kendra mckinley @kendramckinley.bsky.social musics
@wanderberkshires.bsky.social @wanderberkshires.bsky.social 
@dogagainstfascism.bsky.social @dogagainstfascism.bsky.social Cute dog against fascism.
I bark and stand against racist dictators!
One Nation ! 💙🇺🇸
Patricia Smith @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social THE INTENTIONS OF THUNDER, Scribner, 9/30! Poet/Princeton CW prof, Ruth Lilly & Kingsley Tufts, NAACP Image Award, Pulitzer finalist, Guggenheim, Chgo Literary Hall of Fame. Love Cubs, Lou Malnati's, Portillo's & the peppermint stick/hot pickle mashup.
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Michael Waugh @mwaugh.bsky.social Brooklyn-based, queer artist. I draw what I see, and I see reactionary ideology everywhere. lolz. http://michaelwaugh.com
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social “There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me." —Franz Wright
American fiction writer, although Briony Tallis’s opening pages are my love language. Riding ebikes across foreign cities is pretty cool too, and gender equality.
Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com Independent bookselling in Iowa City since 1978.
Mark Haile @circuitmouse @circuitmouse.bsky.social Coffee
Books
Cafe
Ukraine
Kava
No one is free until everyone is free
Caife
California
Cofaidh
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Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social
Writer you almost but don’t quite remember from 20 years ago.
New novel! Kosha (Blackstone, 2027)
Past novels: The Ice Beneath You, Voodoo Lounge, In Hoboken
Past lives: NPR commentaries; guitar; soldier
NewHope, PA & WestCapeMay, NJ
baumansbrain.com
James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
@jamiechesbro.bsky.social @jamiechesbro.bsky.social Author of A Lion in the Snow (Woodhall Press) Bylines: LitHub, The Writer’s Chronicle, Zone 3, The Rupture, River Teeth (online), Essay Daily
jamiechesbro.com | https://open.substack.com/pub/jchesbro Short Runs newsletter: short reads to fuel long runs🏃♂️
BK Loren @bkloren.bsky.social I wrote Theft, a Novel; Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays & other pages of words. But I've lost faith in the business of publishing, so now I ride a bike. I pedal in circles, hoping things come around again. They will. That's the meaning of Revolution.
Claire Handscombe @bookishclaire.bsky.social Reader, writer, epic daydreamer.
4w3/ENFP
🇫🇷🇧🇪🇬🇧
Bookseller, publishing person, West Wing fan.
Forever missing D.C.
Jade R. Holmes @jaderholmes.bsky.social Writer & Reader
MFA in Writing
Classics, Horror, Poetry, Fantasy✨
https://linktr.ee/Tallandsmiley
Mary Ardery @mardery.bsky.social Author of LEVEL WATCH (June Road Press, 2025) | www.maryardery.com | she/her | West Lafayette, IN
Politics and Prose @politicsprose.bsky.social So many books, so little time. Proud independent bookstore since 1984. 
Fritha @frithastrand.bsky.social Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist. frithastrand.com
@kaypem.bsky.social @kaypem.bsky.social 
Brian Gresko @briangresko.bsky.social writer, illustrator, educator; co-founder Writing Co-Lab; co-host Pete’s Reading Series; words all over the place; weird & genderqueer & poly
Quincy Scott Jones @quincyscottjones.bsky.social poetry, comics,
author of two books,
probably not the Quincy Jones you're thinking of.
https://quincyscottjones.com/
lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social I write. I draw. I make comics. I obsess.
Evan @efghannon.bsky.social Alaskan in Texas
My fiction appears in Conjunctions, EPOCH, Bat City Review, X-R-A-Y, HAD, and is forthcoming with Pithead Chapel
colin drohan @colindrohan.bsky.social my daughter says hello (she is a pug named Martha)
Laura Koritz @laurakoritz.bsky.social education : poetry : Metallica : blueberries : love & loyalty & liminality : tambourines : catfish & river
Lisa Scottoline @lisascottoline.bsky.social Author, lawyer, pet wrangler, carbs fan. Scottoline rhymes with fettuccine.
Royal Young @royalyoung.bsky.social Non-binary poet + art + sound 💙🪬⚡️ they / them
https://www.youtube.com/@ROYunderground
Mary Batten @marybattenauthor.bsky.social Author, nature/science books, articles, TV documentaries. Emmy nominee for work on Children’s Television Workshop’s series, 3-2-1 CONTACT. Recent book, Life in Hot Water: Wildlife at the Bottom of the Ocean. #AuthorsGuild Website: MaryBatten.com
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
Annie Wenstrup @akwenstrup.bsky.social Dena’ina poet. The Museum of Unnatural Histories, Wesleyan University Press, March 2025. Here for the fish.
@hollowaymcc.bsky.social @hollowaymcc.bsky.social 
Becky @beckycochrane.bsky.social Author, reader, spouse, keeper of four "quirky" dogs.
Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social 🇳🇮🇵🇷 Author of ALLIGATOR TEARS (‘25) and HIGH-RISK HOMOSEXUAL (‘22) / Lambda Literary Award. American Book Award.
M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social 🇨🇦Canadian author by day, potato by night • fantasy nerd • book enthusiast • magical • Harvard alumna • part owner of Canada • my life is an absurd musical • Lake Ontario forever
Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social Essayist, educator, Zillow stalker, hockey fan, pet pic poster. Usually tired; probably mad. Words at The Common, Catapult, Avidly, River Teeth, NYT, The Rumpus, Guernica. CFA-UAW she/her
https://linktr.ee/bethmachlan?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Paul Robeson Library @paulrobesonlibrary.bsky.social Paul Robeson Library on the Camden Campus of Rutgers University. One of the many Rutgers Libraries.
https://linktr.ee/robesonlibrary
Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social Archaeologist turned author with a science fiction take on life. Author of Plague Birds, member of SFWA and SPJ. He/His. Represented by Lucienne Diver. www.jasonsanford.com
Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social Reader. English professor. Follow books, film, foreign affairs/history, baseball (Bucs),and soccer (Everton). Partial to hounds.
Jason Bentsman @jasonbentsman.bsky.social Wayfaring Writer & Photographer
// Debut photobook out now from 89Books Italy ➨
limited signed copies ➨ www.tinyurl.com/WhichCannotBeSeen
// Bklyn Review, Offing, LitroMagUK, Mercurius, Tiny Mcules, AmBystander, MTL Review, HAD, Amstdm Qtrly, FStop, et al
Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social Senior Reviews Editor @smokelong.bsky.social | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor @splitlippress.com | Providence menace | I write weird shit. | Fuck ICE. | More of us than there are of them.
Tara Lynn Masih @taralynnmasih.bsky.social Historical Novel Forthcoming from STORM PUBLISHING in 2026; Award-winning author of MY REAL NAME IS HANNA; editor of THE RMP FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH FICTION
More info at www.TaraMasih.com
Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social An award-winning indie publisher putting creatives and readers first, with lovingly made, quality books… and a fair deal! E-shop now open on our website!
https://www.breakthroughbookcollective.com
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Skip Cunningham @ladude.bsky.social Trans rights are human rights. He/him. Writer, lawyer, subversive guy in a suit. Left a red state before it was a thing. No regrets.
Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social Performs other tasks as required.
@gpgottlieb.bsky.social @gpgottlieb.bsky.social 
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!
https://www.patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl
Kat Moore @katmoore.bsky.social PhD. Writer from Memphis—now in Michigan. Dweller at Cat Palace. Essays in: Brevity, Image, Creative Nonfiction, Diagram, Passages North, Salt Hill and more. Bread Loaf Scholar ‘21. Tin House Winter Workshop ‘22. she/her
katmoorewriter.com
MarisaPC(whatasky)lark @professorgaga.bsky.social BIRD (poetry, Unicorn Press, 2024): http://unicorn-press.org/books/Clark-Bird.html
writer, teacher, dreamer, animal lover (parrots, dogs, wildlife)
so queer
pop culture
Sagittarius sun, Aries moon, Aquarius rising
Jill Talbot @jilltalbot.bsky.social Writer, Runner, JackChi Owner, Vintage Postcard Collector, Probably Staring Out a Window. http://jilltalbot.net
Benoit Denizet-Lewis @benoitdlewis.bsky.social Professor @ Emerson College. Writer @ NYT Mag
*New book*: “You’ve Changed: The Promise & Price of Self-Transformation,” April 2026
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman @jessicahindman.bsky.social Author of Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Fluent in West Virginian, advanced proficiency in New Yorker.
www.JessicaHindman.com
@ktbird68.bsky.social @ktbird68.bsky.social 
Judith Vollmer @jtreev.bsky.social Poet. Alice James Books, THE PAVESE STONE March 2026. @alicejamesbooks;
The Sound Boat: New & Selected Poems, University of Wisconsin Press Four Lakes Prize 2022; editor, teacher
Alison Cerri @alisoncerri.bsky.social Brooklyn-based book publicist. Reader, runner, dog mom. opinions are my own ✨
kbb @brewerball.bsky.social writer/ Associate Professor of Performance Studies/ The Only Way Out (Duke University Press, 2024)
Krystian Morgan @kmog.bsky.social (Thinks of words, writes them down)
Stories in Open Pen, Idle Ink, W.A.R, on paper and in the head.
When not writing, you’ll find me playing the guitar, fussing in the kitchen or doing graphic design to pay the bills.
www.krystianmorgan.com | Wales, UK 🏴
Alan Chin @alanchin.bsky.social Novelist, World Traveler, Husband to a Wonderful Man.
Check me out at http://alanchinauthor.com
@marksteinwachs.bsky.social @marksteinwachs.bsky.social 
Kathryn Cowles @kathryncowles.bsky.social Poet/Artist, The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor (Fence Modern Poets Prize), Maps and Transcripts (Milkweed)
Editor “Beyond Category”@SenecaReview
HWS Prof
Trias Writers Residency Director
www.kathryncowles.com
Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social BECOMING DUCHESS GOLDBLATT (HMH, 2020).
Aube Rey Lescure @aubereylescure.bsky.social French-Chinese-American novelist and essayist. Editor-in-Chief at Off Assignment. Best American Essays 2022. Author of RIVER EAST, RIVER WEST, William Morrow (US)/ Duckworth (UK), shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Visit aubereylescure.com
Lisa Piazza @lmpiazza.bsky.social oakland writer/teacher/mother/reader
z kennedy-lopez @zkennedylopez.bsky.social they/them. writer, noisemaker, fermenter, teacher. words in catapult, foglifter, autostraddle, bedfellows, & others. jake sun, marceline moon, b-mo wannabe. editorial asst @ split lip mag www.zkennedylopez.com/
Matthew Hittinger @mightthreatenwit.bsky.social Line tamer.
matthewhittinger.com
Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social Climate, writing, running, beasts. Valve turner. Host: https://sites.libsyn.com/459540/awabw
poetry: https://www.hummingbirdpoetry.org/books/her-animals-by-emily-johnston-2nd-ed
Making good trouble: troublemakerscommunity.org
Di Keller @dikeller.bsky.social Writer, editor, psychology doc. Minnesotan living in California.
She/her, cats, pie.
Bennington Writing Seminars @benningtonwriting.bsky.social Read. Write. Be read.
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, & dual-genre. Ranked one of the Top 3 low-residency MFA programs by The Atlantic and Poets & Writers.
https://www.bennington.edu/mfa-writing
Star Wuerdemann @starwuerdemann.bsky.social Writer/Educator/Acupuncturist in Washington State. Bread Loaf '23 alum. Pronounced WORD-a-man.
Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social 🚨LIBRARY OF BROTHEL MAY 2026 Knopf Canada Jan 2027 NYRB
“tips it off the cliff” Globe
“One of the most adventurous writers working in English today”
“sui generis”
Award winning author of Bina, Martin John & Malarky
www.anakanaschofield.com
Wylie
Hoops
L Carmichael @utarcher.bsky.social Finding curiosity & comfort in the written word.
She/her.
♿🏳️🌈
📷 PFP credit to Ace Jones Taylor.
🧵 Cover credit to HGEmbroideryArt.
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Theodore McCombs @theodoremccombs.bsky.social Writer, climate lawyer, opera enthusiast, ballet husband-man. Clarion ‘17. Published my first book, URANIANS, last year & working on the second 🪐🏳️🌈
Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social Writer, PT-EN literary translator | 2024 Sundial Literary Translation Award | Translations in Words Without Borders, Michigan Quarterly Review, LALT, Asymptote Journal | Author-Member at Betty Books | ilzeduarteliterarytranslator.com
Holly LeCraw @hollylecraw.bsky.social Glad to be here
Novels: THE SWIMMING POOL and THE HALF BROTHER, more TK
www.hollylecraw.com
Adam Klein @adamklein.bsky.social Author of The Medicine Burns; (High Risk Books) Tiny Ladies (Serpent's Tail); Jerome: After the Pageant; and The Gifts of The State: New Writing from Afghanistan (Dzanc Books) Rep. PJ Mark
The Size Queens.
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
Free newsletter at mariepphillips.substack.com
Monica B. Pearl @mbpearl.bsky.social teacher reader expat/immigrant newyorker in Manchester UK
monicapearl.com
Cody Stuart @thecodystuart.bsky.social vp of psyops at book culture
cr: a house not meant to stand by tennessee williams
bookculture | sly and vegan | he / him
Prickly @pmck.bsky.social PFLAG, NEA, RIP MO-5, 🐝
Andrea Bishop @andreabishop.bsky.social Writer. Salt Spring Island & Vancouver, 🇨🇦. Stories in/coming: New Ohio Review, Malahat Review, Masters Review, Cleaver, Grain, BULL, PRISM...
Knows: healthcare, psych & change
Appreciates: dogs, quests, diversity & curiosity
linktr.ee/andreabishop
Michael Zapata @michaelzapata.bsky.social Author of the novel THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU. Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago & Northwestern University. Descended from Andean farmers, poets, and union organizers.
michaelzapata.com
Karen (B) @bookishkb.bsky.social Mediocre photos of very fine creatures.
From Chicago; in Wisconsin. She/her. Reader. Science fiction fan. For human rights, books, art, health care for all, etc. Trans rights are human rights. Voting is a right.
Against fascism. 
Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social Writer/Founder of the Athens Writers' Collective/No Fun at All. he/him
Iowa MFA, Houston PhD. Words in Barrelhouse, Zone 3, Hobart, Sequestrum, etc.
Athens, Georgia, USA
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Dustin Brookshire (he/him) @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social 4 chapbooks. Editor of When I Was Straight: A Tribute To Maureen Seaton. Co-editor of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. Founder/curator of the Wild & Precious Life Series. Founder/editor of Limp Wrist.
Lisa Wartenberg Vélez @lisawv.bsky.social 🇨🇴 • PEN / Dau • Best Debut Short Stories 2023, MQR, Nimrod, Ghost Parachute, others; forthcoming: Cutleaf • @UcrossFdn • 🏳️🌈
Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social Poet. Essayist. Educator. "Places I've Taken My Body" & "The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded" Co-author "In the Field Between Us" w Susannah Nevison. Editor in Chief @ Image Journal. http://mollymccullybrown.com
@gaystheword.bsky.social @gaystheword.bsky.social LGBT+ Bookshop, London
Tues - Sat Open 11am - 6pm
Sunday Open 1pm - 6pm
Monday - Closed
Pop-up location: 58-60 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AB
Marc with a Sea 🌊 @ceruleanlib.bsky.social Positives: Clean Air & Water, Music, Vizslas, Reading & Libraries, Cooking, Gardening, Film & Theater, History & Politics, Slava Ukraini🇺🇦
TheCraftyCauldronCrochet @crochetcauldron.bsky.social Crochet, Crafts, Music, Gardening, Food Preservation, Family, Animals, Nature, all important to me.
Dawnie Walton @dawniewalton.bsky.social Writer, teacher, co-host of Ursa Short Fiction. Author of THESE GIRLS OUT HERE (2027) and THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV.
Dr. Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social PhD scholar researching trans media histories https://concordia.academia.edu/ChristopherWolff
Incoming Fellow of the FU Berlin Program https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/bprogram/fellows/files/fellows_final_41.pdf