Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
UMD BookLab and the Plaintxt Press @umdbooklab.bsky.social Founded in 2018, BookLab is the University of Maryland English Department’s letterpress workshop, book arts studio, and bibliographic makerspace; and the Plaintxt Press is our imprint. Come visit in Tawes Hall 3248.
We make small language models.
Skeuomorph Press & BookLab @skeuomorphpress.org An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
Molly Schwartzburg @bibliomolly.bsky.social Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts, Houghton Library. Minimalist on even days, maximalist on odd ones. Don’t lick green books. 
Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social Printer-Scholar, Bibliographer, & Librarian | Trans* Histories of the Book in 19C America | Owner of @meanwhilelttrpress | he/him | Opinions my own.
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social ¶rare book librarian ¶bibliographer & historian of print, typography, and media ¶video games and cinema ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
📍ATL (by way of Dallas, Munich, and DC)
Nat McGartland @natmcgartland.bsky.social PhDing @ UMD English
HBIC @UMDBookLab
book history, STS, digital studies
linktr.ee/natmcgartland
Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social Book Artsy
Founder, Book/Print Collective
**DM for commission inquiries**
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com Freelance book editor and crowdfunding consultant https://glog.glennf.com/editing-services Eisner-nominated How Comics Are Made. hcwm.ink/HCW Two-time Jeopardy! champ. Latest book: That One Matt Bors Comic http://kck.st/4ttpVAQ My store: Aperiodical.net
Reflex Letterpress @reflexletterpress.bsky.social #Printing & #instruction in the antique art of #letterpress by artist Mindhue, spun off of the Bow & Arrow Press. In Boston.
@mindhue.bsky.social for conceptual art and snark
Bird Design Letterpress @birddesign.bsky.social 【活版印刷｜箔押】深いレリーフ、現代的で芸術的感性が宿る印刷技術を大切にするレタープレススタジオです。
https://birddesignletterpress.com/
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
Book Arts Lab @bookartslab.bsky.social Book Arts Lab in the Department of English at California State University, Northridge
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Dr. Amanda Licastro @amandalicastro.bsky.social Head of Digital Scholarship Strategies and Visiting Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore, Fellow at Rare Book School, Editor at JITP
Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social Assoc. Prof at Santa Clara Univ., long 18c, book history, women's writing, DH, cats. Stainforth Library of Women's Writing stainforth.scu.edu. she/her
California Rare Book School @calrbs.bsky.social California Rare Book School is a continuing education program dedicated to providing the requisite knowledge and skills for the rare book and library community. More info: https://linktr.ee/calrbs
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: Intelligent Machines, AI Inside. Author of Hot Type, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
Eric @presenteric.com I’m a tech worker living in NYC. Occasionally I write a silly little larp.
Katie Risseeuw @katierizz.bsky.social Will die on niche hills, windows always open.
Libraries, archives, preservation, art, turtles, Chicago, bricks, the desert.
John McTague @johnjoemctague.bsky.social Assistant Prof in C18th Studies, Univ. Bristol. Book: ‘Things that Didn’t Happen’ (2019). Co-director @ Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress). Co-President of Bristol UCU branch. 🎸&🎤 in Autocorrect (https://spoti.fi/4fIaTAJ). He/him.
Erik Simpson @erikthesimpson.bsky.social English professor, Grinnell College. Romanticism, history and future of the book, digital humanities, paper engineering, jazz saxophony. I do not speak for anyone but myself. If that. 
pandemonium.press @pandemoniumpress.bsky.social Consulting Typographer, author, publisher, and feline enthusiast. Native New Yorker, he/him. #BookSky 📚💙
http://www.pandemonium.press
R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social RB (they/them). Immigrant, SFF writer + academic. Neurodivergent. World Fantasy Award winner. Le Guin Prize, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus and Crawford finalist. Views always my own.
Mir veln zey iberlebn
http://rblemberg.net/
https://patreon.com/rblemberg
LeadGraffiti @leadgraffiti.bsky.social A letterpress studio in Newark, Delaware, with a strong urge to experiment and challenge long-held rules about design, readability, and a few other things I'll remember later.
Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social Publisher, Executive Editor, and Senior Lecturer at a TX uni working on 19C British poetry, gender and sexuality, history of science, empire. Sometime watercolorist, 3 cat familiars, 3 sons. Views my own.
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/professor-james-mussell
Wendy Emery @pupandpony.bsky.social Fine Art oil painter, graphic design educator, letterpress and linocut printmaker. www.wendyemery.com and pupandpony.com
Dave Hughes @metaltype.bsky.social Founder of the Metal Type website: https://metaltype.co.uk/wpress
Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com Letterpress nerd, fledgling typefoundry, cats. Also probably mushrooms.
Find my work at bowerbox.com, buy some of my type and print things with it!
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