Eric Theise @erictheise.com Performance cartographer, experimental filmmaker, software engineer; reader & writer, eater & drinker. A Synesthete's Atlas is my maps-as-expanded-cinema project, collaborating w/improvising musicians.
https://linktr.ee/erictheise
Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) out now | latest book: Render by Billy Ramsell | https://bansheepress.org/
Jen Jabaily-Blackburn @jenjblackburn.bsky.social poet, author of Girl in a Bear Suit (Elixir Press 2024) and Disambiguation (Salamander/Suffolk U 2024). Program and Outreach Coordinator at Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College #binders
Convergence Magazine @convergencemag.com Convergence Magazine is a magazine for radical insights.
https://convergencemag.com
Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social Writer, mostly about books. Designed with American values in mind. www.markathitakis.com
Lois Beckett @loisbeckett.bsky.social Guardian reporter in Los Angeles.
Lois.Beckett@theguardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lois-beckett
Hard Reset @hardresetmedia.com https://hardresetmedia.com/
Hard Reset is a media publication for people who want to understand how technology really works — not just the products, but the people and power shaping it.
Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social Independent publisher of environmental news, essays, book reviews, and fiction
For a more ecological society
🔗 BriefEcology.com
sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social native (nanticoke) genderfuck crip neurodiva. autistic. trans. etc. editor type.
http://linktr.ee/sarah_clark
read stuff i edit (please):
www.anmly.org/
www.beestungmag.com
www.ALOCASIA.org
board: www.sundresspublications.com
summer farah @summ.bsky.social author of I COULD DIE TODAY & LIVE AGAIN (Game Over Books) + THE HUNGERING YEARS (Host Publications) 💜| 🇵🇸 summerfarah.com
Garance Burke @garanceburke.bsky.social Global investigative journalist @AP.
Pulitzer finalist, Emmy winner.
'20 @JSKStanford-@StanfordHAI Fellow
✉️: garanceburke@protonmail, Signal: GaranceBurke.33
deptofmeteors @deptofmeteors.bsky.social Editor & Narrative Consultant: Perfect Tides: Station to Station, NORCO
Editor & Designer: The Creation of Wonder
Designer: air light water moon shadow sky
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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social Cocktail writer, author of The Ice Book (2023) and Doctors and Distillers (2022). Now also giving SF cocktail history tours and water tasting classes.
https://www.alcademics.com
Rob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social robhorning.substack.com
👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com author, The Social Photo (Verso)
former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea
los angeles
Tinderbox Poetry Journal @tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social A quarterly online journal devoted to uplifting vibrant voices in poetry.
EIC: @LaurenK_Carlson | Poetry Editors: @geramee_ @ThreaWrites & @emilywolahan | Social Media Editor: @jacquiz
(cover photo by Darya Jum via Unsplash)
Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social Speculative fiction in translation | SFinTranslation.com | Small Planet Magazine | translates Italian sf | contributor at Strange Horizons, World Literature Today, Samovar.
Epiphany @epiphanylit.bsky.social Epiphany is a literary magazine and independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) that has supported writers at every stage of their careers for over 20 years.
Learn more at: https://linktr.ee/epiphanyliterary
Jamie Fisher @jamie-fisher.bsky.social culture goblin. research editor at NYT Magazine. author of Nobody Broke Your Heart: An Intimate Biography of Elliott Smith (out Aug. 25th!)
patreon + other links: https://solo.to/nobodybrokeyourheart
world’s best cats, except for your cats.
Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com Executive Editor at Morning Brew
Priors: NBC News, WaPo, Adweek, Digiday
Bylines: The Awl, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Entrepreneur, etc etc etc
Failed musician
Tips? Signal: joshsternberg.08
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Marcelo Lima @marcelocegonha.bsky.social Conservation biologist/Landscape Ecologist
Director/Founder Biodiversity Without Borders
“Academically Homeless, Intellectually Housed”
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelo-gon%C3%A7alves-de-lima-35b3ba20
Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social An independent, subscriber-supported publication of reporting, criticism, and more—all by, for, and about fandom. 🎉 fansplaining.com
(Plus 9 years as a podcast: 250+ episodes in our back catalog!)
The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social A literary space for the eco-gothic, the eco-horrific, the eco-surrealist, and the eco-weird | Edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social
Read: https://www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-leaf
Submit: https://www.briefecology.com/submissions
Dana Hull @danahull.bsky.social Book hoarder. Oakland dweller. Transit user. Senior Reporter at Bloomberg covering Tesla and Elon Musk. Listen to our ELON INC podcast! Reach me on Signal 510-449-6359 or dhull12@bloomberg.net. Link to my work: https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASGzcek
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
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Mack Baysinger, PhD @mack-baysinger.bsky.social Geoscientist, Science Writer | PhD from @awi.de exploring peatland + permafrost landscapes | she/they
Ask me about soil carbon, high latitude wetlands, or my favorite local hiking trails : )
Ian Hetzner @ihetz.bsky.social contrarian librarian
NiluJ @niluj.bsky.social Climate and electoral reform advocate
Elias Rodriques @rodriquese.bsky.social Repped by Jin Auh at Wylie. Novel, All the Water I've Seen is Running. Words in The Guardian, The Nation, and elsewhere.
Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
Check out https://thecurrentowdm.substack.com
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo192110828.html
Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social Writer, editor, fern pointer-outer from Alameda, CA, former home of nuclear wessels. Mostly posting about science communication, plants, travel, soccer, and pie. Comms Director at @innovativegenomics.bsky.social
katya schwenk @katyaschwenk.bsky.social reporter at The Lever @levernews.com
once alt-weekly writer
T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social Author of The Wildcraft Drones (2026 @stelliform.press), The Cursed Blade of Wek (2027 @neonhemlock.bsky.social) and numerous science fiction and fantasy short stories, with more on the way. Newsletter, events & stuff: tkrex.wtf
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/
Microcosm Publishing @microcosm.bsky.social Based in #Portland and Cleveland. A Publisher's Weekly's fastest growing publisher 2022-2024. #Autistic founded/owned #ownvoices idealism; Change your life then the world around you; since 1996.
Microcosmpublishing.com
Microcosm.pub/newsletter
Alison Kinney @alisonkinney.bsky.social Author: UNITED STATES OF REJECTION: A STORY OF LOVE, HATE & HOPE (UGA Press, May 1, 2026): https://www.ugapress.org/9780820377230/united-states-of-rejection/
Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social Virginian living in Texas. Poet, project wrangler, weight lifter, mom. She/her, bi, inevitably tired.
Avatar created here: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/137904
haleycampbell.net
The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
www.bulbregion.com
Andi the butch abolitionist (she/he/they) @andi.publichearth.com Founder & Editor of The Public Hearth
sapphic zillennial demiboy • living on unceded Muwékma Ohlone land (SF Bay Area) • natural sciences • women’s sports • collective liberation
https://www.publichearth.com/welcome/
Wendy E Wallace @wendyewallace1.bsky.social Writer who is also very good at not writing. She/they. Queer disabled. Editor of @PSmokeJournal, social media for @splitlipthemag
East Bay Public Bank @ebpublicbank.bsky.social Working to help build a local East Bay economy that feeds itself at the expense of outside profit-seekers.
Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social An online journal of poetry & art.
posts by editor @aprilmbratten.bsky.social
Cover art by Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi
http://www.upthestaircase.org
Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social Author & Literary Translator | Deputy Editor, Sydney Review of Books.
I am not very active here!
http://tiffanytsao.com
May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social used to be @mayli in the old place.
hello! 👋 maylikhoe.com
queer interdisciplinary immigrant designer writer artist musician dancer inventor educator. former vp of design and dj. mfa candidate
Michael Lukas @joyfulsisyphean.bsky.social PhD: Political Ecologies, Writing Studies, Environmental Philosophy, Rhetoric, 19C Am lit/letters. Former fly-fishing guide; write outdoors articles sometimes. Teach at UVic. Endless Book Project: The Rhetoric of Wolves
Michael David Lukas @michaeldavidlukas.bsky.social Author of THE ORACLE OF STAMBOUL & THE LAST WATCHMAN OF OLD CAIRO. Winner of the Sami Rohr Prize, NEA, National Jewish Book Award, and Prix Interalliée. Prof at SFSU. Essays in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and VQR.
Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social editrix & blog girl @ defector dot com
Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social Professor at EHESS & PSE
Co-Director, World Inequality Lab
inequalitylab.world | WID.world
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/
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
Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com Reporting, rebelling and truth-telling from the feminist front lines for over 50 years. Read more at MsMagazine.com.
Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Hosted a podcast about an Alien TV show. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors.
Signal: @jetjocko.15
https://adam-rogers.net
Book Passage Bookstore @bookpassage.bsky.social The Bay Area's Liveliest Bookstore!
Lauren C. Johnson @laurencjohnson.bsky.social 🦉🦜Writer of words, lover of birds
📖THE WEST FAÇADE (SFWP '26)
Co-host @babylonsalonsf & @clubchicxulub
CA 🌊 & 🐊 FL
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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social Enthusiast of too many things, especially books, fungi, rainbows, MDZS, people so hyper-focused on their interests they open a whole museum/shop/press about it.
Managing editor at Dancing Star Press. She/her
https://linktr.ee/greeniezona
David Sepkoski @hallucigenia.bsky.social Historian of Science, author, eukaryote, synth dabbler, Radical Leftist™
Alex C. Park @alexcpark.com Look at fast food and all you see is burgers. Look through fast food and you see the world.
Sometimes I publish things, lately in Jacobin, the Conversationalist, The Oakland Review of Books.
More: www.alexcpark.com
@sam-mondros.bsky.social @sam-mondros.bsky.social Reporter for The San Francisco Standard
Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social po collections, eco-po anthologies, Revolute Litmag, 2022-25 Black Earth Institute fellow, river rat bird nerd
linktr.ee/lauragraystreet
Randall Mann @randallmann.bsky.social SF. Poet @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social. Faculty @benningtonwriting.bsky.social. 💜
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social AHC is a literary arts intentional community and healing space. Submissions open. Edited by
James Diaz. https://heroinchic.weebly.com/
BOA Editions @boa-editions.bsky.social Literary arts organization committed to fostering a vibrant literary culture. We envision a world where contemporary literature is celebrated and accessible to all, inspiring and connecting people across diverse backgrounds.
Kate Wong @katewong.bsky.social Freelance science writer and editor. Formerly senior editor at Scientific American. I write about human origins, animals past and present, wildlife conservation, ecology and evolution. Birder.
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
@pacificalit.bsky.social @pacificalit.bsky.social Lit mag based in the great Northwest. Publishing fiction, poetry, and CNF since 2012. 100% indie. In full effect at all times.
Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social Ireland :: California
Josh Rothes @joshuarothes.bsky.social Writer, editor, worker. Thinks a lot about moving books around. Founder at Asterism.
Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social Writing Place Writing Planet, UCD / iCRAG 2026 | Lamplight Fellowship 2025 | Literature Bursary Award 2025 | Moth Short Story Prize 2024 | 'Somebody' expo MoLi 2020-2021 | Room Little Darker 2018/17 | https://www.airbnb.ie/h/pinkhousedublin
Megan Steffen @meganas.bsky.social anthropologist with a sell-out vibe // recovering member of the #oakmtg club // El Cerrito mom
https://www.instagram.com/elcerritogadfly
https://www.meganasteffen.com/ec-city-council-2026
Ravenous @weareravenous.com 🐦⬛ Food media with teeth
✊ Worker-owned
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Emily Williams @emilyw00.bsky.social Book lover. Rights & publishing geek. Director, IP & content services at EL Education. All views expressed are my own. Vivo en inglés y español. pronoun.is/she
Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
PHL.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
Gailer @fireflygail.bsky.social Story lover in all formats: books, tv, & theater. Friend to people and all animals, especially cats, crows, and squirrels. Trying to find the good out there.
Tracey Knapp @traceyknapp.bsky.social Poet. Author of MOUTH (42 Miles Press, 2015)
traceyknapp.com
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
Shiraki Press @shirakipress.com Independent publisher of adult fiction with a hopepunk vibe.
www.shirakipress.com
City of Berkeley @berkeleyca.gov Berkeley, CA city government.
Official account sharing services, events, public safety alerts, and more.
🔗: berkeleyca.gov
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dream rebel @jasonlogic.bsky.social california kid forever // 1312
Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey @esmepromise.bsky.social Writer, enjoyer of living things. Work in Smokelong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Adroit Journal
Avid Reader Press @avidreaderpress.bsky.social A band of cheerful literary warriors publishing every book with avidity! | A division of Simon & Schuster. 
Paul Bogard @paulbogard.bsky.social Author of The End of Night and (in 2026) How to See the Sky. Dad, lover of pizza, friend to dogs. 
𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social Author of "1491, "1493," and, most recently, "The Wizard and the Prophet." Podcast, co-hosted w/ Virginia Postrel, about the history of things you didn't know even *have* a history: http://bit.ly/4unQNCY
maya goldberg-safir @roughnotes.bsky.social maya (she/her) / independent women's basketball writer & audio maker I subscribe WNBA ROUGH NOTES https://wnbaroughnotes.substack.com/ I queer community, adventures & audio I oakland via chicago via oakland <3
Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social Online journal of poetry and art
Chapbook publisher
https://sixthfinch.com
Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social Mom. Fighter + Community Leader
@kevink03.bsky.social @kevink03.bsky.social 
Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social political theory @BarnardCollege: climate, Marxism, feminism. A Planet to Win at Verso; Free Gifts out now at Princeton UP https://tinyurl.com/fa8868a5
www.alyssabattistoni.com
Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social Vulgar Marxist, Kentucky proud, fuck work. She/her
anniemcclanahan.com
Ana Schwartz @peonies.bsky.social A few years ago, I wrote a history of sincerity (UNC 2023). In my day job, I teach Texan college students about the past.
Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social Writer, critic (@PopMatters), teacher. ATL.
PhD in English, University of Texas.
Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy.
Writing a book on Tom Stoppard.
#COYS
https://boxd.it/1rEO5
Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social Apparently I’m doing this now. 
Simon @simonxix.com 📚community-led open publishing 🐧open source developer 📽️film critic 🐦birder 🏴he/him
🔗 https://simonxix.com
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
jacqui shine @dearsplenda.bsky.social a woman on the case (non-gendered)
jacqui shine dot com: women love me, factoids fear me
guide to preparing for surgery (feel free to save and share) https://shorturl.at/D7QMJ
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Marnie @itsmemarnie.bsky.social Bay born bred and based | Death penalty appeals by day | she/her
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app Check your vernacular & then I’ll get back to ya. Essayist poet philosopher & writer of the novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS & the novella FES IS A MIRROR. She/her
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676226/none-but-the-righteous-by-chantal-james/