Byron F. Aspaas @byrad.bsky.social Heartbreak Dancer | Proem Maker | Disco Storyteller | Baked Goods
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Mendocino Art Center @mendocinoartcenter.bsky.social A historical art center on the California coast, we host residencies, workshops, events, and provide a space for community to come together. https://www.mendocinoartcenter.org/
s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
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Lauralee Brown @lollybrown.bsky.social Singer, songwriter, performer.
Kristin Rae @mendocinomama.bsky.social Early education advocate, occasional artist, sometimes writer, aging hiker, lifelong learner, gardener, plant mom, lover of bright colors, intermittent theater geek, stargazer, casual pagan #jillofalltrades
The Mendocino Voice @mendovoice.bsky.social 📰 An Independent, nonprofit news site serving all of Mendocino County, California. Part of the BCN Foundation family. TIPS 👉 info@mendovoice.com.
Life on the Mendocino Coast @mendocinocoast.bsky.social Photography of local and neighboring counties.
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Mark Wallace, so-called @markwallace.bsky.social Writer, game designer, anguish flâneur. Words: NYTimes, Salon, LARB, Rumpus, GQ, etc.
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Once wrote a book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262513227/the-second-life-herald/
Sabina Khan-Ibarra @sabinaki.bsky.social writer, poet, digital marketer, mama, daughter, partner, friend, forever student, and life-long writer with many projects-in-the-works...
Thaisa Frank @thaisafrank.bsky.social Errant lover of Swift, children, constellations #ENCHANTMENT #HEIDEGGER'S GLASSES Starred Reviews Publishers Weekly, SFGrotto#Pushcart2023 www.thaisafrank.com.
June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com Author of LOVE/AGGRESSION | Fiction Editor at New Session
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social Writer/ interviewer/ Author of 1 memoir and 3 chapbooks- Fiction @ghostparachute @bendinggenres @soflopojo and others. Member @writersgrotto
Elizabeth Svoboda @svobodster.bsky.social Author of WHAT MAKES A HERO? and THE LIFE HEROIC. Contributing writer, Boston Globe Ideas. Words in Scientific American, Psychology Today, Atlas Obscura, NYT, etc. New book: THE ART OF PACING.
Stephanie Wildman @swildmansf.bsky.social #Kid-Lit writer | STORY POWER! | MIRI'S MOVING DAY | GHOST WRITER | BREATH BY BREATH | BRAVE IN THE WATER | TREASURE HUNT| #SCBWI #12x12PB #WritersGrotto | www.stephaniewildman.com
Jill K. Robinson @dangerjr.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor, photographer, traveler, and tequila demigoddess. Words for National Geographic, AFAR, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Sierra, and more.
Shikha Saklani Malaviya 🍉 @shikhamalaviya.bsky.social poet | mentor | undercover historian (through poetry)| Anandibai Joshee: A Life in Poems (HarperCollins India, 2023)| Geography of Tongues, (TGIPC, 2014).
Sarah Pollock @sarah987.bsky.social Writer, editor, focused on longevity right now.
Anoop Judge @anoopjudge.bsky.social Author: Book Club Fiction: MERCY & GRACE📚NO ORDINARY THURSDAY📚THE AWAKENING OF MEENA RAWAT📚THE RUMMY CLUB/ Non-Fiction: LAW: WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT & HOW TO GET IN📚Writing Instructor💻/SFGrotto#/ Pushcart nom. 2019/ website: https://anoopjudge.com
Roberto Lovato @robvato.bsky.social Author of Unforgetting http://bit.ly/2W1XFc3, called a "groundbreaking" memoir by the NY Times. Creative Writing Professor @UNLV. He/him. rlovatoauthor@gmail
Dominic Lim @jdominiclim.bsky.social he/him 🏳️🌈🇵🇭| Writers Grotto member | Babylon Salon cohost | Actors Equity Assoc | rep by Talcott Notch Literary | KARAOKE QUEEN ‘24 and ALL THE RIGHT NOTES ‘23 from Forever/GCP/Hachette
David Munro @dmunny.bsky.social Filmmaker, dad, hubsy wubsy
www.theunscripted.co
Shirley Huey @shirleyhuey.bsky.social Writer/reader/eater/wanderer. SF born + raised. Words: Catapult, Panorama: the Journal of Travel, Place, & Nature, EatingWell, sparkle+blink, Berkeleyside, & others. Former atty. Member, Writers Grotto. https://www.shirleyhuey.com
Ariel Gore @arielgore.bsky.social 
Alison Van Houten @notvanhooten.bsky.social Writer. Formerly Outside magazine & Sunset. Bylines also in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. Researcher at The Atavist. Member of The Writers Grotto in San Francisco.
Lindsey J. Smith @ljswrites.bsky.social Freelance climate journalist / Managing Editor at DeSmog / 2022 Kiplinger Fellow and Brown Handler Resident / she, her, hers
Jenny Qi, Ph.D. @jennyqi.bsky.social Author, Focal Point (2021)
freelance med/sci writer, poet
essays & poems in NYT, The Atlantic, etc.
www.jqiwriter.com
Xandra Castleton @xandramaria.bsky.social Screenwriter, Script Consultant, Filmmaker, Adjunct Professor
Brazilian & American, came of age in West Africa, lives in Berkeley. 
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Our Forestville correspondent @bethwinegarner.bsky.social ✏️ Journalist & author: bethwinegarner.com
📚 "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History" out now!
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The Writers Grotto @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social An inclusive community of writers providing cross-pollination, and insider expertise as well as classes and membership.
Janet Ashford @jashford.bsky.social Photographer, writer, artist living on the Mendocino coast.
Leilani Clark @leilaniclark.bsky.social Writing about freeways in East L.A, living off the 101 in Northern California. Published at The Guardian, The Rumpus, Civil Eats, Mother Jones, KQED, Coyote Media. Day job: environmental nonprofit comms manager.
Darwin BondGraham @darwinbondgraham.bsky.social Journalist, writer, historian; peripatetic, skeptic; fisherman, amateur pomologist, admirer of wildflowers, mushrooms; worshiper of forests, swamps, deserts, and mountains.
Elizabeth Weil @lizweil.bsky.social “great story!”— Judith Butler.
Feature writer, @nymag (before that: “propublica, @nytmag). 
@samsax.bsky.social @samsax.bsky.social 
Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com Antarctic Explorer + Filmmaker.
📺 Creator + host of LIFE UNEARTHED on PBS
🚀 NatGeo Explorer + NASA advisor
🔬 Often filming tardigrades
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Nancy Jooyoun Kim @nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social Umma / Author of LA Koreatown novels
WHAT WE KEPT TO OURSELVES
THE LAST STORY OF MINA LEE
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Hannah Hindley @hannah-the-bold.bsky.social Writer, naturalist, wilderness guide, performer. Recipient of the Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize and the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award. Lover of all things wild and free 🌱
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Kar Johnson @karjohnson.bsky.social They/them. Writer. Bookseller. Events for Green Apple Books in SF. Oakland-based.
Do no harm, take no shit.
Blaise Zerega @beezee.bsky.social Editorial Director, Alta Journal
Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social Writer, editor, cofounder @coyotemedia.org. Erstwhile culture editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies
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Gabe Meline @gmeline.bsky.social berf du KQED unih vrenk “Village Idiot”
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The Booksmith @booksmith.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood independent booksellers. Haight Street, San Francisco. Est. 1976.
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Joy Lanzendorfer @joylanzendorfer.bsky.social Author of RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM. Work in The New Yorker, New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, and others. www.ohjoy.org
Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social Writer - A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS (2024) - THE FAR AWAY BROTHERS (2017) - IMMEMORIAL (forthcoming February 2025) Other work in NY Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Guardian, Mother Jones, VQR & elsewhere
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
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.
John McMurtrie @johnmcmurtrie.bsky.social Nonfiction editor, Kirkus Reviews.
manjula martin @manjula.bsky.social writer/rocker/Luddite
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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club Chicanx. Agender/Genderless. ND. Bird Nerd. Queer.
Carnivorous plants
BSc in Nat Resources & Conservation. Masters in Fire Ecology. I'm an Ecologist in Public Health bc birds
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🌶 alt active again: @llorandoenel.club
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Tracy Clark-Flory @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social Journalist. Essayist. Author of MY MOTHER’S DAUGHTER: FINDING MYSELF IN MY FAMILY’S FRACTURED PAST (May 5, 3026) and WANT ME. 📕 Preorder my book: https://bit.ly/MyMothersDaughter
Berkeleyside @berkeleyside.org Award-winning nonprofit local news provider in Berkeley, California. Powered by Cityside Journalism Initiative.
East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social Poet. Editor in chief at Two Lines Press.
karl the fog @karlthefog.bsky.social the san francisco fog. have fun always carrying a light sweater.
Andrew Alden @geology.bsky.social Geology lifer
Book: Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
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Fortnightly blog: deepoakland.com
aboutgeology on Xitr
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Twilight Greenaway @twyspy.bsky.social Journalist and editor focused on climate, water, agriculture, and the natural world. Currently a senior reporter @civilbeat.bsky.social.
Personal newsletter: https://windowofopportunity.substack.com/
Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social Bestsmelling Author & Food Writer
Ayukîi! 👋🏼 she/her
Karuk & Italian 🪶🍝
“Chími Nu'am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen”
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Brad Johnson @ahablives.bsky.social A part of the Twitter Diaspora.
Also run East Bay Booksellers in Oakland, CA - @ebbooksellers.bsky.social
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.
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
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Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social Publishing award-winning literature from around the world in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Stephen Sparks @ssparks.bsky.social “To disappear, but not completely, so that you can know it.” - Elias Canetti
Point Reyes Books (pointreyesbooks.bsky.social) & Wayfinder Bookshop in Marin County, CA | Bad at email
ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social Award-winning, indie lit journal—made in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 132 is now available. Subscribe: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social Journalist, audio documentarian, writer. English professor at Dartmouth, working on a doc about the end of civil rights. Previously: NPR race and identity correspondent, “alarmingly divisive"
signal: sandhya_.96
Podcasts: On Our Watch, American Suburb.
San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social Nonprofit news and investigative reporting for the San Francisco Bay Area — online and on air at KSFP 102.5 FM, KSFP.FM.
https://sfpublicpress.org
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The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard.com Reporting on the people, power, and culture shaping San Francisco.
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social Author of THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS & FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE @doubledaybooks. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist. Descended from shamans and ghost whisperers
Jasmine Guillory @thebestjasmine.bsky.social Writer, Oakland.
Erica Gies / SlowWater.world @ericagies.bsky.social Author of "Water Always Wins," National Geographic Explorer awardee, TEDx speaker, independent journalist for Scientific American, Nature, NYT, the Atlantic, bioGraphic, and others. Fan of critters, plants, democracy, kindness.
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder of Unbreaking (Unbreaking.org) Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm She/her. Married to Ed Yong.
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social Eritrean American writer from Miami. Books, housing, immigration, climate. Probably thinking about sound. Cofounder of @coyotemedia.org and talkscratch.com 📚 In Open Country forthcoming from Little, Brown.
Oakland, CA | she/her
www.rahawahaile.com
soleil ho @soleilho.com critic and food writer @coyotemedia.org | James Beard award winner | they/them 🍊 av by max graves
signal: soleil.94 | www.soleilho.com
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
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
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Colin Winnette @colinwinnette.bsky.social Author of WONDERKIN (Putnam 2027), USERS (Finalist, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, NY Times Editor’s Choice), THE JOB OF THE WASP, HAINTS STAY, and COYOTE. (he/him)
colinwinnette.com
Anita Felicelli @anitafelicelli.bsky.social author of the short story collection HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and other works of fiction. books editor at Alta Journal, critic, essayer.
Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella.bsky.social Chronicler of Black cultural memory | Author of SELF-CARE FOR GRIEF (2021) & THE LITTLE BOOK OF SELF-HEALING (2022) | The hottest under the sun ⚡️
Website: nnekamokona.com
the dead zine: thedeadzine.beehiiv.com
the black alone: theblackalone.substack.com
Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social Former Writer in Residence at U of Tennessee - author of The Fire Eater, Bad Mexican, Bad American, The Parachutist, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man.
Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social Poet, storyteller, teaching artist.
Fellowships from PEN America, Kundiman, Aspen Institute. Studying at Randolph MFA. Fat bear nerd 🤎
www.tsunamee.com
Cal Morgan @calmorgan.bsky.social Worshipful Company of Book Folk 📚
Senior Literary Agent, Enliven Endeavors ✨
“Please read.”
Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Artist-in-Residence @ South 85 Journal | Next up: CHEEKS | http://maureenlangloss.com/
Sari Botton @saribotton.bsky.social Bestselling Author/Editor/Teacher/Oldster Memoir: And You May Find Yourself… Anthologies: Goodbye to All That and Never Can Say Goodbye Newsletters: @oldstermag.bsky.social, @memoirland.bsky.social, Adventures in *Journalism* http://saribotton.com
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/
Edgar Fabián Frías @edgarfabianfrias.org Host of @yourartisaspell.com
Owner of @therapywithedgar.com
CalArts Faculty
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They/Them/Elle
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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social Writer of the weird and experimental flash. Words @FracturedLit, @Xraylitmag, @NecessaryFic, @TBQuarterly, and elsewhere.
Debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, out now @MoonCityPress.
Read more at http://avitusbcarle.com