Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social Professional book person at WME, amateur parent everywhere else. Posting from the Quiet Car.
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social reactor mag's resident book nerd. they/them 🇵🇷🏳️🌈 nyc
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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social Defector, normal gossip, novels, etc
newsletter here: https://buttondown.com/mckinneykelsey
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Paul Tremblay @paultremblay.bsky.social Writer person. Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, Horror Movie, Another, A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World, The Pallbearers Club. F*ck AI
Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
I would love nothing more than to never see another meme in replies. I am doomed.
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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
Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social Hoosier, Political Analyst, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, adviser The Change Campaign / American Institute For Change
Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editors’ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawai’i http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek 💫 and wristwatch ⌚️ obsessed.
Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com Pulitzer Prize winner & NYT bestselling writer (books, TV, film). Angel Down, Whalefall, Creepshow, The Shape of Water, The Living Dead, Rotters, The Autumnal, 21 more, visit the site or just trust me.
DanielKraus.com
Randall Mann @randallmann.bsky.social SF. Poet @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social. Faculty @benningtonwriting.bsky.social. 💜
Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Isle McElroy @islemcelroy.bsky.social Author of The Atmospherians and People Collide. 2025-26 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.
Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Mike Hoinski @hoinski.bsky.social magazine editor | Texas Highways
@texashighways.bsky.social
I commission and edit the Open Road essay series: https://texashighways.com/topic/open-road/
@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social Not the best birder. Definitely not the best photographer. Usually in Central Park, but will travel for Timberdoodles! If you follow and repost a photo, I'll see you and follow back.
Ben Loory @benloory.bsky.social Writer 📚 Tales of Falling and Flying, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
benloory.com
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social Writer/Prof/Other. All pronouns. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social Appalachian in the big city. Editor at Ancillary Review, host of A Meal of Thorns, bookseller, coffee pro, SF reviewer & scholar. He/him.
https://linktr.ee/jakecasellabrookins
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for TRUE NATURE: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen. Writer-in-residence at the University of Minnesota. Teach in the Bennington MFA. www.lancenrichardson.com
Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Latest Book: WITHOUT CONSENT. Author, SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN.
http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
Jesse Hicks @jessehixxx.bsky.social Roving writer and editor in The New Republic, The Verge, Vice, Atlas Obscura, Men's Health, Politico, Harper's, etc.
brother, I have seen some things
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
Cover image: raspberry danishes
Profile photo: a river heron
Jake Cline @jakecline.bsky.social Writer, editor, book critic. Bylines, etc., at jakecline.net. I live in Miami.
Jenna Amatulli @ohheyjenna.bsky.social Deputy head of news at The Guardian US. Adjunct professor. Book hoarding New Yorker.
Nicole Lamy @nicolealamy.bsky.social Series Editor, Best American Short Stories
Steph Opitz @stephopitz.bsky.social Hypewoman. Also, Director of Bookstore Partnerships for Bookshop.org 
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social Husband. Golden retriever’s human. Novelist. Critic. Ally. Grognard. Yunker. Philly sports fan. Adjunct educator. No DMs please.
Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social writer/editor/podcaster/moderator. currently writing for Filmmaker, LA Times, AARP. previously on staff at THR, Esquire, Decider, Flavorwire.
Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social Author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today. Freelance book critic all over the place. Get in touch: rachelvorona@gmail.com. @RVoronaCote on Instagram. She / Her.
Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social Author of the novel BANGKOK WAKES TO RAIN, selected as a best book of the year by the NYT, WaPo, and Kirkus.
psudbanthad.com
Rebecca Rubenstein @rrrubenstein.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Freelance Editor & Writer | Fiction Editor at The Offing | EIC at Midnight Breakfast | Tin House Summer Workshop '20 & '23 | she/her | Scrabble + coffee + cross-stitch
Work with me! - https://rebeccarubenstein.com/editing-services
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social he/him
writer of stories and such
professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books
contributing editor at Literary Hub
occasional guitarist and singer
https://drewsof.neocities.org/
Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social Co-Creator of HALT AND CATCH FIRE.
Showrunner of THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER, full season now on AMC+ and SHUDDER.
LANTERNS Season 2.
And I write comic books.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Story @storymag.bsky.social Your favorite literary magazine since 1931. We mean, you know, aside from the previous three times we ceased publication. We love short stories, basketball, and cupcakes.
Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social Writer, arteest, blindish, kinda punk. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. FEVER HOUSE, THE DEVIL BY NAME, COFFIN MOON, more. CRONE coming 9/26. Repped by Chad Luibl, Janklow & Nesbit. CLOSED FOR BLURBS, SORRY.
Joe Hill @joe-hill.bsky.social Author of The Fireman, Strange Weather, and King Sorrow (out in October). Co-creator of Locke & Key (along with maestro Gabriel Rodriguez). Let's do a better job lookin after the kids: https://www.sandyhookpromise.org
Rob McQuilkin @rrmcq.bsky.social Literary agent at Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents, avid gardener, devoted chicken keeper. Holding out hope for some recognizable continuation of this American experiment in democracy…
Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social Author. Many books, including SABRIEL, the five other Old Kingdom novels; THE LEFT-HANDED BOOKSELLERS OF LONDON and sequels; THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM series, lots more. And stories. Adult SF/horror MASSIF out Sept 2026. www.garthnix.com
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social allenbratton.com
Ed Caesar @edcaesar.bsky.social Writer @newyorker. Author of "The Moth and the Mountain" and "Two Hours". "The Comet" will be published in February 2027. https://celadonbooks.com/book/the-comet/
Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer.
Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social History prof at a public university in Florida. Wrote STRANGER DANGER and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE. Writing a book about the Atlanta child murders for Liveright/Norton. He/him. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
Gerardo Sámano Córdova @samanito.bsky.social Writer and artist from Mexico. Author of Monstrilio.
gerardosamanocordova.com
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
k.skinner @girlfaust.bsky.social I have never written anything in my life
Lacey N. Dunham (she/her) @bookbent.bsky.social 🖤 Author
🖤 THE BELLES (S&S / Atria, 2025) southern gothic x dark academia
🖤 FALL OF THE HOUSE OF GRAYSTONE (S&S / Atria, coming 2027) Sapphic Tim Burton meets Grey Gardens
🖤 ME: https://www.laceyndunham.com/links
Caroline Sydney @carolinehsydney.bsky.social 
Eamon Dolan @eamondolan.bsky.social Editor (Simon & Schuster). Photographer (subway & skyline).
Author (THE POWER OF PARTING, Putnam, 2025).
He/him
Ben Hyman @benhyman.bsky.social Editorial Director, Schocken Books
Jane Kalu @njanekalu.bsky.social PhD candidate at USC | MFA from UNM | Stories in American Short Fiction, Narrative, Boston Review, Isele Magazine, Hopkins Review
Website: www.janekalu.com
Daniel Saldaña París @dsparis.bsky.social Escritor de libros.
Cullman Center Fellow 2022. Finalista Premio Herralde 2021. Eccles Center & Hay Festival Writers Award 2020.
English y español aquí.
Kerry D’Agostino @dagostinokerry.bsky.social Literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd. She/her/hers
Silvia Park @silviapark.bsky.social writer of LUMINOUS 🐯🤖 teaches at the University of Kansas
https://linktr.ee/silvia_park
Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social Author of the novel A Burning, nominated for the National Book Award, the NBCC John Leonard Prize, and the ALA Carnegie Medal
Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social Bookseller in Seattle, lost in a stack of books.
Please bring me fries.
Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social writer
co-owner of Thank You Books in Birmingham, AL
Melanie Figueroa @melaniefigueroa.bsky.social Literary Agent at Root Literary. Association of American Literary Agents member. 📝 MS in Creative Writing & Book Publishing. 📚 Scorpio. ♏️
MSWL: https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/melaniefigueroa/
Amy Bishop-Wycisk @abwycisk.bsky.social Pronounced why-zick. NYC. Literary agent at Trellis Literary Management. Opinions my own. Cat mom; fast talker; Garamond enthusiast; she/her. SUNY Geneseo alum.
Will Pei Shih @williampeishih.bsky.social Words in Best American Short Stories, VQR, Joyland, McSweeney’s, Boston Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Los Angeles Review, Ursa, & elsewhere. Fiction Editor at Guernica Magazine.
williampeishih.com
sophia stewart @sophiastewart.bsky.social editor of the millions / news editor at publishers weekly
writing in hyperallergic, larb, the atlantic, the baffler, etc
Elizabeth DeMeo @elizabethamy213.bsky.social elizabethdemeo.com
(she / her)
Tom Mayer @tomstonemayer.bsky.social Executive Editor & VP, W. W. Norton. I make books. 
Torrey Peters @torreypeters.bsky.social On social media hiatus! For contact info check my website torreypeters.com
Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social Literary Agent at The Blair Partnership
Emily Temple @emilytemple.bsky.social managing ed at Lit Hub, author of THE LIGHTNESS, toddler servant
Sewanee Writers' Conference @sewaneewriters.bsky.social sewaneewriters.org
For three decades, the Sewanee Writers' Conference has helped talented writers better understand their craft.
Benjamin Nugent @benjaminnugent.bsky.social Author of Fraternity: Stories; Director, Mountainview Low-Residency MFA
Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social Predominant necromancer. Sad books.
The Substitute Teacher (Avon A/HarperCollins Fall 2027)
The Ship of Death (Avon A/HarperCollins, Fall 2026)
Enter the Peerless
Grasshands
Tone-Bone
The Nothing That Is
Rep: Naomi Eisenbeiss (InkWell)
Heidi Pitlor @heidipitlor.bsky.social www.hpeditorial.com. Editor/writer/worrier/ally. Former longtime series ed of The Best American Short Stories. Author of Impersonation, The Daylight Marriage, etc. https://heidipitlor.substack.com/
Ethan Chatagnier @ethanchatagnier.bsky.social Writer of Singer Distance and Warnings from the Future.
Josh Riedel @joshriedel.bsky.social Author of Please Report Your Bug Here (2023).
Editor of Thirty Cabins.
Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
https://rebeccamakkai.com
Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social writer * teacher *mother * immigrant
friend of democracy
enemy of kakistocracy
lover of the American Dream,
living somewhere between the dream and the nightmare
Betsy Cornwell @betsycornwell.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, teacher at U of Galway, Markievicz Award, IWC mentor. Immigrant single mother. Agents: Sara Crowe & Dara Kaye. BetsyCornwell.com / OldKnittingFactory.com
nicole cunningham @nicolecunningham.bsky.social literary agent at trellis literary management 📚
Jen Winston @jenerouss.bsky.social bisexual author with perfect opinions
GREEDY (Atria 2021), a lambda literary award finalist
David DeGusta @davidwrites1.bsky.social Writer / fiction / Iowa Writers’ Workshop / MacDowell / Yaddo | Ethiopia / literary translation from Amharic | Previously a paleoanthropologist.
www.davidwrites.net
Translator of the Ethiopian novel Oromay by Baalu Girma.
www.davidwrites.net/oromay
Andy @cupcakeandy.bsky.social Cupcakes 🧁. Milkshakes🥤. Horror movies 👻. Former YA/MG Editor 📖. He/Him. cupcakeandy everywhere.
Rochelle Hurt @rochellehurt.bsky.social poet-person 🏳️🌈
Emily Skaja @emilyskaja.bsky.social Poet, professor, dog enthusiast. Author of BRUTE (2019) & BLACK LAKE (Graywolf 2026).
Terry Ann Thaxton @gardensister.bsky.social Writer, Teacher, Tree Huger, Dog Lover
woody skinner @woodyskinner.bsky.social A THOUSAND DISTANT RADIOS (Atelier26 Books) • PEN/Bingham Semifinalist • Cincinnati via Arkansas
woodyskinner.com