Oliver de la Paz @oliverdelapaz.bsky.social Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA. Author and editor. Kundiman. NEA Fellow. Teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the low res MFA at PLU.
María de Lourdes Victoria Author @marialourdesauthor.bsky.social Grand mother and author. Founder Seattle Escribe. https://www.mariadelourdesvictoria.com/
Frank Abe @frankabe.bsky.social Co-editor, THE LITERATURE OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION. Lead author, WE HEREBY REFUSE. Blogs at http://Resisters.com. Links: https://linktr.ee/
The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social Publishing great literature and art since 2003.
Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, & Hawthorne Books.
Bill Carty @billcarty.bsky.social scissors & paste, seattle
https://www.billcarty.com/
Gerri Brightwell @gerribrightwell.bsky.social Novelist and short-story writer; Alaskan Brit who still says "Blimey!" and drinks tea though left Blighty over 30 years ago. Currently having a very hard time with Trump 2.0--my 2023 novel Turnback Ridge was supposed to be speculative fiction!
Matt Briggs @mattdbriggs.bsky.social Content architect, technical writer, and author from Seattle. Author of Shoot the Buffalo, The Remains of River Names, and oher books. Online at: http://mattbriggs.us | http://suburgian.com | http://mattbriggs.com
Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social Owner of Phinney Books in Seattle, author of A Reader’s Book of Days and The Phinney by Post Book
Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social [They/Him] I write about laughter, joy, and what foot-forward community embracing looks like. Love your love. Poems, bear scholar, and all around person who cares.
riantly.substack.com
Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social poet laureate of the gay nude beach.
Let the Moon Wobble (Alice James Books 2025). my pronouns are secret. Seattle. allysonang.com
Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social Poet, essayist, recovering academic in Bellingham, WA. Work in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Iron Horse, Potomac Review, RHINO Poetry, Terrain.org, Whale Road Review. Chapbook: IMPOSSIBLE LESSONS (MoonPath Press). https://jenniferbullis.wordpress.com
Alex, the Hero of Write @authoralexharvey.bsky.social Queer autistic SFF author. They/them/theirs. Hellenic Polytheist. Lucatiel of Mirrah's #1 fan. Bulbasaur connoisseur.
AI users shot on sight.
FROM UNDER A POISONED BOUGH serializing NOW!
Erotic Fiction @dwkatts.bsky.social
authorahr.xyz
Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Reviewer for LOCUS. Editor @ Ruadán Books & Many Worlds. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, The Deadlands & more. she/her 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.
Ian Denning @ian-denning.com Writer || NY Center for Fiction fellow || Retro games, beer, horror, sci-fi || Dog- and human-dad || NJ and PNW || He/him
Jeremy Pataky @pataky.bsky.social Poet, reader, writer. Publisher at Porphyry Press and Edible Alaska. Author of Overwinter (University of Alaska Press). Living off-grid near McCarthy, Alaska in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.
Lisa Katzenberger @lisakatzenberger.bsky.social Mom of twins
#KidLit Author of:
A LOVE LETTER TO MY LIBRARY
CROC & GATOR: Swamp Ranger School
I CAN DO IT EVEN IF I'M SCARED
IT BELONGS TO THE WORLD
IT WILL BE OK
#12x12PB #Insulin4All #T1Dmom
https://linktr.ee/lisakatzenberger
Ilona Rapp @ilona-rapp.bsky.social Mother, healer, writer, artist, witness. I will never give up hope, for our children, our planet, or our humanity. Magic is Life, and Life is magic.
Paul Vega @paulieester.bsky.social Lives in Seattle; from Pittsburgh.
BOUNCER: Are you here for the music?
ME: No, I'm here for the karaoke.
M.C. Easton @mc-easton.bsky.social Writer, educator, and editor. Chronically ill, so I come and go but mostly I try to be kind and do a little good. Life is short. (she/her)
Gabrielle Bellot @gabbybellot.bsky.social Writer at LitHub. Critic. Editor. Psychedelic Integration Coach. Lover of literature and nature and the color blue. Raised in Dominica, and now living in NYC. Work in The New York Times, The New Yorker, NYRB, The Atlantic, and elsewhere
El @cyborgianheart.bsky.social Birds, books, dogs, TTRPGs. In no particular order. 
@tiffanymidge.bsky.social @tiffanymidge.bsky.social 
Dave O'Leary @dolearyauthor.bsky.social Writer and musician in Seattle. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dave-OLeary/author/B00JD5EOQE
Gabriela Denise Frank @civitaveritas.bsky.social Author of HOW TO NOT BECOME THE BREAKING (Gateway Literary Press, 2025). Literary artist, editor, educator, alchemist, plant lady, holobiont, earthling. linktr.ee/gabrieladenisefrank
Jesse Miller @texosporium.bsky.social botanist and ecologist living in the PNW
Self-Publishing Review @selfpubreview.bsky.social Self-Publishing Review offers editorial #bookreviews, Amazon #bookpromotion, and #editing for #authors. 
Books Aloud - Post Hypnotic Press Audiobooks @posthypnoticpress.bsky.social An indie audiobook company that offers both publishing & production services. We've added print services, too. Check out our eclectic catalogue of fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, & more. Looking for audiobook services, get in touch. www.posthypnoticpress.com
Bonnie Jo Campbell @bonniejo.bsky.social Writer, berry picker, donkey wrassler, lover of freedom. Author of six books of fiction, including THE WATERS (2024).
Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts @thesaltonstall.bsky.social Supporting New York State artists and writers with residencies and retreat space since 1995. We have wheelchair-accessible facilities. Ithaca, NY
Sherilyn Lee @sherilynwrites.bsky.social Writer | New to Bluesky because my friend, Kim, reminded me to join in the fun!
Moss - IL Public @mossilpubmedia.bsky.social Fav stations: PBS - NPR - WILL TV - WILL AM - WILL FM - IPM Newsroom - The 21st Talk Show - Prairie Fire - 217 Today - Reel Midwest- Illinois Soul - The Middle
Mary Robinson @mrobwrites.bsky.social Writer, teacher, dog mom, baker of all things sourdough.
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social sinǎḱii. ǎmsḱǎaṗii ṗīīḱǔni nation. real big ndn. words at the newyorker, atlantic, paris review, espn, etc. “I’m a disco guy.”
substack @ https://aphoristic.substack.com- A Amy Thielen @amythielen.bsky.social I write books, mostly about cooking, and live way up north. Latest: COMPANY: the radically casual art of cooking for others (August 29, W.W. Norton)
PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
Ruth Dickey @ruthdickey.bsky.social ED of National Book Foundation, often procrastinating writer, urban hiker, ardent fan of dogs, coffee, & books
Amanda Waldroupe @amandawaldroupe.bsky.social Journalist, based in Portland, Oregon. Covering libraries, intellectual freedom, arts education for orartswatch.org.
Krista Stevens @kristastevens.bsky.social Senior Editor at Longreads. Loves books, birds, bass, and guitar. 🇨🇦
Robin Mitchell @parisnoire.bsky.social Very tired Historian. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact my PA @keanuheydari.bsky.social for talks.
Robinmitchellhistorian.com
Margaret Malone @margaretmalone.bsky.social Human. Writer. Mother. Mentor. Author of PEOPLE LIKE YOU. Lover of trees and books and records and nachos. Holding out hope for humanity, just barely. 
Open Books: A Poem Emporium @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social A bookstore dedicated to poetry, serving your poetry needs since 1995.
@israelbayer.bsky.social @israelbayer.bsky.social Lover of photography. Writer. Adventurer. Housing justice. Dad life. 💙💚
Chey Scott @cheyscott.com Editor of @TheInlander
Spokane native + WSU alum + MTG nerd + Cat lady
cheyscott.com
Amy M. Cash @cashmonger.bsky.social A Seattle resident with a passion for local history and politics who escapes to Stardew Valley when the real world gets too chaotic, while occasionally helping others learn to code.
Poets Reading the News @poetsrtn.bsky.social Journalism in verse.
📰 The publication bridging poetry & current events since 2016.
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Dena Ogden @denaogden.bsky.social very PNW | part 80s + part 90s | mom of 2, spouse of 1 | assoc shopping editor (home) | should've brought those coral shoes
Eagle Harbor Book Co. @eagleharborbooks.bsky.social Established in 1970, Eagle Harbor Book Co. is a full service, locally-owned and proudly independent bookstore located on Bainbridge Island, WA. With an extensive selection of books and gifts, we're the perfect "destination bookshop"
Mary Pan @marypanwriter.bsky.social Writer. Physician. Coach.- S Scott Challener @scottchallener.bsky.social VA humanities HBCU Scholarship Fellow || Asst Prof of English Hampton U || c20-21 US & Latinx lit & culture, LatAm lit, poetry & poetics, lover of the almost
Brandy St. John @brandystjohn.bsky.social Writer. Musician. Former wardrobe stylist for rock stars. Current writing instructor at Oregon State University. 
@sheriboggs.bsky.social @sheriboggs.bsky.social 
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
The Line Break @thelinebreak.bsky.social a podcast where we gush about poems we love & occasionally get distracted & talk about basketball || hosted by @thecorlew.bsky.social & @bobsykora.bsky.social
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-line-break/id1524056726
https://soundcloud.com/user-2
DL Shirey @dlshirey.bsky.social DL Shirey is best known for writing speculative fiction. He also dabbles in comics and word puzzles. Click http://msha.ke/dlshirey for more.
Emily Parzybok @eparzybok.bsky.social Writer. Cat Lady. Former politico. Will beat you at boggle.
PNW is home. Currently in NYC for graduate school. 
Kristen Steenbeeke @common-loon.bsky.social poet laureate of hell
copy editor at the new yorker
Dawn @pigeongirlsgot.bsky.social Writer, fighter, bark & biter✌🏽learning, siempre.
Jonny Eberle @jonnyeberle.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, and storyteller in the PNW. Short stories in Creative Colloquy, Grit City Magazine, and All Worlds Wayfarer. Listen to “Dispatches with Jonny Eberle” on your favorite podcast player. Likes typewriters.
https://linktr.ee/jonnyeberle
@spokanelibrary.bsky.social @spokanelibrary.bsky.social 
Cass Donish 🐞 they/them @cassdonish.bsky.social Queer Poet & Writer. PhD. Widow/Suicide Loss Survivor. YOUR DAZZLING DEATH (Knopf, 2024).
The Gravity of the Thing @gravityofthething.bsky.social An independent publisher of defamiliarized creative writing. We publish work that stranges in pursuit of a renewed sense of discovery.
Recent publications at thegravityofthething.com
Submission guidelines at thegravityofthething.com/submit
Julia Rosen @1juliarosen.bsky.social Journalist. Working on a book about grass.
maureen mcquerry @maureenmcquerry.bsky.social writer/educator/poet/champion of wonder, award winning books for children and adults, #kidlit, PB, MG, YA, adult, www.maureenmcquerry.com #SCBWI
Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social Personal account.
Sportsaholic, geek, ASOIAF addict, relentlessly curious, award-winning political consultant. You know something I don’t.
Currently: Strategic Communications Consultant to the Mayor of Seattle
@HacksAndWonks.bsky.social (on hiatus)
Toot Sweet Ink @tootsweetink.bsky.social Independent publisher of SFF, historical fiction, and contemporary fiction, publishing original voices one book at a time. Women-owned. Est. 2014.
#NoAI
https://tootsweet.ink/books
Alison Lewis @alilewis1.bsky.social Retired professor with interests in German culture, literature & politics, especially East Germany, the Stasi, Cold War & intelligence. Obsessed with textile art.
Author, A State of Secrecy: Stasi Informants and the Culture of Surveillance (Potomac 21)
Griet van Lente @grietvl.bsky.social I rescue children from monsters: MA, Syracuse, BA, UCLA & ; Currently publishing features on child literacy, book deserts, & small town rural Trump Country; tutoring kids who are so not entitled it isn't funny.
sam j leeds @samjleeds.bsky.social radio producer based in Seattle @citycastseattle.bsky.social
formerly: Futuro Media, before that: NPR Music's Louder Than A Riot
they/them | https://samjleeds.xyz/
Erika J. Schultz @erikajschultz.bsky.social Seattle Times staff photographer with Climate Lab 🏔️ Wyoming born. @IWMF fellow and @PulitzerCenter grantee.
L. N. Holmes (Updates, Mostly) @lnholmeswriter.bsky.social Author of SPACE, COLLISIONS (@ghostcitypress.bsky.social) & THE FLOATING CASTLE | @specawards.bsky.social founder | Stories: Newfound, Barren Magazine, Vestal Review, others | Proud momma 🩵| ✝️
https://lnholmeswriter.wordpress.com
linktr.ee/lnholmeswriter
The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social “The Adroit Journal is where I go when I want to know what the kids are reading.”
—The Paris Review
https://linktr.ee/theadroitjournal?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaY2AGldWsnSz9H-OoEtXxJjk02NLV0fG0wkmOIITzjlxRYq8R2lWo6jrIU_aem_BU_jPktWCVqyJRazMLp4sA
Southeast Review @southeastreview.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/southeast_review
Est. in 1979 as Sundog 🍊 Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Book Reviews, Interviews, & Art.
Rebecca Renner @rebeccarenner.bsky.social Journalist, Novelist, Floridian 🐊 author of GATOR COUNTRY from Flatiron Books. 🐊 other words in
@NatGeo @OutsideMagazine @NYTimes etc; seeking new representation
Hannah Dellabella @hdellabella.bsky.social poetry MFA, grown up emo kid, video game girlie ✨
Caroline A. Slee @bellesmots.bsky.social Mother, wife, educator, and writer. I cast spells on paper.
Rajiv Mohabir @rajivmohabir.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Translator. Professor. www.rajivmohabir.com
Amanda McLeod Writes @amandamwrites.bsky.social ✒️🎨 Writing and art across genres, loves coffee, loathes noise.
https://linktr.ee/AmandaMcLeod
Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.
Posts: @carolinamata.bsky.social, AJ Jolish & @emotes206.bsky.social
https://splitlipthemag.com/
Kate Garrett @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social An incomprehensible being in very strange surroundings (just like you).
Writer in Shropshire.
UoB PGR in English Lit - hauntology, ecoGothic landscapes, & Daphne du Maurier. 🖤
Spooky is a lifestyle not a season.
(She/They)
Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social Author of A Season in Hell with Rimbaud, Millennial Roost, and A Family Is a House. Asst. Prof. @Utoledo. Indie movie poet. SC native. OhioMichigan based.
Joseph Osmundson @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social scientist, writer, activist. VIROLOGY (Norton, 2022) "dazzling... love essays" -NYTimes Book Review, NBCC & Lambda Literary Finalist in Nonfiction
Alex Feldman @hafeldman17.bsky.social MD/PhD Student @ University of Cincinnati COM || Immunology PhD Candidate studying NK cells in autoimmune disease / CAR NK cells @LabWaggoner || BS @ Stanford University '17
Cheryl Clark Vermeulen @cherwords.bsky.social Poet, Editor @Pangyrus, Professor @MassArt, Literary Eventmaker, Lagging Translator, Lifelong Learner. Will you read my book They Can Take It Out (Word Works)? https://linktr.ee/cherylclarkvermeulen- R Rebekah Denn @rebekahdenn.bsky.social Seattle-based food writer & all-around journalist.
Sarah DeWeerdt @sarahdeweerdt.bsky.social Freelance science journalist covering biology, medicine, environment. Always gets the name of the dog, but may be too besotted with the dog to remember the name. Working on a family history of my local whales.
Konner Knudsen @penzerker.bsky.social Writer, freelance editor (comics, graphic novels, TTRPGS, and novels), creative consultant, zinester, Gaymer and Queer cryptid.
Icon by @knockoffgoblin.bsky.social
Check out my site for more:
https://penzerker.com/
Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social Poet, writer, artist. Now out: Hybrid flash memoir Scrap: Salvaging a Family (ELJ Editions 2026)! Best Microfiction 2026. 4 award-winning poetry collections. https://www.luannecastle.com/ Hunting the Cosmos forthcoming 2026 from Shanti Arts
Madelinksi @madelinksi.bsky.social singer songwriter / poet / Brussels resident / Atlanta Columbus Sonoma born
check me out wherever you get your music!!!
Madelinksi
clair dunlap @smallgourd.bsky.social 🌫️🐦⬛🌲 youth librarian, poetry editor at vagabond city lit, probably petting my dog | olympic peninsula
Theo Chiotis @selfcoding.bsky.social Poetry person. Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis (Penned in the Margins). Screen (Paper Tigers Books). Limit.less_an assembly of the sick (Litmus). ed board [ΦΡΜΚ].
Some of my work here: http://www.greekpoetrynow.com/poet_poems_eng/chiotis_poems.html
Jason Katz @jaylandia.bsky.social Writer, Editor, and Archival Sleuth.
Founder of Islandia Journal.
Born and raised in Miami but currently in the other Bay Area.
islandia.substack.com
Anna Reeser @annareeser.bsky.social Fiction writer in Ojai, CA. Stories in Best American Short Stories 2020, Electric Literature, Fractured Lit, and more. Repped by Elizabeth Pratt & Michelle Brower @ Trellis Literary
annareeser.com
Paul Hlava Ceballos @paulhlava.bsky.social Author of banana [ ], winner of AWP Prize & PSA 1st Book Award. Finalist for Kate Tufts & National Book Critics. Editor Seattle Met, CantoMundista, echocardiographer
Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts [NEOMFA] @neomfa.bsky.social The nation’s only consortial MFA creative writing program. Three gateway campuses: The University of Akron, Cleveland State University, & Kent State University. Four genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, & playwriting. < neomfa.org >
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social Fiction author. Best microfiction 2019. Noveling. Forever devoted to 🐊💃🏻 stories.
saraharantzaamador.com
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Tarotist. Creativity coach. Tía bruja behind Hawthorn Mountain Tarot 🧡
hawthornmountaintarot.com
Jenna Goldsmith @goldcutta.bsky.social Poet and petty bureaucrat.