Jim Salegui for California @jim4ca.bsky.social Investing in our people pays dividends to our future.
SG Voices: Community for Change @sgvoicesforchange.bsky.social Advocate for immigrant rights & marginalized. Hold officials accountable. Promote democracy & mutual aid.
Meet in Covina 1st & 3rd Thursday of every month
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social The Democratic Coalition is one of the nation's largest grassroots progressive orgs. We campaign for Dems and have an aggressive online organizing program. http://www.democraticcoalition.org
Andres Rojas. @okaporia.bsky.social You know, poetry. EAT Poems, Paper Nautilus, Trio House Press. @ AGNI, Barrow St, Colorado R, Diode, Massachussets R , New England R, Poetry NW.
Kimberly Gibson-Tran @kdawn999.bsky.social Reader, poet, essayist, reviewer, cat person, Trekkie, ไทย speaker, book clubber, linguist, Texan/Floridian, missionary kid, she/they
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Blue Flower Arts @blueflowerarts.bsky.social blueflowerarts.com
Stephanie Elizondo Griest @sgriest.bsky.social Traveling Tejana and author of All the Agents and Saints, Mexican Enough, Around the Bloc, and Art Above Everything.
Patricia Patterson @pmpatters.bsky.social 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 fiction writer exploring family, history, and grief with a touch of magical realism | lover of stories with heart | some of my own stories can be found here: www.patriciampatterson.com
Keren Landman @landmansplained.bsky.social public health/medicine reporter | epidemiologist, ID doc | health misinfo, @soljourno, Southern stuff | Signal: kerenlandman.70 | kerenlandman.com
My recent work at Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/keren-landman
J Brooke @jbrookewrites.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Filmmaker
Author of: I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side (Driftwood Press, 2026)
Book Reviews Editor: The Rumpus
Poetry Editor: Trans Poetics Archive
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Melissa Hung @melissahung.bsky.social Writer & journalist. 📚Disability Intimacy, Body Language. Founding editor, Hyphen. Writing about immigrant communities, Asian America, culture, food, disability & more. melissahung.xyz
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social NOLA. SFFH/crime/journalist. BASFF & Locus notable stories ‘23. Indie author
Contributor to Antigravity Magazine & Gambit
Words in: Buzzfeed News, Politico, Apex Mag, Fiyah, more.
NOLA 40 under 40 2025!
NOVEL: “The Pike Boys” books2read.com/thepikeboys
Analía Villagra @isleofanalia.bsky.social NEA fellow | Recent work in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review | Assistant Fiction Editor for Split Lip Magazine | www.isleofanalia.com
Laura Andrea @lauranlora.bsky.social i write poetry y escribo ficción | 🇵🇷 living the southwest emo life | she/they/ella
‘Desapariciones y otros cuentos’ ya disponible!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun (2021) and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (2015). Pushcart Prize (2018). Best New Poets (2014) Editorial Assistant @Seneca Review. https://christophercitro.com
Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social Law prof in Las Vegas | Bagel expert, with a sub-specialty in pickles | UNLV Immigration Clinic Director | Private chef to my kids | Mets fan | Speaking for myself only | https://www.michaelgkagan.com | https://behindtheborder.substack.com
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Author of SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Flávia Monteiro @flaviamonteiro.bsky.social Brazilian writer based in Miami, FL.
@rubi-isela.bsky.social @rubi-isela.bsky.social 
Laura Paul @laura-n-paul.bsky.social Author of Total Art (Lavender Ink) and Film Elegy (PRROBLEM Press) | http://instagram.com/laura_n_paul/ | laurapaulwriter.com | lavenderink.org/site/shop/total-art
Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social Poet/Writer. Writing Coach. Forthcoming Book: Faith Farm (March 16, 2027, @unboundedition.bsky.social).
CEASEFIRE NOW FREE PALESTINE. 🍉 🖕🧊
Grackle and Grackle Writing Workshops @grackleandgrackle.bsky.social Accomplished and generous poets, essayists, graphic writers, playwrights, novelists, and memoirists offering workshops and guidance to writers and to organizations online and in Houston ...
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Addie Tsai (any/all) 🏳️🌈 @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social Writer & dance film scholar. 💃 phd. 📕: Dear Twin, Unwieldy Creatures, Straight White Men Can’t Dance (9/25, Bloomsbury): https://shorturl.at/yyHZP. Shirley Jackson finalist. Rev ed: Anomaly. EIC: just femme & dandy. http://www.addietsai.com
Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social Purveyor of words & images / Author of PYRRHIC SYMPHONY (UNIV. OF NEBRASKA, 2026) & INDEX OF HAUNTED HOUSES (SARABANDE, 2020) & its hotline: 619-329-5757.
www.adamodavis.com
Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social Author of, most recently, lowercase gods (Seven Kitchens 2026), Windshear (Jacar 2024), and Fugitive (Diagram 2024). PSA fellow and Amy Lowell Traveling Scholar. Editor and Publisher at Green Linden Press. www.christophernelson.info
Brandel France de Bravo @brandelfrance.bsky.social Poet. Essayist. Teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training. Newest book of poems, Locomotive Cathedral, Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska Press, 2025.
✨✨noam✨✨ @noamkeim.bsky.social Jewish Arab flâneur & writer. Free 🇵🇸 from the river to the sea. they/them. in The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts review,Foglitfter and others. The Land is Holy.
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cristian josé lopez (he/him/his) @ihatepatriarchy.bsky.social Los Angeles, CA 📍
prison abolitionist & intersectional feminist
“Being an Other in America teaches you to imagine what cannot imagine you.” -Margo Jefferson, “Negroland”
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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social Poet. 5 books, University of Akron Press. Memoiring. Translating. Gardening. Educator. Trans Nonbinary. OCD/hEDS/Long COVID. Views mine. They (Eng.)/Elle (Esp.)
Julia Ridley Smith @juliatrifles.bsky.social Writer. www.juliaridleysmith.com
Sex Romp Gone Wrong: Stories (Blair, 2024)
The Sum of Trifles (U of Georgia Press, 2021)
Not here much because I'm trying to write things and live IRL. 
Margaret Ray @mbrrray.bsky.social Poet 🥸
National Poetry Series
GOOD GRIEF, THE GROUND (BOA Editions ‘23) & a Poetry Society of America Chapbook: SUPERSTITIONS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC
she/her
https://www.margaretbray.com/
https://bookshop.org/a/92150/9781950774845
Simone Muench @simonemuenchie.bsky.social Poet, editor, professor. NEA fellow & author of seven poetry books. Affiliations: Sarabande, Black Lawrence, Lewis University, Northwestern University, Tupelo Quarterly and
simonemuench.com
sundayreadingseries.com
jetfuelreview.com
jacklegpress.org
Michael Montlack @michaelmontlack.bsky.social NYC Poet, Writer, Photographer, Traveler, Camper, Educator (City College)
Nathan McClain @nathanhmcclain.bsky.social Author of PREVIOUSLY OWNED and SCALE from Four Way Books. Food and wine lover. Edits poetry for the Massachusetts Review.
Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social Loyola grad’s dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social poet but don’t hold it against me • dreaming of you, candelaria @astrahouse
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Beth Nguyen @bethnguyen.bsky.social Books: Owner of a Lonely Heart (Scribner); Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (Viking/Penguin); two novels. Guggenheim fellow. CW prof at UW-Madison
Ann Townsend @anntownsendpoet.bsky.social Poet, essayist, daylily hybridizer.
Adam Clay @adamclay.bsky.social Poet and Professor at Louisiana State University. Most recent book is Circle Back (Milkweed Editions, 2024).
Derek Mong @derekmong.bsky.social Poet, essayist, editor, & translator. Latest poetry collection: When the Earth Flies into the Sun. Cont. Ed. at Zocalo Public Square. Prof. of English at Wabash College. Married to the inimitable Anne O. Fisher.
Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com Small press publisher of poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction chapbooks located in Durham, NC | est. 2006 | https://bullcitypress.com | linktr.ee/bullcitypress | posts by @noahstetzer.bsky.social, @amelialoeffler.bsky.social, & @rosswhite.com
Hélène Cardona @helenecardona.bsky.social #BAFTA #SAGAFTRA Actress + VO Artist in 6 languages 🌍 | Poet • Linguist • Producer | Life in Suspension, Dreaming My Animal Selves | #Chocolat #Upload #TevinaVeth’aal
https://helenecardona.com
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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social Fiction [Stealing the Fire]. Critic [BBC_Culture LitHub. Community [@bookcritics.bsky.social SFGrotto BayBookFest Litcampwriters .
Oscar Villalon @ovillalon.bsky.social Editor, ZYZZYVA (zyzzyva.org); contributing editor, Lit Hub; publications: Freeman's, The Believer, VQR, Lit Hub, Stranger's Guide, Alta, and other places. San Francisco is my home.
Mary Biddinger @marybid.bsky.social Writer & professor | The Girl with the Black Lipstick (novella-in-flash, Black Lawrence Press) Order from BLP at https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-girl-with-the-black-lipstick/
JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social Editor of Verse Daily, Dog's Heart Press, consultant, foodie, dog dad
Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social (she/her) Poet. Editor. Paddleboarder. Easygoing Capricorn. Next book: Accidental Devotions (Copper Canyon Press, 2026)! Co-host of "Poems You Need" with Melissa Studdard. Faculty at Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.🏳️🌈Bi/Queer
Chloe Martinez @chloemartinez.bsky.social 🪷Translator, Blue Like My Beloved/ Mirabai (New Directions, forth. 2026)
🌵Co-editor, Chaos, Creativity, Completion: New Approaches to Writing & ADHD (Chicago 2026)
🌿Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works 2021)
🌱Corner Shrine (Backbone 2020)
New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social Founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, New Directions proudly publishes great literature from around the world. ndbooks.com
Brian Spears @briankspears.bsky.social Senior Poetry Editor at The Rumpus (Ret.), author of A Witness in Exile and Another Poem to Love https://brian-spears.com I also crochet stuff.
Patreon: Eating Popeyes in Romania https://www.patreon.com/BrianSpears?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator
danalevinpoet @danalevinpoet.bsky.social 5 books of poetry, Copper Canyon Press. Brain disturber at Maryville U in St. Louis, Bennington Writing Seminars, and a location near you. Essaying, book forthcoming 2027 Graywolf Press—
Eric Nguyen @ericnguyenisok.bsky.social 📘 author of THINGS WE LOST TO THE WATER | 👨🏻💻he/him
Jennifer Givhan @jenngivhan.bsky.social Chicana + Indigenous author of THE SLEEPING SISTERS & SALT BONES (Little, Brown). Monstrous mamawriter of folk horror on the borderlands. Hexer of the patriarchy. Haunted woman.
She/Her/La Bruja
jennifergivhan.com
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Tess Taylor @tessathon.bsky.social Poet. Gardener. Writer.
https://www.tess-taylor.com/
@tarabetts.bsky.social @tarabetts.bsky.social 
Robin Ekiss @robinekiss.bsky.social Poet with a penchant for penning advertising.📕Author of THE MANSION OF HAPPINESS.🧁connoisseur. Binge-watcher. Fog-gardener. Short. Shorter. Shortest. robinekiss.com
Rachel Richardson @rbjrichardson.bsky.social Poet. Folklorist. Sometimes Professor. Planter of trees. SMOTHER (Norton 2025), Hundred-Year Wave (Carnegie Mellon 2016), Copperhead (Carnegie Mellon 2011).
Connie Post @conniepostpoet.bsky.social Poet. Author of 3 poetry chapbooks ; And When the Sun Drops, Trip Wires and Broken Metronome. And 3 full length poetry collections; Floodwater , Prime Meridian and Between Twilight. 
Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social Author of four poetry collections (most recently Made to Explode, published by W. W. Norton in 2021) and a disability memoir (Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life). Freelancer, teacher, poetry editor for Blair, & DC resident.
Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social Poet + Translator / New Book: THE END OF CHILDHOOD (Milkweed Editions, March 2025) / Editor of Copper Nickel / Co-director of the Unsung Masters Series / http://waynemillerpoet.com
Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social Canada's Poetry Magazine, founded in 1978. Arc Poetry #109 is available to order now. Subscribe today at arcpoetry.ca!
Passages North @passagesnorth.bsky.social A national literary magazine based at Northern Michigan University.
Site: passagesnorth.com
Submissions open in September 💫
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. 
Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social writer, teacher, author of fiction including The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and Willful Creatures. Happy to be on here.
National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature since 1974.
bookcritics.org
Martín Espada @martinespadapoet.bsky.social The page of the National Book Award-winning poet, essayist, translator, editor, and activist.
Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social Founded in 1986, HFR is an international semi-annual literary journal edited by graduate students in the MFA program at Arizona State University.
https://haydensferryreview.com/
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
Virginia Quarterly Review @vqr.bsky.social An award-winning national magazine at the University of Virginia. Established in 1925. vqronline.org
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@deborahlandau.bsky.social @deborahlandau.bsky.social poet / professor / director @nyucwp
Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social Cheerleader for other poets' poems | Founder of Conscious Writers Collective | www.consciouswriterscollective.com
B.K. Fischer @bkfischer.bsky.social poet ~ teacher ~ parent ~ author of Ceive (BOA) bkfischer.com
Philip Metres @philipmetres.bsky.social Poet, writer, translator
Tara A. Elliott @tara-a-elliott.bsky.social Poet, Teacher, Executive Director of Eastern Shore Writers Association, Host of Thursdays with ESWA Writing Zoomcast, Chair of Bay to Ocean Writers Conference
Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social Just trying to put words together. God Elegy forthcoming from BOA Editions 2028. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull), House Is an Enigma (Bull City). TMI in your inbox here: https://substack.com/@emmabolden
Erin Belieu @erinwriter.bsky.social Copper Canyon poet (Cocklebur: New & Selected Poems coming fall 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social Poet, prof, she/her. Books at @MilkweedEditions @W.W.Norton (forthcoming) #resist
https://kathyfagan.com
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Jenny Molberg @jennymolberg.bsky.social Poet ⚖️ THE COURT OF NO RECORD (LSU Press, 2023, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize). Editor @ Ploughshares. Professor @ Emerson College.
Elizabeth Torres @lissatorres.bsky.social Essays. Poetry.
elizabethtorreswriter.com
Craig Morgan Teicher @cteicher.bsky.social Poet, writer-about-books, Director of Special Projects @ Bennington Writing Seminars, father, dog lover, etc.
Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social Poet w/ 8 books, Marin County Poet Laureate Emeritus
Assistant Editor @narrativemag.bsky.social
YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Backbone Press, October 2024)
Maw Shein Win @mawsheinwin.bsky.social poet / writer / educator / editor
PERCUSSING THE THINKING JAR (Omnidawn, 2024)
mawsheinwin.com
literarycherry.com
Ariel Chu / 朱詠慈 @ariel-chu.com 💫 she/they, aspiring corvid
📜 creative writing phd candidate at usc
🖊️ stories & more: https://ariel-chu.com
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Christian Teresi @christianteresi.bsky.social Author of 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙢 (available from @redhenpress.bsky.social). Poet, translator. Arts/education/cultural advocate.
Marco Antonio Huerta @moteltampico.bsky.social Professor. Researcher. Poet. Translator.
Jonathan T. Bailey @baileyimages.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Queer / neurodivergent poet & conservation photographer. Winner of Reading the West and Foreword Indies awards. Find me in the NYT, HCN, & others.
Preorder my new book 🌞
https://www.baileyimages.com/Book
Sofía Aguilar @sofiaxaguilar.bsky.social QUEER LATINE HEROES (SEPT. ‘25) | AMOR. (out now via Bottlecap Press!) | writer, soft creature, library worker
Garlic is as good as 10 mothers @oblivia-n.bsky.social 🖤arts & education🖤 🇵🇷🇨🇺🇮🇹🇵🇱
learning BR-PT, public transit ho, collector of all kinds of paper ephemera, 🍞winner 4 my landlord
Cecilia Caballero, Ph.D. @writingourwellness.bsky.social 🆓🇵🇸 Autistic, single mama, teaching artist, poet, memoir WIP, Octavia Butler Earthseed fellow, The Kenyon Review's Julia Alvarez scholarship winner, VCCA, Cal Arts Council, Periplus, Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow
Dra. Yvette @gradschoolfemtor.bsky.social Certified Coach, Author, LinkedIn Learning Instructor, Host of Award-winning Grad School Femtoring Pod, First-Gen, Disabled, Chicana Mom of 2 🎓🌈♾️🥄🇲🇽