Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Jen Cheng @jencvoice.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Poet Laureate of West Hollywood
🪶 Author of Braided Spaces
🏆 CA Arts Council Fellow
🏠 Tin House Workshop Alumna
🌱 Macondista
🎬📚 Writer
🙋🏻♀️ Teacher of 3 P’s: poetry, piano, pilates
💃🏻 she/ella/kir
✅ Updated events: linktr.ee/jencvoice
Bellingham Review @bellinghamreview.bsky.social Poetry 🪷 Fiction ❇️ Creative Nonfiction 🌼 Hybrid
bhreview.org
Sarah Myer - WONDERCON, AWESOME CON @smyercomics.bsky.social They/them
Eisner-Nominated Comic artist, writer, colorist
Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Saturday Morning Adventures
Sarahmyer.net 
Sara Easterly @saraeasterlyauthor.bsky.social Adoptee-author of essays & books that include award-winning SEARCHING FOR MOM and ADOPTION UNFILTERED. Founder of Adoptee Voices, as well as the Faith Collective for Truth and Healing in Adoption.
saraeasterly.com
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello @marcicalabretta.bsky.social Writer and translator
Rob Arnold @rsarnold.bsky.social CHamoru, adoptee, survivor. Poet & essayist. Executive Director of Poets House in NYC.
Jonathan Wittmaier @jonathanwittmaier.bsky.social Writer // Educator // Lactose Intolerant
📍SEA
https://www.jonathanwittmaier.com
Shelley Gaske @hishelley.bsky.social Writes about culture, adoption, mental health. Dogs rule and sometimes drool. Nominated for a thing I won't get but also had enough therapy to admit if I'm wrong and get it.
Dr. Liz DeBetta @dr-liz-debetta.bsky.social Transforming Lives Through Connection and Creativity | Award-Winning Artist, Educator & Creator of Migrating Toward Wholeness© | Trauma-Informed Storytelling & Healing Expert
www.LizDeBetta.com
Phillis Tee-Hee @frygriddle.bsky.social I write. I cry.
Recovering thick thigh nightmare.
Mariama J Lockington @marilock.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Award winning author. Adoptee.
I’VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM 10/14/25
Annika (Nicky) Lee 李俏玲 @chiuling.bsky.social Writer & pitch deck designer. MA Serial Storytelling @ International Film School Köln. Tin House/McCormack '25 & 26. Chinese American, she/her/he/him
https://www.annikalee.com/
Ananda Lima @anandalima.bsky.social Author of CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL forthcoming @torbooks in 2024 (available for pre-order)
& MOTHER/LAND (Black Lawrence Press)
Rep: Sarah Bowlin (Aevitas)
Work in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast +
Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social She/her | Nonfiction Editor for Hypertext Review | Fulbright Scholar | Tin House ‘25 | Words in Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, The Offing | newsletter: anita.substack.com | website: anitagill.ink
Mesa Schumacher @mesabree.bsky.social Science and Medical illustrator, infographic artist.
Professional #sciart nerd.
Writer and kidlit author/illustrator rep. by Sorche Fairbank
MED/SCI: www.mesaschumacher.com
KIDLIT: https://imaginationillustration.mesaschumacher.com
Cynthia @cynthiavia.bsky.social Latine writer, poet, editor | Words in Acentos Review, Write or Die, Grace & Gravity | Tin House 25' Vona Voices 23' | Copy Editor & Reader for Trio House Press https://linktr.ee/cynthiavia
Liz Arnold @lizarnold.bsky.social Writer and NYFA Nonfiction fellow. Brooklyn & Finger Lakes. liz-arnold.com
Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social Educator & author. Books: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education & Becoming an Everyday Changemaker. Vermont explorer in the #251club. Querying a memoir on grief, healthcare system fuckery, and a spine injury
Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social Writer. Photographer. Community of Writers ‘20; KRWW ‘23; VSC ‘24. Tin House Winter Workshop’25. Apostate. www.rachaelholliday.com
Writer Ching Ching Tan @writercct.bsky.social Writer, Tin House '25; Public Speaking Coach; Senior Lecturer at SJSU
Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social Author of The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be; We Miss You, GF; Where We Come From (co-author) + others. Printz Honor, Carter G. Woodson + 3 MN Book Awards.
Also: Adoptee, Blerd, Mama, Prof, Runner, Traveler, working w/you against authoritarianism.
Alice Stephens @alicestephens.bsky.social FAMOUS ADOPTED PEOPLE (Unnamed Press, 2018), THE TWAIN (forthcoming from Regal House Publishing 2027), book reviewer, essayist, transracial adoptee, KAD, hapa
www.famousadoptedpeople.com
Catherine Lewis 🏳️🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social Author of poetry chapbook ZIPLESS (845 Press), finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards. Chinese Canadian. Banff Centre and Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio alum. Tin House ‘25. she/her/hers
Vancouver, Canada
linktr.ee/cat_writes_604
Adoptee Reading @adopteereading.bsky.social Adoptee Reading helps adopted people discover books about adoption from the adoptee perspective. Browse more than 450 titles at https://adopteereading.com/ and check out our shop at https://bookshop.org/shop/adopteereading
Janel Galnares @galnarespoetry.bsky.social Poet, teacher, and editor currently living in Chicago. EIC of Harpy Hybrid Review.
Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social Literary non-profit. Publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers since 1999.
Adoptee Literary Festival @adopteelitfest.bsky.social The Adoptee Literary Festival brings together writers who self-identify as adopted, fostered, or otherwise displaced to share their stories, make their voices heard, and reshape the narrative of adoption. Join us March 22, 2025. https://adopteelitfest.com
tiana nobile 문영신 @tiananob.bsky.social poet, author of Cleave (Hub City Press, 2021)
www.tiananobile.com
BlueSky Poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social A "respectful" space for poets to share work and connect with a vibrant community. All styles of poetry are celebrated. Use #BlueSkyPoetry and #SkyPoet to join a conversation, and tag us at @blueskypoetry.bsky.social for a chance to be featured.
Paul Lai @pylduck.bsky.social Librarian. Duck. 📚🦆 Meaningless bound form. Mostly posts about Taiwanese/American stuff? And doggos, of course. Always. he/伊/鴨
Profile image from Young Vo's Makers
nina michiko tam @ninamichikotam.bsky.social civil-rights lawyer. writer.
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
Allison Wyss (But the abyss... It's still in my heart.) @allisonwyss.bsky.social I don’t think I’ve been lost. she/her
And a book(!): SPLENDID ANATOMIES (Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, 2022)
https://www.allisonwyss.com
Cassandra Whitaker @casswhit.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Educator 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (She/they/Mx). NBCC, Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf available from Jackleg Press. https://queerthewolves.wordpress.com/
Neurospicy
Paul Bae @paulbae.bsky.social Podcast production in front, TV development in back. Some words & sounds for MARVEL, NBC, AMC, AMAZON. 🇨🇦
I have a book: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/Y/You-Suck-Sir
Je Hyeon | ABOLISH the polICE @naptime.theolive.garden jake: lab/pit mix
fuck ice, end every single genocide, demilitarize the police, US out of everywhere, abolish borders, end plenary adoption. we can imagine more
any/all
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
Support my work: patreon.com/trungles
Links: https://bio.site/trungles
Joon Ae HK (she/they) @joonae.bsky.social Korean adoptee + writer + dog lover + quen of typos | Co-founder of Constellation Reading Series + BIPOC Adoptees | Seoul -> Detroit -> Portland | 흑인의 생명은 소중하다 Black lives are precious & FREE PALESTINE ALL DAY EVERYDAY
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social Poet, Translator, Essayist.
Amy ☀️ @amygrier.bsky.social https://amygrier.substack.com
Writer, classical pianist, singer, dog-lover, traveler. Writing memoir about surviving childhood abuse and family estrangement. Living with chronic blood cancer for 30+ years. I am hard to kill and I look fabulous.
Brianna Bell @briannabellwrites.bsky.social Investigative Journalist.
Cult Survivor. Ex-Fundie.
Featured: NYT, Washington Post, BBC, The Guardian, CBC, Globe & Mail etc
https://briannabell.substack.com
Donna Talarico @donnatalarico.bsky.social Writer, higher ed storyteller, lit mag founder (Hippocampus). Co-ed, Getting to the Truth: The Craft & Practice of Creative Nonfiction. In-progress YA memoir. Curious. Loves diners, road trips, ephemera, wordplay, crosswords & board games.
Heather Sommerlad @hmsommerlad.bsky.social Writer, musician, teacher, survivor, and house builder. Sick of sociopaths. And my dog is cute. she/her
heathersommerlad.com
Aimée Baker @aimeebaker.bsky.social Writer/poet, author of DOE, subject of the documentary SHE, host of SHE GOES BY JANE abt missing women, with the newsletter GIRLHUNT www.girlhuntmedia.com
she/her
Shawna Ayoub @surviveyourstory.bsky.social Writer. Queer. Brown. I teach expressive writing for release and recovery. 🌈 🇱🇧
https://surviveyourstory.substack.com/
Theresa Haney @tmhaney.bsky.social Writer, creative arts therapist and lover of animals and nature.
Memoir in progress. #querying
Jill @jillvtbrat.bsky.social Writer editor non-stop reader
B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Coach—editor of the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship; Founder, Severancemag.com
Kari O’Driscoll @karilodriscoll.bsky.social Writer, parenting coach, non-profit consultant, grief and rage educator. West coast gal who believes we all belong to each other www.kariodriscollwriter.com
Podcast: It’s Relatable on MindBodySpirit.fm
Susan Schirl Smith @sschirlsmith.bsky.social Writer. Photographer. Holistic nurse. I'll be In the woods or by the sea. Words: Reckon Review, Kind Over Matter, Cognoscenti, Pangyrus. Photos: Barren Magazine
Jennifer Militello @jennifermilitello.bsky.social poet & memoirist 🌎🌻✨📚
Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
author of THE PACT (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books) and KNOCK WOOD (Dzanc Books)
https://jennifermilitello.com/
Jenna Brooks (Glatzer) @heyitsjenna.bsky.social Hi. Fiction and nonfiction writer, editor, reviewer. Cozy gamer (Stardew Valley, Pikmin Bloom). Single mom. Person with vocal disorder. Democrat. Your ally. She/her. Still loves Buffy. Still hates Nazis.
www.jennaglatzer.com
Cindy House @cindyhouse.bsky.social Author of Mother Noise
SC Beckner @scbwriter.bsky.social Work| Salon, Business Insider, Next Avenue, NBC Think, and beyond.
Essayist, memoir in progress, copywriter, em dash wh*re.
Heidi Croot @heidicroot.bsky.social An editor with and contributing writer to the Brevity Blog. Memoir in progress. Occasional developmental editor. Recovering corporate writer. Trading out Twitter for Bluesky and books. Favourite thing: taking my journal on cappuccino dates.
Kristen @kristenleigh.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Dancer. Mom. She/Her.
Writing about grief and landscape, Mahler and octopuses, echoes and Texas.
Co-founder of slips slips literary journal.
https://bio.site/kristenly
Shira Dentz @shirad.bsky.social poet w/books, pubs & other qualities
Casey Mulligan Walsh @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social THE FULL CATASTROPHE memoir, Motina Feb 25 | In a Flash founding editor | ✍️@nytimes @HuffPost @nextavenue @splitlipthemag etc. | @familyheartfdn amb/board ♥️ | Grief & joy walk hand in hand 🤝
Muffy Bolding @muffybolding.bsky.social Mother. Writer. Director. Suffragette. Witch. Knitter. Embroiderix. Cummari. Chingona. Siciliana. Latina. Filipina. Lyin’ Whore. Trollop. Shitkicker. Thief.
Withered Debutante.
“Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of my stature.”
Jen Gilman Porat @jengilmanporat.bsky.social Writer of personal essays & memoir. Driven by uncertainty. Obsessed with time and memory. Bucket List: Dance with John Travolta.
Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social Writer specializing in poverty, food/housing insecurity, and safety net programs. Also write about entertainment and lifestyle topics. Fan of all things 80s (plus 60s/70s musical icons). Passionate about animal rescue.
Melissa Grunow @melissagrunow.bsky.social melissagrunowauthor.com | I DON’T BELONG HERE: ESSAYS | REALIZING RIVER CITY: A MEMOIR
Essays in Brevity, the Illanot Review, Hypertext, River Teeth, The Nervous Breakdown, New Plains Review, Blue Lyra Review, among many others.
Mirella Stoyanova @mirellastoyanova.bsky.social Writer, therapist. Recovering perfectionist. Adoptee.
Words @writeordiemag @huffpost @businessinsider & more.
Mostly on IG @mirellastoyanova.
mirellastoyanova.com
H.E. (Helene) Fisher @hefisher.bsky.social Poet. Author. Editor. Late bloomer, early riser. She/they. STERILE FIELD (Free Lines Press, 2022), JANE ALMOST ALWAYS SMILES (Moonstone Arts Press, 2022). Co-Ed: @reideasjournal. https://www.hefisher.com/
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SueWSilverman @suewsilverman.bsky.social Write memoir and essays. "How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences." Co-chair of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. I love irony, metaphors, obsessions. Recovering from election.
Anna Goodman Herrick @annagoodmanherrick.bsky.social Author, A Speaker is a Wilderness: Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole (Monkfish, 2024)
✍️MTV, Oprah Winfrey Network, Rattle
Queer, neurosparkly Hospice Chaplain, writer on healing from individual & collective trauma towards collective liberation.
Alison Colwell @alisoncolwell.bsky.social Writer, weaver of fairy tales and other creative non-fictions, food security activist, mom to two teens and a houseful of cats. Currently searching for a literary agent to represent my memoir.
Sheryl Recinos, MD @mdsheryl.bsky.social Memoir - HINDSIGHT: Coming of Age on the Streets of Hollywood. Homeless teen to physician. YIMBY PB. MG, YA.
Pride Mom/Aunt/Ally 🌈
FM Hospitalist.
Drexel MFA 6/25.
☕️http://sherylrecinosmd.com/
1st alumni board member at www.myfriendsplace.org ❤️
Katherine Kyle @katherinekyle.bsky.social 
Tina Brobby @tbrobbs.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇬🇭🇬🇧 CNF Writer, photographer, lawyer, adoptee. Memoir in the making.
https://christinabrobby.com
Hannah Sward @summerjar.bsky.social STRIP: A Memoir 📚 IPPY GOLD Medalist
✍🏽 LA Times, HuffPost, NYT, The Rumpus etc. New on Substack ‘Summer of Men’ 💋(dating/sex) https://open.substack.com/pub/summerofmen/p/threesomes-and-jealousy?r=9br3o&utm_medium=ios
Jacque Gorelick @jacgorelick.bsky.social Writer. Overthinker. Dogs, Music, Books & Sometimes People. she/her
✍🏼 estrangement, found family, motherhood
MAP OF A HEART about ❤️s (medical & metaphorical)VineLeavesPress '26 Website www.jacquegorelick.com
Natalie Pascale Boisseau @npboisseau.bsky.social Writer - Ecrivaine. Montreal -Seattle
Acupuncture. Récit. Traduction.
CNF, poetry, memoir.
Trauma, adolescence.
Publications: Les Ecrits des Forges, Raven Chronicles, Isele Magazine, Crab Creek
Amy McHugh @amymchughwriter.bsky.social 
Mary Catherine La Mar @lamarchinamc.bsky.social Writer & Editor, with a keen interest in classical music & the violin, psychology, & the future of the arts & humanities.
Ali Maria @alimariaart.bsky.social Writer and artist in training ☀️
Mum of a dog and a cat 💛
In love with @hctr.dev
Di Brown @nixie.bsky.social Writer, emigrant, dog-mom, going sane in a crazy world
http://dianabrown.net
http://Goodreads.com/DiBrown
http://YouTube.com/NixieNet
Mast: @Nixie@writing.exchange
#Binders
Lyn Wheaton (Lynnie) @lynwheaton.bsky.social WRITER: CNF. Short Story. #binders.
Memoirs in Progress: THE DREAM LOTTERY & 3 unnamed.
Screenplays: Heaven in a Cup.
Featured monthly writer: Valley Voice-6 years.
Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
Coffee bogart. #Neurodivergent
Follows Back Creatives
Carol S @justcarolsk.bsky.social ✍️,👩🎨, editor, writing coach, funny, irreverent, opinionated, Joni geek, joyous ✡️, beach grrrl. Make art and good trouble. #WritingCommunity
Deborah Jeanne Weitzman @deborahjeanne.bsky.social www.deborahjeanne.com
I am a singer-songwriter, Alexander Tech. teacher, writer and truth seeker. I lead workshops in Vocal-activation, breath and movement. My new novel: 'The Sinking of the Leonardo di Vinci' comes out spring 2025!
Starling Roberts @starlingroberts.bsky.social Lover of words and plants and birds and rocks and things.
Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social Author of NBCC finalist HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Nonfiction ghost story forthcoming with Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster). Freelance editor based in Portugal.
Rachel Weinhaus @rachel-weinhaus.bsky.social Memoirist, Screenwriter, Flash & Micro Fiction, Author of The Claimant: A Memoir of an Historic Sexual Abuse Lawsuit and a Woman's Life Made Whole. http://rachelweinhaus.com
Anesce Dremen 许梦安 @anescedremen.bsky.social Anesce Dremen is a U.S. writer and educator often found with a tea cup in hand, traveling between the U.S., China, and India.
Fulbright, Critical Language Scholarship, & Gilman alumna
AnesceDremen.com 
Freda Epum @fredaepum.bsky.social ✨ Writer, artist, and consultant.
📍OH 🌽 & AZ 🌵
📚 THE GLOOMY GIRL VARIETY SHOW: A MEMOIR (Jan' 25 @feministpress)
PhD-ing in English Lit
Newsletter @ fredaepum.substack.com
#fibromyalgia #chronicillness | 🇳🇬 🏳️🌈
www.fredaepum.com
Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Healing @featsofstrength.bsky.social #cPTSD #recovery ❤️🩹 Recovering from trauma is among the most heroic things we can do. We can heal.
Personal thoughts on mental health & strength training w/a touch of science 🏋🏾🏋🏻
🖋️ scribendo cogito "I think by writing" #lifewriting
@literarychar.bsky.social @literarychar.bsky.social 
QU33Ni3 @qu33ni3.bsky.social We were His first. 🙌🏾
❤️ Without Color.
Me... Unapologetically. ✨
⚠️ Expect the unexpected.
Artist, author, musician, game & app developer. 💡
Former teacher, forever learning 👩🏾🔬
Allegedly to all claims & reposts 📝
https://linktr.ee/D_Queenie_H
Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social Author THE MORTALITY SHOT (hybrid collection), coach, editor, artist, certified yoga teacher, theater maker, now working on researched memoir about liberation at 57 of being a fashionably late-diagnosed #Autistic: TheUnadaptedOnes.com
Nina @rustbeltrants.bsky.social Writer, actor, sandwich caregiver. www.NinaWriteNow.com
Elizabeth Austin @writingelizabeth.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 solo mom. writing in Narratively, Harper's Bazaar, McSweeney's, The Sun, Jenny, etc.
📍Philly & Maine 🖤
Go Gold in September🎗️
Go Birds!
@laurazam.bsky.social @laurazam.bsky.social 
@lindatate.bsky.social @lindatate.bsky.social 
Kelly what’s left of a real cool chick Thompson @tnwwyatnw.bsky.social They would not listen, they did not know how. There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was) ™
https://thompsonk.substack.com/about Born&raised2x2 #religioustrauma @LAReviewOfBooks @GuernicaMag @BOMB Founding editor #VoicesOnAddiction @TheRumpus.net
Yolande House @healthruwriting.bsky.social memoir writer, grant consultant, survivor (she/her), MA
Words: The Rumpus, Grain, Joyland, The Fiddlehead, PRISM, Hippocampus
Threads/IG: healthruwriting
Twitter: herstorian
HoH 🏳️🌈 #binders
linktr.ee/yolandehouse
yolandehouse.com/services/grants
Dr. Jamie+ Marich @drjamiem.bsky.social (she/they/we) The Unicorn System 🦄 Author 🏳️🌈 Trauma Therapist & Educator 📘 “You Lied To Me About God: A Memoir” now available from North Atlantic Books www.jamiemarich.com
Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social Writer | Mother | Immigrant | Managing Editor @mlnjournal.bsky.social | PhD Hispanic Lit | Fulbright (Brazil) | Bylines WaPo, Time, Guernica, etc. (she/her)
Book forthcoming w Bloomsbury Academic
Human Generated: https://victorialivingstone.substack.com/