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Lisa Kamolnick @lisakamolnick.bsky.social Poet. Photographer. Writer. Dreamer.
lisakamolnick.com
Poetry Society of Tennessee President, PoetTEA co-host, Lost State Writers Guild, Poetry Writers Workshop, Emerald Coast Writers, Florida State Poets Association, Alabama Poetry Society, ASCAP
chelyendavis.bsky.social @chelyen.bsky.social Appalachian, writer, fiddler, cat lady.
Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social Award-winning author. ๐Kentucky
HAZELGREEN & OTHER HAUNTS is forthcoming in โ27 from WVU Press;
PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press)
๐ cats, trees, music | wesblake.com
Niko Bussey @niko2057.bsky.social E Pluribus Unum, yโall!
Tech Enthusiast/Bemoaner
Thoughts, observations, and implicit beliefs
jahnna (she/her) @calamityjahnna.bsky.social reader. high school teacher & coach. ponderer. ex-lawyer. lover of oddments. collector of books. enthusiast for libraries. superstar & delight. dog mama. obstreperous & ungovernable. quantumly entangled with my favorite human. louisville, kentucky, earth.
@dreamer-bee.bsky.social @dreamer-bee.bsky.social 
Dana Malone @danamalonewriter.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Storyteller. Singer. Native Appalachian. Hoops fanatic.
#musiccitysingsat6 Everyone Begotten, Everything Holy (April Gloaming Publishing, September 2026).
@septimecabral.bsky.social @septimecabral.bsky.social 
Dakota Saylor @dakotasaylormusic.bsky.social Singer/songwriter from Harlan, KY
๐ dakotasaylormusic.com
JULIANA @juliana-olson1.bsky.social Hi BlueSky! ๐ New here and still finding my way around. Mom of two, passionate about food and the joy it brings to people. Looking forward to great conversations and connecting with wonderful people here! ๐ฝ๏ธ
John Marshall @jmarshall30540.bsky.social The beautiful mountains of North Georgia. Philippians 4:8.
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
Los Angeles isn't too hot @pedroaugusto07.bsky.social As a Christian, may peace and joy always be with me, and may every day be filled with wonderful moments
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Thirteen Bridges Review @thirteenbridges.bsky.social Thirteen Bridges Review is a Literary Arts Journal produced by the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. Our mission is to publish work that is as exciting as it is groundbreaking.
https://www.thirteenbridgesreview.com
Nathan Cover @fissuresofmen.bsky.social I like a sentence that forces the reader downhill at full gallop gasping for air knowing they are running until they collapse in a heap at the bottom desperate destroyed.
https://marrowmagazine.com/almost-paradise/
Denali Sai Nalamalapu @denalisai.bsky.social climate organizer + comic artist in Southwest Virginia โฆ my graphic novel HOLLER is out via Timber Press https://tinyurl.com/orderholler โฆ they/them
Kayla Nichols @kaylanichols.bsky.social Author. Community builder. Appalachian.
Currently writing a romantasy novel set in a post-apocalyptic Appalachia & Ireland. It's grounded in shared ancestry and old magic.
The Stuff of Stars available now! https://linktr.ee/writerkaylanichols
Dani Finn ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ @danifinnwrites.bsky.social They/them ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐
Fuck genAI ๐
Author of fantasy, sci-fi, & horror romance โ๏ธ๐๐๐งโโ๏ธ๐
Smutfluencer โค๏ธโ๐ฅ
I read ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ books
DISPOSABLE MAGIC, a cephalopod fantasy romance ๐
THE GILDED VEIL: Pro wrestling meets classical theater ๐คผโโ๏ธ ๐ญ
๐ https://linktr.ee/danifinn
Bob Stepno @bobstep.bsky.social Former journalist, tech writer, academic, media historian, now retired in sw Va, playing oldtime-style music (mandolin, uke, guitar), exploring the Blue Ridge, writing a little, including https://jheroes.com
https://boblog.blogspot.com
Apple Atcha @appleatcha.bsky.social
An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes. SunTsu
Salvation South @salvationsouth.com Stories that shift the Southern narrative at https://salvationsouth.com. Salvation South Deluxe podcast on the NPR Network โ https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1124772160/salvation-south โ or your fave podcast platform.
@acerpseudoplatanus.bsky.social @acerpseudoplatanus.bsky.social 
Clinton W. Waters | Author @cwwwriting.bsky.social Queer sci-fi / fantasy / horror author
Check out (UN)Bury Your Gays, a queering of Lovecraft's ReAnimator
bit.ly/unburyourgays
Georgini @venezi.bsky.social Hello, I am modelo profesional
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Machine Gay Kelly @judalicious.bsky.social COO for the QSIDE Institute, CIO at Bennington College, proud supporter of DEI, gay person, gender fuzzy, proud dad of a transgender son. Expressions and opinions are my own and do not represent the organizations that I work for.
Sylvia Ahrens @cozyallison.bsky.social Poet and cozy mystery writer. Mentor at Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. Lover of lilacs.
Staunchdolt @staunchdolt.bsky.social Head in the clouds. Ear to the ground. Finger on the pulse. Toe in the water. Nose to the grindstone. Hand in the cookie jar. All up in ya.
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
Molly T. Blasing @mtblasing.bsky.social Associate Professor of Russian Studies, University of Kentucky | literary studies, poetry and poetics, theatre and performance, history of censorship, language pedagogy, environmental humanities, limits of ai for language and literature research
girlynyc @girlynyc.bsky.social 
MEDArtworks @medartworks.bsky.social Marta Elam Dorton
Abstract & representational acrylic paintings. Memories & photos I shoot are inspiration sources
I repurpose packaging into printmaking plates - alter prints into mixed media collage or 3D art
Poems of connection and resilience
Leatha Kendrick @leathaky.bsky.social Writer, teacher, and editor, mentor and poet, grandmother and gardener in Kentucky. Publishing articles, essays, and poems in journals and anthologies in the south, Appalachia, and elsewhere. 
Blissful Solitude @blissfulsolitude.bsky.social Read ALL of the banned books to find out why they donโt want you to read them.
Iโm an agnostic, social democrat with a penchant for cursing.
We wonโt go back. EVER!
Equality for all!
๐ซMAGA ๐ซDMโs ๐ซCrypto
A.p. Harbor @apharbor.bsky.social www.apharbormusic.com
weird and whimsical music
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Jessica Handler (she/her) @jessicah.bsky.social Author "The Magnetic Girl," (Southern Book Prize, Indie Next, Bitter Southerner picks.) "Invisible Sisters,โ too. Drummer. Southerner. Abortion rights are human rights. www.jessicahandler.com. New novel, โThe World To Seeโ coming in 2026.- B @bronsonoquinn.bsky.social @bronsonoquinn.bsky.social
Chris Begley @ctbegley.bsky.social Maritime archaeologist, author, sometimes journalist and photographer, National Geographic Explorer
Karah @circlebree.bsky.social 
teddy / peppermint pig @piggy-peppa.bsky.social ๐ฝ๐๐ท๐ธ๐ธ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐ป๐ธ๐ธ๐ผ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ฝ๐ท
John Coggin @thecogginwrites.bsky.social Writer, poet, woodland creature, emerging curmudgeon.
Katie Myers @stopitkatie.bsky.social Appalachian regional climate reporter @ Grist/ Blue Ridge Public Radio. I write plays and other weird stuff sometimes.
Scout Cardinal @scoutcardinal.bsky.social Mad therapist, farmer, maker, parent, anarchist, dog person
Arwen Donahue @arwendonahue.bsky.social 
Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr @williecarver.bsky.social Big Gay Appalachian. Cat person.
Author of Gay Poems for Red States.
Kentucky Colonel. Kentucky Teacher of the Year.
Tweets are mine. All pronouns cool.
www.williecarver.com
Jennifer Hester Mattox @jennifermattox.bsky.social By day Iโm the director of The Carnegie Center, a community learning & literary arts center in Lexington, KY. By night Iโm a writer living in Bourbon Co., the birthplace of bourbon.
Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social Candidate for Congress, Author of DOPESICK and PAPER GIRL, thrifting champ, compulsive note-taker, and miner of stories about outsiders & underdogs.
To volunteer and/or donate to my campaign: http://www.bethmacyforcongress.com.
Gretchen Moran Laskas @gretchenlaskas.bsky.social West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, DC, Virginia, Ohio, Texas, Ireland, California - Iโve lived everywhere and enjoyed them all. Northern Virginia is home.
Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com Writer. Traveler. Appalachian (East TN). EIC at UP of KY. Appalshop alum. Berea College & WVU grad.
Fern Linziger @growingfern.bsky.social 
@ajasburywrites.bsky.social @ajasburywrites.bsky.social 
Tiffany Williams @tiffanywilliams.bsky.social Appalachian โข Kentuckian โข Singer-Songwriter Fiction Writer โข Dialect Coach
๐Nashville
T Harbolt @tlharbolt.bsky.social Professor, mom, grandma
Wyrdeone @wyrdeone.bsky.social Co-Producer of three critically-acclaimed humans. Unemployed IT guy or starving artist, as you like.
Was dying, now I'm on some sort of supervised work release.
jeanne marie @leapingminnow.bsky.social Fighting for โLiberty & Justice for Allโ | Appalachian | All views are entirely my own.
Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social Writer and not-writer in the Great Continent of New England.
@ashleybledsoe606.bsky.social @ashleybledsoe606.bsky.social 
100th Monkey @100thmonkey.bsky.social 
Ma Boots @hooksvonnegut.bsky.social Gen X Ma of 3 ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ adults-Ally-
Philly native-Former extrovert- Avid reader of poetry and science fiction
Avid drinker of Guinness
"So I say to youth right now.
Don't sway to the unjust,
No matter what they say,
Never give in"-Bad Brains
Serge Bรฉnard (supportive) @sergebenard.myatproto.social He/him โข white-het
Canadien, Acadien du nouveau Brunswick
sergebenard.com
I do not use LLMs because I hate LLMs. The tech makes an equitable world less possible.
Joanna Roye @joannaroye.bsky.social Weird fiction writer. Horror, speculative, gothic etcโฆ Loves opossums and bees. Anti-AI. She/They.
Rachel Dockal @racheldockal.bsky.social Wright, writer, sometime chicken farmer, and gainfully employed budget wonk. Enlightened Kentuckian. Kind > nice. Know better? Do better.
mountain lou โก๏ธ @loumurrey.bsky.social Organizer, Abolitionist, Photographer from the Mountain South. Iโm trying to talk to you a little bit about this place.
Adrian Paul Bryant @adrianpbryant.bsky.social Currently: Lexington Government Reporter @kentucky.com ๐๏ธ Formerly: CivicLex ๐๏ธ Always: Proud Kentuckian and Lexingtonian ๐ (he/him)
Reach out at abryant@herald-leader.com or Signal @abryant_hl.32
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adrianpaulbryant.com
Brian Engler @growhighlow.bsky.social Vegetable breeding enthusiast โข Olympic hopeful โข Regenerative Ag groupie โข Fractional Warm Body โข Special Envoy for the Shield of West Seattle- J @jmajeske.bsky.social @jmajeske.bsky.social I want to inspire greater hope and positivity through greater realism about our current circumstances. I hope that many will come to realize that the best thing to do now is to communicate much more among ourselves.
Jane Hicks @thecosmicpossum.bsky.social Poet, teacher, granny, over-educated hillbilly. Possum lover. Cancer survivor.
Darby Lyons @darbylyons.bsky.social Retired English teacher. Book and music lover. Midwesterner, kind of (Army brat, IYKYK), with Appalachian roots. MFA, Sewanee School of Letters. Senior editorial assistant, Cincinnati Review.
Shon Richards @shonrichards.bsky.social He/Him Word Magician, Media Consumer, Horror Acolyte and Creator of Smut. Born in 1973 and frankly exhausted. https://linktr.ee/shonrichards?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=0b66637a-a8eb-4608-8f46-e67d40f0f9d0
TheQC๐พโ๏ธ @theqv1516.bsky.social ๐ต๐ฟElder Zillennial
๐Lover of Literature, Language & Lore
๐ฐ๐ฟ Newlywed
๐พCozy Gamer
๐ฟUnconventional Nature Nut
๐Life-Long Learner๐ฉ๐ฟโ๐ซ
โจShe/Her/Hers
Crystal Wilkinson @crystalwilki.bsky.social Novelist, Food Advocate, Professor. National Bestselling Author of PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS, PERFECT BLACK, BIRDS OF OPULENCE
https://linktr.ee/CrystalWilkinson?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d3c6b47f-690c-483b-9898-8faed08cd35d
your friend dusti @dusti.bsky.social Dusti RW Levy. Disabled. GenX. PanQueer. Likely a Quaker. Assoc. Ed. at BOUDIN, managing ed of BOUDIN chapbook contest, eic at delicate emissions. dramaturg, poet, educator, & playwright. PrinxDopamine late of Serotonin Jackalope/Marine Layer.
Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app Chair @cunyenglish.bsky.social I study books, Blackness & pop culture! Leftist & left handed ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ธ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
One of many Jonathan Grays
I maintain Blackademics the scholarly side of Blacksky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7
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Kris / Khuruuk @khuruuk.bsky.social And the ancient Sanskrit text outside the Wawa said:
Birds. Moneyline. Bank it!
Still Long COVID.
He/him. Transphobes GTFOH.
Keven Ages @kevenages.duhado.com anti-imperialist ยท globetrotter ยท i cook & eat things ยท (((Jewish))) & Saulteaux๐ชถ ยท 204|416|604|868 ยท i tame chaos ยท sunday person ยท cto ยท caterpillar
๐ @blocksky.app
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Beth (aka the bat) ๐โโฌ๐ดโโ ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @the-bat.bsky.social She/her. Some flavor of queer. Kitchen witch, cat mom, music lover, book appreciator, TV & movie watcher (Supernatural, Orphan Black, Magicians, Doctor Who, Our Flag Means Death, horror). #longCOVID #glutenfree #sober
Shashanna @shashanna.bsky.social Mom, music therapist and multi-instrumentalist musician. breast cancer and domestic violence survivor. Feminist as f.
I write poetry- author of โSurvival Haikuโ and โCancer Doesnโt Give A F*ck.โ
@alonsonichols.bsky.social @alonsonichols.bsky.social Photographer, Artist, sci-fi nerd, dog lover and curious wanderer 
Dave Clarke @daverclarke.myatproto.social Artist, illustrator, teacher, storyteller. I used to think I was interesting then I realized I was just an old dude telling the same stories all the time. He, him. Currently living in Shawnee, Cherokee territory.
jim @jmsdirt.bsky.social writer - rapper
part-time uncle
https://linktr.ee/dirtvonnegut
James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social Shamus-winning author of the Henry Malone novels. Appalachian to the bitterest of ends. Rep: @michellerichterbks.bsky.social Insta @jamesdfhannah. He/him jamesdfhannah.com
Mikal Lewis @mikal-el.com Human. Tech & Product Management
Former product @ Microsoft, Nordstrom, Whole Foods/Amazon. 10+ years of product writing.
Baltimore ๐ซ, ๐ FAMU, SEA, ๐ฌ ATX.
More: boldtowin.com
Penn @pennpace.bsky.social EKY Appalachian. Library worker.
rebound @tehrebound.bsky.social He/Him. 41. WoW Monk Enjoyer. DIRECTOR OF KNIVES. Rad as heck on the inside.