Cindy Sommer @cindysommpb.bsky.social Award-winning children's book author of PB SAVING KATE'S FLOWERS (Arbordale) Crystal Kite winner, #KidLit, #SCBWI, #12X12PB Gold Member, ISO Agent, Querying PBs. www.cindysommer.com
Ann Douglas @anndouglas.bsky.social Author of 26 non-fiction books, including NAVIGATING THE MESSY MIDDLE (a book about midlife). Trying to teach myself how to write my first novel. Passionate about democracy and social justice. http://anndouglas.ca
David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social Walking pics, stories, poems, essays. & Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Sebald, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, HD, Ozu, Akerman, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dead, Mahler, Jameses… & some Dharma
www.six18sfoundry.com
Nurture Junk Birds
Renee Runge, literary agent @reneerunge.bsky.social Associate Agent at Spencerhill Associates repping middle grade and young adult fiction 📖🐛 (do not DM me submissions) | MA/MFA in Children’s Literature
Michelle Schaub @schaubwrites.bsky.social Author, poet, teacher. A PLACE FOR RAIN (Norton Young Readers), LEAFY LANDMARKS (Sleeping Bear Press); poetry ideas for educators: http://poetryboost.com; repped by @ljamstutz.bsky.social @stormliterary.bsky.social www.michelleschaub.com
joannamcintyre.bsky.social @joannamcintyre.bsky.social Author of Picture Books and Wrangler of Small, Feral Children.
OUT NOW: Tidy Ted Meets Jess the Mess (Clavis, distributed by Simon & Schuster) out April 21st!
SCBWI, 12x12 Challenge, often in the weeds
deblund.bsky.social @deblund.bsky.social KidLit author, creativity coach, writing teacher, doodler, northern Minnesota transplant to Whidbey Island. Check out KidLit Catalyst on YouTube!
Ritu Anand @ritud4eolit.bsky.social Award Winning Author,
Literary Agent at D4EO Literary Agency
Flashlight Press @flashlightpress.bsky.social Picture books that explore and illuminate touching and humorous moments of family situations. www.FlashlightPress.com
Receive news about upcoming giveaways, books, and more! https://flashlightpress.com/subscribe-to-the-flashlight-press-newsletter/
@mdemk.bsky.social @mdemk.bsky.social 
Debbie Moeller @debbiemoellerbooks.bsky.social Author. Eclectic kidlit writer. I write picture books (fiction & nonfiction), leveled readers and early readers. Retired teacher. Eccentric grandma. Beach junkie. SCBWI member. She/her
Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social Very much an Amateur Hobbyist Photographer who loves Wildlife, #EastCoastKin Arts Collective Member
Co-Host of #BirdOfTheDay with Alan
User of Canon Photography Gear
ONLY HERE FOR THE Wildlife, Fauna & Flora
Reposts are Acceptable anything else is Theft
Kris Rashid @krisrashid.bsky.social She/her | Picture Book Author represented by Janine Le at JLLA | @SCBWIEPA.bsky.social Blogmaster | 2025 #PBParty finalist | Here for #PictureBooks and #KidLit
📍Philly
www.krisrashid.com
Abby Wooldridge @anwbooks.bsky.social Pediatric speech-language pathologist. #KidLit writer. #12x12PB. #SCBWI. #PBParty 2025 Finalist. Equal parts Monica Geller, Sue Heck, Leslie Knope.
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.--Romans 12:21
abbywooldridge.com
Andrew Allsop @allsopsfables.bsky.social Children’s book author, #PBParty Finalist ’25, #PBRisingStars Mentee ’23, WriteHive Mentee ’24, member of SCBWI, repped by @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social at Bradford Literary Agency.
Callie Dean @calliebdean.bsky.social Writer, Musician, Researcher, Mom.
http://calliebdean.com
Rep: Karly Dizon @ Fuse Literary
Andrea Morrison @andreaagency.bsky.social Literary Agent at Writers House, MFA at Columbia School of Arts, I hope to see your submissions at andreasubmissions (at) writershouse (dot) com
☕️🌊📚🌼
Lindsey Aduskevich @laduskevich.bsky.social Literary Manager with Martin Literary Management | Reader | Writer | Dreamer | #SCBWI #InkedVoices| rep'd by @joycekay.bsky.social with the Seymour Agency
Julie Romeis Sanders @juliebookagent.bsky.social Literary Agent. Horse girl, dog mom, taxi parent, and guacamole lover. Building a community of storytelling, collaboration, and connection.
Michelle Witte @michellewitte.bsky.social Literary agent with Mansion Street Literary (currently closed to queries) and mental health advocate. I also write craptastic books. She/her.
www.michellewitteliterary.com
Celina Sun @celinasun.bsky.social Associate Editor @ Penguin Workshop🐧📚
she/her▪️中文还可以▪️believer in magic▪️drinker of tea▪️all these feelings are mine~
#WeNeedDiverseBooks
Christa Heschke @christaheschke.bsky.social Literary Agent at McIntosh & Otis, Inc. Lover of books, travel and adorable animals. Cat mom and mom to Kira :) Western NY born and raised. Green Bay Packers fan.
Carter Hasegawa @casahasegawa.bsky.social • Associate Agent with Tugeau2 Art and Literary Agency
• Former editor at Candlewick Press
• Freelance editor and kidlit writing coach
• Husband to a public librarian wife and dad to two preschool boys
Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social Physician. Parent. Your weird queer aunt in the woods (Upstate NY). she/they/🏳️🌈
Mostly thinking about birds, trees, and dirt.
I love the library. 📚
(Not medical advice)
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
The Wee Owl Studio, Art 🏴 @theweeowl.bsky.social I'm a Scottish artist, painting and drawing nature: landscape, birds, insects, animals and flowers. You will find my work at 'The Wee Owl Studio' on Folksy. Here's a link to my shop and more:
https://linktr.ee/The.Wee.Owl.Studio
*sorry no DMs
Kidlit411 @kidlit411.bsky.social Everything kid lit, in one place! A website and community founded by Elaine Kiely Kearns and @sylvialiu.bsky.social. Follow us for weekly links to kid lit resources and book giveaways.
website: kidlit411.com 
Becky Scharnhorst @beckyscharn.bsky.social 
Picture Book Summit @picturebooksummit.bsky.social The original online writing conference JUST for Picture Book Creators, established in 2015. Join us ONLINE on Oct. 3 2026 with Superstar Speakers Derrick Barnes, Deborah Underwood, and Brian Lies! picturebooksummit.com
Abigail Halpin @abigailhalpin.bsky.social Picture Book Illustrator + New Englander 🌲
🍁 ANNE DARES / Tundra
🎻 ITZHAK / Abrams
www.theodesign.com
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social Queer romance author. Obsessive book buyer. Slow runner. Fascinated birder. She/her, bi. Rep'd by Handspun Literary Agency. Volunteer Child Advocate for detained immigrant kiddos. Views my own.
Ann McCallum Staats @annmsbooks.bsky.social Writer, thinker, curious about the world
@frogalsocat.bsky.social @frogalsocat.bsky.social Frog. Cat. Writer. Lives with a dragon, a bird and a pirate bathroom. 12x12 member.
Nancy Hudgins @nancyhudgins.com 🎈Celebrating🎈
Books Good Enough For You: The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom, Editor of Extraordinary Children's Books
Rep’d: Rachel Orr, Prospect Agency
#MG #SCBWI #BoydsMill #InkedVoices #nonfictionkidlit
Haley Grunloh @haleygrunloh.bsky.social An illustrator and zoology fangirl from New Haven CT 🏳️🌈🐌 Pratt 2013, CSUMB Science Illustration 2024 http://www.haleygrunloh.com
iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social The place where your nature photos impact science & conservation around the world. Free, nonprofit, & community-powered. 🪲🐌🌿
Brooke Baum @brookebaum.bsky.social 🌟 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentee
🎨 #kidlit author-illustrator
📚 Former children's bookseller and school librarian
😴 Current tired mom
🤓 Self-taught and still self-teaching
Represented by Marissa Brown at Pippin Properties
brookebaum.com
Dave Knadler @davaar99.bsky.social Writer and sole proprietor of Davesfiction.com. Friend to animals. Implacable foe of all things MAGA. Extremely knowledgeable about everything. Immune to the charms of E girls and porn bots -- who comprise 93 percent of my followers.
Martin Stanev @martinstanev.bsky.social Illustrator & Author from Bulgaria, living in the Lake District, UK
🌐 martinstanev.com
📚 Rep’d by InklingIllustration.com
✉️ hello.martinstanev@gmail.com
Meneka Repka @menekarepka.bsky.social Children's illustrator, represented by Charlotte Wenger/ Prospect Agency.
Website: https://www.menekarepka.com
Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social Reconciliation ecologist working towards decoloniality at a Land Grab University on Saponi lands • Writer • Alien of extraordinary ability • 🏳️⚧️ parent • 🐦⬛ 🦚 🪶 📽️ 🏏
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social Climate/environment reporter at ProPublica. Cartoon me by Laila Milevski. Pro-cats, anti-carrots. Contact: lisasong.42 on Signal
Sarah Zhang @sarahzhang.bsky.social eukaryote, also a staff writer at the atlantic
Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social James Beard winning WaPo columnist writing about food & science, author of TO BOLDLY GROW, gentleman oyster farmer. 
Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social EvAnth, EvMed, & Global Health
I study mothers, milk, & babies
Cheddar Superfan.
"Scarier than a badger"
Opinions my own
Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social PhD brain and genomic scientist. Ocean junkie. Computer wrangler. Open data believer. Geek. Punk. Not that kind of doctor. Views only my own. She/her
Dr. Sebastian A. Echeverri, PhD @spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood spider scientist!｜ADHD & autistic｜Cohost of the BBC Earth Podcast｜Designed Crash Course Zoology｜Find me across the web @ https://spiderdaynightlive.carrd.co/
Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social Science journalist, champagneophile, nap champ. Currently freelance, formerly National Geographic. 🇱🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Signal: nadiadrake.01
Mary Roach @maryroach.bsky.social Nonfiction author, science goober. Stiff, Bonk, Fuzz, Grunt, Packing for Mars, etc. 
Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of Becoming Earth (Random House) ✵ Contributing writer, New York Times Magazine ✵ Naturalist, wildlife gardener & photographer, baker ✵ 🇱🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 ✵ Surname rhymes with neighbor ✵ https://www.ferrisjabr.com
Lisa Grossman @astrolisa.bsky.social Science journalist (current: Science News; past: New Scientist, Wired). 2023-24 Knight Science Journalism fellow. Lifelong astronomy nerd. Queer Jewish mom 🏳️🌈 she/her/hers
Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org Evolutionary biologist, runner, writer, gay. Not necessarily in that order. LAX and elsewhere
Signal @jbyoder.82
Also ecoevo.social/@jby, jbyoder.org
Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app Your friendly neighborhood abolitionist.
Educator/Activist/Artist and wildlife photographer. Building towards a care-based world in unarmed response, housing & social/racial justice; writing at https://creating.care
linktr.ee/rhenyard
George @hannahtempler.com Hannah George Templer | 🏳️🌈lesbian | GLAAD-nominated, Eisner and Ignatz-winning cartoonist | she/any | COSMOKNIGHTS http://cosmoknights.space | http://www.hannahtempler.com | htempler@gmail.com
Diana Sudyka @tinyaviary.bsky.social Illustrator, author.
Midwest + Great Lakes.
My book: LITTLE LAND
Represented by Andrea Morrison, Writers House Ltd.
www.dianasudyka.com
Abigail Gray Swartz @graydaystudio.bsky.social ✨ Artist & Illustrator✨ she/her
Gardening, knitting, sewing
Raising kids and dogs in Maine.
www.GrayDayStudio.com
Ginger Ngo | Illustrator 🤡 @gingerngo.bsky.social Illustrator, kids books, googly eyes. I'm too much woman for Instagram.
Rep’d by Adriana Domínguez at ACM Kids & Illustration
https://gingerngo.com
https://gingerngo.substack.com/
Nicky Heard Artist @nickyheardartist.bsky.social UK Professional Wildlife Wool Painting Artist.
Director of Southern Nature Art Exhibition.
Teacher. Work is for sale UK
www.nickyheard.co.uk
Christine Mercer-Vernon| Floral Art @mercer-vernon.com Floral paintings of favorite garden flowers.
🌼 Red Raven Art Co. | Lancaster, PA
📍 York, PA
⬇️ Explore the garden
https://mercer-vernon.com
Big Hippo 🇮🇪 @bighippoart.bsky.social Wildlife illustrator. Contact: jacekm790@gmail.com
Inprnt shop: https://inprnt.com/gallery/big.hippo.art/
Paschalis Dougalis @dougalisart.bsky.social Professional wildlife illustrator for 30 years with a special interest on European fauna and Extinct species. I work from life as often as I can
Tamsin Abbott @tamsintheshed.bsky.social Grown from nature, receiving wonder, creating stories in glass. Illustrator in glass of ‘Wild Folk’ with Jackie Morris author.
https://linktr.ee/TamsinAbbott?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a810bede-44b7-4760-b2fd-cb5693636342
BeckyKidus @beckykidus.bsky.social Just someone from Norway who loves animals, nature and to draw animals and nature. They/them.
My Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/beckykidus64590
Prints: https://www.redbubble.com/people/BeckyKidus/shop?asc=u 
Colin Ventura @colinwoodart.bsky.social Artist working in wood, making jewellery and sculptures. Occasional painter. Buy from my Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ColinVenturaWoodWork
Lucas Kias | 🎨 Art & Science 🧬 @lucaskias.bsky.social 🇧🇷 Scientific/Naturalist illustrator
🐸 Biologist (PhD. Biodiversity and Evolution)
✍️ Digital artist
Same @ in others social medias
My shop - https://www.redbubble.com/people/LucasKias/
My ecosystem - linklist.bio/lucaskias
Kerrie Ann Gardner @kerriedoodles.bsky.social Artist, writer, naturalist, photographer and wonderer. Enchanted by the natural world but angered by our treatment of it. Always happier outside. Often found gazing at the sky.
Website: www.kerrieanngardner.co.uk
Hannah Clipp, PhD @allthatwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife biologist & birder | Interests: wildlife research, birding, & nature photography | Wildlife & GIS Scientist working for the Appalachian Mountain Club | PhD in Natural Resources Science (WVU) | Website: hannahclipp.weebly.com
zupiz @zupiz.bsky.social architect, illustrator, nature enthusiast
disabled birder (est. 2022) with a slow-growing life list (133) .ᐟ
None of us are free until we are all free.
#birdart #illustrator
Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art Artist, community enthusiast, bird obsessed
She/Her
Based in KW, Ontario
www.birdnerd.art
Carolyn Kay Smith @carolynkaysmith.bsky.social Wildlife and fantasy artist, birder, photographer, dinosaur fan, proud cat lady
No AI, ever.
https://www.carolynksmith.com/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
HuffPost @huffpost.com 🚨 Fair and fearless reporting since 2005. 🚨
Got a scoop? Send us news tips here 🔍 https://tips.huffpost.com
Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social Book author, toxicology journalist, fascinated by poison and murder (current book project), and, oh yeah, I'm the former director of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT.
Emily Anthes @emilyanthes.bsky.social Science reporter at The New York Times, covering animal health and science • emily.anthes@nytimes.com Signal: emilyanthes.41
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.
Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com "covers the strange and consequential with equal enthusiasm"
"I may be unable to discern the point, but it definitely made me read the whole thing"
reporter 〰️ writer 〰️ sculptor 〰 @coyotemedia.org calendar guy 〰️ they/them 〰 https://reveleth.com/
Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/carlzimmer/
Web: http://carlzimmer.com
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social Dr of Zoology
Data Scientist
Science feed co-creator
NYT bestselling author of #DoesItFart🐢💨
Deidra Purvis @fspacquisitions.bsky.social Acquiring editor for TCM imprints Free Spirit Publishing and Curiosity Unlocked Books. Seeking board books, picture books, SEL for kids and teens, and high interest fiction and nonfiction for ages birth through twelve. I do not respond to DMs. She/her- Z zoie janelle @zoiejanelle.bsky.social editorial assistant @PeachtreePub & @PeachtreeTeen • cat enthusiast • the L in LGBTQ • (all views are my own!)
Asia Citro @asiacitroauthor.bsky.social Mom, teacher (M. Ed), author of the ZOEY AND SASSAFRAS SERIES + more, editor @ Innovation Press 
Adam Blackman @adamdblackman.bsky.social Acquiring Editor (Cardinal Rule Press), Freelance Editor (developmental through proofreading at www.adamdblackman.com). Writer of PB and MG. Proud dad to 1 burgeoning tween (human) and 1 seriously adolescent bunny. #SCBWI #Kidlit
Katie Monson @litagentkatiem.bsky.social Senior Literary Agent with SBR Media.
https://QueryTracker.net/query/Katie_Monson
https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/katie-monson/
All opinions and statements are my own.
Sarah Stephens @sarahredfox.bsky.social Agent at Red Fox Literary ✏️ Kidlit Author 🖍️Indie Bookseller 📚 Dog Worshipper 🐾 Tree Hugger 🌳
Mike (Michaela) Whatnall @mwhatnall.bsky.social Literary agent at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. Lover of tea and irrepressible book enthusiast. (they/them, sal: Mx.) Most active on insta! @michaelawhatnall michaelawhatnall.com
Ariana Philips @arianaphilips.bsky.social Literary Agent/Partner at JVNLA
@jvnla.bsky.social
https://www.jvnla.com/
Dunham Literary @dunhamlit.bsky.social Dunham Literary. Agency representing authors of fiction and nonfiction for adults and authors and illustrators of children's books for all ages for 25 years. www.dunhamlit.com
analía cabello @analiacabello.bsky.social ✨📚🏳️🌈| backyard gardener🌻| associate literary agent @ ABLA |
Liz Nealon @liznealon.bsky.social Literary agent and founder@greatdoglit. News geek. Science freak. Working to become a better photographer. Opinions are my own.
Anjanette Barr @bookbarrista.bsky.social Literary Agent with Dunham Literary, Inc.
Temporarily closed to queries.
https://www.dunhamlit.com/how-to-submit
🌎Alaska 💕Books! Tea! Whisky!
Becca Langton @beccalangton.bsky.social Literary agent at #TeamDACBA everything from illustrators for the tiniest readers to crossover and new adult.
Scotland at home, London at work.
Banner by Tim Mack
Charlotte Wenger @charlottewenger.com she/her | 📚 literary agent with Prospect Agency repping kidlit authors and illustrators | toddler mom | Greater Boston Area | opinions mine
🌻
www.charlottewenger.com
www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/charlotte-wenger
@sheilafernley.bsky.social @sheilafernley.bsky.social