Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social Citizen of the Wildeeps! Writer Editor Podcaster TeachingArtisr of Speculative Fiction! Words in Apex, Fiyah, Anathema, Prismatic, Escape Pod, PodCastle. Ghost Class/Clarion c/o 2030-2022. Just Keep Writing co-host. Art Institute Chicago BFAW c/o 2027.
Rita Briar she/they @ritabriar.bsky.social Writer of SFF, Secretary of WisCon, gardener of a tiny yard
USian told to be white; bisexual and non-binary
For: kittens & kindness; Against: kierarchy & prison
Pic alt: self-portrait in brush pen
Banner alt: eclipse pic from pi day 2025
Frank Catalano @frankcatalano.bsky.social Author. Journalist. Former edtech industry CMO & advisor. Onetime broadcaster and science-fiction writer. Based in Northwest Washington state. Posts here mostly about writing and journalism. Newest words: https://franksplaining.com
B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social Ben. Literature scholar & writer; Ass. Prof. of English at Marquette University. He/him, boring transsexual. DRY LAND (2023, UWP): https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/D/Dry-Land; other stuff elsewhere.
website: bpladek.net
Rich Lynch @rwlmo.bsky.social Retired USG career employee. Still a work in progress.
ROCKY LASTER🌱🦍 @rockylaster.bsky.social Feral Alaskan Hoosier. 17% Sasquatch DNA. High Priestess of the Leguminati 🫘. Allegedly Afraid of🐀 Mice. Watermelon Enthusiast 🍉. Awesome Dad🎖. Adoring Husband. Impossibly Humble. Susceptible to Flattery, 🥑's, and Wizardry. Balding Vegan Earthling 🌎
Dominica Phetteplace @fetaplace.bsky.social writer, futurist, math tutor, two Pushcart Prizes, Steinbeck Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, Clarion West Board of Directors
Mary Sturgeon @enchantressofnumbers.com Runs a (back on hiatus indefinitely) makerspace for femme and queer people. Podcasts sometimes. Wrote some sci fi books many years ago and is now, after successfully raising two lovely humans, working up to writing again.
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
DharmaDuck @dharmaqduck.bsky.social 
Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social Author. Scholar. Enthusiast of ancient robots and overweight rodents. The Space Between Worlds and Those Beyond the Wall available now. The Unhaunting out this Fall. Yes, a Dr. No, not that kind.
Octavia E. Butler Literary Society @oebsociety.bsky.social A gathering place for academics, writers, readers, and future enthusiasts of Octavia E. Butler's work. Our primary goal? To preserve the legacy and life of this influential author. http://linktr.ee/oebliterarysociety
Kristin @kristin52.bsky.social Author, writer, reader, organizer. I like turtles, walks, blueberries, naps, and Doctor Who. I have a blog at kristinking.org.
Freddie Baer @freddieb.bsky.social Collage artist, cat lover, aging anarchist.
Richard Garfinkle @rgarfinklesff.bsky.social Writer and Computer Programmer. I write science fiction, fantasy, and popularizations / textbooks for science, math, and computer programming.
No AI.
He/Him They/Them
Geoffrey A. Landis @geoffrey-landis.bsky.social Scientist and science-fiction writer.
Steve Green @stevegreen.bsky.social British journalist since 1978. Please contact me via necronaut13@gmail.com regarding magazine commissions, on-stage interviews, etc. Strong focus upon vintage media, particularly movies, television and comics.
Tracy Willowking @tracywillowking.bsky.social Critical thinker, climate realist, passionately overconfident cook with more spices than cabinet space, lover of books and garden tools, still masking 🌈
Rachel Manija Brown @rachelmanija.bsky.social Writer, bookshop owner, life coach, gardener, rewilder, cat and chicken keeper, crafter, first responder, potter. AKA Zoe Chant & Lia Silver.
My bookshop is Paper & Clay, in Crestline, CA
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/175143.Rachel_Manija_Bro
Editing McKennas @editingmckennas.bsky.social We’re a family of experienced editors helping indie authors publish quality books at low prices. We also edit short fiction, articles, papers, websites, medical and educational materials, and more. Contact us: http://www.editingmckennas.com/contact-us.html
Mia Tsai is on hiatus @itsamia.bsky.social Author, editor, Dalcrozian, angry Asian. BITTER MEDICINE | THE MEMORY HUNTERS. Rep: Anne Tibbets. Hugo finalist and Hugoish winner. @concurrentseattle.bsky.social creator. From the North but I stay in the South.
Links: miatsai.carrd.co
ConCurrent Seattle @concurrentseattle.bsky.social A one-day SFFH event held on August 14, 2025, in Seattle, WA. Built and run by humans who may also be sparkle unicorns.
concurrentseattle.weebly.com
Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social Evolutionary & population biology of vector-borne viral disease systems. 🦟 genetics PhD candidate in NC.
Arbovirologist, orthobunyavirus wonk, feral reference librarian, & public health advocate. 80s mosquito. Coaster-sized earrings. (she/her) 🏳️🌈
Mónica Doblas-Bajo | Entomologist (she/her) | 🇵🇸 @entomoprofessor.bsky.social | 🔬Entomology researcher at @universidadoviedo.bsky.social | 🐝 PhD student in Ecology and Biodiversity | Topics: #taxonomy #pollinators #ecology #popgen #bioinformatics #biostatistics |
https://entomocollectionbos.wordpress.com
Rivka @rivka-otter.bsky.social Psychologist (but not *your* psychologist), parent, progressive, and all manner of things that begin with P. What a time to be alive and anxious.
Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social Musicologist historian, RCS Fellow, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social alumna. Athenaeum research award: Dundee's Leng Scots Song comp.
2 Routledge 'Music in C19th Britain' bks.
Passable organist.
https://karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/
Wary of folk w/o profiles!
Lisa A. Koosis @midnightzoo.bsky.social 🪴Author of RESURRECTING SUNSHINE (Albert Whitman & Co.) 🪴Professional copywriter 🪴 Beachcomber 🪴Animal lover 🪴Prize-winning short story author 🪴 Endometrial cancer survivor 🪴Liberal 🪴 She/her 🪴
Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com Desi mythopoetess. Author of Nebula Award finalist STAR DAUGHTER, THE DREAM RUNNERS, and DIVINING THE LEAVES. Also INTO THE MOON GARDEN (Audible).
https://shvetathakrar.com/
margaret ✨ @goldnotyellow.bsky.social be nice to me i don’t have a job 🩷| they/she 💙| friend of dorothea 💜 🌈🥨
montréal
www.instagram.com/goldnotyellow www.goldnotyellow.art
you can fit so much taylor swift in this bad boy
Patrick Lofgren @patrick-lofgren.bsky.social Writer of distressing stories and DnD adventures. Clarion West 2017, CWNWW 2025! Work in Dark Matter Magazine and The Deadlands. They/Them
Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social "Mar" "Sell" Us". Director, Center for Social Change, Associate Teaching Prof (Africana Studies/Philosophy), Adjunct Law Professor, ABD in Educ. Doctorate. Former Law School Dean of Students, K-12 DEI admin, and cultural center director. *Views are my own*
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026). | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Molly Wood @mollywood.co Tech journalist turned climate tech journalist. Telling stories about solutions to the climate crisis on the Everybody in the Pool podcast. Climate tech investor. mollywood.co
Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social The Royal Entomological Society plays an international role in communicating insect science and connecting entomologists.
Follow our publications @respublications.bsky.social
Laura D @lduerr.bsky.social Writer, hoarder of hobbies, book gremlin, cocktail witch // Codex, Futurescapes '21 // https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheEmbroideryBard // lauraduerr.wordpress.com // she/her
The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln 🏴☠️ | Home of #TheBreakdown and LP Podcast
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Paul Franzen @pfranzen.bsky.social Archaeologist and historian; thinking of Romans every single day.
The Limes, heritage management, small finds, GIS, politics and armed conflict ab urbe condita until now. And more.
Robin Hobb @robinhobb.bsky.social Writer of fantasy and SF. Gardener. Chicken tender. Dog Person but cat friendly. Washington state USA. Old and getting older. Stay off my lawn! No AI ever. All posts from me.
Lirpa @studiolirpa.bsky.social Artist in the PNW
oil pastels, watercolor, acrylic
🏳️🌈
studiolirpa.com
🚫AI, NFTs, crypto🚫
Arthur Aldridge @arthuraldridge.bsky.social 
Jean Hollis Weber @jeanweber.bsky.social Feminist. Atheist. Renewable energy & EV enthusiast. Mac & Linux user. Retired technical editor. Grumpy old woman.
Michelle Morrell @vylotte.bsky.social Division Head - Exhibits, Seattle Worldcon 2025
I read, therefore, I am.
Guy W. Thomas @guywt.bsky.social cis Male power-wheelchair user, writer, actor, director. Bleeding heart liberal advocate. Love movies, TV, theater, science fiction, music and dogs. 60+-year-old wannabe astronaut. I am poly, with two amazing partners Carol and Serene. 
Tracey C @tanac.bsky.social Librarian living in the mountains of WNC w/partner and 4 cats. Into SF/F, quilting, confectioneering, and leaving the world a better place.
(PipingLibrarian in the Bad Place)
Nathan Harness @nathanharness.bsky.social Photography, Sensory Ecology, Animal Behavior, Evolution, Bioacoustics, Education. All things Meadow Katydids. PhD from Mizzou , Biologist at Francis Marion University 
Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social He/him. Stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming), Nature/Futures, Interzone, Rosebud, Triangulation, and elsewhere. tommarcinko.neocities.org/
Vonda N. McIntyre @vondanmcintyre.bsky.social This is the official account for the Literary Estate of Vonda N. McIntyre, award-winning SFF author, instructor, and mentor. Managed by @clarionwest | Rights managed by @jenniegoloboy | Send inquiries to rights@maassagency.com. 
Craig Miller @craigmiller.bsky.social Publicity Consultant on Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Crystal, The Thing, The Muppets Take Manhattan, etc.
Writer of Curious George, The Smurfs, The Real Ghostbusters, G.I. Joe, Beast Wars, and shows for China, Italy, France, Dubai, etc.
Rebecca Lesses @argaman.bsky.social interests: pottery, Jewish studies, gardens, sarcoidosis
John V. Hedtke @johnhedtke.bsky.social Writer, nonfiction author, cat lover, banjo player, have attended SF conventions since 1976, ENFP. Love cooking and baking, sushi, classical music, Ealing Studios movies (notably "Kind Hearts and Coronets"), travel, Opihr gin. Frequently a silly person. - D dougfaunt.bsky.social @dougfaunt.bsky.social
Kier Salmon @kiersalmon.bsky.social Retired. Many things... presently adding to the level of crochet amigurumi.
Tod McCoy @todmccoy.bsky.social Need extraordinaire.
ruthunit @ruthunit.bsky.social Artist, writer, philosopher. Neurodivergent, Progressive Lefty. Find me on Facepalm at https://www.facebook.com/ruthunit
Images are sections of mazes, drawn by hand, (c) ruthunit.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
PokerShaman59 @pokershaman59.bsky.social AKA PurposefulPoker, Alan Bostick.
Poker player. Bread baker. Guitarist. Writer. Robot Fighter.
Wordweaverlynn @wordweaverlynn.bsky.social Born human, more cyborg every year. Queer, poly, and kinky.
I love books, music, landscape, God, and my partners. Intellectually omnivorous. Pennsylvanian transplanted to California.
Otherwise Award @otherwiseaward.org 25+ years supporting speculative fiction that explores & expands gender roles & concepts. Formerly known as Tiptree.
https://otherwiseaward.org/
Marilyn Holt (M.J. Holt) @marilynholt.bsky.social News addict. Politics watcher. Historian of no repute. Writer of woman-oriented thriller and SF fiction. Protector of the oldest continuous working farm in Kitsap. Retired early-stage funding consultant. "Mom" of 3 cats and 3 dogs, with one husband.
Kathleen Alcalá @alqalaqat.bsky.social Author of fiction and nonfiction. Descendent of Crypto-Jews and Ópata. 3 novels set in 19th Century Mexico @chroniclebooks.bsky.social re published @ravenchron.bsky.social. Next is from Rosarium Publishing. Opinionated but quiet. All about peace, justice.
Luke McGuff @lukemcguff.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy fan. 3 season bike rider. Like writing, but not a writer. Like taking pictures, but not a photographer. Love prairies and birds and some people. Also like postcards!
P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Jumbie & Duppy Conqueror. Rambler of Things. Doer of Stuff. Brotha From Another Planet | pdjeliclark.com
Morgan K Brennan @mokbrennan.bsky.social She/they. Not famous for anything. Queer (bi enby), GenX, Autistic, Seattle, Very left, Buddhist practitioner, UU, Cat theydy, Fan of living composers, book lover, tattoo collector, retired software engineer. Autistics over 50 please say hi!
#Mefite
Brian Borncamp @zubaplants.bsky.social www.zubaplants.com - Native Plants and More - Buffalo, NY
West Highland Way @wsthighlandway.bsky.social Milngavie to Fort William 🚶♂️Distance is 96 miles🚶🏼♀️ Doing the West Highland Way? Share stories & pics 🏴 #WestHighlandWay 👣
West Highland Way @westhighlandway.bsky.social All things #WestHighlandWay. Scotland's best-loved long distance trail: 96 miles from Milngavie to Fort William. Official account from westhighlandway.org
#Scotland #walking #hiking
Susan & Her Kindle of Kittens @susanjn.bsky.social 💙🌈💙🏳️⚧️💙 Feminist! Retired librarian, programmer & network worker bee. Impulsive gardener, protector of animals, kitty momma. Devourer of SF, fantasy & mysteries, buyer of too many books.🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛ (No DMs unless I know u, please)
Susan Palwick @spalwick.bsky.social Writes SF/F. Weaves. ND. Retired social worker, former healthcare chaplain and English professor. Proud member of the Christian Left. Married with cats.
Currently in treatment for aggressive B cell lymphoma. She/her.
Jeanne Gomoll @jgomoll.bsky.social Electronic artist, feminist, organizer, politically left, reader, science fiction/fantasy fan, storyteller, lap swimmer, atheist, news junkie, at home in Madison Wisconsin.
she/her/hers
Banner artist: Triangulador
Diane Silver @dianesilver.bsky.social I'm a poet and essayist who's looking for the blossoms in this mud pit we find ourselves in. You can also find me at Poetry & Life at Dianesilver.substack.com
Our Business Is Rejoicing @herissonycat.bsky.social Polymathy, cats, obsessed with Fibonacci numbers, Shostakovich, the band Rush, disasters, and ruin pr0n. I embroider things. My favourite element is astatine. PhD. in medieval history, but let me tell you about pensions. Also known as Nika (IYKYK).
Sue Mason @sue-mason.bsky.social Fan artist, cat wrangler, not always safe for work
Deb @debsecor.bsky.social 
Liz St Clair @lemurskulls.bsky.social Artsy-fartsy wokerati, AntiNazi, sometimes crafty. Primates and other mammals, nature, quilts, embroidery, art, books, science. She/her.
Emma @emmagrahame.bsky.social Editor, knitter, quilter, reader. Do your fellow humans often disappoint you? Making things helps. In Canberra, Australia, mostly. She/her.
Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social LLM researcher @UVM Computational Story Lab. Science Fiction Writer & Editor. Artist. Farmer. Westport, NY
Cally @callys.bsky.social SFF reader, model rocketeer, tabletop gamer. She/her.
Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social Award-winning SFF author of THE LESSON and NO GODS, NO MONSTERS, founder/member of Many Worlds. 1/5th of Darkly Lem.
Jeffle @jeffle.bsky.social NO DMs! Dad, granddad, husband, investor, reader, occasional writer - a blue foodie in a beautiful blue state. Cooking, eating, reading - genre fiction f/sf horror, playing with our grands, music, house concerts. NO DMs!!
Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social Writer. White-knuckle knitter. Bunny mom. Superannuated Pre-Raphaelite stunner. Punk- and Goth-adjacent. My novel, Damned Pretty Things, and my related novella, The Circus, the Garden (and Mario Lanza), are out from Aqueduct Press. I like perfume.
susangossman @pipgoss.bsky.social gardener, avid reader and loves long walks
Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social Joined with the mass influx, but for slightly different reasons. I left Xhitter many months ago when the anti-Semitism went public; joined after 11/5 in need of better communication lines.
Economic justice, science fiction, community, books.
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Reema Khrais @reema.bsky.social Host/reporter @ Marketplace. I talk with people about their money & feelings. 
Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social 3x Eisner winner. NYT Bestseller. I make comics + clothes.
Ehendoart at gmail dot com
Patreon.com/ericafails
Recent Books: 2024 Harley Quinn Annual, Danger and Other Unknown Risks, Parasocial, Dracula Motherfucker!
Photo by Robbins Studios
Charles Karden @stuck.bsky.social ☯️🌈🌊 I ❤️ Psych/Sociology, Philosophy, Cosmology, Writing & SciFi, but Comedy is Life! Also follow AI & S/W Dev stuff.
Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social Hugo & Nebula winning SFFH writer, singer/songwriter, dog person, horse person, queer, Baltimorean by choice, mediocre but enthusiastic gardener and artist. She/her. Repped by Kate McKean, HMLA.
Laurie Mann @lauriemann.bsky.social 🌻💙💛🚶♀️🚀💻🏳️🌈📚🎭🥂🎼🧬💀
Resister, feminist, geek, SF & movie fan. Mundus Sine Caesaribus
How to follow on social media: tinyurl.com/mryxa8ef
Block all messages from weird guys.
Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social Writer, Publisher, Critic
Deirdre Saoirse Moen @deirdresm.bsky.social Writing Swift apps for fruit. ex-🍎, TiVo, Be, Synclavier. Cats. Guitars. Basses. Travel is my drug of choice. She/her/dude. Menlo Park. SFO. The World.
Dear Universe: please return one Lily cat. kthxbai
D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art Scientist by day (drummondlab.org), artist by night (dadrummond.art). Sculpture, drawings, and other works. Obsessed with the details of the natural world. Lab posts at @drummondlab.bsky.social 🧪
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong @ydawtheshow.bsky.social Making paleontology accessible through familiar (but wrong) dinosaur toys. Hosted by Steven Bellettini. https://www.youtube.com/c/YourDinosaursAreWrong
librarygrrl /pikageek/ Shandra @librarygrrl.bsky.social She/They, queer af, wife & mother, owned by cats, Linux, Mac and Xbox gamer, triple booter, practitioner of Google-fu and information sorcery, storytime ninja, reader, pseudo-writer, e-bike convert, and lover of various geekery and fandoms. 🌙☀️
Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social Married, SF fan, cat lover, canine compatible, serial crafter, oft-time repeater of others' bon mots & borrowed wisdom.
It's okay - you don't have to follow me. I'm unlikely to follow back. Don't worry about unfollowing, either: not everyone's cup of tea
Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
Vicki Rosenzweig @rosvicl.bsky.social Born and raised in New York City, living in Boston, disabled. Bi, polyamorous, she/her. Masking, because covid is not over. Tea, cats.
Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social Science fiction, movies, robots, Cambridge-UK based, don't eat nearly as much chocolate as when I first wrote my profile but I do much more sewing.
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo @victorocampo.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Author. Technology Consultant. Writes about Threatcasting and Digital Identity, as well as about Speculative and Experimental Fiction. https://beacons.ai/vrocampo