Karl Olson 🌻 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com • he/him
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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social Audition :: Nothing to See :: The New Animals :: I'm Working on a Building :: Everything We Hoped For :: Better off Read :: she's no Hemmingway.
Dawn Vogel @historyneverwas.bsky.social (㇏(•̀ᵥᵥ•́)ノ) Writer, editor, crafter, historian, cat mom, gamer, nerd, K-pop multi-stan. Codex Writers. LGBTQ+, neurodiverse, she/her. Terminally exhausted penguin. https://historythatneverwas.com
Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social SFFH Author | Winner-Apex Reader's Choice Award | SFWA & Codex Member | Bibliophilic ghost haunting libraries | she/her
Work forth/in Apex, The Dark, Heartlines, Small Wonders, Flash Point SF & more
Links: https://catherinetavares.com/links/
Gary K Wolfe @garykwolfe.bsky.social Critic, obsolete academic
Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social Lead developer of Nightwell Games. Currently surviving the aftermath of the Eaton Fire. All-ages deduction game DEDUCTOPIA coming soon: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/Deductopia/
Jordan Taylor @jordantaylor.bsky.social World Fantasy Award nominated author with stories in Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Deadlands, & others. Introverted human / Goblin royalty. They/She 🌈 jordantaylorwrites.com
Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com I write books. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry. She/her. (Hint: Like "synchro.")
https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com
Black Lives Matter @khlazarus.bsky.social Parent, reader, devops/python, neuroscientist & cook.
Queer, neurodiverse, Jewish, & disabled soft-butch trans dyke.
opinions my own
She/her, they/them
Pawel Frelik @nomad93.bsky.social I live in transit and specialize in everything but particularly in science fiction, ocular media, House of Leaves, dark musics, indie games, California, unpopular culture, Coil, outsider art, digital literature, Mass Effect, archives, and Southland Tales. 
Sonja Fritzsche @sfritzsche.bsky.social Director of Teaching and Learning, Professor of German Studies, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University, North America #CPILToolbox #CALInclusivePedagogyFellowsToolkit #WorldScienceFictionSeries #SFRA2026
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social I write boring things for big companies that don't use my name. I write other things here and use my first name. I have two sweet dogs that wish the UPS man wouldn't ring the doorbell.
(Same handle on Dead Bird site--account now dormant--and on Threads.)
Takaichi’s Castle @discographette.online game dev/designer who has worked on things you have liked. love my husband more than anything
eggbug survivor
she/elsewher, grass toucher
opinions my own, parody account
AJ Wentz @ajwentz.com Writer of speculative poetry and prose | not hip, cool, or with it | words in Lightspeed, Modern Haiku, Dreams & Nightmares, and elsewhere | co-chair for the 2026 Rhysling Awards | member of SFPA and Haiku Society of America | ajwentz.com
Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social he/him. Visual/ceramics artist, musician, occasional writer. LFK -> FOCO transplant. Studied ecology & anthropology, still fascinated by those topics.
Icon illustration & banner photo both my own work
Elliott Dunstan @fiversdream.bsky.social disabled mixed-race deafblind writer, editor and reviewer, he/it, 29, transmasc genderqueer
anarcho-communist feminist, chaos gremlin. 18+ only, please.
icon by @papayaOLP!
https://linktr.ee/elliottdunstan
Ben Chappell @benchappell.bsky.social Antifascist. Interdisciplinary ethnographer. Critical * studies. Midwesterner. Union grievance officer.
Loves mass transit and espresso. Hates structural violence and oligarchy.
Sirens @sirensconference.org Speculative fiction gives us blueprints for worlds full of hope, joy, justice, and revolution for people of all genders. Join us July 28-August 1, 2027: sirensconference.org
Fantasy Cafe, aka Fantasy Book Cafe @fantasycafe.bsky.social Kristen (she/her) writes about SFF books at Fantasy Cafe, host of Women in SF&F Month in April. Vermont/Upper Valley. Likes: Myths, wordsmithery, complex characters, dark stories, Baldur's Gate 3, cats, birds.
https://www.fantasybookcafe.com
Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social Lao American poet and traveler
Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Editor. Nerd. Managing Editor Interstellar Flight Press. Author of NUMINOUS STONES, THE SMALLEST OF BONES, GLIMMERGLASS GIRL. She/They
Website: www.Hlwalrath.com
Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social Cognitve psychologist. Friends of the Library President. Queer bibliophile and coal patch kid.
@bookchantment on Instagram
meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social writer, mpls enjoyer, & professional pulp apologist. stories published in pseudopod, baffling, adventitious, ffo. but captain, what would could they possibly want with spock's brain? List of work available/upcoming: https://mkanewrites.com/
MulletBraid @mulletbraid.bsky.social Writer, singer, cat lover, pissed-off daughter of patriot parents who defeated the Nazis the first time. Fan of NK Jemisin, CJ Cherryh and Martha Wells as well as the hero of our time, Ukraine's President Zelenksyy. Blocks most bots.
Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social Pink-haired professional bisexual witch. Contingent sociologist & bath bomb artist—order at witchqueen.net! She/her. “Cabell” rhymes with “Scrabble.”
ShinyFluff @shinyfluffdnd.bsky.social Central Europe. I love to be in the forest, read cool fantasy books, play ttrpg. anti-racist. disabled LGBTQI2S+. Free Palestine. I make magical oak gall inks and herbals here in the Carpathians: NightForestBotanical.Etsy.com no ai
Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social Call me Gigi! (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ Best selling author of diverse LGBTQ+ romance books and episodic serials. I also publish dark romance and paranormal romance books as Jasper Hyde. 🔞ADULTS ONLY! https://tinyurl.com/ypee4v36
Fatale Distraction @fatale-distraction.bsky.social Queer, disabled gamer, crafter, reader, and writer. She/her/they/them. There’s no LGB without the T. 🏳️⚧️ Ao3 and Tumblr under the same username. 💕 ANTI-AI. Old enough that I don’t get carded anymore.
Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social makes things 🏳️🌈 | RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN @press-android.bsky.social | EVERY DARK CLOUD @ghostorchidpress.com | Stonecoast MFA '21 | Rep: @laurenbajek.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/mariscarp
Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social
Libraries, UBI, infrastructure, civics, and citizens' assemblies.
Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social Lazy. Writes. Is known to write fiction. Is almost fictional. Sometimes furry.
Homepage: https://sinisbeautiful.com/
Patreon: http://patreon.com/MalcolmFCross
Writing sketchbook: https://scribbles.malcolmfcross.com/
Jim Johnson @ineti.bsky.social SF&F & #StarTrek editor & writer | #Modiphius #StarTrekAdventures #ttrpg project manager | IDIC | 🏳️🌈 🍳 | Gaymer | Him/he | AFOL | My opinions are my own | No solicits in DMs, please!
www.scribeineti.com
https://youtube.com/@scribe_ineti?si=MJ1e52Go1ymeENSF
Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social Author of Night Beast and Lies I Tell My Children | Co-founder, Nightjar Arts Collective
Just a queer Bolivian American woman who likes books and birds and making billionaires cry
www.ruthjoffre.org
www.nightjarartscollective.com
J. S. Kuiken @jskuiken.com Writer of fictions. Queer, world traveller, and tea connoisseur. UEA alumnus and Lambda Literary Fellow. 🚫 Gen AI. He/his. Opinions my own.
https://jskuiken.com/links/
Siobhan Carroll @siobhancarroll.bsky.social Hugo, Nebula, Locus, & World Fantasy Award finalist author. Eugie Award Winner. Science fiction, fantasy, and horror author writing for SECRET LEVEL and other media projects.
Book lover. Wannabe baker. Semi-retired supervillain.
white2tea @white2tea.bsky.social we make tea
white2tea.com 
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
subgirl @inkygeek.com Not submissive. Submarines.
inkygeek.com (inkvent blog)
Also - fountain pens, art, ink, etc.
Beth W @doodlebeth.com Creator of Doodlecats. Rainbow wizard artist. Likes drawing birds.
Autistic, ME/CFS EDS. She/they
https://buymeacoffee.com/u7mrtlvve6
https://linktr.ee/doodlecatsshop
Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social phd in gender studies - writer of books (Summer Sons, Feed Them Silence, The Woods All Black, and anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity)- he/him
Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social Library & Info Sci Prof @ U of Illinois | #Comics #Libraries #Education #Kids #History | '16 Eisner '20 Ringo '22 Lynd Ward ’25 Ignatz Juries | PhD | Queer | Hard of hearing | I debunked Fredric Wertham & lost on Jeopardy | https://ko-fi.com/caroltilley
Sydney Paige Guerrero (she/her) @sydneyficant137.bsky.social asst prof @ the University of the Philippines Diliman | stories in Apex, Fantasy, Cast of Wonders & more | Nick Joaquin Lit Award '18 & '19 | Clarion '24 Sense of Wonder Scholar | World Fantasy Award '25
https://sydneypaigeguerrero.wordpress.com/
James Brogden @jamesbrogden.bsky.social Writer (Titan, Black Library, PS Publishing and various other ne'er-do-wells), recovering ex-teacher, and Lego addict. Repped by Ian Drury Associates and owned by three cats.
Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social Poet, dancer, textile artist ✨ they/them disabled trans queer
Lily Lachance 🏳️⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com Trans 🏳️🌈, adventurer, author, poet, filmmaker. 🇨🇦
Unagented but seeking.
Words in Phano, Gavagai, Bullet Points, and more. Anti-gen-AI absolutist. (No both-siders, ever.)
Upward... Ever upward. 🙂🚀🌌
Sophia Carroll @torpor-chamber.bsky.social she/they | writer | EIC at https://www.menace-mag.com | #poemoftheday every weekday
sccarroll.com
https://torporchamber.substack.com/
Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social assistant prof in linguistics at swarthmore; phd in linguistics from u washington; sociosyntax; they/them or ey/em.
priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social Food Influencer of Worldcon 2024 (TM)
Reckoning staff, words, birds
priyachandwrites.wordpress.com
fatbirdpics.tumblr.com
avatar is from Clemente Susini's studio at La Specola di Firenze, profile image is a tree hyrax in Ngorongoro Crater
P. Kohlfeld @pkohlfeld.bsky.social Wüstenfux, Katzendompteur, Wanderer zwischen den Sprachwelten / Desert Fox, Cat Trainer, bilingual by choice and necessity
Blog: http://wuestenfuechse.com/
Hache Pueyo 🕷️🗝️ @hachepueyo.bsky.social South American arachnid with a human form 🕸 TYRANT IN THE CRACKS (Tor/Titan, 2027) 🕸 CABARET IN FLAMES (Tor/Titan, 2026) 🕸 BUT NOT TOO BOLD (Tor, 2025) 🕸 PT/EN/ES 🕸 Rep. Lee O'Brien
https://linktr.ee/hachepueyo
Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social "Kyle Lukoff? Isn't he, like, the trans Maurice Sendak?"
"No, Maurice Sendak is the cis Kyle Lukoff."
Lielac @lielac.bsky.social She/they | Canadian | Aspiring crazy cat lady | Cheerfully bad at video games | Highly Autistic Person | Won 0.0002% of a Hugo | Gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide | Atheist but Pope Leo XIV is cool
Mackenzie McGee @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social writer, scholar, spider | '21 PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize | University of Arkansas MFA '22 | currently PhDing @ University of Kansas
mackenziemcgee.com
Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social Cross-domain tiny details
Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE IS AN IGNYTE FINALIST! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️Iranian Chicagoan author: THE BRUISING OF QILWA (adult queernorm Persian fantasy; Crawford, Locus, World Fantasy finalist) & THE GLADE (🏳️🌈🍄MG horror, Ignyte finalist). Worker-owner at Sword & Kettle Press. Newsletter, teaching, & more: lnk.bio/jamsternazzy
Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com Shirley Jackson Award-nominated EIC of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. Dark specfic writer, Romanian folklore nerd, optimistic nihilist.
she/her
WHISPERWOOD out now
THE NIGHT SHIP out now
TATRATEA coming Oct 2026
https://linktr.ee/AlexWoodroe
Bill Campbell @rosariumbill.bsky.social Head cook and bottle washer at Rosarium Publishing, where we've been "introducing the world to itself" since 2013.
Matt Akins @walkipedia.bsky.social Workforce Management , Excel. Sometimes video games . 
Eclair @3eclair.bsky.social Scientist. Spent my youth oversharing. Now overcorrecting. Mainly reposting things I find shiny or dark.
La la ☀️ @frowniegirl.bsky.social Lost in the Midwest - make me laugh and we'll be friends for life!
meej-faced assassin of joy @meej.dragonsworn.net Elf enjoyer, fountain pen & ink dork, loves shouting and fantasy novels and shouting about fantasy novels. Sometimes I post pictures of my ridiculous dogs. Pretty sure my Axolotl is actually Ursula Vernon’s. She/her. Shiny. High strung.
P. Y. Mund @pymundgenealogy.com 🌳📜 Genealogy (mine, or whoever's) ideally; trying to get back to that ideal.
Professional/study/moderation list account.
Personal account: @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social
🔗: pymundgenealogy.com
Krista D Ball is Canada's Trade War Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social Krista D. Ball is an award winning Canadian author who hasn't met a potato she didn't like.
Krista's motto: don't let the randos steal your joy. She posts on reddit: she's been called worse by better than you.
kristadball.com for books, contact, etc.
Larisa @larripaz.bsky.social She/hers I love walking in the woods and I have a cute dog. 💙Vote blue! 💙Read books! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally
Michael Damian Thomas @michaeldthomas.bsky.social 10-time Hugo & World Fantasy Award-winning @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Publisher/Editor, & It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton podcast Content Editor. Former caregiver to my late daughter, Caitlin.
They/Them, he/him
Married to @kirstyislathomas.bsky.social
Brad Dowdy @penaddict.com Blogger // Podcaster // Maker
PenAddict.com
Somebody please tell this machine I'm not a machine.
Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Anti-racist, pro-trans, pro-housing, adoption-critical, Gàidhlig learner, BSL learner, musician, Trekkie, dysthymic, bleeding-heart cynic. She/her.
Renee Babcock @renegade500.bsky.social Radical leftist scum. Academic advisor in TX.
Elder goth, nerd, cat lover. Compulsive reader. I love opera & football, hate driving & early mornings. I need coffee before I can talk in the morning.
Chaotic good.
An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social The internet's definitive source for reliable factually accurate barely news and almost information about science fiction. Inexplicably a six-time Hugo finalist. hugoclub.blogspot.ca
Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social Linguist trying to understand logic, emotion, identity and human cognition.
Semantics, pragmatics, syntax; Cognitive Grammar; English history and sociolinguistics.
Berkeley -> San Diego -> Leipzig -> Silver Spring, Maryland 
Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Brais Lamela, Denise Rose Hansen, etc. Est. 2009. dorothyproject.com
Cameron Van Sant @cameronvansant.bsky.social A writer-y guy. Trans. Trying to spend time with cool art despite, you know, the horrors.
Writing website: https://www.cameronvansant.com/
National Pride Service @prideservice.bsky.social Patriots fighting the government erasure of LGBTQ+ and other marginalized Americans since 2025. We preserve and celebrate their contributions to our country with PRIDE! nationalprideservice.org
Third Culture Kosher @3ck.bsky.social the sociable food blog by Oren Vinogradov 🏳️🌈
words: https://3culturekosher.medium.com/
support: https://ko-fi.com/3culturekosher/
Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land Chronically ill public health JD writing to make sense of the policy hellscape so you don't have to do it alone. Actionable analysis & trustworthy guidance for people the system wasn't built to protect. Free & paid: ShouldntNeed.com
Sr. Fellow DFP. 🏳️⚧️nb
K. N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle.com I’m a queer, trans, agender therapist living with lupus
Author of humanist SF & Fantasy including the PATHS OF MEMORY fantasy duology and blue-collar space opera heist COMMON ACCORD
Find out more & buy my books at: https://knbrindle.com
#NoAI #NoDRM
Marnanel Thurman @marnanel.org I make stuff.
Also at https://queer.party/@marnanel .
Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social transformative justice. disability justice. abolition.
(she/her)
https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com
https://www.soiltjp.org
Solomon "THE VALUE OF A HEARTBEAT" Skalozub @sollizyy.bsky.social Writer, editor and artist for Phosphor Press (and independent work).
Transmasc lit enthusiast. He/Him.
email: solomonskalozub@gmail.com
Community:
Stoat: https://stt.gg/q15P0AXq
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1185554920406485
Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social Neurodivergent & disabled archaeologist, educator, writer & parent. she/they
Illi Anna Heger @illiannaheger.bsky.social Graphic non-fiction Storytelling
entwickelt #PronomenWieXier und schreibt über Pronomenbücher
Pronomen vermeiden sonst xier/xies (English they/them)
gezeichneter Avatar mit Sidecut und Brille
überall @illiannaheger, Fedi: @chaos.social + @pixelfed.art
Morgan K Brennan @mokbrennan.bsky.social She/they. Not famous for anything. Queer (bi enby), GenX, Autistic, Seattle, Very left, Buddhist practitioner, UU, Cat theydy, Fan of living composers, book lover, tattoo collector, retired software engineer. Autistics over 50 please say hi!
#Mefite
Erick Gama @erick-gama.bsky.social AmarilloStationery.com
The Portal Bookshop @portalbookshop.bsky.social Sci-fi, fantasy, & LGBTQIA. Queer resistance. Always trying to help. Portalbookshop@gmail.com Mon-Sat 10-5.30, Sun 11-5:30; 5 Patrick Pool, York, UK
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lalidoesbooks
Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social on hiatus...
https://psychopomp.com/fantasy/
Jeannette Ng 吳志麗 @ngjeannette.bsky.social Novelist. Won: Astounding, BFA Newcomer. Dabbles: history, poetry, costumes, live roleplay. She/they. Mostly photos of my dog. Repped by @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social
profiterole-reads @profiterole-reads.bsky.social LGBT SF/F. French, she/her.
@pattytempleton.bsky.social @pattytempleton.bsky.social Writer. Archivist.
Ben Cartwright @benfantastika.bsky.social Eraser, collagist, poet, fiction writer, mixed media, ceramics, printmaking, community college professor, arcade cabinet maker, roller of polyhedral dice, big-time yapper
https://linktr.ee/bencartwright
Marc Blake (he/him) ((aka “M. David Blake”; see also: obscure)) @absinthefish.bsky.social Science fiction writer, et cetera.
Anna D @languageisafence.bsky.social "Language is a fence across the landscape of the mind. The more languages you know, the more aware you become of these fences, and the better you become at building stiles to cross over them."
Deaf Trans Migrant Polyglot - EN DE ASL FR DGS
Der Spekter @derspekter.org Bundist perspectives, original artwork, journalism, and more.
www.derspekter.org
D. A. Vorobyov | НЕТ ВОЙНЕ @davorobyov.bsky.social he/him | work in Worlds of Possibility, @strangehorizons, @robodinofiction, @GlitterShipSF | @AlphaWorkshop 2016/17 | @clarionwest 2024 |
Mx. Coreo Jones @coreopsismajor.bsky.social Take the cilantro, leave the zamboni. Interdisciplinary shitposting, overthinking the absurd, special interests, sometimes smut. Disabled they/X也/они. Art by @brittsabo. FUBFree. My gigs and contact info: https://coreopsismajor.carrd.co/
Cae Hawksmoor @caehawksmooredits.bsky.social Professional developmental editor & writer. Fantasy, sci fi, YA, and romantasy. Clarion West 2016
they/them
I follow writers back
https://pagewake.substack.com
www.cahawksmoor.com/editing
H. Emiko Ogasawara (she/her) @emiko-ogasawara.bsky.social Artist, ceramicist, sculptor, art instructor, and voracious reader. Formerly @Emiko_Ogasawara on twitter.
https://www.emikoogasawara.com/
https://www.instagram.com/emiko_ogasawara/
C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning author of SAINT DEATH’S DAUGHTER & BONE SWANS. Audiobook narrator. Bandcamp: Brimstone Rhine. Repped by RHA Literary. https://linktr.ee/csecooney
Nicole Sharp @nicolesharp.com Author, aerospace engineer, science communicator. Writes with excessive enthusiasm about fluid physics at FYFD.