TeMika Grooms @temikatheartist.bsky.social artist
analía cabello @analiacabello.bsky.social ✨📚🏳️🌈| backyard gardener🌻| associate literary agent @ ABLA |
Lola Schaefer @lolaschaefer.bsky.social Author of picture books, easy readers, and MORE! Reader. Gardener. Hiker. Curious about EVERYTHING!
Naomi Kirsten @naomikirsten.bsky.social Freelance Editor | Creative Consultant 💫
Formerly Senior Editor at Chronicle Books 📚
SOS: Secrets of Submitting on Substack 👀
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Mallory Grigg @mallorygrigg.bsky.social Senior Art Director at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group working with Balzer + Bray, Feiwel & Friends, Henry Holt BYR, FSG BYR, Roaring Brook Press, Swoon & Squarefish. She/Her
Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social Indie Developer/Director @ Polygon Treehouse (Mythwrecked & Röki) • BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 • BAFTA Games & The Game Awards nominee • 2 x BAFTA Juror • Industry speaker & mentor • He/him
Dundee (Scotland)
https://www.polygon-treehouse.com/
Senongo @senongo.bsky.social Designer and illustrator in NYC. Author of Cross-Cultural Design. VP of Design at Nava.
Doan Buu @dbuu.bsky.social Designer, Dude, Cleveland Sports Fan, NYC resident.
Michael Bierut @michaelbierut.bsky.social Graphic designer, teacher, writer, since forever
Whitney L-P 🩷💜💙 @whinknee.bsky.social She/Her
Children’s book Art Director and designer.
Website: whitlpdesign.com
Mom to a NB 8 year old and two black cats. Passionate about books, workers rights, equity, safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals, anti-racism, and picture book art.
Evui @ GenCon AS 34 @labillustration.bsky.social Art Director on MTG, Illustrator, and Fairy trying her best. Co-host of the Painted in Color podcast. Etsy: http://labillustration.etsy.com . NO A/I. Views are my own.
Damien Correll @damiencorrell.bsky.social Creative Director at Figma. Former baby.
Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co 🇩🇪🇨🇦 Product Experience Leader · Advisor & Speaker · Former VP VW Group · Ex Nokia, SAP · Fortune 500s & Startups
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Jim Hoover @jimhoover017.bsky.social I am a children’s book art director, and that’s it. That is my entire vibe.
Oh, and pop culture stuff.
Right right right—I’m also drawn to politics like a mosquito to a bug zapper.
Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk Head of product design @checkout.com. Typographer. Cyclist. Likes tea.
Len Small @lenpsmall.bsky.social AD at Columbia Magazine. Opinions are my own. he/him
Matthew Carlson @dreamjar.bsky.social Director of Product Design at Adobe. Sketchbook junkie and stealer of pens. Late night game designer of the tabletop rpg, WanderSquares.com! He/Him - 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Ally - #BLM
Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social she/her
Art Director/Illustrator
(artists: please don't send your portfolios to my personal email)
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Andrei Robu @andreirobu.com Type designer, fonts, etc — founder of typeverything.com & artist andreirobu.com
Marta Bernstein @martabernstein.bsky.social Milanese designer gone PNW. Creative director, type & typography educator. Researcher at Nebiolo History Project. Wayfinding, EGD, exhibit design. Politics. Cats. ENG/ITA
John Martz @johnmartz.bsky.social Illustration, comics, fonts, book design, crosswords. Art Director at Large, Tundra Books. https://johnmartz.com/
Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social Panda (they/them). Creator of Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate and Flocking Hell, a deeply strategic roguelite.
Flocking Hell demo + available now on Steam!
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🐏😈
Yvonne Lam @yvonnelam.bsky.social About 📚, 📚+🎨, 🧣 & 🏀
book designer + art direction @ Scholastic Canada
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NoblemanNick @noblemannick.bsky.social • He/Him
• Cuban/Chinese Pride
• Creator of ELDRITCH AUTOMATA
• VFX Compositor | TTRPG Designer | Award Nominated Producer.
Lindsey Chastain @lindseychastain.bsky.social Creative Director at Powerhouse Animation
and otherwise semi-functional human being // Never skip the titles // Opinions are my own.
Jason Treat @jasontreat.bsky.social Senior graphics editor at NatGeo. Before that AD at The Atlantic. Work: https://www.jasontreat.com/ A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment. -Zappa
Julia Shea @jsheaart.bsky.social 🌞 designer @ little simon & simon spotlight
🌙 illustrator, list-maker, friend to all dogs
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Lesley Worrell @lesleyaworrell.bsky.social artist, day dreamer, associate art director with Tor Publishing Group. mostly likes and reposts. opinions my own. lesleyworrell.com 🇻🇨🇹🇹💙🌊
Becky Gehrisch - kidlit picture books @gehrisch-arts.com - #kidlit picture book #Author-Illustrator 👩🏻🎨
-Former IC of Cen/South Ohio #SCBWI. 🖌️
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-Creative Director at Bookling Media 🎨
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Heather Dean Brewer @hdeanbrewer.bsky.social Author, Art Director at Eerdmans, Illustrator, & Michigander
LOVE IS POWERFUL
ONWARD: 16 Climate Fiction Stories
MEET ME IN YOUR HEART, 2026
heatherdeanbrewer.com
instagram.com/hdeanbrewer/
bracketpublishing.com
Winston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social - Design Systems / Type Design
- Cyclist / Mountain Biker
- Aspiring Generative Artist
www.winstonstruye.com
Sam Read-Graves 🌿🎮 @readgraves.com “Developer, lecturer, and potential entry-level sociopath.” - Forbes
18+ years Indie Dev. He/Him. Folklore Guy.
Writing Horror and making Games.
Task Time | Trolley Problem, Inc | Gang Beasts | Mainlining | Dream
ReadGraves.com
Mcdoogleh - ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!!! @mcdoogleh.bsky.social Game Developer/Electromagician/Cat Master 😹
Epic Megagrant 2022 Recipient
BAFTAConnect 22/23/24
IGDA Foundation Next-Gen Leader 2022
Currently working on Rogue Eclipse!
Wishlist Here!
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PK @pklawton.bsky.social Rock and Roll Sociologist
Michelle Kondrich @michellekondrich.bsky.social Freelance Illustrator
Designer @ The Washington Post
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Becca Syracuse @bookdesignbee.bsky.social Associate Art Director • Children's Illustrator
Rebeccasyracuse.com
She/her
Rep'd by Natascha Morris/ The Tobias Agency
Will Steele @willsteeledesign.bsky.social N. Irish - Book designer (London) - Children's Fiction - Usborne. Insta - willsteeledesign
Keen runner and occasional photographer.
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Suzanne Helmigh | Art Director @suzannehelmigh.bsky.social AD for Legends of Avantris + freelance illustrator in TTRPG
🚫No AI&NFT🚫
🎨Art director, illustrator, concept artist
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🇳🇱 Dutch
⚔️Wields swords
Bi 🏳️🌈, ❤️Wife of @TitusLunter
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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com Animation, art & design
Québécois based in London, UK
Co-founder of Eastend Western
RCA MA 2014
eastendwestern.com
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@martharago.bsky.social @martharago.bsky.social Books, art, poetry, science, nature… no politics or nastiness generally, please.
Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social [she/her] Opinions my own - https://linktr.ee/mariannemartin - Art Director, concept artist. Horror, beauty, escapism! No NFT/No AI
Radiant G🌈 @ PC BROKEN HELP @radiantg.bsky.social ♂ Producer+VA @BlackfieldEnt.bsky.social🔴
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RadiantG.com • he/him
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Carina Taylor 🌻 @shecallsmecdawg.bsky.social ✨ Designing comics professionally ✨
Art Director @ Inklore | Prev: Scholastic Graphix, Silver Sprocket, Skybound
not taking this too seriously ✨ she/her/they 🇵🇭
carinadraws.com
Steven ter Heide @steventerheide.bsky.social Creative Director at Wild Sheep Studio.
Previously: Game Director at Guerrilla
Killzone | Rigs | Horizon Zero Dawn | Maestro | Adorable Adventures
Joann Hill @joannhnyc.bsky.social Creative Director @disneyhyperiondesign , potter, Wife, Mom, Sister, Feminist, Friend, Ally, List maker, Headstrong Club.
Julia Lundman 🩵🧚🦄🧌 @paintkatt.bsky.social Artist, traditional. San Francisco 💕 julialundman.com/shop
Patreon.com/julialundman
🚫No AI. 🚫No Nazis.
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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social bsky pitch event for unagented creators from marginalized communities
next event Sept 30, 2026 8AM-8PM ET
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Post Wave Publishing @postwavebooks.bsky.social Welcome to Post Wave Children's Books. Publishing with creativity, originality, and passion - for children all over the world.
https://postwavepublishing.com/
QueerPit @queerpit.bsky.social Pitch event for 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and their stories. Next event is July 1st, 2026!
Hosted by: @nicolemtota @mjbowman @ntlovich @lucywrites and @andreamariana89
Sally Morgridge @smorgridge.bsky.social 
Rachel Victoria Hillis @rachelvhillis.bsky.social ✏️ Illustrator 〰️ Autistic 🌻
📓 Represented by Sally Kim at Andrea Brown Literary Agency
SCBWI Canada West @scbwicanadawest.bsky.social Welcome to SCBWI Canada West on Bluesky social! Let's connect together to the world of children's literature.
Damon Immanuel @damonimmanuel.bsky.social Children’s book writer | Rep’d by Sally M. Kim of @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
Dan Santat @dansantat.bsky.social NY Times bestselling children's book author of Beekle ('15 Caldecott) A First Time for Everything ('23 National Book Award) Creator Disney's The Replacements
Salima Alikhan @salimaalikhan.bsky.social Children’s book author + illustrator. VCFA WCYA, MACambridge School of Art. She/her
Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social autistic author-illustrator 🌿 (she/her) https://linktr.ee/vanessagillings
Pat Zietlow Miller (she/her) @patzmiller.bsky.social Picture book author. Reader. Bookstore and library lover. All about my kids and cats. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette. #Kidlit website: www.patzietlowmiller.com
Corrie Locke-Hardy @feeding-revolution.bsky.social Author, indie bookseller, freelance consultant. Camp Director of Queer Kidlit Camp (Memorial Day Weekend 2025) 🏳️🌈
SCBWI New Mexico @scbwi-nm.bsky.social New Mexico kid lit writers and illustrators
Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social 📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe 
Britt Crow-Miller @grumpynaturalist.bsky.social Human-environment geographer, environmental educator, children's book author represented at ABLA 🪰🍄🪲🐌
Marin Takikawa @marintakikawa.bsky.social agent at The Friedrich Agency | pronounced marine (like marine biology) 🐳 | she/her/hers
https://linktr.ee/marintakikawa
Sheyla Knigge @sknigge.bsky.social Literary Agent
Writer
Chaos Coordinator
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Jinwoo Park @jinwoo-park.com Writer, Translator (Kr-En), Debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, coming in Sept 2025, 111k on TikTok
https://linktr.ee/jinwoopark0721
Penguin School & Library @penguinschoollib.bsky.social The School & Library Marketing department of Penguin Young Readers! Book news, educator and library resources, good vibes, and more!
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Vivian Lee @vivianlee.bsky.social Senior editor at Little, Brown
Not a girl, not yet a dad
Instagram: vleebooks
vivianwmlee.com
Rainbow Rowell @rainbowrowell.bsky.social Yes! My mother named me this!
Author of Eleanor & Park, Slow Dance and the Simon Snow Trilogy. Writer of She-Hulk and Runaways. My new book is called Cherry Baby, and it is good 🍒
Julie Murphy @andimjulie.bsky.social •#1 NYT Bestselling Author
• Founder of Bittersweet Books
• Student Union 5/5
• Vera Stein is Fine 7/21
• DUMPLIN’👠 is on Netflix
• Let Them Stare with JVN out now 🦖
• Books from cradle to grave!🍼➡️🪦
Nicola Yoon @nicolayoon.bsky.social #1 NYT bestseller & National Book Award finalist.
Everything, Everything, The Sun is also a Star, Instructions for Dancing & One of Our Kind
Co-publisher: Joy Revolution Books
Rep: Jodi Reamer (Writers House)
Katy Hershberger @katyhersh.bsky.social Work at Publishers Lunch. Writing at NYTBR, Washington Post, LitHub, Slate, Longreads, etc.
KatyHershberger.com
Emily X.R. Pan @exrpan.bsky.social ✒️ New York Times bestselling & award-winning author: THE ASTONISHING COLOR OF AFTER, FORESHADOW YA, and AN ARROW TO THE MOON. Here for collective liberation. https://exrpan.substack.com/welcome
Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social A free e-newsletter from Publishers Weekly that reports on children's and YA books. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/9Ubz9L
Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social Antifascist. Midwesterner. Minneapolis/St. Paul. Children's book editor at Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. He/Him. Protect trans youth. Abolish ICE.
Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social I wrote some books, once upon a time.
Posting about stories, brain injuries, adorable animals, rhubarb recipes, nature facts, human rights, and how we can make this world safe and kind and good. You are precious to me, and I love you.
kellybarnhill.com
Ellen Oh @ellenoh.bsky.social I write MG & YA books that win awards from people not related to me. Founding member of WENEEDDIVERSEBOOKS. Fight Book Bans!!!
Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social Children's book editor, knitter, baker, erstwhile ballerina. Wrangler of two no longer small children. (she/her)
Alvina Ling @alvinaling.bsky.social Children's book editor living in Brooklyn. Books, cats, food, travel, running, stuff. Check out my podcast with Grace Lin, Book Friends Forever!
Andrea Wang @andreaywang.bsky.social 2022 Newbery Honor, APALA Award, & Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor winner. NYT Best Books 2021. PB & MG author. http://linktr.ee/AndreaYWang Rep: @agentemurph.bsky.social emliterary.com
Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social I write books for young people, picture books and middle grade novels. I’m the founder and President of The Author Village. Mets and Nets fan. LGBTQ🌈
Tiff Liao @tiffliao.bsky.social Executive Editor @ Random House Books for Young Readers. 408 in the land of 212. It's pronounced meow with an L. Opinions are my own. She/her. Banner art by Diobelle Cerna. 
Nicola Schofield @nicolaschofield.com Children's book illustrator and author in the UK. Urbansketcher. Creating colourful worlds & characters
🌐 https://nicolaschofield.com
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💌 Hello@nicolaschofield.com
Represented by Sally Kim at ABLA
#kidLitArt
Natascha @socalledyalife.bsky.social Senior Literary Agent at The Tobias Literary Agency. Account for #MSWL only. Query me at https://querytracker.net/query/natascha
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/natascha
Website: www.nataschamorris.com
Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social OH FFS, do I have to
Okay fine, FINE, I'm a children's writer and artistttnnnggghhhh that still feels so weird to say, I'm also Korean American and autistic and a messy emotional glob who constantly gets sentimental on main, you've been warned
Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social Blog about kids books? You bet (A Fuse #8 Production). Library degree? You know it. Books for kids? Seven. Books for adults about kidlit? Two. Podcasts about kids books? One (Fuse 8 n’ Kate). Having fun! https://afuse8production.slj.com
Melissa Manlove @mmanlove.bsky.social Executive Editor, Sourcebooks. She/her
Erin Murphy @agentemurph.bsky.social Partner at Aevitas Creative Management and Aevitas Kids & Illustration. Member AALA. Knitter. Gamer. Cats and dogs. She/Her. Views expressed here are my own. Header photo is my backyard in Maine.
Alexandra Levick @allielevick.bsky.social Senior literary agent at Writers House, LLC. I believe in books. Always learning. Opinions are my own. She/Her.
Open to queries the 1st-7th each month.
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social part-time garbage person, full-time literary agent at @ Trellis Literary Management
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
rebecca kuss @rebeccakuss.bsky.social senior romance editor at bloom books/sourcebooks
Nicole Fiorica @nicolefios.bsky.social Editor at S&S/McElderry Books
nicolefiorica.wordpress.com
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Julia McCarthy @thejumbles.bsky.social Senior Editor at S&S Atheneum by day, purveyor of dad jokes by night, eternal sea hag. My tweets are my own. she/her 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Avatar by the wonderful Tanya J. Scott
http://bit.ly/juliambooks
Feather Flores ❄️☕️ @featherfully.bsky.social editor & maker of good trouble • california coastal creature • still workin’ on it 🌱🌈✨
https://featherflores.com/
she/her • kitty art by Carrie Liao 🐾
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Melissa Stewart @mstewartscience.bsky.social Writes science books for kids. Cares deeply about literacy and science education. Nonfiction advocate. She/her https://melissa-stewart.com
Kim Smith @kimillustration.bsky.social ⭐ Kim is a 🇨🇦 New York Times best-selling children's book illustrator. She is also the author of the picture book Boxitects! You can find more of her work at kimillustration.com .
Cybils Awards @cybilsawards.bsky.social Celebrating books for children and teens since 2006.
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Melissa Taylor @imaginationsoup.bsky.social Writer, communications/marketing consultant, fmr teacher & teacher trainer, author. M.Ed. TOVA’S SWEET SOLUTION (4/2026), https://melissataylor.net https://imaginationsoup.net