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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social Football writer, analyzer, podcaster. Sportsball good. Enjoyer of Bowie. Millennials are the Greatest Generation. I own and write for BadFaithTimes.com.
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Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
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Joel Montfort @montfort.me #TX politics. Political Scientist. Democrat. #ODAT #texasdemocrat, #txlege
Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda. www.StillersSoda.com
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social Host, This Is Wisconsin with @civicmedia.us | Author, This is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy | www.thisistheplan.com
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social Formerly Physicians for Biden and then Physicians for Harris. We are now united to preserve and promote a healthy US democracy. #MedSky
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social Politics, Music and Sports
@tit4tat1.bsky.social @tit4tat1.bsky.social I am neither left or right of you. I care nothing of your pedigree ,belief or birth status. Let’s put aside fake indignation . Stand united against the Mad King and the conglomerates that benefit from us hating each other.
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Anne Canadeo @annecanadeo.bsky.social Author, dog lover, social justice advocate, doing what I can, where I can, to push back and stop my head from exploding.🤯
Gregory Koger @gregorykoger.bsky.social Author of Filibustering & Strategic Party Government, http://U.Miami political scientist. Director of Hanley Democracy Center. Brings a lightsaber to a knife fight.
Cara Blue Adams @carablueadams.bsky.social YOU NEVER GET IT BACK, a New York Times Editors' Choice. Work in the New Yorker and Granta. Associate professor at Temple University. Brooklyn & Beacon via Vermont.
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social Author & queer historian. MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND is available for preorders now! Previously: The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) linktr.ee/HughRyan
Sumita Chakraborty @notsumatra.bsky.social www.sumitachakraborty.com • poet, scholar, general doer of things with words, faculty at the University of Virginia • wherever I am, I'm not Sumatra • opinions mine, including that nobody’s free until everybody’s free
Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer.
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him patreon.com/djolder
https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Adam Dalva @adamdalva.bsky.social Writing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, etc. Contributing Editor, Yale Review. President, National Book Critics Circle. Rep: Duvall Osteen
Kavita Das @kavitadas.bsky.social Writer, Author of Craft & Conscience and Poignant Song, OG New Yorker, Mama, Committed to Joy & Justice
Claire Dederer @clairedederer.bsky.social Author of MONSTERS: A FAN'S DILEMMA, a New York Times Notable Book and a national bestseller. Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Fresh Air, The Washington Post, Esquire, Kirkus, Vulture, Electric Lit & more.
Jonathan Escoffery @escoffery.bsky.social Author of IF I SURVIVE YOU, a NY Times Editor’s Choice, IndieNext Pick, & International Bestseller. Nom’d for the National Book Award, PEN/Jean Stein, PEN/ Robert W. Bingham, & Story Prize. Booker Prize, PEN/ Faulkner & NBCC John Leonard finalist.
Michele Filgate @readandbreathe.bsky.social Writer. Editor of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (2019) and WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (May 2025).
www.michelefilgate.com
Temim Fruchter @temim.bsky.social Author of CITY OF LAUGHTER (Grove Atlantic) | queer non-binary anti-Zionist Jewish writer + gentleman | Co-host Pete's Reading Series | Brooklyn
Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social Full-time Mum • Writer • Associate Professor @ CUNY (Grad Ctr + Hunter) • PhDJ • out now ⬇️ my book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday). Manhattanite. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/
www.taoleighgoffe.com
Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social NYT-bestselling, Hugo Award winning monster and myth maker. Most recently, VERGIL! A Mythological Musical (Audible) , Beowulf: A New Translation, The Mere Wife, & many other items in the wondertale category & beyond. https://linktr.ee/mariadahvanaheadley
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Kyle Dillon Hertz @kyledillonhertz.bsky.social The Lookback Window: a novel (2023)
Bassey @basseyworld.bsky.social *sigh*
Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author.
Senior Writer, Race and Equity @theguardian.com.
Craig Morgan Teicher @cteicher.bsky.social Poet, writer-about-books, Director of Special Projects @ Bennington Writing Seminars, father, dog lover, etc.
Lacy M. Johnson @lacymjohnson.bsky.social Writer of books & things | Contributing Editor @ Orion Magazine | Curator & Founder @ Houston Flood Museum | Professor & MFA Director @ Rice U | Guggenheim Fellow 2020 | Community storyteller @ Houston, Texas, Baby.
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto @megankkakimoto.bsky.social author of EVERY DROP IS A MAN'S NIGHTMARE, from Bloomsbury | Michener Center Fellow | Japanese & Kanaka Maoli writer, reader, pastry enthusiast
Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social www.IlyaKaminsky.com
Joseph Osmundson @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social scientist, writer, activist. VIROLOGY (Norton, 2022) "dazzling... love essays" -NYTimes Book Review, NBCC & Lambda Literary Finalist in Nonfiction
Brendan Kiely @brendankiely.bsky.social Dad, husband, author, educator, joy enthusiast.
Stephen Kuusisto @stevekuusisto.bsky.social Poet, memoirist, disability activist, and dog lover. Travels and lectures widely on literature and human rights.
Andrew Leland @quailty.bsky.social Signal: andrewleland.99
Email: aleland@fastmail.com
Writing about disability, language, technology, art, culture, ladybugs in sweatpants, etc
Low vision, long covid, bad faith, good times
https://www.andrewleland.org
Annie Liontas @aliontas.bsky.social SEX WITH A BRAIN INJURY
& LET ME EXPLAIN YOU
yeah, I could eat
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Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. 🏳️🌈🦌🐊🦀
Greg Mania @gregmania.bsky.social writer/DSM-5 darling
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Tracie McMillan @tmmcmillan.bsky.social Reporter and writer covering business x affordability for Guardian US, NYT opinion and more. Living between Detroit and Brooklyn. Reporting nationwide and occasionally abroad.
Rasheed Newson @rasheed.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Bestselling Author of MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME and THERE’S ONLY ONE SIN IN HOLLYWOOD
📺 writer: #BelAir #Narcos #The100
Denne Michele @thedennemichele.bsky.social den (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ • EIC @ElectricLit • WHEN THE HARVEST COMES (Random House, ‘25) • BOTH/AND (HarperOne, ‘25) • Views Mine • ⛸️ • 🎻• ✍🏾
Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com Doctor of poems. In my crone era.
Writer. Professor. Traveler. Michigan-born, California-raised. But you might find me anywhere ✨ New memoir: Between the Devil & The Deep Blue Sea 💙⚓️🩵
https://www.khadijahqueen.com/
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Lilliam Rivera @lilliamr.bsky.social Award-winning author. Bronx born, L.A. living. Latest: TINY THREADS (Del Rey Books), available where books are sold.
https://www.lilliamrivera.com
Jess Row @jessrow.bsky.social Novelist, essayist, writing teacher. Find me at jessrow.com and jessrow.substack.com.
Maurice Ruffin @mauricenow.bsky.social Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way. 💐 I'm probably on my Substack: Sitting in Silence.✍️🏿https://mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/
Sonia Shah @soniashah.bsky.social Journalist | Guggenheim fellow | Author of 6 books
📚THE IMAGINARY WALL (2027)
Bylines: NYT magazine, The New Yorker, The Nation + more
Crosspollinations.substack.com | IG @soniashahauthor | Tiktok @soniashah2326
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Safiya Sinclair @safiyasinclair.bsky.social Author of HOW TO SAY BABYLON, memoir (@simonschuster & @4thEstateBooks) | Poet | Born & raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica | Booking: @shipmanagency.bsky.social
Rob Spillman @robspillman.bsky.social Literary Citizen, rewilder, dogfather to two rescues. www.robspillman.com
Amanda Stern @amandastern.bsky.social Native New Yorker. Author of 13 books. Everything I own is stained.
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷SOCIAL DISTANCING out March 2027 from Semiotext(e)💐 ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK out Fall 2027 from Haymarket 🌸 https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
Meredith Talusan @1demerith.bsky.social scribbler and waterer of plants
Deb Olin Unferth @debolinunferth.bsky.social Wrrrittter
Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social Poet, photographer, occasional visual artist. Latest book of poems is Hold Your Own from Copper Canyon Press (2024).
https://www.patreon.com/nikkiwallschlaeger
Afaa M. Weaver @elder-afaa.bsky.social A devoted husband, septuagenarian, father, grandfather, big brother, son, uncle, cousin…friend. Wordsmith. Chancellor at Academy of American Poets. Born, raised in Baltimore MD.
Lizz Winstead she/her @lizzwinstead.bsky.social Comedian. Co-creator of The Daily Show. Abortion Czar and Founder of @AbortionAccessFront. Host Feminist Buzzkills podcast. Author, "Lizz Free Or Die" Lizz Winstead on Substack
Views are my own, not of the organizations I am affiliated with. #AbortionAF
Michael Zapata @michaelzapata.bsky.social Author of the novel THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU. Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago & Northwestern University. Descended from Andean farmers, poets, and union organizers.
michaelzapata.com
Courtney Zoffness @czoffness.bsky.social Author of SPILT MILK (McSweeneys). Sunday Times Short Story Award winner. Fellowships: The Center for Fiction, MacDowell, Bread Loaf. Creative Writing Director at Drew University.
Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social @Propublica.org journalist in Detroit, exploring Michigan and the Midwest
Author: "The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy”
Teacher: Alma College MFA program in creative writing
www.annaclark.net
key by riis by rickey laurentiis @rckylrnts.bsky.social According to the Whiting Foundation, I’m a “magician who can slow down time.” Writer & poet.
Author of BOY WITH THORN (2015); DEATH OF THE FIRST IDEA (2025)
rep by @WylieAgency & @shipman_agency
IG @rckylrnts
@lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social Not checking this account all that often these days but you can find me here: https://fightweek.substack.com/
Nina McConigley @ninamcconigley.bsky.social Colorado State University professor. Author of COWBOYS AND EAST INDIANS and HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER. Wyoming/Colorado. Decolonize it all.
Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social (he/him) journalist/author. mental health & gender. trans guy. i live in the woods.
📝: Esquire, Eater, The Believer, The Cut, This American Life
📖: akomp.info (Scribner)
https://www.sandyernestallen.com
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social Creative Director @theverge.com, writer/drawer of books incl SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS
Emily Dufton @emilydufton.bsky.social Drug historian. Author of GRASS ROOTS and host on New Books Network. ADDICTION, INC. coming April 2026
Monique Truong @moniquetruong.bsky.social Writer & Librettist & Eater
https://monique-truong.com/
Jenny Johnson @infullvelvet.bsky.social Poet and essayist.
www.jennyjohnsonpoet.com
In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017)
Views expressed are my own.
Megan Milks @meganmilks.bsky.social just getting set up here / author of MARGARET AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING BODY and SLUG AND OTHER STORIES; new book MEGA MILK forthcoming in early 2026 / they/them
Heather Clark @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social Author of Pulitzer Prize finalist RED COMET, and THE SCRAPBOOK: A NOVEL, coming June 2025. 2022-23 Guggenheim Fellow. 2024-25 Cullman Center Fellow.
Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social Poet. Essayist. Educator. "Places I've Taken My Body" & "The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded" Co-author "In the Field Between Us" w Susannah Nevison. Editor in Chief @ Image Journal. http://mollymccullybrown.com
Maaza Mengiste @maazamengiste.bsky.social Writes many words: Beneath the Lion's Gaze, The Shadow King, & the next one.
Believes in film: mostly Tri-X, sometimes Portra.
There's something out there, and it is us.
Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social “Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Dog person, cat person, native plant restoration person. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/maudnewton
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/
Christine Nangle @nanglish.bsky.social Writer, The Simpsons. (prev The President Show, The Break, Inside Amy Schumer, Kroll Show, SNL, UCB) I like pit bulls so much. Phanatic fanatic. 🦅
Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social Author: Invisible Things, Loving Day, Pym, Incognegro, etc. Helped on The Fall of the House of Usher (Nflx) and Manhunt (🍎).
Philly-born; Oregon-thriving
Storytelling Guru at U of Oregon; Go 🦆!
Will block for pedantic responses to joke posts—gleefully
Carrie Wittmer @carriesnotscary.bsky.social camp account 
whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social Executive Producer, City Cast Nashville / nashville.citycast.fm / Wally’s mom / former: WCK, EW / my analysis is largely correct / Go Stros / anger is a gift
National Book Foundation @nationalbook.bsky.social National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. Dedicated to the celebration of the best literature in America. 
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social Author of THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW, out now from Bold Type / critic with words in NYRB, NYT Mag, WaPo, The New Republic, and elsewhere / member Freelance Solidarity Project and National Book Critics Circle / Philly / kristenmartin.net
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social The Daily Show, Roy Wood Jr.'s 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trevor Noah's 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Hardball on MSNBC
Noah Garfinkel @noahgarfinkel.bsky.social TV Writer: Kroll Show, New Girl, Other Cancelled Sitcoms
James Urbaniak @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social Actor, writer, podcast guest