Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy.
Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/
Urbansketchers Northampton @usknorthampton.bsky.social We are the Northampton, UK chapter of Urbansketchers. Check our blog for an archive of our activities and a calendar page of upcoming events: https://drawingoutsidenorthants.wordpress.com/ 
Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social Assistant Prof, @uoftnutrisci.bsky.social @uoftmedicine.bsky.social.
Experimental #Metabolism Researcher, #Dietitian.
Associate Editor, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
By way of: UC Berkeley, Baylor CoM, NIH, Cornell
Kcklatt.substack.com
Emily Calimlim @limlimillus.bsky.social Picture Book illustrator. Loves birds, birding, and nature. Self appointed naturalist. 🦜 Can tell you random facts on birds. Want to go hiking?
Website: limlimillustration.com
Sheree Boyd @shereeboyd.bsky.social Illustrator | textile designer | dog aficionado (ask me about my dogs) | Texan trapped in New York
http://shereeboyd.com/
www.instagram.com/doodlesndogs/
Satchel Celeste Yalvac @satchelyalvac.bsky.social ⭐️Picture Book Illustrator
🍓Chapel Hill, North Carolina
🌷Instagram: @satchelyalvac
Grimm‘s Illustrations @grimm-illustrates.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator 🖌️
SCBWI Member
I create digital and traditional illustrations
www.grimms-illustrations.com
Diandra Mae @diandramae.com 🇵🇷-Texan Illustrator 🖌️✂️🎨 | She/Her | ✨this✨close to wandering off into the woods forever 🏕️ Team#ADHD, so no method to my madness | TX ICE Impact Guide: https://tinyurl.com/TxICE |Portfolio: diandramae.com |
Rep’d by Carrie Hannigan at hgliterary.com
Karla Adams @karlaadamsillu.bsky.social 🌸🐸Illustrator 🐸🌸
Rep'd by Adriana Dominguez at ACM Kids & Illustration
💌 holakarlaadams@gmail.com
instagram.com/karlaadamsillu
karlaadamsillu.com
Mike Hartigan - Professional Scribbler @mikehartigan.bsky.social Kiwi Author/Illustrator. Creator of Super Unicorn Princess, co-creator of Chase Speedington and (Ringo Award nominated) Squish & Squash. Repped by Davinia Andrew-Lynch.
https://linktr.ee/ScribblingMike
Berrie Torgan-Randall (Berrietr) @berrietr.bsky.social Check out my portfolio: https://www.berrietr.com/ Contact me: berrietr@gmail.com
#kidlit published #author/illustrator, who would love to cooperate with you in creating beautiful and meaningful #picturebooks for kids.
James Mellor @jamesdfmellor.bsky.social Award-winning Cartoonist - published in Private Eye, The Critic, The Sunday Telegraph & elsewhere | Harlequins fan | Husband | Father | †
Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com matthtaylor.com | m.taylor.productions@gmail.com | He/They | Comics & Illustration
Localized Maritime Disaster
🚫 AI
jen rofé @jenrofe.bsky.social Senior Agent at Andrea Brown Literary Agency
www.jenrofe.com
www.andreabrownlit.com
Amber @theprimrosecorner.bsky.social ✏️Illustrator, 🎨 Artist, 🖋Stationery Addict
⭐️ Planner Girl 🇺🇸 Army Wife 📚 Bookish 🤓
Portfolio: http://theprimrosecorner.com
Emily Paige @emilypaigedraws.bsky.social 🎨MI-based kidlit illustrator + felt artist
✨Lover of all things whimsical and cozy
emilypaigedraws.com
Laura Pérez Delgado @acasadassilvas.bsky.social Illustrator
Web: https://laurapzdelgado.myportfolio.com/
Instagram: a_casa_das_silvas
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious”- Stephen Fry. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. "Made me laugh out loud." - David Sedaris. "Not humerus at all." - Amazon review. Social media is transient nonsense. Read more of my stuff here: https://www.tom-cox.com
KnittyLam 🧶 @knittylam.bsky.social Obsessive knitter, yarn hoarder, looking to make lots of yarny friends 🧶😊🇬🇧
Matt loux @mattloux.bsky.social Cartoonist and illustrator. Creator of My Journey To Japan Escape To Yokai Mountain, Prunella and the Cursed Skull Ring, The Time Museum series and the Salt Water Taffy series.
Mattloux.com
NO AI EVER
#kidslitart #comics #kidscomics #middlegrade
Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social goblin • he/him • patreon.com/adamtots • Let Me In Your Window: https://amzn.to/4l2oOFw
Stephanie Maksymiw @storiesbystephm.bsky.social PB author | #SCBWI | #amquerying
➖2026 #PBRisingStars Runner-up
➖2025 #KidlitChuckleChallenge Winner, #50PreciousWords HM
➖2024 #PitchMe Finalist, #kidschoicekidlitwritingcontest Winner, #50PreciousWords HM
https://stephaniemstories.wixsite.com/home
Caroline @carolinewu.bsky.social ✨ MG and PB writer
🏔️ Always in the mountains
🐦 Avid hiker, amateur nature photographer, wannabe birder
Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH (Holiday House).
LIKE THAT ELEANOR (Cardinal Rule Press).
#KIDLIT author/illustrator. Comics geek. Trekkie. Squirrel Girl enthusiast. “Endearingly sarcastic.”
Rep: @tajmccoy.bsky.social
Www.Authorkellymangan.com
#NoAIArt
Robin Richardson @robinillo.bsky.social Comic Artist ✦ Illustrator ✦ They/Them ✦ Adult
I'm like a skittish deer re-navigating social media.
Rep: Maria Vicente
Portfolio/Website: https://robinillo.com/
( Antis DNI 🙏 )
Kate Messner @katemessner.com NYT bestselling author of 70+ books for kids. Educator. Speaker. Adirondack 46er. Passionately curious. Latest book: THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES
www.katemessner.com
Katherine Albertson @platingprogress.bsky.social Covering the policies, funding, and innovations that shape our food systems
I write a newsletter: https://platingprogress.substack.com/
Debbie T Knits 🧶 @debbietknits.bsky.social Prolific knitter 🧶 Aran & cables are my passion.
Collector of much yarn / not a yarn snob
Disabled / northern UK based
Chronic spinal pain / fibromyalgia / essential tremor
WOKE 🏳️🌈 / left / atheist
No uninvited DMs.
No profile = no follow
Be nice 😊
Lauren Kimberly 🇨🇦 @authorlaurenk.bsky.social #PBParty Finalist ‘26 | #PBParty HM ‘25 | Writing PB through MG with heart, imagination, and information | autistic mom of two | #SCBWI #12x12PB | #amquerying #neurodiversity
www.laurenkimberlyauthor.com
Tanya Konerman, Kidlit Author 📚 @tanyakonerman.bsky.social PB/MG; Nature/Verse/Prose
Agent: Mona Kanin
'28 OTIS: THE KING OF KATMAI
‘25 MUD TO THE RESCUE! 🐘🦩🦫 🐢
‘24 HAUNTED STATES OF AMERICA 👻
SCBWI; WFH | hiker 🥾 | veggie 🌽|
bird&bear lover 🐤🐻 | nature 📷 | 💙
www.tanyakonerman.com
Josh Guerrero @bitsage.bsky.social Head of Development, Incredulous Interactive
Dabbling in a little bit of everything.
Jaclyne Ooi @thisisjaclyne.bsky.social Illustration, comics, silly jokes. (she/her)
💼 jaclyneooi.com
📍 Toronto, Canada
👀 #KidLitArt #illustrator
Jody Jensen Shaffer @jodywrites4kids.bsky.social Children's Author. Knopf BFYR, Nancy Paulsen Books, Doubleday, Penguin Workshop, Simon Spotlight, Beach Lane, Laura Godwin Books, Two Lions, Beaming Books, Magination Press
Proudly represented by @casahasegawa of @the_t2_agency!
Safely Endangered @safelyendangered.bsky.social safelyendangered.com
@djinweaver.bsky.social @djinweaver.bsky.social 
Erica Lee 🧸 @ericalee.cc Sr. Concept Artist - Open for Work
Past: Squid Games, Inc., Spin Master
VisDev/Concept Art & Illustration | Kidlit Illustrator
Taiwanese/Cantonese Asian American
Mom to a little 🦖
💼 https://ericalee.cc
☀️Open for Freelance
✋Seeking #kidlit representation
Becky Levine @beckylevine.bsky.social Kidlit writer, knitter, beginning drummer. Come for the writing and books, stay for the cat, yarn, and travel pix. Opinions are my own. Unless you love them, in which case I'm happy to share. She/Her
www.beckylevine.com
Nina Crittenden @ninacrittenden.bsky.social kid book maker. tea drinker. minnesotan. ice out. ninacrittenden.com
Rachelle Allan @rachelleallan.bsky.social Children’s book author and illustrator
rachelleallan.com
beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social PREORDER MY DEBUT BOOK OF COMICS: https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/beetle-moses-a-comics-menagerie/
Signed comic prints: beetlemoses.bigcartel.com
Clay Adamah @clayadamah.bsky.social (they/ze)
Author-Illustrator of #KidLitArt (long-press)
https://clayadamah.wixsite.com/clayadamah
just reading books, drawing stuff,
and tree-watching with birds. 🌳 👀 🐦
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Human made - No AI
Illustrator of Kismet, No! (PJP 2027)
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats
Posts not for everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Views mine -> https://statsepi.substack.com/
Heather Stigall @heatherstigall7.bsky.social 📚KidLit Author
#SCBWI PA East Critique Group Coordinator
👻GILBERT & THE GHOST (Beaming Books 2025)
🐰PAISLEY'S BIG BIRTHDAY (Clavis Books, 2023)
🚌PAISLEY’S BIG FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL (Clavis Books, 2027)
picture book obsessed, creator of stuff
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Rachael Smith @rachaelsmith.bsky.social Award-winning comic creator. Just happy to be here.
https://linktr.ee/rachael_smith
Yusuke Watanabe @artofyusuke.bsky.social *Available for work*
Children’s Book Author/Illustrator
TURTLE ON THE TARMAC(Abrams '27)
Rep’d by @jemiscoe.bsky.social
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/art_yusuke/
Portfolio: https://yusukewatanabe.com/
🐝aREADER @reyeh.bsky.social Elementary school librarian - books! books! & more BOOKS! Sic Semper Tyrannis, She/her #FreePeopleReadFreely #BadPeopleBanBook #LoveOverHate
Zohra A. Chunawala @zohracwrites.bsky.social ▫️PB/Kid Lit Writer
▫️PB Rising Stars Mentee ‘25🌟
Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com Argentinian illustrator based in France.
Represented by @jenazantian.bsky.social
I also make comics with @fpiatti.bsky.social
https://victoriamaderna.com | hi@victoriamaderna.com
Prints: https://inprnt.com/gallery/vmaderna
Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social New & vintage stationery from around the world, since 2009. Our shop is at 12 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL. https://www.presentandcorrect.com
Kristie Choi @kristiechoi.bsky.social Editor @ Atheneum (S&S) | 🌈 bi/pan genderfluid (she/they); pro-transgender; neurospicy; 최민지, Korean-Am; plant witch meets punky morbid grandma/cat daddy; opinions my own.
KristieChoi.com
Cozza 🏳️🌈 (she/her) @ferrous1972.bsky.social Southern hemisphere. Bundjalung Country in unceded Australia. Sanctimonious vegan.
Knitting (Portuguese style), visible mending, sashiko, paracord.
Wise words to live by from a friend: “Snacks always help.”
Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social literary agent with a lot of opinions 👀 also a podcast 👀 also my puppy looks like baby chewbacca! www.jenniferlaughran.com / www.andreabrownlit.com
Rob Pointon Artist @robpointonartist.bsky.social UK plein air artist Rob Pointon / Member of ROI / Northern Boys
The Beautiful Sausage @beautifulsausage.bsky.social Art/cartoons/illustrations/poetry/humour. Occasional writer.
Banner illustration by Fiona Ross
@fiveona.bsky.social from the book 'No More Mr Mice Guy' (Rep'd by
Luddington Creative)
Avatar by @vinkelmule.bsky.social
No AI⛔
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
Alec Longstreth @aleclongstreth.bsky.social (he/him) Award-winning, Eisner-nominated cartoonist, illustrator, and animator. Living and working in Santa Fe, NM, USA! https://www.alec-longstreth.com/
Sloppy Forgeries ✨ Wishlist on Steam! @sloppyforgeries.bsky.social A competitive multiplayer painting game about butchering iconic masterpieces coming soon to Steam.
Wishlist ✨
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3030560?utm_source=bluesky
Created by ✨
@playfulsystems.bsky.social
More at ✨
sloppyforgeries.com
J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social Be my Cody. Support my work on Patreon ♥ I love you
patreon.com/mrlovenstein
Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social Cartoonist for The New Yorker
Stan Yan - Kidlit Graphic Novelist @zombicatures.bsky.social THE MANY MISFORTUNES OF EUGENIA WANG (‘25 JLG Selection)
@SCBWIRockyMtn member
#kidlitartinstructor at @cuddlefishacademy
#aapi #rosebudauthor
Rep: @annmrose at Marsal Lyon Literary
stanyan.me
AI, NFT, Crypto, MAGA gets you blocked
M. Ireland @curiousmousestudio.bsky.social Narrative illustration | Mostly digital, sometimes traditional 🎨
Procreate 🖼️
She/Her 🐌
AI/NFT 🚫
Safe space ❤️
🇺🇸
Kate Grigoreva @kategrigoreva.bsky.social Illustrator & children’s book author 🧚🏼♀️
Storyteller, storybeliever, vintage lover, immigrant🧳
Proudly rep’d by Chelsea Hensley at Mad Woman Literary Agency
www.kategrigoreva.com
Jessica Stremer Kidlit Author @jstremer.bsky.social Children's Book Author
GREAT CARRIER REEF 🌟🌟 LIGHTS OUT;
FIRE ESCAPE 🌟🌟; PLIGHT OF THE PELICAN; WONDERFULLY WILD 🌟 TRAPPED IN THE TAR PIT; WHEN OLD BECOMES NEW ('26)
Yan Jiang @garlicbunnyy.bsky.social Kidlit illustrator
Looking for an agent
RISD26’ 🇨🇦🇨🇳
www.jiangyan.myportfolio.com
Cleonique Hilsaca @cleonique.bsky.social Illustrator & Cartoonist | St. Louis, MO
Rep’d by Nicole Tugeau at T2 Agency
⭐️ https://cleonique.com/
💌 hello@cleonique.com
🌳 https://linktr.ee/cleonique
Rachel Foo @speakyst.bsky.social Children’s books illustrator from Malaysia. Represented by Sol Salinas @solsticeillo.bsky.social of Astound.us
https://linktr.ee/speakyst
Kimberly Parsons @kimberlyparsonsart.bsky.social Hello! Daily original pen and ink illustrations 🎨 Vermont 🌲
Rachel Qiuqi @rachelqiuqi.bsky.social children’s book illustrator/ author based in Canada
qiuqi.art
Schrill_art @schrill-art.bsky.social Rp: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social at @bookendsliterary.bsky.social | she/her | Brush-creator & illustrator based in Berlin | Portfolio & shop:
https://www.schrill-art.com
Show the art you did with my brushes: #schrillbrushes
Sarah Surprise @sarahsurprise.bsky.social ✏️Illustrator and textile designer
Seeking representation and pb, mg and book cover projects 📘
https://www.sarahsurprisestudio.com
Fay Ryu Kelling @drawnbyfay.bsky.social Children's Author-Illustrator
Based in Southern California
Rep'd by @essiewhiteliterary
SCBWI member • Mom of 2
drawnbyfay.com
Kate Anderson @kateanderson.bsky.social Artist, farmer, plant lover. Central Massachusetts. 🌈🌿 book person and library trustee 📘 she/her
Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/KatBirdArtShop
Portfolio: https://www.kateandersonillustration.com/
Other: https://www.kateandersonillustration.com/links
Emily Hare @emilyhare.com ✨ Folklore, fantasy & fairytales with a light dusting of peril
🔔 Click the bell to follow my Bsky posts
✉️ Whimsy in your inbox! tinyurl.com/sky-haremail
🚫 NO AI/NFTs
🕸️ emilyhare.com
‘76
#fantasyart #watercolour #fairytale
Chelsey Bahe @chelseybahe.bsky.social Nanny. Auntie. Nature artist. PB writer. Outdoor play advocate. 12x12. SCBWI.
Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social Children's book editor, knitter, baker, erstwhile ballerina. Wrangler of two no longer small children. (she/her)
Pauline @paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social Hi! I am Pauline. I live in Europe and I mostly draw various real and fantastic critters.
I love seeing new art and while I do not do commissions or sell my art at the moment, I am usually up for art-trades 💛
https://artfight.net/~PaulineDraws
🚫genAI🚫
Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social These comics are only visible to cool people!!
Support me: https://patreon.com/shencomix // Store: https://topa.to/shen
Helen Cooper @helencooperbooks.bsky.social Author and illustrator of ‘Pumpkin Soup’ trilogy. ‘The Bear Under the Stairs’ The Taming of the Cat’ and many others - mainly Children’s books. Northerner living in Oxford.
helencooperbooks.co.uk
Elliott G - MG Illustrator @elliottgrinnart.bsky.social he/him. Trans man, cat dad, & kidlit & middlegrade author/illustrator! Currently open for projects! ✨🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Rep’d by: Pyro Represents
Portfolio: http://elliottgrinnell.com
Twitter: twitter.com/elliott_gr
Insta: Instagram.com/elliottgrinnart
Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com Editor in chief of @allrisenews.com. Fearless journalism about the law, your rights, and your powers to effect change during the Trump era. www.allrisenews.com/
Kristin Sorra @kristinsorra.bsky.social Illustrator based in NY.
www.kristinsorra.com
Rep by Caryn Wiseman at ABLA
Sojung Kim-McCarthy @creativesojung.bsky.social Author-illustrator 🇰🇷🇬🇧 She/her
Agent: @agenthawk.bsky.social
BINNA’S DALGONA
tinyurl.com/3m7bpcd3
instagram.com/creativesojung
sojungkimmccarthy.art
sojungkimmccarthy@gmail.com
Becky Gehrisch - kidlit picture books @gehrisch-arts.com - #kidlit picture book #Author-Illustrator 👩🏻🎨
-Former IC of Cen/South Ohio #SCBWI. 🖌️
www.gehrisch-arts.com
-Creative Director at Bookling Media 🎨
www.booklingmedia.com
Emma Jayne @emmajaynedesigns.bsky.social Illustrator and pattern designer. Love to create designs for kid's books, stationery, gifts and apparel. For work enquiries please email me at emma@emmajayne-designs.co.uk
Instagram: @emmajayne_designs
Portfolio: portfolio.emmajayne-designs.co.uk
Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social PoliSci PhD student @ Harvard / 🇬🇧🏳️🌈 / Creator of MyLittleCrony.com
Signal: @sehill.11
Roberto Hikimi Blefari @hellohikimi.bsky.social Freelance illustrator, creating playful, whimsical and poetic illustrations — mostly for editorial and children’s publishing.
www.hikimi.it
Kirsty ZW @kirstyzw.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Franco-British illustrator living in France
🇫🇷 Illustratrice franco-anglaise vivant en France
https://www.kirstyzw.art
Roisin Hahessy @roisinhahessy.bsky.social Telling Stories with Pictures, represented by Becca Langton at The Darley Anderson Agency
.
www.rosha.ie
Caroline McPherson @carolinemcpherson.bsky.social ✏️Picture Book Author-Illustrator
📚Represented by @kellydhouse.bsky.social - Tobias Literary
#kidlit | #kidlitart
✨ https://carolinemcphersonillustration.com
✨ https://www.instagram.com/caroline.mcpherson.art
✨ https://thetexturedpage.substack.com
Jes Trudel 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @jestrudel.bsky.social Literary agent with The Rights Factory. Founder of WritingCommunity.ca.
✧˚₊‧Peppermint‧₊˚✧ @yay-peppermint.com ✦Digital & Traditional Artist ✦ Graphic Designer ✦Emote Artist ✦ ♎✦ INFJ-T ✦ She / Her ✦ Canadian ✦ Twitch Streamer ✦ peppermint.on.twitch@gmail.com✦ 🚫 NO AI
http://yay-peppermint.com
#art
Nathasha Padrón @muakata.bsky.social ♾️🌈 Children’s Books Illustrator | TTRPG | Books
https://links.muakata.com/
Emily Jane Foster @emilyjaneart.bsky.social Freelance artist from Surrey, UK. MSc Biology, QTS. Science, nature & folklore/myth.
www.emilyjaneart.co.uk
https://emilyjaneartstudio.etsy.com
Commissions: emilyjaneartstudio@gmail.com
Married to @drrelling.dev
Olivia When @oliviawhen.com Children's book illustrator, 2D animator, dog observer ✏️🐕
she/her
✧ Read The Day Leap Soared!
→ oliviawhen.carrd.co
Phoebe Creates @phoebecreates.bsky.social Hi! I'm Phoebe Zeng, an artist & children's book Illustrator from Australia. I'm represented by Sally Kim @ Andrea Brown Lit
https://www.phoebecreates.com.au/
https://www.instagram.com/phoebe.creates/
Yaroslava Apollonova @odnatamyara.bsky.social Kidlit illustrator and mixed-media artist, nature lover | ADHD
Represented by the Bright Agency | odnatamyara.com
Emily Asaro @emilyasarodoodles.bsky.social Illustrator • Mama • SCBWI Member • Kidlit nerd • Usually found in the wild drinking coffee💜
https://emilyasarodoodles.com/
Rep’d by @essiewhite.bsky.social at Essie White Literary
Deborah Tyson @dstyson.bsky.social Comics author-illustrator living in SE Pennsylvania
Kent Culotta @kentculotta.bsky.social Artist●Illustrator●Animator