Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com Lexicographer. The F-Word (new edition Nov. ’24!), sfdictionary.com, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth #cocktail bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia. "Appealingly obsessive" — NYT
Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com Aspiring novelist with one project in the revising and one in the planning, blog-keeper (which makes me retro), reader, ponderer, flaneuse, yoga person, goofball, friend.
Blog: https://observingleslie.com
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social Vintage Dealer // Triple Libra // Horror Fan // Old Pueblo Dweller
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HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY available from Split/Lip Press!
Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social Editor at Rose Metal Press & Professor at DePaul
Writings: https://kathleenrooney.com/
Typewritings: http://poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com
Man Overboard!: A Novel (July '26): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Man-Overboard!/Kathleen-Rooney/9781668212387
Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social A magazine of political commentary, analysis, and amusements.
https://linkin.bio/currentaffairsmag
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
Allison Parshall @parshallison.bsky.social Mind and brain news editor at Scientific American. Follow for weekly science quizzes! Views are my own.
Niko McCarty @nikomccarty.bsky.social Science. Biology. Progress.
Founding Editor of Asimov Press. Subscribe at press.asimov.com!
The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
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Kathryn Trueblood @truebloodk.bsky.social A writer who likes the thorny questions that medical developments pose for human identity. Recently won the Rico Award in Nonfiction. Also, the Red Hen Press Short Story Award and the Goldenberg Award in Fiction. kathryntrueblood.com
@nancymccabe.bsky.social @nancymccabe.bsky.social Author of nine books of Cnf and adult, ya, and middle grade fiction
Suzanne Alyssa Andrew @suzannealyssa.bsky.social Author. Podcast host of Stardust and Courage. Intuitive coach for creative people.
Dr. Adam @dradamtswp.bsky.social My name is Adam and I have a podcast where I talk about Sister Wives for fun. Proud father, husband, podcaster, and university educator. KISS Army for life.
Dr Michelle Anya Anjirbag-Reeve @anjirbaguette.bsky.social UK based. Disney/fairy tale adaptation/deep stories/literature/libraries/culture. she/her
same handle on the hellbirb; not sure how much I'll be here
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Elana Rabinowitz @elana718.bsky.social #Writer #Teacher #Punster #Brooklyn #HudsonValley
Words in New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, USA Today and many more #Littlewhitehouse airbnb.com/h/littlewhitehousegermantown
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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social Tired freelancer, misanthrope, talker. Midwesterner stranded. National bestseller D-DAY GIRLS: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged Nazis & Helped Win WWII & FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINA blind ♿️ ✡️ SarahRose.com prh.com/ddaygirls
Áine Greaney, author @ainegreaney.bsky.social Irish writer in Boston area. Words: New York Times, Boston Globe, Books Ireland, Best American Essays, et al. 5th book, "Trespassers" available now. Free wellness and writing resources + workshop list (and my 5 books!) at https://linktr.ee/ainegreaney
Caroline Catlin @caroline-catlin.bsky.social writer, photographer, grief worker.
queer & disabled. art as resistance.
Alison Stine @alisonstine.bsky.social Writer of books, most recently: DUST. Next in 2027: THE RAVEN ENGAGEMENT @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social @macmillanlib.bsky.social NEA winner, Philip K Dick Award https://linktr.ee/alisonstinewrites
Michele Christle @michelechristle.bsky.social writer in "Maine" / Wabanakik | featuring: big hair, rabbit holes, and eels
https://michelechristle.com/
https://hells-bells.ghost.io/
https://elversphere.net/
Lisa Kanarek @lisakanarek.bsky.social Bylines: NY Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Independent, WIRED, and Newsweek. End-of-Life doula and therapy animal team with @therapydoggaia
Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social Reader, writer, dreamer. I listen for owls in the night and peer too closely at bees. NOT A THING TO COMFORT YOU (Univ of Iowa Press 2019)
Jacinta V White @jacintavwhite.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Facilitator. Tantra teacher. Coach. #camelcityunited
Leila.C.Nadir.PhD @leilanadir.bsky.social Afghan-American Writer | Artist | Fiction & Nonfiction Editor
Editor, Los Angeles Review of Boolks
MacDowell | Hedgebrook | Periplus | Art Omi | VCCA Fellow
rep: AyeshaPandeLiterary
https://linktr.ee/leilanadir
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Mary Cartledgehayes @mcartledgehayes.bsky.social Theologian - writer - collage artist - part owner of a stray cat sanctuary -
Nicole Walker @nikwalk.bsky.social Two books forthcoming from Bloomsbury: Writing the Hard Stuff and How Plant a Billion Trees. Writer of 8 (weird) books.Trying to withstand the onslaught of fascism by building community. Prof, Nonfiction Editor at DIAGRAM and UGA Press's Crux Series.
Anna Leahy @amleahy.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Teacher.
Author of If in Some Cataclysm, Tumor, etc.
https://amleahy.com
Anne Liu Kellor @anneliukellor.bsky.social Seattle-based writing teacher, coach, author of HEART RADICAL & editor of MIXED ROOTS: Writers on Multiracial Identity & Both/And Belonging (Beacon, 10.13.26).
Bridge builder, non-binary thinker.♥️
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Kelly Shire @kellyshire.bsky.social Essay writer, work in Brevity, Catamaran, Hippocampus, et. al.
Fiction in Palm Springs Noir anthology. MFA. Elementary school librarian.
Finishing a memoir about my California familia.
Maya Gottfried @mayabidaya.bsky.social Author of books for children and grownups. Essays in Oprah Daily, STAT, Oldster. Articles in Lilith, Los Angeles Magazine. Half-Jewish / Full vegan
Deborah Derrickson Kossmann @debkossmann.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist, Author of LOST FOUND KEPT: A MEMOIR (lostfoundkept.com) and devoted servant to Sofia Carmela, a cat with a whole lot of “tortitude.”
Erin Ergenbright @erinergenbright.bsky.social Writer, educator, mother, and breath work facilitator in PDX, Oregon
Cindy Lamothe @crlamothe.bsky.social Poet/Essayist. Writer in Guatemala. Turning caffeine into words. Bylines in NYTimes, TheAtlantic, Vogue, Catapult | Writing a memoir. #Binders lamothewriter@gmail.com
Emily Farris @thatemilyfarris.bsky.social Author, I'LL JUST BE FIVE MORE MINUTES | Senior Commerce Writer, BON APPÉTIT | "A LOT"
Lisa M. O'Neill @lisaoneill.bsky.social Writer | Storyteller | Editor | Native New Orleanian | words:
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Donna Steiner @donnasteiner.bsky.social Writer/writing teacher.
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@robinshome.bsky.social @robinshome.bsky.social 
Sherry Amatenstein @sherryamatenstein.bsky.social writer/author/psychotherapist/howdoesthatmakeyoufeelbook.com
Laura Kiesel aka Survival Writer @lakiesel.bsky.social Environmental writer/advocate. Founder of Save Massachusetts Wildlife and Save Arlington Wildlife. Author of POISONED, an investigative non-fiction book about the negative effects of rat poisons in the US, due out Fall 2026 from Island Press.
Linda Wolff @carpoolgoddess.bsky.social Mom, writer, purveyor of unsolicited advice. No longer driving carpool, still driving my kids crazy. Words in: Boston Globe, LATimes, Washing Post, Cosmo, Good Housekeeping, AARP, McSweeney's and more. Carpoolgoddess.com
@nancek.bsky.social @nancek.bsky.social 
Amy M. Miller @amymwrites.bsky.social writer, mama, educator, budding Illustrator -
writing essays & picture books and supporting my #kidlit & #cnf peeps
#neurospicy #chronicillness #feminist
Sarah Twombly @sarahtwombly.bsky.social Writer. Parent. Tired and hopeful. Work in NYT, the Atlantic, Esquire, Ploughshares. Black Lives Matter. Love is love. Science is real. Free Palestine.
Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social Writer / Editor - I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES: SHORT STORIES, Autumn House, 2025- HOMING - essay collection, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2024 - Co-editor FLASH FICTION AMERICA, W. W. Norton, 2023 - Sr Editor SLQ 
Deborah Sosin @deborahsosin.bsky.social Writer, editor, therapist, GrubStreet instructor. Author of the award-winning picture book Charlotte and the Quiet Place and the workbook Sober Starting Today. Currently shopping a linked set of 70 micro-memoirs of 70 words each for my 70th year.
Fran Smith @fransmith.bsky.social Writer, editor, communications consultant, tap dancing wannabe. Obsessed with news, politics & health. Author, “Changing the Way we Die”
Catherine Parnell @victoriancat.bsky.social Writer, editor, educator. Director of Publicity, Arrowsmith Press. Editor, MicroLit. CatherineParnell.com
Jessica Smock @jasmock.bsky.social Writer, editor, and mom living in western NY with a doctorate in education policy. Co-founder of Midstory Magazine on Substack and the HerStories Project. Swiftie.
Jenny Shank @jennyshank.bsky.social Representing Jenkind. Writer, reader, eater. Books: MIXED COMPANY & THE RINGER. Teach: Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Words: The Atlantic, Washington Post, McSweeney’s. Newsletter: The Tumbleweed, jenny.shank.substack.com
Tif Win @foreshadowboxer.bsky.social writer | photographer | writographer
https://foreshadowboxer.threadless.com/
Shelley Buck @shelleybuck.bsky.social Author. From Amherst to Oregon via everywhere. Books: FLOATING POINT, EAST, INDIA BOUND #cnf #travel Photos on IG: shelleybuckauthor
Sandra Friend @sandrafriend.com Author. Science geek. History wonk. Nature nut. Space Hipster. Recovering guidebook writer now making things up. SandraFriend.com
Diana Reese @djreese.bsky.social Writer, storyteller, journalist.
Rey Katz (they/them) @amplifyrespect.com 🌈 Find less anxiety and more hope about being trans:
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Heidi Croot @heidicroot.bsky.social An editor with and contributing writer to the Brevity Blog. Memoir in progress. Occasional developmental editor. Recovering corporate writer. Trading out Twitter for Bluesky and books. Favourite thing: taking my journal on cappuccino dates.
Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social Writer/Photographer/Editor/New Yorker
https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/
Heather Durham @feralheatherd.bsky.social Nature Connection ~ Ecopsychology ~ Mindfulness ~
Reader ~ Writer ~ Aspiring Crone~
Author of Sylvan Crone, Wolf Tree, & Going Feral
heatherdurhamauthor.com
@lindatate.bsky.social @lindatate.bsky.social 
Helene Cohen Bludman @hbludman.bsky.social Reader, writer, tired resister. 🌊 Gun control, repro rights advocate, liberal to my core. Mom and Nana. ❤️Dog and cat servant. Passionate about #books #baking #Broadway #Philly
BJ Knisley @brookeknisley.bsky.social Writer. Comedy. Tech Bro(oke). Disabled.
Bylines in HuffPost, Paste Magazine, Vulture, McSweeney's, Weekly Humorist, Shouts & Murmurs, etc. she/they
🩸If you DM me, I'll probably throw up blood.
Kate Simonson @katesimonson.bsky.social Full-time wife and mother, part-time writer, merely dabbles as a cancer patient. #binders she/her
@emilysays @emilysays.bsky.social Education journalist, EWA's public editor. Writing book on early desegregation history of DoD schools for UNC Press. ‘23 Spencer Education Fellow, '11 Knight-Wallace Fellow.
Suzette Mullen @suzettem.bsky.social Authenticity is worth the cost and it’s never too late for a new beginning. Author of The Only Way Through Is Out (U Wisconsin Press, 2024), a midlife coming-out and coming-of-age story. Speaker, book coach, LGBTQ+ advocate, boy mom, yogi.
Kim Dalferes @kimdalferes.bsky.social Estate sale junkie, king salmon slayer, sometimes writes funny. 
Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social Writer of books & features. WANDERLAND (Bloomsbury) shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year& Wainwright Prize.
Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow/ @DHHLiterary
www.jinireddy.co.uk
Lara Rosenbaum @lararosenbaum.bsky.social Writer & Ballet Skier 🍃
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
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social Archaeologist turned author with a science fiction take on life. Author of Plague Birds, member of SFWA and SPJ. He/His. Represented by Lucienne Diver. www.jasonsanford.com
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
https://writerbeware.blog
https://victoriastrauss.com
Kathleen Schmidt @kathmschmidt.bsky.social President, KMSPR. Book publishing, marketing, consulting, strategy. I write Publishing Confidential on Substack.
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Jeanne Veillette Bowerman @jeannevb.bsky.social Sr Exec Pipeline Media Group @bookpipeline.bsky.social, EiC @pipelineartists.bsky.social, partner Fringe Press, CoHost @recklesscr8tive.bsky.social #podcast. Prev @scriptmagazine.bsky.social + Writer's Digest. CoFndr #scriptchat on X. #HistFic #18thC
Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social Media industry journalist who runs a newsletter and podcast. You can reach me at simonowens@gmail.com
DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social Alter ego of Peter Ginna. Editor, writer, & occasional blogger on books & publishing. Former editor & publisher at several houses. Author of WHAT EDITORS DO: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing. Website: peterginna.com 
Kate Pullinger @katepullinger.bsky.social Writer of fiction - books and digital. Inanimate Alice, Breathe, Forest Green. Academic - Bath Spa University. Books. Food. Sleep. Canadian living in UK. www.katepullinger.com and https://buttondown.email/katepullinger
Guy (aka glecharles) @loudpoet.com Sometimes loud, formerly poet, always opinionated. As in guillotine...
Here via BlackSky, but more active on my blog and Mastodon:
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Paul Bogaards @paulbogaards.bsky.social PR guy. Former Publisher. Representing authors and companies. Knows the business. Find me @ http://instagram.com/paulbogaards; and here http://paulbogaards.substack.com; and here bogaardspr.com.
Katy Hershberger @katyhersh.bsky.social Work at Publishers Lunch. Writing at NYTBR, Washington Post, LitHub, Slate, Longreads, etc.
KatyHershberger.com
Cassie Mannes Murray @cassmannes.bsky.social Writer. Founder & director at Pine State Publicity. Mom to P & E. 🐝
http://pinestatepublicity.com
Pinestatepublicity.substack.com
Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com Freelance editor of YA & Adult fiction (sarah@nextchapteredits.com). Writer, optimist, all-around bookish.
Editing: https://www.nextchapteredits.com/
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/SarahLaPolla
Everything Else: https://linktr.ee/sarahlapolla
Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social Writer, editor,publisher, creative funding expert in Brooklyn. Editor of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE. Previously @feministpress & @kickstarter. She/they 🌈📚
https://margotatwell.com/
Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
Laura Stanfill @laurastanfill.bsky.social Author, THE NEIGHBORHOOD DAMES (Ooligan Press, Nov. 2026). Publisher, Forest Avenue Press. Publishing consultant. Delete Key is my roller derby name.
Brian DeFiore @briandef.bsky.social Literary Agent, Dad, Geek
E. J. Wenstrom @ejwenstrom.bsky.social 🖤s complicated heroes, horrifying monsters & standing to the right on escalators so the left side can walk. #SFF author. Cohost
@SFFGirlPodcast. #ADHD. She/her
Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social Ain't gonna play anywhere where there's a genocide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fR2r8Qlyyk
https://newvirago.com/
Darcy Pattison @darcypattison.bsky.social Author of over 70 children’s books, including A LITTLE BIT OF DINOSAUR series, the Moments in Science series, and the Another Extraordinary Animal series. See more at MimsHouseBooks.com #STEM #NextGen #Kidlit #TLsky #EduSky 
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social Founding Partner, Neon Literary. Get in, loser, we're making it art. www.neonliterary.com
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
www.megireid.com
Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social Literary agent, #author, travel-junkie, puppy enthusiast, full-time fed up with the rolling back of our rights.
www.knightagency.net
www.luciennediver.com
Sarah Nicolas @sarahnfisk.bsky.social Literary Agent. YA Author as Sarah Nicolas. Queries Qualms & Quirks host. Disability in Publishing Board. 💛🤍💜🖤 linktr.ee/presidentsarah
The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org Authors working together to ensure fair pay, protect copyright, and defend free speech.
The Gernert Company @thegernertco.bsky.social The Gernert Company is a literary agency with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Our client list is as broad as the market. 📚
https://www.thegernertco.com/
Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
Independent Publishers Guild @independentpublishersguild.com The IPG is the UK's largest association of independent publishers, supporting 600+ members with events, resources, training and much more.
https://linktr.ee/IndependentPublishersGuild