McCormack Writing Center @mccormackwc.bsky.social Write. Revise. Karaoke.
Workshops, Residencies, & Classes
Since 2003
Formerly the Tin House Workshop
mccormackwritingcenter.org
Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social Author of the adult literary novels Half-Life of a Stolen Sister (2023), Good on Paper (2016), and A Highly Unlikely Scenario (2014). Now writing speculative MG/YA. Flailing but I mean well. She/her. www.rachelcantor.com
V.V. Ganeshananthan @sugi.bsky.social Writer. BROTHERLESS NIGHT: http://randomhousebooks.com/books/57844/
Jenna Tang @jennathesoup.bsky.social Taiwanese Literary translator from Mandarin & Spanish/ Travel Writer/ Translator of Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise (HarperVia)/ Educator/ 2025 TEDx Middlebury Speaker
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.
Helen Phillips @helencphillips.bsky.social author of hum & the need & others https://www.helencphillips.com/
Alex Gallo-Brown @alexthegb.bsky.social Writing, labor organizing, politics, poetry. "Variations of Labor." You can find my creative writing at www.alexgallobrown.com. The labor organizing exists in various places, beyond me, in the world. 
Monique Truong @moniquetruong.bsky.social Writer & Librettist & Eater
https://monique-truong.com/
Mark Zastrow @markzastrow.com Science journalist and KAD. Currently Editor at Astronomy magazine.
@kenschen.bsky.social @kenschen.bsky.social 
Jeffrey R. Villines @jeffinthebowtie.bsky.social HCC English Faculty | Fantasy Author | Occasional Actor | he/him | www.jeffinthebowtie.com
Rob Arnold @rsarnold.bsky.social CHamoru, adoptee, survivor. Poet & essayist. Executive Director of Poets House in NYC.
Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social High-functioning slacker.
Gina Frangello @circegirl.bsky.social I write books about troublesome women. Developmental editor/teacher/book coach/ghostwriter at Circe Consulting. Faculty at UNR-Tahoe’s low res MFA. Find out more at circeconsulting.net
Meghan Dunn @meghandunnpoet.bsky.social nyc public school teacher. NBCT. author of Curriculum, @GunpowderPress, 2021. perpetually running five minutes late. mostly here to listen. (she/her)
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.
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo @marcelohcastillo.bsky.social Undocupoets co-founder author of📚Cenzontle (BOA Editions) 📚Children of the Land (Harper Collins) & Co-Editor 📚Here To Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (Harper Collins)
Adam Stumacher @adamstu.bsky.social 
Amy Chen @amychenwrites.bsky.social Writer, editor, dog mom
Repped by Jennifer Newens, Martin-Newens Literary Management
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang @fkwang.bsky.social Asian American journalist, essayist, poet, scholar focused on issues of race and justice. Book “You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids” Wayne State Univ Press 2022. Personal.
Kara Mae Brown @kmae.bsky.social I write about grief, place, and time. Sometimes separately, sometimes all at once. Published by Lit Angels, About Place, Pop Matters, and many more. Associate Teaching Prof at UCSB College of Creative Studies.
And ships.
Waka T. Brown @wakatb.bsky.social Award-winning #kidlit author of WHILE I WAS AWAY | DREAM, ANNIE, DREAM | THE VERY UNFORTUNATE WISH OF MELONY YOSHIMURA | PERFECT | RICK KOTANI'S 400 MILLION DOLLAR SUMMER
https://linktr.ee/wakatb
Kalani K. @kolony.bsky.social pro reader📗/occasional writer✍️/music-listener🤘/sports fan⛹🏻♂️/fan of slashes👨🏫
Sun Young Lee 이선영 @sunyounglee.bsky.social Transpacific Curriculum History, Curriculum Studies, Asian/Asian American Education, Teacher Education, Postfoundational, Literacy, Critical Studies of "Science" in Education, incl. SoR. Assistant Professor at Wichita State University
Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social Writer. My new novel HOT AIR is being released on March 18, 2025. https://marcydermansky.com/
Kari Nguyen @knguyenwrites.bsky.social Writer. She/her/hers. karinguyen.wordpress.com.
T Guzman @tguzman.bsky.social Writer or close approximate. Chapbook, Ghost Mom, from Stanchion Press. Exclamation point user extraordinaire. Zebra Cake connoisseur.
Chicanx. He/Him.
www.tguzmanwrites.com
CA💛/MI💜/STL♥️
Michelle Ko @michelleko2d.bsky.social MD-PhD | student for life | racism health & policy | she her | Taiwanese American | 💜
Lori Ostlund @loriostlund.bsky.social BASS 2024; ARE YOU HAPPY? (Forthcoming: Astra House 2025); Flannery O'Connor AWARD Series Editor; AFTER THE PARADE (Scribner) & THE BIGNESS OF THE WORLD (Flannery O'Connor Award); Barbara Deming Board Member; cats; San Francisco. 🌈 https://www.loriostlund
Richard Peabody @peabody.bsky.social French Toast Addict, Gargoyle Magazine/Paycock Press, DC Native/Inner Beltway Kid, Mondo Barbie, et al., Books @Salmon, @ASP, @Broadkill, @Mint Hill.
Adeena Reitberger @adeena.bsky.social Sometimes writer, editor at American Short Fiction, tennis person, animal friend. ~~ https://adeenareitberger.com/ ~~
Derrick @dmartincampbell.bsky.social Mantasy Writer, non-weird https://linktr.ee/derrickmartincampbell
Teresa Wong @teresawong.bsky.social Canadian cartoonist and author of graphic memoirs DEAR SCARLET (2019) and ALL OUR ORDINARY STORIES (2024). Comics in The Believer, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Walrus.
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com A webjournal publishing short fiction, book reviews, a weekly newsletter, & whatever else happens at http://www.necessaryfiction.com. Doing our best since 2009.
Posts by http://shimmer.bsky.social. 
Anne-Marie Kinney @anne-mariekinney.bsky.social Author of Radio Iris and Coldwater Canyon, more at annemariekinney.com
Kristin Bonilla @kbonilla.bsky.social Writer | Contributing Editor JMWW
Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her
https://www.emmacopleyeisenberg.com
Layla Al-Bedawi @frauleinlayla.bsky.social A human being. A writer type person.
City dweller with a hiker’s heart. Makes the absolute best eggplant lasagna. Tired but attentive. Forgetful, but will never forget you.
peaches (they/them) @spicybits.bsky.social luscious black nonbinary writer and vinylhead
Kari Luna @wordette.bsky.social she/her * novelist & whimsicologist * THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (Philomel), winner of the Oregon Book Award for Young Adult Literature * creative director/ copywriter/author promo * Petey Sellers Secret Society * https://bio.site/wordette
ladycrumpet @ladycrumpet.bsky.social Law librarian by day. Into the high and the low (Austen, books, music, fashion, the arts & sciences, animals, nature, memes, puns, trivia). Fallible human being. Trying to be good, do good, and do better, for however long I get to be here.
Lisa @lisaepak.bsky.social dogs. books. food. baseball.
Jemimah James Wei // 魏信子 @jemmawei.bsky.social Big nap energy✨
THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER, @doubledaybooks (US) / W&N (UK) 2025 //
Stegner Fellow @Stanford // De Alba Fellow @Columbia //
Rep: Jackie Ko at The Wylie Agency
Shalene Gupta @shalenegupta.bsky.social Work Life & Leadership staff editor at Fast Company
author: The Power of Trust; The Cycle
rep: Amy Bishop-Wycisk; Peter Bernstein
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MN/MD/MA/MO
PMDD
Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social Big reader. Little writer. Life science enthusiast. Sometimes gardener. ‘Migrant.’ Opinions mine (and loads of ‘em).
Tayari Jones @tayari.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author of KIN and AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. (Oprah’s Book Club x2) Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social wordy
https://maureen-oleary.com/
Daniel Peña @dpena.bsky.social Novelist. Columnist. Interviewer. Storyteller
Cole Meyer @coleameyer.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief at The Masters Review and CRAFT, editorial director at Discover New Art. MFA from Florida State University. Fiction in Best Small Fictions and at Baltimore Review, Smokelong Quarterly, The Florida Review and elsewhere.
cole-meyer.com
Alix Ohlin @alixohlin.bsky.social alixohlinauthor.com
Maggie Su @litmagreject.bsky.social BLOB forthcoming 2025 from Harper & Sceptre Books!
MT Vallarta (they) 🍉 @itsmelktea.bsky.social poet and AsianAm lit critic; What You Refuse to Remember (Harbor Editions); Asst Prof in Ethnic Studies @ Cal Poly 🇵🇭🌈
N.O’PHELAN @somesomersaults.bsky.social Poet. Ad person. Yeah, no.
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social Writes,teaches,reads. Fiction, CNF, Director, Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop. Check us out. Partner: John V., Proud parent: Jackson, Wilson. Huge Bluey Fan.
Kristin Carao @mikaelakristin.bsky.social Filipino-Australian. Passionate about books, film, food and music. Based in Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Noreen Naseem Rodríguez @nrdz.bsky.social motherscholar, teacher educator, co-author of Social Studies for a Better World and Teaching Asian America in Elementary Classrooms
Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social (she/they) Biracial Nisei. Poet and writer. Editor. EIC South Dakota Review. Lover of cats and mollusks.
Je Banach @jebanach.bsky.social Original Yale Writers Workshop Faculty|Writings: The Paris Review, Granta, TIME, The Atlantic, Story, Vogue, Oprah Daily, Electric Lit etc.|Author of 100+ guides to world literature for PRH, S&S, HMH, HC, GA📚 "Doesn't look sick" https://linktr.ee/jebanach
Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social Author of WE'RE IN TROUBLE (stories); YOU CAME BACK (a novel); and YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD ME NOT TO (stories). Professor in the residential MFA program in creative writing at U of Nevada, Reno
Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social He/him. White. Partner, parent, grandparent, former foster parent. Experiential educator. Topics: schools, learning, child welfare, whiteness, abolition, democracy, human rights, poetry, 🎵 ⚾️ 🏀 Protect trans kids.
Karen Craigo @karenkay.bsky.social Poet, business journalist, family person, Unity type, cat lady
Ayesha Raees @skunkbabepoet.bsky.social Poet & Word + Image.
Ass. Poetry Editor
@aaww
"Coining A Wishing Tower" winner of Broken River Prize.
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
Ariel Saramandi @arielsaramandi.bsky.social Mauritian. Essays in Granta, The White Review & more. Portrait of an Island on Fire out with Fitzcarraldo Editions in June 2025.
Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories,” Bottlecap Press, 2026.
https://bottlecap.press/products/ghosmj
Stories in Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, FlashFlood, BULL.
www.mattjakubowski.com
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social Creative Nonfiction Writer. Essays. Memoir in Progress. Work in Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Denver Quarterly, Hobart. Sacramento Valley via SoCal. jenpalmaresmeadows.com
Nancy Nguyen @nancynguyen.bsky.social Speculative/slipstream writer. PhD candidate and AOP Fellow at UW-Milwaukee. Work in Jellyfish Review, swamp pink, The Rumpus, The Georgia Review. At work on a collection about magic and women who occupy the margins. 
Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com A human going | Best of the Net Nom | Pushcart Nom | Stories in Augur Magazine, khōréō magazine, Baffling Magazine and more | Bi | She/her 🐩
cindyphanauthor.com
Author photo by Rosena Fung
Chloe Chun Seim @chloechun.bsky.social Fiction writer & artist. CHURN (Texas Review Press 2023) Words: Split Lip Magazine. Free State Review. LitMag. Opinions my own. MFA at UMKC. she/her https://linktr.ee/chloe_chun_seim
Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social Co-owner of @portersqbooks.bsky.social Author of The Art of Libromancy & An Exaggerated Murder. Opinions my own. BlueSky for @authorsabb.bsky.social & @massaabb.bsky.social He/him https://linktr.ee/joshthelibromancer
Abby Henes @abbyhenes.bsky.social 
LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social Writer, game designer, mutant, future crone.
Author of BIG CRONE ENERGY (W.W. Norton, 2027), EGG: A DOZEN OVATURES (W.W. Norton, 2023) and other books.
#ovatures #brca #larp #bigcroneenergy
lizziestark.com
sixofhounds.itch.io
pic: Adrianne Mathiowetz
ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social people break in shoes like i break in coffee tables 🦵🏼😭
senior editor @augursociety.bsky.social
CNF editor @longconmagazine.bsky.social
creator & your editorial lance for hire: writerfluid.com 💌
tariq shah 🌪️ @tariqshwa.bsky.social Whiteout Conditions (two dollar radio, 2020)
fiction: joyland, ANMLY, terrazzo mag, etc
poetry: pleiades, diagram, heavy feather rev, jubilat, prelude, diode, indianapolis rev, etc
nonfiction: electric lit, minor lit, etc
www.tariq-shah.com
Shelley Wong @shelleywong.bsky.social poet • author of AS SHE APPEARS (2022), National Book Award longlist, Lambda Literary Award 🌈
shelley-wong.com
Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social Love Prince & dogs & dancers & cover songs & champagne & Vermeer. New Book: FEVERDREAM March 2026 (Redhawk Publications). Series editor, Connective Tissue @WVUPRESS. Contributing writer: https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/. Partner: Healthcare Is Human.
Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
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).
Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
Artistic Director of PME-ART
*
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Desire Without Expectation
Aditya Gotu Desai @adityadesai.bsky.social me jobs: writer, editor, phd student in lit.
their job: literature nonprofit programming.
Kel @chulshik.bsky.social 32.
곽하늘.
Korean adoptee.
Frontend developer.
Strange creature.
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
Seth Fischer @sethfischer.bsky.social Writer, PhD Student at USC, Lover of Creative Nonfiction and Paranormal Noir, Chaos Muppet, Editor, Wrestled a Goat Once, He/They 
Leslie Sainz @lesannsai.bsky.social author of HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (Tin House, 2023), NEA fellow, managing editor of New England Review (she/her) 🇨🇺🏳️🌈
Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social Readers' advisory librarian. Former Clarion West Writers Workshop board member. 2022 World Fantasy Award judge. Karaoke enthusiast.
David James Poissant @djpoissant.bsky.social Author of LAKE LIFE, a NYT Editor's Choice, and THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize. In print in nine languages. Editor of The Florida Review @theflreview.bsky.social
SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social lightning + foam /she.hers/ writer. cis femme
all you fascists bound to lose
Nels Wong @aarisings.com Retired man behind AArisings, an Asian American entertainment resource. Enjoys board games, gardening, and technology. Caregiver for an elderly mother with dementia.
Amy S. Choi @awesomechoi.bsky.social Co-founder and editorial director @ The Mash-Up Americans. Previously @ most of the places.
Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social Historian at Princeton University. Preoccupied with immigration, past and present.
Gayle Brandeis @gaylebrandeis.bsky.social Writer, teacher, gentle rabble rouser. Co-proprietor of Secret World Books in Highland Park, IL.
Doris W Cheng @dwycheng.bsky.social 🇹🇼🇺🇸 Debut novel KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE (Deep Vellum, Aug 2027) | Fiction Ed @Bellevue Lit Review | PEN/Bellwether Finalist | she/her