Linda Weste @lindaweste.bsky.social Academic, Writer & editor, PhD verse novel +poetry + narrative research, author of poetry, novels in verse, and edited nonfiction interviews with verse novelists, (she/her)
#VerseNovels #DiverseVerse #poetry
www.linda.weste.com
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
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nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Infoweaver @infoweaver.bsky.social Retired academic librarian.
“All information to the effect that resistance is to cease is false.”
Sweden, 2025
“Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.”
Truman, 1952
Please don’t include me in your starter pack.
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Kindness Champions @kindnesschampions.bsky.social Champions of celebrating every person to see their remarkable awesome by being kind to themselves and others🌻 #youmatter #kindness #kindnesschampions #thereisgood❤️
Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social Academic librarian, reader, writer, teacher, mother of grown-ups. One-time NY State Senate candidate. Extremely curious person. Ed.M, MA, MLIS. ADHD. Dual citizen 🇺🇸🇮🇪. Tá cúpla focal agam, but don’t quote me on that.
Nikki Bergstresser @nikkibergstresser.bsky.social 🇨🇦Children’s author & educator. Best day has me with ☕️ in hand, lost in nature and a good story to share. 📚www.nikkibergstresser.com
Gander: The Town that Welcomed the World PB NF
Lila Lou’s Little Library PB
Seasons for Stones PB
A Promise to Protect MG
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Stefan Karlsson @stefankarlsson.bsky.social Poet & kidlit writer. Marbling & book artist.
Based in Portland, OR 🌲
https://stefankarlssonwrites.wixsite.com/author
https://linktr.ee/nautiluspaperco
Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social author and lecturer on topics in education, parenting, and human behavior....
(Personal messages more likely to be read if left on http://alfiekohn.org)
He/him
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Librarian by Day 🏳️🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social She/her. Iowa. Libraries. Dog Mom. Crafty. Sometimes serious. Sometimes silly.
Personal account, obviously.
https://librarianbyday.net/
Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social writer, comedian, social strategist, living in the city of angels, occasionally singing about leopards. shop.franchesca.net
Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop Queer feminist collective in Asheville, NC, operating a bookstore co-op & social movement space since 2008 on Tsalagi land. Ⓐ Ⓔ Ⓥ
Crucial Comix @crucialcomix.bsky.social A cartoonist-run small press. We publish narrative nonfiction comics and offer affordable comics-making classes. 💅
Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
https://summitcountylibraries.org/
Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
Leila Green Little @ifightforbooks.bsky.social Library and 1A advocate in Llano, Texas
Censorship is bad.
MLS/MS
Little v. Llano press: https://padlet.com/lalubean/leila-green-little-et-al-v-llano-county-et-al-pskk6asn9z4cu9xz
Children's Book World and CBW Teens & Adults @childrensbookworld.bsky.social CHILDREN’S BOOK WORLD and CBW Teens & Adults has been open since 1986 and is a full-service bookshop for children, teens, and adults in West Los Angeles. childrensbookworld.com
QuietLibrarian @quietlibrarian.bsky.social She/her Wife, School Librarian (15+ years), Dog mom (Deja), French language learner, Flute player, Runner (13.1x61; 26.2x4), MLB stadium chaser (16 current, 8 past)
Located in WNY
https://linktr.ee/kmpierce5
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
Bank Street College of Education @bankstreet.edu Bank Street College prepares teachers and school leaders, provides education and support for children from infancy through high school, and conducts research to advance high-quality practice and policy across the field.
New York, NY | bankstreet.edu
liz duck-chong @lizduckchong.bsky.social post-fertile funny girl 💘 writer, carpenter, researcher 🏳️🌈 still masking and anti gen-AI 💋 proud trans broad, and board member of @transjusticeau
she/her
www.lizduckchong.com
Lynda Mullaly Hunt @lyndamh.bsky.social New York Times best-selling author of ONE FOR THE MURPHYS, FISH IN A TREE, WISH IN A TREE, SHOUTING AT THE RAIN (Nancy Paulsen books/Penguin) Founder of #AuthorsLoveTeachers she/her
Scarleteen @scarleteen.com OG progressive, inclusive and independent sex & relationship education, information, advocacy and support for young people everywhere. Fighting the good fights & keeping it real since 1998 🖤
Scarleteen.com
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social 
Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com Eisner, Ringo, and Harvey-nominated author/artist/adventurer behind Banned Book Club, Student Ambassador, No Rules Tonight, Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit. Worked on Garfield, Star Trek, Popeye. Repped by Janine Kamouh at WME. Find me at ryanestrada.com
Tim Smyth @historycomics.bsky.social All things TeachingWithComics.com Eisner Nominated Author. Presenter. Teacher. Husband. Dad. Nerd.
Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social Music theory professor and pianist in Louisville KY, he/him, the most wonderful woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped
Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social Political scientist who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs.
Author of Power of the Badge: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
🏴Mhairi Forrest🏴 🤟🤟🤟 @mhairiforrest.bsky.social M.A. Deaf Education
Here for the interactions with interesting folks. Believe that character and integrity matter.
🏴 Scottish Independence Now 🏴
‼️Deletes posts after 5 days.
#DeafEd #ASL #Immigrants #Exvangelical #ChurchAbuseSurvivors #Scotland
Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social Comedy writer. "Have I Got News For You", "Last Week Tonight", "The Amber Ruffin Show." Author of "A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo" and "The Someone New." Friend to several penguins.
Stella Villalba @stellavillalba.bsky.social Writer. Educator. Advocate. PhD Student OSU
Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social ✨ Picture book illustrator (she/her)
🖌️ Rep’d by Alex Gehringer at Bright Agency
📍 Philly made, Jersey raised
🌎 alleannaharris.com
Cindy Shutts @cindysku.bsky.social Teen Librarian, Aunt, Dog Mom, Romancelandia Shadow and Bone Fan,Sports, care bears, Guiding Light, dreamland valley, Pokemon go. Cindy Crushes Programming on Teen librarian toolbox. I read a lot of books. My Posts do not represent my employer
Rachel @recitrachel.bsky.social yallwest | yallfest (book festival producer)
reader's digest | paste | teen librarian toolbox/slj (freelance book media coverage)
teen librarian
she/her
Library Journal @libraryjournal.bsky.social Library views, news, and book reviews from LJ staffers
Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com Ali “with an i”
Nature & Science Illustrator, Multi Award-Winning Cartoonist, Science Communicator & Designer, Sculptor, Comics, Zines, She/Her, Based in Boston
AlexandraGallant.com
frogby.bigcartel.com/
Alexandragallant.itch.io
Rachael Nevins ❌👑 @rachaelnevins.bsky.social she/her | reader, writer, librarian, long-distance runner, mom, etcetera | working to open knowledge | not going back
newsletter on imagination, art, literature, and the restless search for the good life: https://www.thevariegatedlife.com/
Nimblewitlit Mag @nimblewitlit.bsky.social Epistemic Literary's new adventure for a young audience!
Our all ages eMag will extend the conversation to a younger audience by exploring similar themes.
Issue 1: https://epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit/taking-a-stand/
www.EpistemicLit.com/nimblewitlit
The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social Artist, anxious person
Positively Present @positivelypresent.bsky.social Dani DiPirro • Author / Artist / Optimist
📚 The Story of You, Into the Moment, Out of Your Mind, Grow Through It, & more
Kellyanne @ellarebee.bsky.social I'm a very good finder, better known as a librarian.
Opinions posted here are mine and mine alone.
Justin Eisinger @justineisinger.bsky.social Co-Author THEY CALLED US ENEMY & IT RHYMES WITH TAKEI | Author INCREDIBLE STADIUMS (HOW’D THEY MAKE THAT?!) October 2026 | Editor USAGI YOJIMBO | Rep: @dzhyde.bsky.social @hillnadell.bsky.social | Opinions are my own 🗣👐
www.justineisinger.com
Alane Adams @alaneadams.bsky.social Teacher Champion, Literacy Advocate, Clear the List Wizard, and eternally hopeful things will get better.
Emily Starr @emilystarr.bsky.social #Kidlit author | StarrMatica CEO | Science curriculum and PD writer | IA State Science Leadership Team Member | Nonfiction fanatic | Elementary #STEM advocate
SCBWI | 12x12
Worlds of Words Center @wowlit.org Books, Stories, Reviews, & Currents for educators focusing on global literature for young people. Housed in the University of Arizona College of Education.
https://wowlit.org
Judi Moreillon, PhD @judimoreillon.bsky.social Author: Children's and YA Books and Professional Books for School Librarians, Advocate for Literacy, Libraries, Public School Education, and #FirstAmendment #RadicalSchoolLibrarianship #TLSky #EduSky #kidlit #mglit #yalit https://storytrail.com
TheMeriLibrarian @bemeredith.bsky.social Librarian, educator, author, wife, mother, AuDHD. She/Her. #BeInfoLit.
“Fear dims when you learn things.” -Alys, Lois Lowry, Son.
Lauren Whitney (she/her) is querying! @laurenem6.bsky.social Mom of two, #kidlit writer, elementary school librarian, movie-lover, crazy LEGO lady
she/her
Children's Literature Assembly, NCTE @nctecla.bsky.social The Children's Literature Assembly is an affiliate of NCTE celebrating authors, illustrators, scholars, & readers of children's literature.
International Literacy Association (ILA) @ilatoday.bsky.social ILA is a global advocacy and membership organization dedicated to transforming lives through literacy.
BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social 🏆 Award-winning children’s booklisting website 📕 Recommended children’s books sorted by age or topic - visit us at http://www.booksfortopics.com
#EduSky #EduSkyPrimary #BookSky
USBBY @usbby.bsky.social The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) is a nonprofit organization devoted to building bridges of international understanding through children's and young adult books. 
Cherity Pennington @librarycherity.bsky.social School library director, public educator, defender of democracy
Stacey Nunn @mslibrarian75.bsky.social Black Woman, Mother and Librarian (❤️er of 📚’s). ALA Councilor-at Large 24-27, MASL President 24, AASL CHAPTERS Assembly Chair 24,MARYLAND SCHOOL LIBRARIAN OF THE YEAR FINALIST 2023-💗💚 BA, MSW, MST and MLIS. HBCU PRIDE FISK4ever, UMES Mom
Penny Kittle @pennykittle.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. Reader. Determined to center joy in classrooms. Including mine. I work to put books in the hands of young people, one classroom and one kid at a time. pennykittle.net, booklovefoundation.org. ❤️
Emma Devlin @theactualemma.bsky.social Writer w work in Irish Times, Stinging Fly & more | 2026 Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow at SHC | Rep'd by Sophie Scard | https://linktr.ee/emma.devlin.writer
Trans Rights Readathon @trreadathon.bsky.social Official account of the Trans Rights Readathon! 🏳️⚧️ March 17-31, 2026. 🏳️⚧️
https://transrightsreadathon.carrd.co
AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Performance & Pedagogy. I think of myself as an Ethical Paladin but am known for intimacy choreography, larp, immersive theatre, laughing loudly, teaching teachers, adopting dogs, & editing the Journal of Consent-Based Performance
Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social Digital Project Manager for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #KidsBooksFriday 📚🏴
barley & birch @barleyandbirch.com Creative art and play explorations for kids and their families. Visit us at https://barleyandbirch.com
#KidsActivities | #KidsArt | #ArtEd | #EduSky | #KidsCrafts | #NatureSky | #OutdoorLearning | #CreativePlay | #KidLit | #DIYKids | #ECE | #EarlyYears
National Education Association @neatoday.bsky.social The official account of the National Education Association. We are 3 million educators strong, advocating for our students and our professions. #RedforEd
PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
NRDC @nrdc.org Natural Resources Defense Council | The Earth's Best Defense
HarperStacks @harperstacks.bsky.social Home of the HarperCollins Children's Books School and Library team. Find us at HarperStacks.com
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
m @mjjii.com i like to draw
https://mjjii.com | my website
Caroline Carlson @carolinecarlson.bsky.social I write books for kids (VERY NEARLY HONORABLE LEAGUE OF PIRATES, WICKED MARIGOLD, & more). Latest: THE TINKERERS. Rep: Allison Hellegers. https://carolinecarlsonbooks.com
Anne Ursu @anneursu.bsky.social I write books, herd cats, and mostly stay under the bed. Latest release: Not Quite a Ghost. Minneapolis, always.
anneursu@mac.com
Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social www.troystory.ca
Author of 10 trad pub picture books.
(And 10 million unpubbed ones.)
Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social Award-winning journalism for schools, including news, analysis, research reviews and teaching and learning guides.
Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about the War on Terror and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own.
https://www.jayshelat.com
AFT @aft.org Education | Healthcare | Public Services
Heather Perkinson @hkperkinson.bsky.social Public HS librarian, born & raised in DC. Books, dogs, teaching. #TLSky #EduSky hkperkinson.blogspot.com
Alice Faye Duncan (www.alicefayeduncan.com) @alicefayeduncan.bsky.social I write books for young readers to eviscerate ignorance and encourage critical thinking. Common sense ain't common in this New World Order. 
David Bowles @davidbowles.us Writer. Translator. Nahuatlahtoh. Chicano. He/él/yehhua. Pan [💖💛💙]. Representation: Full Circle Literary. Associate Professor at UTRGV. Ca notoca Tlahzotic Mazacnihuitl.
Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com Amateur gardener. Professional ad copywriter. Award-winning novelist | THESE SAVAGE STARS (March 16, 2027) PRE-ORDER NOW | patreon.com/kameronhurley | Newsletter: http://bit.ly/42qnhkx | kameronhurley.com
@cottonquiltsedi.bsky.social @cottonquiltsedi.bsky.social she/her/us
Blogger. Educator. Librarian. Growing things and telling gma jokes.
None of us is free until all of us is free.
blogs: Pearl's & Ruby's https://pearlsandrubys.slj.com/
Black Cotton Reviews https://blackcottonreviewers.com/
J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social YA/MG author. Newest: The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls (2025); The Loss of the Burying Ground (2024). She/Her. Located near the Salish Sea. Rep'd by ACM. https://www.jandersoncoats.com/
S. Mirk @mirkdrop.bsky.social Comics journalist, zine-maker, friend to all dogs. Queer, nonbinary, and always evolving. 🌱 
The Introverted English Teacher @bethcteach.bsky.social Reader, writer, & learner who believes in the power of stories & storytelling to create empathy.
25 years as a public school teacher find me enjoying the teenagers and hating the bs.
Maris Hawkins @marishawkins.bsky.social Elementary and middle school Spanish teacher, Love to read and cook, Co-author Common Ground SLA Theory Goes to the Classroom 📕
Follett Content @follettcontent.bsky.social Serving school and public libraries. 150+ years trusted by schools, now bringing that same expertise to public libraries too. Curated collections, sturdy bindings, fast, free shipping. We just really like getting people the right book. 📚
Pernille Schmidt Ripp @pernille.bsky.social Global educator living her best life, mom, writer, speaker, creator of the Global Read Aloud and always in search of a great book and a cup of tea. Now a primary teacher ❤️ in DK 🇩🇰 Used to be a teacher in Wisconsin, 🇺🇸
@ethorntonghs.bsky.social @ethorntonghs.bsky.social Spanish Teacher, Bama girl in Bulldog Country. She/her. Makeup, boybands, pedagogy & fits.
Education Week @edweek.org Inspiring and empowering you to make a difference in your K 12 community.
💻 Website: www.edweek.org
📧 Newsletters: https://www.edweek.org/newsletters
Philip Loring @philiploring.com Anthropologist and storyteller. Global Director of human dimensions science @nature_org. Author: FINDING OUR NICHE. Stubbornly optimistic that radical change is closer than we think. Opinions mine (but science-based). he/they 🏳️🌈
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social Former NOAA fisheries biologist now in my second career as a HS science teacher. I'm interested in all things related to environmental policy, cycling as transportation, and public education.
Autistic Therapist @ladynightshade.bsky.social witchy anarchist will not lose hope. I have a severe allergy to AI
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
Rain @simplyrain.bsky.social Friend. Educator. Librarian. Employed. Artist. Patron. Advocate. Ally. Accomplice. Coconspirator. Activist. Listener. Caregiver. Human. And MUCH more. Need my creds? Ask! Personal account--thoughts are my own. she/they
Meg Lemke @meglemke.bsky.social COMING TO SPX COME SEE MY PANEL ON SATURDAYYYY Comics reviews editor at Publishers Weekly / Editor in Chief @muthamagazine.bsky.social / #books #babies #brooklyn
Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social Blog about kids books? You bet (A Fuse #8 Production). Library degree? You know it. Books for kids? Seven. Books for adults about kidlit? Two. Podcasts about kids books? One (Fuse 8 n’ Kate). Having fun! https://afuse8production.slj.com
Freedom to Read Project @freedomreadproject.bsky.social Parent-led nonprofit dedicated to protecting access to information in our schools and public libraries. www.freedomtoreadproject.org
Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social Ex-investment banker, marketer, & public school teacher: pick your ad hominem. Co-author of nonfiction books Carjacked & Schooled. Cranky in the AM.
Newsletter: https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/
Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social books, beauty, history, folklore. fan of Dickens & @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
Teaching Matters @teachingmatters.bsky.social At Teaching Matters, we work with schools to enrich professional learning for educators that is evidence-based, culturally responsive, and proven to increase teacher effectiveness. 
Jennifer Orr @jenorr.bsky.social Long time elementary school teacher, author of Demystifying Discussion and co-author of We're Gonna Keep on Talking