Vanessa Micale @vanessamicale.bsky.social (she, they, ella) Multidisciplinary artist, writer and performer. Somatic practitioner and facilitator. https://linktr.ee/vanessamicale
~PD @prajaktapadgaonkar.bsky.social Polyglot~Senior care researcher~Mom~Author~Student at Antioch MFA
Maybe like there is a spectrum of light, there is a spectrum of time....
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Megan Kamalei Kakimoto @megankkakimoto.bsky.social author of EVERY DROP IS A MAN'S NIGHTMARE, from Bloomsbury | Michener Center Fellow | Japanese & Kanaka Maoli writer, reader, pastry enthusiast
Adrianna Sanchez-Lopez @adri-sl.bsky.social storyteller| community college professor| mostly, a human that’s feeling and dabbling and contemplating all the things
Steve Beckley @stevebeckley.bsky.social Land use planner, husband & dad, person of faith, film lover. INFP trying to develop good habits. I like chocolate and justice.
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Alistair McCartney @alistairmccartney.bsky.social Author of The End of the World Book (finalist for the PEN USA Fiction Award & Edmund White Debut Fiction Award) and The Disintegrations (winner of the Publishing Triangle Ferro-Grumley Award.)
Teaching Faculty at Antioch MFA Program Los Angeles.
Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social The Chills at Will Literary Podcast is a discussion of the visceral beauty of literature, w/ Pete. Ep 275 up now on all platforms!-join the Patreon!
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James Walling @jmwalling.bsky.social Newspaper editor at Northern Plains Independent (Montana).
MariNaomi (they/them) @marinaomi.bsky.social Artsy and fartsy, not necessarily in that order
名古屋 and California
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Delila Olsson @delilao.bsky.social Writer, Peace Educator, Collector of Hearts 
Douglas Wood @douglaswoodbaby.bsky.social Writer, Musician, Husband, Father, Bon vivant
Free Reading @jakelehman.bsky.social Independent Journalist
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social Multi-genre lit journal & community
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Lori Ostlund @loriostlund.bsky.social BASS 2024; ARE YOU HAPPY? (Forthcoming: Astra House 2025); Flannery O'Connor AWARD Series Editor; AFTER THE PARADE (Scribner) & THE BIGNESS OF THE WORLD (Flannery O'Connor Award); Barbara Deming Board Member; cats; San Francisco. 🌈 https://www.loriostlund
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social Author, pastor, activist, fighter for the common good.
Maya Washington @mayawashington.bsky.social Filmmaker | Author| Poet| Visual and Performing Artist | Educator
In service to illuminating social issues, inspiring scholarship, and ushering healing through the arts. www.mayawashington.net #BGDM #FilmFatales
Alexandra Thurman @alekimar.bsky.social Poet, essayist, DOC Engaging the Senses Foundation. I have kids, they're grown; and cats, they're home. #woolfer 
Antioch MFA Program @antiochmfa.bsky.social Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing with a social justice mission. We offer degrees in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writing for Young People, Screenwriting, Playwriting, and Translation. Community, Not Competition!
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Jaime Parker Stickle @jaimeparkerstickle.bsky.social Author—Vicious Cycle, Professor, Podcast Producer, Basic
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Caroline Shannon @carolineshannon.bsky.social Writer ✍️ WIP = MOTHER EATEN: NOTES ON MY POSTPARTUM BODY AND IDENTITY. 📚 @antiochmfa.bsky.social creative writing 👩🏻🏫 Substack ➡️ https://open.substack.com/pub/carolineshannon Web ➡️ https://www.carolineshannon.com
DL Carroll @lancecarroll.bsky.social Dad, husband, wannabe writer working on my first novel which is a new adult, dystopian, post-apocalyptic thriller about what it truly means to be human.
@cathylinhche.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social Author of BECOMING GHOST (April 29, 2025), AN ASIAN AMERICAN A to Z, and SPLIT. Video installation APPOCALIPS & short film WE WERE THE SCENERY, Nonfiction Jury Winner at Sundance 2025.
Core Faculty in Poetry at Antioch University’s low res CW MFA Program
Emma Kinsley @kinsleywrites.bsky.social Writer, editor, proofreader, and book nerd.
Specializing in romance, fantasy, speculative fiction, and more.
She/her. DMs currently closed. Watch this space!
Jack Cheng @jackcheng.bsky.social Children's author, pattern linguist, slow technologist, newish dad. Senior editor at Every and Extension Master Gardener. Building lively worlds, real and imagined. jackcheng.com
Leigh Hopkins @leighherenow.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 editor/curator: Khôra | writing: BOMB, Longreads, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus + | teaching: Corporeal Writing | rep: Kent D. Wolf | Philly 🏙️ | she/her/hers/we
Raz Mihal Author @razmihal.com Mystic author diving into divine love & tech wonders. Passionate about Korea & Sci-Fi. Let's unravel the universe together!
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Ray Palagano @rayapex.bsky.social Democratic Socialist. Lover of books, jazz, art ; Steelers🏉, Yankees⚾️, Knicks 🏀, Univ of Illinois - 🏀
Robin Raven @robinraven.bsky.social I'm a travel writer, author, vegan, journalist, liberal, Swiftie, SAG-AFTRA actress, songwriter. I am the author of The Little Book of Self-Soothing, The Kindness Workbook, and Santa's First Vegan Christmas. New books are coming soon! 
Courtney Zoffness @czoffness.bsky.social Author of SPILT MILK (McSweeneys). Sunday Times Short Story Award winner. Fellowships: The Center for Fiction, MacDowell, Bread Loaf. Creative Writing Director at Drew University.
Diana Gross @dianabelstar.bsky.social Retired Mom, Grandmother, Artist, Writer, Aviculturist. I spend much of my time learning new things, meeting new people, and visiting new places, along with enjoying the old.
Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social writer. mother. gremlin. PhD. MFA. author: Gospel According to the Klan, The Zombies Are Coming, Grace Period, Final Girl & Sexism Ed. co-host: @podonlyknows.bsky.social newsletter: https://www.kellyjbaker.com/newsletter/
Dylan Landis @dylanlandis.bsky.social Rainey Royal was my last novel. She’s also my alter ego. List of All Possible Desires, linked stories, comes out May 2026.
Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social Author | THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS (Erewhon/Kensington) & Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner, UNSHOD, CACKLING, and NAKED. she/her/hers
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Tyler Dilts @tylerdilts.bsky.social Fiction Worker. Teacher. Edgar Award Nominee. Amazon #1 Bestseller. Charlotte’s dad.
Jeff Rogers @lefthandedjeff.bsky.social Poet, writer, reader, author of Right Wrong Night Song (World Stage Press 2022). Michigan, Los Angeles, Crestline. Communications for unions. Poetry's as big as the world, there's nothing it can't carry. https://linktr.ee/lefthandedjeff
Noriko Nakada @nnakada.bsky.social author of books, essays, & poems
teacher, parent, politics, & sports
Oregon ➡️ Los Angeles
Rayne Hall, Author & Publisher @raynehall.bsky.social "In a world of AI, bots and fakes, Rayne Hall will always be real."
#NoAi #Writer of non-fiction and #Gothic #fiction. #Publisher of Gothic fiction anthologies. Teacher, coach. Avid #permaculture gardener. Lives in #Bulgaria with #rescuecats.
Lara Stapleton @larastap.bsky.social Author, The Ruin of Everything, Paloma Press. Prof., BMCC of CUNY. Mixed Filipino-Am. I love: books, my students who have excellent brains & deserve the world, historical linguistics, Austronesian brilliance, bingewatching, decent humans. Art is everything
Crystal B @crystalsmusings.bsky.social She/Her-Intersectional Feminist & Ally 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✊
🇨🇦 Reader, reviewer, & book hoarder—56/50
I also write & make quilts & other sewn goods. Newbie knitter. 🧶
M.A. in English Literature - Medievalist & Educator in a former life - Independent Scholar
Cody Sisco @codysiscowrites.bsky.social Author of queer psychological science fiction. Editor of novels and short stories. A Los Angeles-based human. Also here as @bookswellclub.bsky.social
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Hayden Scott @haydenascott.com Liberal and friendly writer from London who decided it would be fun to explore the world for a bit. If not teaching you'll find me reading, travelling, writing, and wandering around imaginary worlds from my book - in my head, obviously.
Melissa Yancy @melyancy.bsky.social Bureaucrat by day, fiction writer by night. Author of DOG YEARS. NEA Fellow. Loves conspiracies, psychogenic symptoms, writers who took too many amphetamines. Horseshoe, not fishhook. 
SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social Santa Fe Writers Project - globally distributed publisher of fiction & CNF since '98. Subrights repped by @susanschulman.bsky.social
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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Elizabeth Rosner @elizabethrosner.bsky.social I write books. www.elizabethrosner.com
(Third Ear; Survivor Cafe; Electric City; Gravity; Blue Nude; The Speed of Light)
"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world."
~Grace Paley
Heather Scott Partington @hspartington.bsky.social Book critic & teacher. Board member and fiction chair @bookcritics.bsky.social.
📍Elk Grove, CA.
Jason Song @byjsong.bsky.social bookworm, LA Times and Baltimore Sun alum
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Cat Wei @catwei.bsky.social poet, writer, dancer
writing in Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, The Slowdown podcast | Bread Loaf | Tin House
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Rochelle Wall @delightfulchelle.bsky.social Whole human, Floral designer, mom, partner, fledgling activist, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally.
Janice Shapiro @janiceshapiro.bsky.social Writer and Graphic Novelist. Author of HONORIA: A FORTUITOUS FRIENDSHIP, Fantagraphics Press
Andrew Nicholls @andrewjn.bsky.social writer, mostly. Over 100 TV series, and the book Comedy Writer.
Chris Persky @thegreatpersky.bsky.social Childless Cat Man Pro Science Pro Choice Pro Democracy (The North will rise again!!) I pay for good journalism and give it away. Branded affiliate for vegan fashion accessories. https://www.corkor.com/wwwlinkedincominchrispersky
Adam Stumacher @adamstu.bsky.social 
@briennemichelle.bsky.social @briennemichelle.bsky.social 
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Ashley Perez @artscollide.bsky.social has a strong affinity for tattoos, otters, cat mystery books, and actual cats, but has mixed feelings about pants. (She/They)
Seth Fischer @sethfischer.bsky.social Writer, PhD Student at USC, Lover of Creative Nonfiction and Paranormal Noir, Chaos Muppet, Editor, Wrestled a Goat Once, He/They 
Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com Excavation: A Memoir
Hollywood Notebook: Essays
Bruja: A Dreamoir
All from Northwestern University Press, 2025
Mommy’s El Camino is my mostly weekly newsletter.
she/her/sinvergüenza. Los Angeles.
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Kate Maruyama @katemaru.bsky.social Writes, teaches, cooks, and eats in Los Angeles. ALTERATIONS @runningwildpress THE COLLECTIVE @writlargeprojects
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Anne-Marie Kinney @anne-mariekinney.bsky.social Author of Radio Iris and Coldwater Canyon, more at annemariekinney.com
Zoë Ruiz @zoeruiz.bsky.social -Writer, book editor, and creative coach.
-Published in The Los Angeles Times, Joyland, The Millions, The Rumpus, and more.
-Edited multiple books for Viet Thanh Nguyen and Norton Books.
-Interested in archetypes, depth psychology, and feminisms.
Julia Ingalls @juliaingalls.bsky.social Essayist, primarily. My work appears in The Los Angeles Times, Dwell, Guernica, Salon, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and occasionally on the airwaves. 
Lynell George @lynellgeorge.bsky.social Journalist, Essayist, Author, Pen-and-Paper Enthusiast, Wanderer
Latest book: "A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler"
Southland 
Gayle Brandeis @gaylebrandeis.bsky.social Writer, teacher, gentle rabble rouser. Co-proprietor of Secret World Books in Highland Park, IL.
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social Crafty southpaw.
Ben Loory @benloory.bsky.social Writer 📚 Tales of Falling and Flying, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
benloory.com
Steph Cha @stephcha.bsky.social Author of Juniper Song novels and Your House Will Pay. Series editor of Best American Mystery & Suspense. TV writer.
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Tayari Jones @tayari.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author of KIN and AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. (Oprah’s Book Club x2) Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
Janet Clare @janetclare.bsky.social I'm a writer with a new novel, True Home, due out May, 2025.
Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social Axcan quema, tehuatl, nehautl…
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Désirée Zamorano @ladeziree.latinsky.app Humanist. Analog. MEXICAN AMERICAN. Writer. Educator.
Story Collection: Amarisa's Cooking Pot
Latest novel: DISPOSSESSED
Our hidden Californian history
www.desireezamorano.com
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Chris Daley @chrisdaley.bsky.social Writing & Design, Los Angeles
Submission Sunday
aka @escapegrace
Tod Goldberg @todgoldberg.bsky.social Crooks. Gangsters. Rabbis. Burned spies. Noir holidays.
todgoldberg.com
Luis Alberto Urrea (& Cindy) @urrealism.bsky.social Author and reader, husband & grandpa, scribbler in notebooks, wanderer. Team Urrea is always on the scenic route.
R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • Lambda Literary Prize
www.ro-kwon.com
Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
chi (taylor’s version) @chiwan.bsky.social poet. publisher. swiftie.
Writ Large Projects @writlarge.bsky.social Rethinking publishing by centering community. 
Xach F. @misterwixard.bsky.social Knower of things. Doer of stuff. Literary type human. Shades & Shadows will be returning!
Reluctant occupant of a human meat Gundam.
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social Formerly the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses
Porochista Khakpour @porochista.bsky.social author | 5th book: Tehrangeles @pantheonbooks (2024) | contrib editor @evergreenreview | Iranian | she/her | agent Susan Golomb | IG pchza | www.porochistakhakpour | porochista@gmail.com
Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social Author: Invisible Things, Loving Day, Pym, Incognegro, etc. Helped on The Fall of the House of Usher (Nflx) and Manhunt (🍎).
Philly-born; Oregon-thriving
Storytelling Guru at U of Oregon; Go 🦆!
Will block for pedantic responses to joke posts—gleefully
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Jim Ruland @jimvermin.bsky.social Punk whisperer
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com Author of six books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
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Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher