books
★ Co-Founder of RAMPD.org
★ Disability Culture Enthusiast
Learn more: linktr.ee/gaelynnlea
@tbtduluth.bsky.social @tbtduluth.bsky.social 
Jesse Wiza @jessewiza.bsky.social post-producer for City Cast Twin Cities & City Cast Portland
previously behind the mic @ KCMP, KCHUNG, WDBM, WILS
Glensheen @glensheen.bsky.social A 39-room historic mansion located along the North Shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, MN. Open year-round for tours!
Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social The latest film news, reviews and interviews from Empire, the world's most trusted movie destination.
https://www.empireonline.com
Zeitgeist Duluth @zeitgeistduluth.bsky.social Located in the heart of downtown Duluth, MN, Zeitgeist is a non-profit restaurant, movie theater, performance theater, and community/gallery space.
Our Mission: To use the power of connection and creative expression to shape our vibrant and shared future.
Vibrant Streets Duluth @vibrantstreetsdlh.bsky.social Fighting for walkable neighborhoods, local businesses & better transportation in Duluth. Let's build a city that works for everyone! 🚶♀️👨🦽🚲🚌🚗 https://linktr.ee/vibrantstreetsduluth
Peyton Haug @peytonhaug.bsky.social *under construction*
Bismarck correspondent for the Fargo Forum. Send me a tip, make my day!
Ella Kemp @ellakemp.bsky.social Can't spell verklempt without Kemp. Editorial Lead (UK & Europe) @letterboxd.social | Photographer & broadcaster everywhere else | She/her
R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social Band from Athens, GA, 1980-2011, made music, lasts forever.
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
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FYI👋I zombied IG👎
Jeremy Iggers @jeremyigg.bsky.social Retired journalist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I take weekly Farsi lessons online from a teacher in Iran and try to stay current on Iranian film, culture and politics. I also play banjo in a jug band and ride my bike a lot.
Left of Skeptic Podcast @leftofskeptic.bsky.social Weekly Paranormal Podcast hosted by Brittany Lind and Kala Moria. How skeptical are you?
Submit your spooky stories here 👉🏻 leftofskeptic@gmail.com
Find us wherever you listen to your favorite #SpookyPodcasts.
🌐 leftofskeptic.com
Margaret LaFleur @margosita.bsky.social Here to make friends, talk about writing, and follow the tenuous fate of our democracy.
Brittany Lind @brittanylindmn.bsky.social 'We all do better when we all do better.' - Paul Wellstone
#Community • #Advocacy • #DuluthMusic • #DuluthArt • #ParanormalPodcast
Josh Nickila @thenickila.bsky.social I'm a musician/photographer Dad who writes screenplays with the help of typewriters.
@jodykujawa.bsky.social @jodykujawa.bsky.social 
georgie @georgsoup.bsky.social i have tik tack i think it’s called soupytime
georgsoup.univer.se
Abby Sliva @abbysliva.bsky.social @StribGoingOut.startribune.com on all platforms. she/her. Minneapolis. Swallowed up by the words & halfway to space 🚀
Sorry, I will be posting about the Minnesota Lynx + Timberwolves 😩
K.M.Goldammer @kgoldammer.bsky.social ❤️👶👶🐶🐱😸🌿📷🍣🧀🍩🍺🍷🎨🛩🕹🛏
Wyatt Buckner @wyatt-buckner.bsky.social 
@crownpublishing.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social 
timtimtimtimtim @timtimtimtimtim.bsky.social Outlet for my drawings, shitposts, and other oddities. Occasionally sincere. Dance music enthusiast.
Who knows? Check, scroll, doom, comment, repeat.
Insta: nightswithtim
Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social editing @ atria and @wspbooks.bsky.social
@wspbooks.bsky.social @wspbooks.bsky.social 
The Neverending January @mattycef.bsky.social Music, Bikes, & ICE Abolitionist
Nordeast Minneapolis
ROC ➡️ CHI ➡️ MSP
https://linktr.ee/mattycef
Allie Pape @alliepape.bsky.social former editor at Insider, Eater etc
Letterboxd @letterboxd.social 🧡💚💙 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social I cry a lot but I am so productive! 
Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social Writer. Author. Bond Fan.
CATCHING BULLETS - MEMOIRS OF A BOND FAN
WATCHING SKIES - STAR WARS SPIELBERG & US
BOND, QUEER BOND - THE FABULOUS OTHER HISTORY OF A SPY
Rep'd by Vivienne Clore
#JamesBond #WatchingSkies #BondQueerBond
www.markoconnell.co.uk
Meg Lemke @meglemke.bsky.social Comics reviews editor at Publishers Weekly / Editor in Chief @muthamagazine.bsky.social / #books #babies #brooklyn 
Becky Radecki (Lang) @leckybang.bsky.social founder of Ambio Branding
Navel Gaze on Substack
Simon & Schuster Audio @simonaudio.bsky.social The official Blue Sky profile of Simon & Schuster Audio, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/audio
American Theatre @americantheatre.org The national magazine for the American professional not-for-profit theatre. Subscribe at http://americantheatre.org/join
Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social Fiction [Stealing the Fire]. Critic [BBC_Culture LitHub. Community [@bookcritics.bsky.social SFGrotto BayBookFest Litcampwriters .
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Jenny Shank @jennyshank.bsky.social Representing Jenkind. Writer, reader, eater. Books: MIXED COMPANY & THE RINGER. Teach: Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Words: The Atlantic, Washington Post, McSweeney’s. Newsletter: The Tumbleweed, jenny.shank.substack.com
Ashley Lee @cashleelee.bsky.social Los Angeles Times entertainment and arts reporter. theater and thriving, in abundance. she/her is messy, but she's kind. ashley.lee@latimes.com
Lauren Yarger @laurenyarger.bsky.social Producer, critic, playwright
Jennifer Vanasco @jennifervanasco.bsky.social NPR culture editor and reporter based in NYC
Ann Marie Baldonado @ambaldonado.bsky.social Fresh Air • WHYY • NPR • Philadelphia
NCI 2021 • 🇺🇸🇵🇭
formerly: Comedy Central • WNYC
host-#ParentTrapped Podcast
Nancy S Bishop @nancyb.bsky.social Chicago theater/arts critic, publisher Third Coast Review. Obsessive reader. Always curious.
Manuel Betancourt @bmanuel.bsky.social Assistant Editor, Documentary magazine
Writer/critic for hire 📍LA
📚 Hello Stranger (OUT NOW!)
📚 The Male Gazed (2023)
📚 Judy at Carnegie Hall (2020)
🏰 Writer on The Cardboard Kingdom series (2018, 2021, 2023)
www.mbetancourt.com
angela @notangelaharmon.bsky.social 
Duluth News Tribune @duluthnews.bsky.social This is your newspaper. Thank you for being a part of the Duluth News Tribune and duluthnewstribune.com. Subscribe at duluthnewstribune.com/subscribe. 
@msg234.bsky.social @msg234.bsky.social 
Francesca Mari @francescamari.bsky.social Contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and Assistant Professor of the Practice at Brown University | Also published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, +
www.francescamari.com
Ghostin' Gerth @soupgundam.bsky.social He/him.
I’ll talk to your cat for $1.
https://buttondown.com/fellasleepwatchingdragnet
racecarcoffin.bandcamp.com/
stormcoffee.bandcamp.com/
https://muckrack.com/austin-gerth
duluth’s famous kaylee @kayleefabulous.bsky.social duluth night mayor, beautiful park ranger, maritime historian. stream LEADING LADY
@lowtheband.bsky.social @lowtheband.bsky.social 
Jake Rudh @jakerudh.bsky.social DJ
Daily celebrations of 70s/80s/90s/glam/punk/postpunk/darkwave/newwave/synthpop/dreampop/shoegaze/indie
More active at https://www.instagram.com/jakerudh
Weekly gigs http://twitch.tv/djjakerudh
Bio: https://first-avenue.com/performer/dj-jake-rudh/
Neal Ronquist @nronq.bsky.social 
Tom Olsen @olsendnt.bsky.social Award-losing Duluth News Tribune reporter covering crime, courts, cops and chaos.
Erik Thompson @eriktmpls.bsky.social Music Editor at United Stations Radio Network. Vinyl enthusiast. Bon vivant. Holding myself together with my arms around the stereo.
@ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social 
Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social Poet, author of Tumor Moon 🌖 Co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation🩸(Querencia Press). Immigrant. Hockey fan. She / her. 🇺🇸/🇨🇭in 🇨🇭
http://www.jennifer-saunders.com
https://concretewolf.com/publications/publications.htm
Nicole Graev Lipson @nglipson.bsky.social Author of MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS (coming March 4, 2025) | Best American Essays 2024 | Pushcart Prize | Words in The Sun, Virgina Quarterly Review, LA Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe + more
www.nicolegraevlipson.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.
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social Poet, PhD, Editor @annulet.bsky.social, a literary journal and soon a small press // Managing Editor of The Iowa Review // Author of You're Called By The Same Sound (Thirdhand Books, August 2025) // Takes are mine, all mine
Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Faculty in English @ U of Iowa | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
bradley babendir @therealbradbabs.bsky.social writer (the baffler, the boston globe, bright wall dark room, etc) & photographer
Steph Opitz @stephopitz.bsky.social Hypewoman. Also, Director of Bookstore Partnerships for Bookshop.org 
Katie Sisneros, PhD @katiesisneros.bsky.social Perhap you have met me twixt sleep and wake in the penumbra of uncertainty you call unconsciousness.
📍MPLS, probs on the couch
katiesisneros.wordpress.com
The Tangential @thetangential.bsky.social Don't be boring. Don't suck.
Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social Words at The Atlantic, BOMB, The Baffler, Granta, The Paris Review, etc https://www.rhiansasseen.com
Lauren LeBlanc @laurenleblanc.bsky.social Writer, critic, National Book Critics Circle board member
She/Her
Formerly: Alfred A. Knopf, Atlas & Co, Penguin Random House Digital, Times-Picayune, Guernica, Brooklyn Book Festival
Chapel Hill, NC
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social Writer. Prof at SFSU. My Hungry Ghosts: Essays & Incantations…coming 9/22/2026! Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories; Useful Phrases for Immigrants; The Girl from Purple Mountain; etc. Board member of NBCC @bookcritics. Web: https://may-leechai.com/
Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social Book critic. Translated lit evangelist. Runner. Cinephile. Disillusioned vagabond.
“For I, you see, dwelling upon the rim of life, see everyone in the arena as acting blindly.”
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Alexander Wells @ajbwells.bsky.social Freelance critic/essayist from Aus with bylines at Guardian, Drift, Baffler, European Review of Books, Meanjin, etc. Ex-Berliner Books editor, now at The Auflauf
https://sites.google.com/view/ajbwells
Alexander Pyles @pylesofbooks.bsky.social What are we doing now?
http://linktr.ee/alexanderpyles
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
The Nation's Books & the Arts @booksandthearts.bsky.social Books, music, ideas, film, and criticism from The Nation's "back of the book" https://www.thenation.com/books-and-the-arts/
National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature since 1974.
bookcritics.org
Clea Simon @cleasimon.bsky.social Writer, cat lover, human. She/her. Firm believer in the strong female character (in fiction, too!). Author of many books, most recently "slow-burn thriller" THE BUTTERFLY TRAP. More at http://www.CleaSimon.com 
Jo Livingstone @jolivingstone.bsky.social Writer and coproprietor of thestopgap.net a blog
Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social Writer, mostly about books. Designed with American values in mind. www.markathitakis.com
Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social Writer of all shapes and sizes at The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Frieze, the Village Voice, New Republic, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Organizing at Freelance Solidarity Project. he/him and very gay 🇵🇸 danielfelsenthal.com