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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social poet, teacher, sometimes essayist. chapbook, Love That For Us, out now @andchangepoetry.bsky.social. craft book forthcoming @noemipress.bsky.social. two books @boa-editions.bsky.social.
abolish the police & free palestine.
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Andrew Montequin @amontequin.bsky.social Journalist, former biologist, Texan living in the Midwest.
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Phoebe Petrovic @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social now: researcher chronicling threats to democracy @ Documented. then: investigative reporter @ Wisconsin Watch & ProPublica fellow. send me tips about the anti-LGBTQ movement or authoritarianism on signal: phoebe.411
Catherine Trundle @catherinetrundle.bsky.social Medical anthropologist @ La Trobe University Public Health, climate justice and heat stress, nuclear afterlives, contested illness, ethnographic methods, poetry
Melanie Tafejian @mtafejian.bsky.social Poem writer 🌸 in Western Washington 🌲
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Satya Dash @satyadash.bsky.social Poet
Laura Minor, poets<poems 😘 she/her 🤘💪 #writer #poetry @lauralminor.bsky.social 2024 Silver Medal Florida Book Awards, Poetry 🥈
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Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
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Kristyn Garza 🇲🇽🇺🇸 @kristyngarzapoet.bsky.social Dictionary of Bodies @gasherpress.bsky.social 📖 Pushcart Prize nominee✒️ Academy of American Poets Billy Maich Award✒️
🎓MFA - University of Notre Dame🎓
🎓PhD - University of Cincinnati🎓
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social Writer, Teacher | helping people write and be heard | Founder, Fasano Academy, educating the whole human being
Ben Voigt @benvoigt.bsky.social Poet. Critic. Creature. Sometime teacher. Academic technologist
@Macalester.
Literary Classifieds @litclassifieds.bsky.social Literary Classifieds is interested in the experimental, the unfinished, the unspeakable. We are a home for poems with and without origin. And, yes, we are interested in love. Submit a classified at forms.gle/rUm2EbMpd4Ji7Rfe7
42 Miles Press @42milespress.bsky.social We’re a small press based out of South Bend, Indiana. Home of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award +The Glacier Journal. We like it real, surreal, and unreal. Instagram: @42milespress @theglacierjournal
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Grand Avenue Club (Milwaukee) @grandavenueclub.bsky.social Grand Avenue Club (GAC) provides adults of Greater Milwaukee experiencing mental illness employment, educational, and enrichment opportunities. Our intentionally nonclinical model has no program costs for members.
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Larry O. Dean @larryodean.bsky.social Flint-born, former San Franciscan, Chicago-based poet, educator, singer-songwriter, and kitchen sink sardonicist
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Michael Gryboski @mcgryboski.bsky.social Christian. Reporter. Novelist. Aspiring hymnist. Pro-wrestling fan. Where He leads me, I will follow.
"Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for He guards the lives of His faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked." (Psalm 97:10)
Andrea Gibb @gibbzer.bsky.social Short Scottish Screenwriter. Fidget. Ne'er do well #MDANT🥉
'Mayflies' 'Elizabeth Is Missing'
'Miss Austen' on BBC and iPlayer now.
Chelsey Lewis @chelseylew.bsky.social Features editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Former travel and outdoors reporter. Proud UW-Madison alum. Long-suffering Packers, Brewers, Bucks fan. 
Corri Hess @corrihess.bsky.social K-12 & higher education reporter at Wisconsin Public Radio | Past: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Tips? Corri.hess@wpr.org |
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Victoria St. Martin @victoriastmartin.bsky.social Editor, writer, educator | Mom, storyteller & survivor | past: The Washington Post, Inside Climate News, Capital B News
Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social Investigative Reporter at @wttw.bsky.social News/Chicago Tonight. Past life: Illinois Answers Project, BGA, Columbus Dispatch, ThisWeek News. I cover cops, courts, energy, health, finance, education, pensions etc. Prolific FOIA filer. He/him.
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social Dad, teacher, editor, student of the history of autocracy, anti-fascist, “Nazis ain’t got no humanity,” and author of HOW THE MOON WORKS. Stories in @bulbregion.bsky.social, @xraylitmag.bsky.social, @barrelhouse.bsky.social, @hexliterary.bsky.social, etc.
Craig "Craig Nickels" Nickels @craignickels.bsky.social Strategy and analytics for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and various other Gannett newsrooms. Ex-Boston Globe. Former blue-check. A good man in a storm.
Catherine Garbinsky @grrrbinsky.bsky.social she/they • poet • student • sick & tired
S.O. @evenings.bsky.social digital archivist in training
Brody Parrish Craig (they/them) @brodyparrish.bsky.social 📚The Patient is an Unreliable Historian 📚Boyish (Omnidawn Publishing)
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Poetry:
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Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
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Sophia Voight @sophiavoight.bsky.social Assistant editor of WFB Magazine | prev: Post-Crescent, PolitiFact Wisc, Hastings Star Gazette
Robert Liebman @robert-london.bsky.social American (Lower East Side, NYC)-born Londoner, semi-retired journalist; pronouns ((()))
Scooter @nortonscott.bsky.social Screenwriter, singer-songwriter, secular humorist, grateful. #AFC https://linktr.ee/nortonscott
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World Without Humans @worldwithouthumans.bsky.social Time-traveling musicians exploring Earth's silent future. Songs capture humanity's fall circa 2070.
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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social Author: IN THE SIGHT; EX-MEMBERS; POLITICAL SIGN; REEL; TRANSITORY. Next up: KILL LIST (Bloomsbury Academic)
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Shmarya @shmarya.bsky.social Democracy, human rights, separation of religion from state, history of Judaism, Ethiopian Jews, refugees, asylum, Israel, Palestine, ultra-Orthodox Judaism, crime, child protection, Long Covid, ADHD, trauma, songwriting, art, short fiction, history of food
J.T. Price @jtprice.bsky.social Fiction, editorial work, song. 20+ yrs in Bklyn. Midwest-raised. Founder & EiC, @bigscorelit.bsky.social. Co-curator, Rogue Loon reading series. Only one rule I know of, babies.
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social “Ways We Vanish” from Okay Donkey, “Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance” from Variant, finalist for the Donald Hall AWP Prize, poems in Threepenny, Southern Review, APR, HAD, etc.
Nicholas Charles @nc-exlibris.bsky.social 
Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social Publisher of Glass Chapbook Series, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Crucible: An Online Reading Series. Subs always free. Posts by anthonyframe.bsky.social
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Andrew Hemmert @andrewhemmert.bsky.social Florida poet living in Denver. No Longer at This Address and Blessing the Exoskeleton from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Sawgrass Sky from Texas Review Press.
https://andrewhemmertpoetry.com
Erin McGroarty @erinmcgroarty.bsky.social Health and policy for @captimes.com | 2026 National Fellow @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social | 2025 IWMF Ukraine fellow | @uwethics.bsky.social board member | Bylines: Wisconsin Watch, Poynter, Chicago Reader. Signal: erinmcgroarty.608
Kenny Boy @kenkers10.bsky.social Let’s cook!! I’ll show you…If at all possible, please subscribe to my cooking YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@kenkers10?si=_OwLZ0YRFxuC-zMZ Ken…married 2 children, and I love gardening, dogs, strong IPA beer, and bourbon. Go NY Giants, NJ Devils!!!
John McCracken @jmcjmc.bsky.social meat industry reporter @investigatemidwest.bsky.social // former @grist.org climate reporting fellow // he, him // john.mccracken@investigatemidwest dot com
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Jonathan Wittmaier @jonathanwittmaier.bsky.social Writer // Educator // Lactose Intolerant
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Luiza Flynn-Goodlett @luizagurley.bsky.social she/her | books: MUD IN OUR MOUTHS Northwestern University Press (2025), LOOK ALIVE Bull City Press (2021) | chaps: LOSSLAND Black Lawrence Press (forthcoming), FAMILIAR Madhouse Press (2024) + more | poetry editor Foglifter Press | luizaflynngoodlett.com
Cemal İÇYER @cemalicyer.bsky.social Lawyer / Cyber Security / Germany
John Paul Davis @johnpauldavis.org Poet, musician, web developer. Author of Climbing A Burning Rope, Pitt Poetry, 2024 & Crown Prince Of Rabbits, Great Weather for Media, 2017 | husband of @mahirakakkar.bsky.social
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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com Can run backwards
Rick Bass Montana Fiction Prize Winner
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Jim Higgins @jhiggy.bsky.social Arts & books editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Writer. Husband. Dad. Marquette University alum. Pittsburgh native. MUWBB season ticket holder. In recovery. Author of “Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground.” Ubi caritas
luna rey hall @lunareyhall.com i write queer and spooky stuff 🍉
NO MATTER THE DIAGNOSIS out now
minneapolis
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Walter Rowland Butler @wrrb.bsky.social I carve spoons, collect vintage fountain pens, and very little else.
IG: @wrb_woodwork
Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. FATHOM forthcoming. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️🌈
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social Poet, prof, she/her. Books at @MilkweedEditions @W.W.Norton (forthcoming) #resist
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Eliza Cussen @elizacussen.bsky.social Writer. Organizer. Pasteurisation enthusiast. 🇦🇺in🇺🇸
thefeministlobby.com
Rhymes with Oranges @rhymeswithoranges.bsky.social I like turtles. I will follow you back.
Anthony Frame @anthonyframe.bsky.social Poet in Residence at Frame's Pest Control. Toriphile. X-Men fanatic. Editor/Publisher glasspoetry.bsky.social . Book: Main Street Rag. Chapbook: Sibling Rivalry Press.
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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com Poet/parent/prof/pedaling around. My book is EVERY TRANSMISSION from @PressFernwood. 📸 by Alanna Airitam. (He/him). A bunch of biking & urbanism here, too. AdamDeutsch.com. Bike videos at https://www.youtube.com/@RidingBikesinSanDiego
Zithero (The Guardian Temple) @zithero.bsky.social Authors of The Guardian Temple Series
Lemmy
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Reddit:
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Threads:
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Insta
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Julie Mannell @juliemannell.bsky.social Award-winning author of fiction/poetry/memoir/criticism. Editor. Journalist. Columnist. PhD Candidate. Forthcoming novel is titled little girls. Niagara child.
Bremen Keasey @keasinho.bsky.social Journalist. I write about news and sports
Wisconsin alum 🦡
Chris Mueller @atchrismueller.bsky.social Wisconsin Connect Editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Dan Alten @danalten.bsky.social Stand-up Comedian from Kentucky.
I love you.
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Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social Online journal of poetry and art
Chapbook publisher
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Nate @natusm.bsky.social Incurable bibliophile
Progressive berserker
Anti-racist & anti-fascist
Once and future director
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White belt energy
Epic level ADHD
duncan b. barlow @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social I am a writer and musician.
Publisher, Astrophil Press
Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social Writer + software engineer in Philly. Host of Ghost Harmonics reading series. Writing a novel full of O's, other sun vowels and debris languages. Work in Action Spectacle, ITERANT, Sprung Formal, Heavy Feather, HAD, Okay Donkey, Annulet. mikebagwell.me
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
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A. J. Payler @ajpayler.bsky.social Author/musician A. J. Payler has published 5 novels, 2 short story collections, & 6 albums of original music to date as well as opened for Silkworm & Schizophonics, among others.
Visit ajpayler.com for more.
Shawn @shawngryder.bsky.social Bills Fan. Saints Fan. Dog Lover. Father. Pun aficionado. Former curator who now works in Higher Ed. I have strong opinions about FLX wines.
@matthewmahaney.bsky.social @matthewmahaney.bsky.social 
Steven Stokes @steven-stokes.bsky.social Strategic Comms and Engagement Director for a Welsh Charity. RSA Fellow. Haikuist. Own views. Cymru / Wales 🏴
Haiku poems via https://stevenlstokes.wordpress.com
Hannah Cohen @hcohen.bsky.social She/her. hot sad jewish lady.
writer sometimes, mostly tired.
poems, essays, etc. found elsewhere.
my author website is hannahcohen.carrd.co
Michael B. Tager @iamragesparkle.bsky.social On a general writing/artistic break until the kids get older. Still a person who likes things and is delightful at dinner parties.
Email: Michaelbtager1@gmail.com
Website: michaelbtager.com
Fav F&F: Tokyo Drift
Stacy Parker Le Melle @stacyparkerlemelle.bsky.social Writer. *Government Girl: Young and Female in the White House* (Ecco/Harpercollins). The Katrina Experience oral history project. “Ferry Cross the Mersey” (2021 Thornwillow Patrons’ Prize). Harlem, NYC. Born in Detroit.
Header image by Sirin Thada.
Benjamin Rosenberg @bxrosenberg.bsky.social Content producer for MLB, contributor for Prep Softball. Northwestern alum. Chicagoan and Californian currently in Denver. He/him. Taking it one game at a time.