Kalie Caetano @kaliecaetano.bsky.social 💖 Mama, nature-lover, hype woman for 📚
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Litquake @litquake.bsky.social San Francisco's literary festival runs every October with year-round events, service projects, & Lit Crawls worldwide.
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Spencer Tierney @allspence.bsky.social Oakland writer (speculative fiction for fun; personal finance for work), runner, lit lover, silly until I'm serious. Joined 12/2023.
Chris Feliciano Arnold @chris-arnold.bsky.social I wrote a book called The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon. Nowadays, I teach creative writing and raise my little kids.
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Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social Disabled bisexual writer. Author of Adaptations, Bloom, and Natural Disasters. More to come!
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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social A Fabulist Science Fiction Performance Series and Journal
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Our namesake is the asteroid that ended the Cretaceous
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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social Art/Stories/Immersive at the End of the Anthropocene * Horror Queer * they/them * Author of What A Fish Looks Like (Stelliform Press!)
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Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
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San Francisco Bay Area
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Elizabeth Rosner @elizabethrosner.bsky.social I write books. www.elizabethrosner.com
(Third Ear; Survivor Cafe; Electric City; Gravity; Blue Nude; The Speed of Light)
"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world."
~Grace Paley
Green Apple Books on the Park @booksonthepark.bsky.social A branch of the legendary Green Apple Books in San Francisco's Inner Sunset. Est. 2014. Events happen here!
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W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell.bsky.social Dad, but probably not your dad.
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
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noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social bookstore guy in the hudson valley.
… Farewell happy fields / Where joy for ever dwells: hail horrors, hail / Infernal world …
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
vera blossom @cuteflesh.bsky.social learning how to fuck like a girl (writer)
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
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Laura LeMoon @lauralemoon.bsky.social www.lauralemoon.com
Writer/journalist/baddie 😎
Words in: Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, Salon, The Daily Beast, Bellevue Literary Review, etc.
Advisor on public health policy to UN, CDC, USDOJ, White House Policy Council
MFA in CNF @ Antioch 📚
Chad Felix @thethaw.bsky.social 
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.
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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social The Shipman Agency offers complete literary services to writers at all stages of their careers: event booking, independent publicity, mss consultations, The Work Room. #KnicksinFive. she/her https://www.theshipmanagency.com/
Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Lauren C. Johnson @laurencjohnson.bsky.social 🦉🦜Writer of words, lover of birds
📖THE WEST FAÇADE (SFWP '26)
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CA 🌊 & 🐊 FL
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Lito Sandoval @litosandoval.bsky.social Former Chair, GLBT Historical Society; Founder, Queer & Trans Latine Happy Hour; Former President, San Francisco Latino Democrats; Former Co-Chair AGUILAS SF; Co-Founder, Latin Hustle; ACT UP/SF alumni; golden and silver age comic geek
@phashion.bsky.social @phashion.bsky.social BayArea
Babylon Salon @babylonsalon.bsky.social San Francisco's premier reading & performance series since 2007! www.babylonsalon.com
Annie Sprinkle @anniesprinkle.bsky.social Artist, filmmaker, former sex worker, co-author of “Assuming the Ecosexual Position”
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Jiz Lee @jizlee.bsky.social Mixing business with pleasure and doing things that make me sweat. 💦 Non-binary Actor, Author, Athlete. Works at queer porn studio Pink & White Productions (CrashPadSeries.com, PinkLabel.tv).
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Point Reyes Books @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social "The best nature and environmental bookstore in the U.S." -- William duBuys
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Heather Monley @hmonley.bsky.social Writer of fictions, watcher of birds, befriender of dogs https://heathermonley.com/
Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press, forthcoming) and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF Flash editor, CRAFT Lit Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS out now! Words in Huff Post, The Normal School, Foglifter, and more. Tin House ‘21. They/she.📍NJ.
Leigh Hopkins @leighherenow.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 editor/curator: Khôra | writing: BOMB, Longreads, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus + | teaching: Corporeal Writing | rep: Kent D. Wolf | Philly 🏙️ | she/her/hers/we
Paolo Bicchieri @paoloshmaolo.bsky.social writer on the coast / bylines Eater, SF Chronicle, Seattle Times / coffee econ
Samantha Schoech @samanthaschoech.bsky.social Author of MY MOTHER'S BOYFRIENDS: STORIES (Jan 2025), NYT Wirecutter staff writer, twin mom, and gummy bear addict. Practicing political ignorance since November 5, 2024.
Norah Piehl @ncpiehl.bsky.social Fast reader, slow runner, executive director at Litquake
Maxine Holloway @maxineholloway.bsky.social 🌼 ICONIC MILF 🌼
Profesh Mommy
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social (she/her) Reader, executive editor HarperOne Group, teach Publishing Works in Translation @NYU SPS, translator (French, Spanish), musician (Tissue, Boundaries)
C.W. Danzig @cdanzig.bsky.social stay dangerous
Jenny Odell @jennitaur.bsky.social 
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social Muñeca, my queer gothic historical fiction novel, out now: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211/muneca-by-cynthia-gomez/
2024 Ignyte nominee for "Lips Like Sugar." Member HWA. Rep @LaurenBajek.
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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social Writer, editor, cofounder @coyotemedia.org. Erstwhile culture editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies
emmasilvers.com
Zoelle @zoelle.bsky.social Very tall.
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
Long Vo @bobojojo.bsky.social 🎬On @foodnetwork @streamonmax Chef Dynasty: House of Fang / Essayist /
I’m the best there is at what I do. But what I do isn’t very nice…
San Francisco
www.longvo.tv
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
@ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social Author: IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD, AFTERWORD, THE TRANSLATOR, THE PAINTING; HOW TO WRITE STUNNING SENTENCES; Lover of lemons, dogs, snails.
Instructor: Stanford Continuing Studies
website: ninaschuyler.com
Stunning Sentences: ninaschuyler.substack.com
Anita Felicelli @anitafelicelli.bsky.social author of the short story collection HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and other works of fiction. books editor at Alta Journal, critic, essayer.
Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social Co-owner of @portersqbooks.bsky.social Author of The Art of Libromancy & An Exaggerated Murder. Opinions my own. BlueSky for @authorsabb.bsky.social & @massaabb.bsky.social He/him https://linktr.ee/joshthelibromancer
manjula martin @manjula.bsky.social writer/rocker/Luddite
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Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social COYOTELAND | FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming UPROOTED
Jasmine Guillory @thebestjasmine.bsky.social Writer, Oakland.
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social dad/poet/educator/tradesman/gardener/bodhrán player/former boxer 🇮🇪🇸🇮
Winner, The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry, 2024 (ESTATE SALE: University of Utah Press, 2025)
https://uofupress.com/books/estate-sale/
www.dmurphy.online
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social Nonfiction editor at the Rumpus, writer other places
Sara Fan @sarabeefan.bsky.social Poetry. Nonfiction. Maybe fiction? Dreaming in landscapes. 
LAKi (aka Lakshmi Sarah) @lakitalki.bsky.social Occasional transnational commuter. Ceramic Artist. Independent Journalist. Writer. Audio Producer. Author. Lecturer, UC Berkeley Geography. Sometimes freelancing for KQED & Oaklandside.
Oscar Villalon @ovillalon.bsky.social Editor, ZYZZYVA (zyzzyva.org); contributing editor, Lit Hub; publications: Freeman's, The Believer, VQR, Lit Hub, Stranger's Guide, Alta, and other places. San Francisco is my home.
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Our Forestville correspondent @bethwinegarner.bsky.social ✏️ Journalist & author: bethwinegarner.com
📚 "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History" out now!
🎧 Co-host, Dead Reckoning podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-reckoning/id1812728990
👩🏻🦰 She/her.
Spencer Ruchti @spencerruchti.bsky.social bookseller in Seattle / author events / co-founder of the Cercador Prize for Literature in Translation
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Ananda Lima @anandalima.bsky.social Author of CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL forthcoming @torbooks in 2024 (available for pre-order)
& MOTHER/LAND (Black Lawrence Press)
Rep: Sarah Bowlin (Aevitas)
Work in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast +
ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social Award-winning, indie lit journal—made in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 132 is now available. Subscribe: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Reparations Books, 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi Press, 2017.
Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com 📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise
🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller
🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com
🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her
🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social Author of THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS & FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE @doubledaybooks. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist. Descended from shamans and ghost whisperers
José Vadi @vadiparty.bsky.social author of CHIPPED: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens & INTER STATE: Essays from California
https://www.josevadi.com
Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social Author of Tender Points and Gravitas • Host of the Light Jacket Reading Series • Working on a novel that I like to call Untitled Bisexual Jumpsuits Project • they/she • amyberko.com • writinggroup.substack.com
Lucie Pereira @bringonthelucie.bsky.social educator & poet • reader @splitlipthemag.bsky.social • she/her
Rachael Small @rachael-small.bsky.social Director of Publicity at Astra Publishing House
Translator and lover of languages
Nancy Jooyoun Kim @nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social Umma / Author of LA Koreatown novels
WHAT WE KEPT TO OURSELVES
THE LAST STORY OF MINA LEE
https://bio.site/nancyjooyounkim
Kris V. Bernard @kristinarabbit.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Tattooed Animal Mom/Ally
Brad Johnson @ahablives.bsky.social A part of the Twitter Diaspora.
Also run East Bay Booksellers in Oakland, CA - @ebbooksellers.bsky.social
Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social Sarabande Books Director & EIC @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Founder at @zinemachine.bsky.social
Poet, translator, chaos virgo
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Leland Cheuk @lelandcheuk.bsky.social Author of 3 books, including the novel NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN. Work in The Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Salon, etc. Runs the indie press 7.13 Books.
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.