신 선 영 辛善英 Sun Yung Shin @sunyungshin.bsky.social 🍉 ABOLISH ICE. Author of Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language, The Wet Hex, Unbearable Splendor, + 11 other books. Rep: Tricia Lawrence @Aevitas & bookings: @BlueFlowerArts. www.sunyungshin.com
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social I'm a writer, a poet, a radio talker, I know it. I don't buy nonfiction, I grow it. Novelist. Magazines.
6 James Beard Awards, McKnight Fellow, FAWC teacher; NYC 4th gen, leading my best snowy, writing life in Mpls. 
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
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.
Kirsten Miles, Author 🌹 @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author 🖊 Vegan 🥬 Libra ♎️
EDM forever 🪩 Write Your Heart Out ❤️
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I do not read DMs here.
Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social Writer (Julia, The Heavens, The Men, How Not to Write a Novel, etc.)
she/they 
Paul Bradley Carr @paulbradleycarr.com Bestselling author of The Confessions (Atria/Faber) etc. Ex- tech journo. Shopkeep at Best Bookstore in Palm Springs/Union Square. NEW BOOK JULY 2027!
Katrina Vandenberg @katrinavanden.bsky.social Writer with two books of poetry from Milkweed and essays in Orion and elsewhere. Former tenured prof turned full-time parent/writer; active member of the sandwich generation.
Eric Lundgren @eplundgren.bsky.social fiction writer on the scholarly publishing beat, Minneapolis.
Morgan Glass @themorganglass.bsky.social Bisexual/Queer. Writer, film nerd, bookworm, hates generative AI, other stuff. (She/her) 🍉🍉🍉
Jill Talbot @jilltalbot.bsky.social Writer, Runner, JackChi Owner, Vintage Postcard Collector, Probably Staring Out a Window. http://jilltalbot.net
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 😩
Kevin Koczwara @kkoczwara.bsky.social A journalist.
Www.kevinkoczwara.com
UMN English @umnenglish.bsky.social Free visiting author events for Minneapolis-St. Paul! Studying and creating literature in English since 1897.
Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Jules Wernersbach @juliewbach.bsky.social Founder of Hive Mind Books, a queer indie bookstore in Bushwick. Debut novel WORK TO DO coming from University of Iowa Press 2026.
Amanda Annis @aannis.bsky.social erstwhile editor turned literary agent | cooking for pleasure | lover of toast | she/her
University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social Book publisher, est. 1925.
Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
Alex Segura @alexsegura.com New York Times and USA Today-bestselling/award-winning author of many comics and novels.
https://linktr.ee/alex_segura
H'Rina DeTroy @hrina-detroy.bsky.social Montagnard American Writer, Flamenca 💃🏽2020 Grantee in Literature 🌹2019 Emerging Writer Fellow for Aspen Word 🖋2017 Curt Johnson Prose Award 🧨 ** all opinions are obviously my own **
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
laurabmcgrath.substack.com
Josh Hamel @joshhamel.bsky.social Publicity @universitypress.cambridge.org.
josh dot hamel at cambridge dot org.
Erin Eberle @erinleberle.bsky.social May all beings be free
Communication via words, images, + pigments.
www.erineberle.com
Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social Poet, teacher, editor. Author of Siren (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 2017) and Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011).
Gary Lovely @colonellovely.bsky.social Book worker. Kentucky son.
Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, muting mansplainers since 2010, uncoupled since February 2020. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social poet-in-residence of the astral realm / fog aficionado / Toska (Deep Vellum, 2023) / 🥨 Philly
IG: @alina_pleskova
alinapleskova.com
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work.
https://davidgraeber.institute
Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social Author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today. Freelance book critic all over the place. Get in touch: rachelvorona@gmail.com. @RVoronaCote on Instagram. She / Her.
Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
She/They/Dr/Bruh
Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social writer, thinker, coffee drinker. she/her. (if you know me from elsewhere, it might be as bravenewlady on the other site or from my Prairie Schooner days)
Caroline Tracey @cetracey.bsky.social escritora aridoamericana / Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History out now from WW Norton / cetracey.com
Matt Weiland @mattweiland.bsky.social VP & Senior Editor at Norton; co-editor of STATE BY STATE, THINKING FAN'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD CUP, and COMMODIFY YOUR DISSENT; midfielder from Minneapolis.
Yore: Ecco, Paris Review, Granta, The Baffler, MPR, Minnesota Kicks camp.
www.mattweiland.com
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Erinn @bookladyy.bsky.social Writer, librarian, mom. Repped by Joanna Mackenzie at Nelson Literary
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
zunguzungu@gmail.com
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social Translating Czech -> English: linktr.ee/AlexZucker
Organizing: New York Dignity Not Detention | Immigration Justice Working Group, SURJ NYC | Literary Translators Division, NWU | #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine
Elizabeth Burns Dyer @elizabethdyerphd.bsky.social Historian turned psychotherapist, writing essays about care, dependency and everyday life after institutional abandonment. From GA. Fond of a good pie.
Www.elizabethbdyer.com
Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social MINNEAPOLIS. ALSO: SAINT PAUL. This is the ideal BlueSky bio. You should copy it. ALT: Circle is hot dog man putting ketchup on himself. Banner is me as Jimmy Carter. /j /hj /s
Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social Another dude with fancy notions.
Poet, essayist, lit critic, arts educator.
📚: WORLDLY THINGS (Milkweed Ed., 2021).
Lit agent: Nordlyset; booking agent: Blue Flower Arts.
Saint Paul MN. https://linktr.ee/michaelkleberdiggs
Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social
Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social Feature Writer at New York Magazine, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, Los Feliz / Iowa City
Melissa Faliveno @mlfaliveno.bsky.social writer, editor, teacher, rock/roller | author of TOMBOYLAND and HEMLOCK, out now from Little, Brown | asst. prof at UNC | she/they
www.melissafaliveno.com
Rachel Yoder @rachelyoder.bsky.social the original Nightbitch, novelist, screenwriting prof at UIowa, WGA West
Naomi Gibbs @gibbsne.bsky.social Executive Editor, Pantheon Books
Jordan Kisner @jordankisner.bsky.social 
Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social Multi-hyperventilate.
(elenapassarello.com)
Allison Wright @wrightallison.bsky.social Editor, writer, journalism prof.
Substack: I Don’t Hate It (wrightallison.substack.com).
Views here my own. 
Erin Williams @erinrwilliams.bsky.social Author and illustrator. Part-time @ Hunter & Parsons. Lucy’s mom.
Mychal Denzel Smith @mychaldenzelsmith.bsky.social Books: Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching/Stakes is High/one in progress about Virginia. Smoking cigars, drinking coffee, playing chess. I dunno man, what even matters now?
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social poet but don’t hold it against me • dreaming of you, candelaria @astrahouse
rep: arod@wmeagency.com
s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
national magazine award-winning culture critic & writer for hire
🌿 @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder
🐈⬛ 📖 ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES out now!
🖋️ get your grief advice on @allmydeadcats.com
✉️ sesmith at realsesmith.com
Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. journalist. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project. contact me: dm, signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
Helen Phillips @helencphillips.bsky.social author of hum & the need & others https://www.helencphillips.com/
Megan Cummins @megancummins.bsky.social Writer. ATOMIC HEARTS out 8/5/25 from Ballantine. IF THE BODY ALLOWS IT (2020) from @univnebpress.bsky.social. Also managing ed @publicbooks.bsky.social
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/763677/atomic-hearts-by-megan-cummins/
Molly McArdle @mollymcardle.bsky.social Updates Editor, Food & Wine. Once: editor in chief, @roadmapbyallma.bsky.social. (RIP)
Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social Creative Director @theverge.com, writer/drawer of books incl SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS
Anna Benn @annanore.bsky.social Writer, editor, and erstwhile shieldmaiden living in the West of Ireland. Proponent of the Oxford comma.
John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
Writer:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
Dobby Gibson @dobbygibson.bsky.social Author of five books of poetry, most recently HOLD EVERYTHING (Graywolf Press, 2024).
Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com KILL CURRENT (writing as Oliver Lowe) coming May 2027 from Zando.
Pre-order: https://zandoprojects.com/books/kill-current-hardcover
Michael Welch @mbwwelch.bsky.social EIC at @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. Words in Electric Lit, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, North American Review, & more. 
Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26!
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/9781668055540
Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.blacksky.app Shuri's mom. Publisher of Fabulize; a pop culture feminist mag for BIPOC nerds. Cannabis lover. Neurospicy creative. Emerging comic book writer and novelist. 🏳️🌈 Lambda + Ignatz Awards nominee subscribe: https://mailchi.mp/f0796697386b/fabulizemagsubscribeme
Kendra Winchester @kdwinchester.bsky.social Contributing Editor Book Riot | Founder @readappalachia.bsky.social | Cofounder @littlebirdslit.bsky.social | she/her
Hub City Bookshop @hubcitybookshop.bsky.social 864•577•9349 | Spartanburg, SC
Nonprofit bookstore of Hub City Writers Project
Sister store to @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Home of Zora Nelle, #hubkitty
Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social writer | translator | friend | out now: THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY | HOMESICK | up next: NOTES ON POSTCARDS | croftwork.net | https://bookshop.org/lists/books-i-ve-translated-or-written
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
Greg Mania @gregmania.bsky.social writer/DSM-5 darling
https://linktr.ee/gregmania
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
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/
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...😜
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social Complete fiction
Alone Crawford @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
Sarah Dell'Orto @dello.bsky.social Kingston, NY. Professional grant writer, amateur gardener. 
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Jen Percy @jenpercy.bsky.social Writer at NYTM and author of GIRLS PLAY DEAD: ACTS OF SELF PRESERVATION (Nov 2025)
Sarah Viren @sarahviren.bsky.social Contributor @NYTMag. Creative writing prof. Author of MINE and TO NAME THE BIGGER LIE. Queer. Mom. Runner. Weirdo. Views are views.
Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social Senior editor at ProPublica.
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Writing a book about how we teach literacy and what it means to be a good reader. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
Claudia Rowe @claudiarowe.bsky.social Journalist and author. Child welfare, juvenile justice and public schools. All the happy things. National Book Award finalist for WARDS OF THE STATE.
Carolyn Chernoff @carolynchernoff.bsky.social I have been kicked out of a Priscilla Presley lookalike contest & yelled at by Oprah. No regrets.
Zines, snark, jokes, sociology, mutual aid, repeat.
@ccriot
carolynchernoff.com
https://ccriotenterprises.etsy.com
Etc.
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
Proudly #AltGov
Tips? signal altCDC.99, email altCDCtips@proton.me or DM
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.