Valerie Sirenko @valeriesirenko.bsky.social Speculative Fiction Writer
www.valeriesirenko.com
Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com Award-winning sf/f, erotica and romance writer. Just your typical biracial bigender bisexual. All pronouns valid, she/her for society’s convenience. https://linktr.ee/ceciliatan
Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown. Author, The Poetry of Power: Uyghur National Culture in Twentieth-Century China (forthcoming, Columbia UP). Translator, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night (Tahir Hamut Izgil, Penguin Press).
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
Support my work: patreon.com/trungles
Links: https://bio.site/trungles
Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com (shuh-NAY) • The Madwoman in the Classroom • nationally recognized, award winning literacy educator • teacher-scholar • mom • your favorite teacher’s favorite English teacher • doc student • #heymrsbond 💛 • she/her
Marje, herself @minn-finn.bsky.social I live in Minneapolis aka Woke Hoth. I am a mom. Renee Nicole Good was like all the moms I know here.
A Pro-social human with curiosity, empathy, and sisu.
Minnesotan since birth.
Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com Author of bestselling sexy book as Kit Rocha. Rep'd by Sarah Younger at NYLA. Hiding in the Alabama woods. #TeamADHD Book Stuff: https://linktr.ee/kitrocha Enable Chaos: https://amzn.to/4gCqcOD
FREEDOM & LITERACY 🏳️🌈 @freedomlit.bsky.social We're a book discussion board, aimed at “old internet” folks. We're not a book club. We don't have mandatory readalongs, there are no book reports due. We're just an old-fashioned forum where you can talk about books.
Account run by @birdjay.bsky.social.
Minneapolis Institute of Art @artsmia.bsky.social Home to 100,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of world history. Mia is always free.
madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social reporter @ minnesota reformer covering immigration and more. posting about sports sometimes too. texan in st. paul. eng/esp
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Shen Tao @dragons.bsky.social USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Poet Empress
https://linktr.ee/ThePoetEmpress
Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.northsky.social East Coast born, Minneapolis living // Ward 1 🐻. Visibly able, white, queer & trans, parent, spouse. John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award® winner.
https://www.standwithminnesota.com by @ziibiing.com
@mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social Neighbors organizing Neighbors to keep our communities safe.
Linktr.ee/mspwhistles
Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social Sahan Journal is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering Minnesota immigrants & communities of color.
sahanjournal.com
Daniel Herriges @dpherriges.bsky.social Urbanist advocate. Policy Director at the Parking Reform Network. Writer at Strong Towns. Co-author "Escaping the Housing Trap." St. Paul, Minnesota.
Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social He/him. Southsider LGBTQ+ Latino 🏳️🌈. Minneapolis City Council Member for the 9th Ward. Views are my own.
Emily M @emily7m.bsky.social She/her. Wife & mother. Lover of cats, bicycling, and all things Francophone.
🏡 Minneapolis
Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com Author: Tigers Between Empires (2025). Owls of the Eastern Ice (2020, Best Book per NYT/WSJ, PEN America winner, Nat Book Award longlist). Work: Regional Director Temperate Asia @wcs.org. Home: Mpls https://linktr.ee/jslaght
✯ A Pained Inkwell ✯ @aorticinkwell.bsky.social Artist ★ OC lover ★ She/They ★ LVL40+ ★ Connoisseur of sad elves and ink~ 🚫NO A/I🚫 #Art
https://aorticinkwell.carrd.co
Abel Klaer @superstarfighter.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 illustrator, coffeenerd felix.klaer@googlemail.com he/him🏳️🌈
Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com An independent, nonprofit newsroom keeping Minnesotans informed & unearthing stories other outlets can’t or won’t tell. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://minnesotareformer.com/subscribe/
Linda @lindabeyond.bsky.social Bookfreak, writer, poet, photographer, paper artist. ME/CFS, mental health, caregiving, social justice, history. Living on Ojibwe ceded lands in MN. 💙📚 #BookSky IG @/lindabookmania 🌌 🌛🌕🌜🍉
https://pangobooks.com/bookstore/lindasbookmania
Moon Palace Books @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social more books than before
Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social Writer of SF/F and Minneapolis/St. Paul election guides. she/her. Website: www.naomikritzer.com My next book, OBSTETRIX, comes out June 9, 2026.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov Mom, wife, daughter, and loving but distracted friend. U.S. Senator for Minnesota. Prefers window seats, donuts and MN beer (all together when possible) ✈️ 🍩🍺
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Everina Maxwell @everinamaxwell.bsky.social Sunday Times-bestselling author of Winter’s Orbit and Ocean’s Echo. Now down to two remaining houseplants.
golden 💜 @theonlygolden.bsky.social Well Informed, but still curious.
https://mydramalist.com/profile/13610686
🔥🦄 🏳️🌈 Fried Unicorns 🏳️🌈 🦄 🔥 @friedunicornstudio.bsky.social L+M dynamic queer artist duo posting art we make | Any pronouns | ☿ ⚧ | Paintings, cell-shaded illustrations, and sometimes comics | Lots of Pokémon, Okami, Hollow Knight, Zelda, monsters, and OCs
We draw things we like. You might like them, too!
MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social Bot that tweets quotes(incl spoilers) from
@marthawells.com The Murderbot Diaries. Has no gender. Character's pronouns are It/its. Managed by @writerphoebe
Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social literary agent with a lot of opinions 👀 also a podcast 👀 also my puppy looks like baby chewbacca! www.jenniferlaughran.com / www.andreabrownlit.com
Betty Jiang @bettyjiang.bsky.social Thoughts and vibes purely my own
Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social Nonprofit executive director. Views are mine alone. Historian. Writer. Army veteran. Adjunct history instructor. Author of “The Last Lincoln Republican” (UniversityPress of Kansas, 2020). #ParkChat Hall of Famer. Pittsburgh sports fan.
Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social Anime + manga expert, PhD History and New Media (UC Berkeley), writer + researcher. Eisner Award winner MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY: HOW CREATORS AND FANS MADE JAPANESE COMICS, 1905-1989 available now!
日本語でOK She/her. Bay Area.
linktr.ee/ahorbinski
cdramanews @cdramanews.bsky.social pov: you are slowly switching from “oppa” to “gege”
@laurierking.bsky.social @laurierking.bsky.social 
Lea @mss3ng.bsky.social Sometimes an artist and writer | descending into ffxiv
daisydiversions @daisydiversions.bsky.social fannish old
A @halfcactus.bsky.social I just say things on here
The StoryGraph @thestorygraph.com An app for you to track your reading and choose your next book. Founded by @nodunayo.bsky.social. Built by her and @robfrelow.bsky.social. support@thestorygraph.com
Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social Chair of Languages & Cultures @ Macquarie University. Sociolinguist of Japanese. Lingua Brutallica co-host. Studies Japanese script, media, language, and metal. 日本語の文字やメタル や翻訳を研究する社会言語学者. He/Him.
https://wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com
Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social Writer of dark fantasy. Fil-Am. Repped by Azantian Literary. Sunday Times Bestselling author of MISTRESS OF LIES. LORD OF RUIN, out now! He/him. 🏳️⚧️
Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social Writer of books, short stories, comics, and other things. Friend to cats and sometimes people. She/her. https://www.kathowardbooks.com/ and https://epigraphtoepilogue.substack.com/
Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social JPP is a global information hub and digital repository that promotes research & teaching in Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders. https://japanpastandpresent.org/
C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social Writer of SFFH. Snarkwitch. Psych PhD. Approachable goth. Artomancer. Baseball nerd.
Words in Small Wonders, Penumbric, The Deadlands
Member of HWA, SFWA, Codex
www.cjsubko.com
https://cjsubko.beehiiv.com
Amber Chen @amberwrites88.bsky.social UK #1 bestselling YA author | OF JADE AND DRAGONS (Out Now, Penguin Teen) | Next up: THE BLOOD PHOENIX (17 Jun '25) | Rep: Laura Crockett | 🇸🇬 
Jennifer Jackson @arcaedia.bsky.social Literary agent. EVP at Donald Maass Literary Agency. Saving the world, one book sale at a time. (she/her) http://maassagency.com/jennifer-jackson/
Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
A.Y. Chao @aychao.com Master procrastinator. Occasional adult.
#1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SHANGHAI IMMORTAL and PARIS CELESTIAL
she/they/Alice
aychao.com
Latest news: https://aychao.substack.com
Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social Hi! I’m the bestselling author of Elatsoe & A Snake Falls to Earth & Sheine Lende. I <3 lifting heavy weights, playing video games, & writing stories. Sry I don’t check DMs. She/her. Lipan Apache.
C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning author of SAINT DEATH’S DAUGHTER & BONE SWANS. Audiobook narrator. Bandcamp: Brimstone Rhine. Repped by RHA Literary. https://linktr.ee/csecooney
Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social Singer, Actress and Philanthropist.
www.lyndacarter.com
Mechademia @mechademia.bsky.social Conferences/journal on Asian popular cultures since 2001.
https://linktr.ee/mechademia.net
Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social 🇹🇹 Poet, SFF writer, TTRPG designer. Worldcon 2025 Poet Laureate.
@rascal.news columnist. Podcaster @speculate.bsky.social & @skiffyandfanty.com.
Author of CAN YOU SIGN MY TENTACLE? and other things.
Thank God for words.
https://www.brandonobrien.xyz/
Rebecca Roanhorse @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social Writer of speculative fictions. NYTimes Bestseller. Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte winner.
Novels: SIXTH WORLD series, BETWEEN EARTH & SKY trilogy, Lucasfilm.
Comics/games: Marvel
TV: A Murder at the End of the World, Echo, Netflix Series Animation.
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social SRE by day, writer by night, tea-fueled queer forest cryptid at all hours. words at englishmace.com, rep'd by Kurestin Armada, writes as Macey Levington & Jennifer Mace. the cloud is, alas, my fault once again >:(
sunyi @sunyidean.com ~Reader, writer, occasional thinker // multi-award-losing author // rep: Harry Illingworth @harryillingworth.bsky.social
Jamedi @jamreads.com Book Blogger | Devourer of Books | Open to ARC/Review Copies | SFINCS judge | Living in Spain 🇪🇸 | He/Him | 29 | ENG / ESP | Contact: jvaquerav@gmail.com
linktr.ee/jamedi
Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social The Dorothy Dunnett Society. Literary society and registered charity promoting the works of Scottish novelist Dorothy Dunnett and historical research.
For more information on Dorothy Dunnett and her work, please visit
https://dunnettcentral.org
Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social Santaku Dynamics tachi-class combat doll & Your Fave Historydyke (PhD UPitt '17). Public historian. She/彼女. 暴れん坊姫様. Anatolian altersex bimbo by Daoist praxis. BEY/PHL/SDJ->PGH. Byline@Unseen Japan. 八幡信者. Opinions mine.
➡️ http://riverside-wings.com
P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of [their] own tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous and scornful
links to work here: https://p-h-lee.com/
National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov Official Bluesky account for NOAA's National Weather Service.
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
Andrea Stewart @andreagstewart.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author of The Drowning Empire trilogy and The Hollow Covenant trilogy, thriller Someone Else’s Daughter (out Feb 2027), cat herder, silly hat enthusiast, coach at The Novelry
https://linktr.ee/andreagstewart
Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social 🇺🇸&🇯🇵 SFF author | 📚: THE DEEP SKY, THE STARDUST GRAIL, SALTCROP (Flatiron). ENVOY (2027) (Tor). Any opinions expressed are my own only. (https://www.yumekitasei.com/links)
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com Hong Kong's impartial, non-profit, award-winning English-language newspaper: https://hongkongfp.com/about/ 100% independent, backed by an Ethics code and reader-funded: https://support.hongkongfp.com/
Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social Glider in the night, dancer in the dark, lover of lost rivers and paths in the woods and libraries and half-open doors. Moonlights as a writer.
Images/poems mine unless credited. AI must be consensual.
https://ko-fi.com/helenmccarthy51
Eri Victoria | "The Fangirl Diaries" Author @scarlet-rhapsody.com "The Fangirl Diaries" (2025) ♥️ Fandom Historian♦️ Princess Karma's Royal Court ♠️ AuDHD ♣️ she/they 🦋 🐉 #FightAsianHate 💖💜💙♌️🇵🇭🇺🇸 PFP: Catsuki Arts 📫 scarlet.rhapsody@ymail.com
Buy "The Fangirl Diaries" here: https://scarlet-rhapsody.com/?page_id=22298
DanmeiNews.com @danmeinews.bsky.social Your dedicated source for the latest news and updates in the English-translated danmei industry!
https://www.danmeinews.com/
rosmei @rosmei.bsky.social Indie publisher/distributor/copyright agency from Singapore. Dedicated to bringing more LGBTQ+ Romance (CN/ENG) to you. 💕
Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social postdoc at @inrsciences.bsky.social // phd from Concordia University // working on anime/-ation, gender & technology // prev intern at Microsoft Research, Uottawa, UQAM 🤖💋 // she/her // 📍MTL 🇨🇦
https://www.aurelie-petit.com
Hannah Dahlberg❄️Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social Sociocultural linguist and digital/popular media studies human | 📍Tohoku University | 社会言語学・デジタル社会・メディア表象・役割語/キャラクター言語 | J-E translation 日英翻訳 | they/she | (発言は個人の見解です)
Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com Lesbian Icon, Yurijin, Speaker, Writer, Editor, Researcher. Always looking for opportunities.
By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga on sale now! https://yuricon.com/product/bys/
Charlotte Stevens @charstevens.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Birmingham City University (film/tv, fandom, games), she/her
Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com 3 x Eisner and Bram Stoker-winning Writer/Translator/Lecturer. Faculty at NYU. Noted Monster Scholar. Shigeru Mizuki stan. Sabre fencer. Seattle boy. Extra fancy
OVERWATCH-MIZUKI: FACING DEMONS, KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN
www.zackdavisson.com
Once Upon A Crime @ouacbooks.bsky.social New and Used bookstore specializing in Mystery/Crime Fiction.
www.onceuponacrimebooks.com
Sylvie Cathrall rarely uses social media, alas @sylviecathrall.bsky.social she/her. author of The Sunken Archive duology and The Art of Charming a Changeling (out now!). this account is updates-only and used VERY infrequently, but I still appreciate you being here 🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷 https://linktr.ee/sylviecathrall
unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com unforth's account, for blorbo posting and DPP things (we're an indie press publishing original works by fancreators. duckprintspress.com)
fandoms: danmei, c-novels, a smattering of others such as Supernatural.
日本語 ✔️ | 汉语 ✔️
J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social She/They. The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World (Tor, 2025). The First Bright Thing (Tor, 2023). Nebula, Sturgeon, and Hugo finalist. Goldie award winner. ✡️🏳️🌈🍉Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jrdawsonwriter Rep: Stevie Finegan
Victoria Goddard @victoriagoddard.bsky.social Fantasy novelist, gardener, former cheesemonger, recovering medievalist 
Casey Blair @caseyblair.bsky.social Fantasy novelist (Tea Princess Chronicles, Diamond Universe, Sundered Realms) trapped under a cat. Dancer, traveler, nerd. Ace spec; she/her. https://linktr.ee/caseyblair
Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette @pennyvixen.bsky.social TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL
She/her
Gen X
Breast cancer survivor '23, OCD since '01, ME/CFS/FM, etc.
Horror/fantasy writer best known for THE GOBLIN EMPEROR (Tor, 2014)
Geek about everything
Childless cat lady by choice
Limecello @limecello.bsky.social Feral chaos muppet. Tart, a little sweet, & not enough vodka.
Lawyer + editor on pause.
https://tartsweet.com
(Old bio: Reader, Reviewer, Impoverished former lawyer at a non-profit, Imprecator, Foodie, Editor, Blogger, & Discusser of all things random.)
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Hey Japan! @hey-japan.com Explore the best of Japan with us! Follow for event updates, travel guides, and insider tips. Hokkaido to Okinawa, we've got it all. https://hey-japan.com
日経電子版 @nikkei.com 日本経済新聞（日経電子版）の公式アカウントです。トップページで報じたニュースを中心に注目コンテンツを発信していきます。画像・映像・テキストの改変およびAIを用いた加工処理等は日経の著作権ポリシーで禁じています。
▶ 日経HP: https://www.nikkei.com/
▶ 「著作権に対する姿勢」: https://www.nikkei.co.jp/nikkeiinfo/copyright/
The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp News, features and commentary from the oldest (est. 1897) and most widely read English-language media outlet in Japan.
JT staff on Bluesky: https://jtim.es/bskysp
Our newsletters: https://jtime.es/newsletters
Elsewhere: jtim.es/m/social
L.R. Lam @lrlam.bsky.social USA Today and Sunday Times Bestselling writer of Dragonfall, Pantomime, Goldilocks, Seven Devils, False Hearts, etc. Writing coach at The Novelry. 
Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social USA Today and LA Times bestselling author and stuff. ✨🎻🍩🚀🎵💖 Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff.
Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling Magazine & novellas & anthos & queer 📚. Editor: dave ring.
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social Blind. Author. Performer. Playwright. Screenwriter. Posts about artist life, disability, cute animals, and living in Minneapolis, MN. He/Him. #SFWA