Katie Lee Ellison @katieleeellison.bsky.social Writer. 🌈 Jewish. 📝 Queer. ✡️
🖤 Founder @nonfictionfornoreason (Insta)🖤
📚🎙️Interviews @thestrangerseattle
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Paul Constant @paulconstant.com Seattle-based writer of journalism, criticism, progressive economics and politics pieces, and comic books. Snelson, my comic with Fred Harper was a New York Public Library Best Adult Comic selection for 2022. Email: thisispaulconstant at gmail dot com.
Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social Poet, pedestrian.
My book WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE (Roof, 2025) emerged from riding every NYC subway end-to-end. A love letter to the city, it charts joy amidst catastrophe.
suelanders.com (she/her)
Diode @diodeeditions.bsky.social Diode Editions and Diode Poetry Journal
Our mission is to amplify diverse voices. We are committed to justice, inclusivity, anti-racism, and equity. We strive to craft beautiful books and fanatically support our authors.
D.S. Waldman @ds-waldman.bsky.social Writer | Educator
ATRIA (Liveright/WW Norton)
https://bookshop.org/p/books/atria-poems-ds-waldman/22666885
words in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, LARB, ZYZZYVA ++
www.dswaldman.com
Nik Nadeau 임창훈 @nikchanghoon.bsky.social Korean adoptee writer. '24 Annie Dillard Prize for CNF winner & Iowa Review Award finalist. '24-25 Bread Loaf, Tin House & Kenyon alum. CNF reader @ Hypertext Review. nikchanghoon.com
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
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 
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.
Jonathan Wittmaier @jonathanwittmaier.bsky.social Writer // Educator // Lactose Intolerant
📍SEA
https://www.jonathanwittmaier.com
Mariama J Lockington @marilock.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Award winning author. Adoptee.
I’VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM 10/14/25
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello @marcicalabretta.bsky.social Writer and translator
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
Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social Writer, adoptee, author of memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere, National Book Critics Circle finalist. 🥚 website: http://www.thesusanito.com member of the Writers Grotto 
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
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.
Rone Shavers @roneshavers.bsky.social 
Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Making community and craft accessible to all, in Brooklyn & beyond. https://brooklynpoets.org/
bethany m. allen @bmayallen.bsky.social she/they, we/us
writer, mother, freedom seeker. student. aspiring elder.
here in a last-ditch effort to stay connected to the world without going mad (it’s not going well).
will post something, someday, i swear!
Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social A literary nonprofit bringing you great poetry from across places, eras, and traditions.
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/
Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social Nonfiction writer; B&N Discover Great New Writers Pick; New book: Together in Manzanar: The True story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp; Work in NYT, WashPo, WSJ + more; www.tracyslater.com
naviyuk @naviyuk.bsky.social I was thejoankane.com
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
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
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Christian Kiefer @xiankiefer.bsky.social 
Jimin Han @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social Writer
DREAMT I FOUND YOU
THE APOLOGY
A SMALL REVOLUTION
The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social The Shipman Agency offers complete literary services to writers at all stages of their careers: event booking, independent publicity, mss consultations, The Work Room. #KnicksinFive. she/her https://www.theshipmanagency.com/
Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com Excavation: A Memoir
Hollywood Notebook: Essays
Bruja: A Dreamoir
All from Northwestern University Press, 2025
Mommy’s El Camino is my mostly weekly newsletter.
she/her. Los Angeles. Mostly away from Bluesky.
https://linktr.ee/wendy.c.ortiz
Cari Luna @cariluna.bsky.social Author of THE REVOLUTION OF EVERY DAY, winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. Words in The Nation, Guernica, Street Roots, Salon, Jacobin, etc.
https://linktr.ee/cari.luna
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social Formerly the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social author of First Love and Negative Space
Michael Taeckens @mtaeckens.bsky.social Co-founder, Broadside PR
Lit Agent, Massie McQuilkin & Altman
https://michaeltaeckenspr.com/about-me/
Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social Author of THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS & FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE @doubledaybooks. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist. Descended from shamans and ghost whisperers
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Cara Blue Adams @carablueadams.bsky.social YOU NEVER GET IT BACK, a New York Times Editors' Choice. Work in the New Yorker and Granta. Associate professor at Temple University. Brooklyn & Beacon via Vermont.
Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social NEA fellow • MTG articles @ EDHREC • Events guy for @gamershaunt.bsky.social • Author, DISAPPEARING, INC. www.brandonamico.com
Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social Gen X, middle child, Leo. I mostly write about books.
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • Lambda Literary Prize
www.ro-kwon.com
Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social Author of Monograph (National Poetry Series, UGA Press) & Ampersand Revisited (National Poetry Series, Fence Books). Posts daily poems by others. he/him
Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social Poet, writer, translator (UY poetry), comics. Pitt Poetry Series, Fieldmouse Press, etc. Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series, UW Press. Emerita CW Prof, UW-Madison, Rep Gail Hochman. Graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, WaPo 10 Best Graphic Novel 2024
Meakin Armstrong @meakin.bsky.social Fiction | Ghostwriter | Guernica fiction ed 2006-2022 | NYPL Young Lions Readers’ Committee | Work/words: Lit Hub, New Yorker, Forbes, Business Insider 📍Portland, OR
Elliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social Wrote a novel, YOU ARE ONE OF THEM. Working on another. Freelance editor (formerly at The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, One Story) & college essay coach. My name has two l's and two t's.
elliottholt.com
Kenning JP García @kjpgarcia.bsky.social Ace Afro-Absurdist Juyorican diarist, monologuer, and pansy.
(xe/xyr // one)
Erika T Wurth @erikatwurth.bsky.social Erika T. Wurth is the author of WHITE HORSE + THE HAUNTING OF ROOM 904. NYT/GMA | WIU. Find her: Insta Goodreads Amazon TikTok Native Voices Medium. Trident.
Brian Spears @briankspears.bsky.social Senior Poetry Editor at The Rumpus (Ret.), author of A Witness in Exile and Another Poem to Love https://brian-spears.com I also crochet stuff.
Patreon: Eating Popeyes in Romania https://www.patreon.com/BrianSpears?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator
Omotara @omotarajames.bsky.social 🌈 NAACP Image Award nominated debut, “Song of My Softening” OUT NOW 🌱 PaD Guest Editor @poetsorg
"Worth the wait." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post 👇🏾
https://linktr.ee/omotarajames/?fbclid=PAAaY1S3Las3Dwvt9XE5-EtE
Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social Poet, parent, professor.
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
Gayle Brandeis @gaylebrandeis.bsky.social Writer, teacher, gentle rabble rouser. Co-proprietor of Secret World Books in Highland Park, IL.
Brenda Shaughnessy @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social Poet, friend. Wrote Sensorium Ex, an opera, with composer Paola Prestini (2025.) Books of poetry: TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016) Our Andromeda (2012) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999).
Daisy Fried @daisyfried.bsky.social Poet, critic, learning a few things. Four books:
The Year the City Emptied
Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice
My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
She Didn't Mean to Do It
David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social poet, editor, writer, CCNY MFA teacher, culture worker. He/him
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
Sara Eliza Johnson @saraelizaj.bsky.social author of BONE MAP (National Poetry Series/Milkweed 2014) and VAPOR (Milkweed 2022), vagabond, black hole, all around disappointment
Karen Craigo @karenkay.bsky.social Poet, business journalist, family person, Unity type, cat lady
Laurel Snyder @laurelsnyder.bsky.social Baltimore girl in Atlanta. I love humans, write books, and talk a lot.
http://laurelsnyder.com
Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social Maybe the Saddest Thing & Silencer @eccobooks. Former Harvard @RadInstitute Fellow & @NEAarts Fellow. @uofmemphis MFA Prof. Boxing fanatic. Human as all get-out.
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/
Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social
Writer/ Poet/ Educator/ Artist/
Host + Curator of @coupletseries.bsky.social in NYC since 2011
Creator of #staybrave substack
📚: Delicate Machine (Dzanc Books, 2027)
Ordinary Splendor (Etruscan Press, 2028)
https://linktr.ee/leahumansky
Karissa Chen @karissachen.bsky.social Author of HOMESEEKING. Repped by Michelle Brower at Trellis Lit. EIC of Hyphen.
Carolyn Forché @carolynforche.bsky.social Poet, memoirist
Mary Biddinger @marybid.bsky.social Writer & professor | The Girl with the Black Lipstick (novella-in-flash, Black Lawrence Press) Order from BLP at https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-girl-with-the-black-lipstick/
Andrea Jurjević @andreajurjevic.bsky.social Poet, writer, literary translator & visual artist from Croatia (former Yugoslavia) 🌊Faculty at Georgia State University 🌍🏹
https://andreajurjevic.com/
Noah Falck @noahfalck.bsky.social poems inside grain silos / on sidewalks / in the books that change our lives
Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. 🏳️🌈🦌🐊🦀
Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social (she/her) Poet. Editor. Paddleboarder. Easygoing Capricorn. Next book: Accidental Devotions (Copper Canyon Press, 2026)! Co-host of "Poems You Need" with Melissa Studdard. Faculty at Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.🏳️🌈Bi/Queer
Kelli Jo Ford @kellijoford.bsky.social Crooked Hallelujah (Grove Atlantic). Cherokee Nation>TX>Virginia. Cherokee. she/her. Hiatusing over here now.
kellijoford.com
Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social Author of Modern Poetry, frank: sonnets, Still Life w Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, all from Graywolf Press, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (Univ. of Massachusetts Press), Chancellor for Academy of American Poets.
Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social Poet, professor, mama, redhead - THE CLEARING (Milkweed) 📚 - Work in Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Threepenny, Best American Poetry, Pushcart anthology. Hybrid enthusiast. www.allisonadair.com 
Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social Most recent books: IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf, PAPER CROWN: Poems
https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle
Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social editing @ atria and @wspbooks.bsky.social
Min Jin Lee @minjinlee.bsky.social New York State Author Laureate 2025-2027. Writer. New Yorker. Late Bloomer.
www.minjinlee.com
Ruth Awad @ruthawad.bsky.social Lebanese-American author of Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017) and Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024). 2021 NEA fellow. Poet, abolitionist, bi, Pom mom, she/her
Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social I write about books at https://roncharles.substack.com/
Craig Morgan Teicher @cteicher.bsky.social Poet, writer-about-books, Director of Special Projects @ Bennington Writing Seminars, father, dog lover, etc.
Lilliam Rivera @lilliamr.bsky.social Award-winning author. Bronx born, L.A. living. Latest: TINY THREADS (Del Rey Books), available where books are sold.
https://www.lilliamrivera.com
Sonora Jha @sonorajha.bsky.social Pre-order INTEMPERANCE (2025). Author of THE LAUGHTER (2023), HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON (2021) and FOREIGN (2013). Prof of journalism at Seattle University. CW instructor at Hugo House. She/her
Anis Mojgani @mojgani.bsky.social Poet & picture maker. NOLA born & raised. Oregon’s 10th Poet Laureate Emeritus. Trying days, trying heart.
Jamie Ford @jamieford.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET and THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MOY. Decent writer. Failed poet. Stridently self-deprecating.
https://linktr.ee/JamieFordAuthor
T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social author: Whidbey & Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls • hapa kanaka ‘ōiwi dyke • soup enthusiast & magician • land back • aloha 'āina • she/her
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.
Mahogany L. Browne @mobrowne.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Alchemist.
Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social Poet and memoirist. Published in Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. Whiting Award Winner and Guggenheim Fellow.
Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
Erin Belieu @erinwriter.bsky.social Copper Canyon poet (Cocklebur: New & Selected Poems coming fall 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her- M Michael Dumanis @michaeldumanis.bsky.social Poet, parent, Bennington Review editor, Bennington College professor born in the USSR. Latest book: Creature (Four Way Books, 2023).
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Saul Williams @saulwilliams.bsky.social Poet
Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social www.IlyaKaminsky.com
Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social Author: Invisible Things, Loving Day, Pym, Incognegro, etc. Helped on The Fall of the House of Usher (Nflx) and Manhunt (🍎).
Philly-born; Oregon-thriving
Storytelling Guru at U of Oregon; Go 🦆!
Will block for pedantic responses to joke posts—gleefully
Lidia Yuknavitch @lidiamiles.bsky.social Writer. Aquanaut. Motherloverother. Being with other beings human and beyond.
Shaindel Beers @shaindelr.bsky.social Poet, Professor, Animal Advocate and Rescuer
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry