Michele Somerville she/her @michelesomerville.bsky.social NYC mama, poet, writer, teacher, religion scholar. Books (poems): Glamourous Life, Black Irish, WISEGAL. Bylines: NYT,
https://indietheology.substack.com Harvard Div. Bulletin, oodles of jobs & journals.
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Kari Gunter-Seymour @karigunterseymour.bsky.social Ohio Poet Laureate, 9th Generation Appalachian, Photographer, Author of DIRT SONGS and ALONE IN THE HOUSE OF MY HEART, featured in World Literature Today and American Book Review
Nathan Evans Fox @nathanevansfox.bsky.social Picker grinner shidder
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Tracy Thompson @tracytherealone.bsky.social Writer, editor, student of history, appalled observer of the proceedings
Alex Johnson @malexjohnson.com Scribbler/scribbling fixer at NBC News. Recovering politics, tech and world football reporter. Ex-WaPo (when that meant something). Georgian in the PNW. Audere est confidere chao apud Tottenham Hotspur.
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Doc_Charles @tampaguy15.bsky.social Historian/Teacher/Writer, West Tampa, FSU3X, USAF, Beisbol
Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social Writer.
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Kimberly Gibson-Tran @kdawn999.bsky.social Reader, poet, essayist, reviewer, cat person, Trekkie, ไทย speaker, book clubber, linguist, Texan/Floridian, missionary kid, she/they
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https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/kimberly_gibsontran
Gordon Lamb @gordonlamb.bsky.social Senior Writer & Columnist @FlagpoleMusic & @FlagpoleMag , Seen in @Vice , @NYLONguysmag, @totalbozo , @BitterSouth . absentee landlord @24 Hour Party Pooper
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396 Oconee St Athens, GA 30601
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Widespread Panic @widespreadpanic.com All the way from Athens, GA...
Chris Offutt @chris-offutt.bsky.social Writer. Photographer. Kentuckian. Professor Emeritus.
Ex-dishwasher, curb painter, house painter, mover, truck driver, landscaper, breakfast cook, waiter, store clerk, delivery man, and more. 
Amelia Loeffler @amelialoeffler.bsky.social Kentuckian. Poet. Writing from Tennessee by way of North Carolina.
Robert Gipe @robgipe.bsky.social Long drink of water. Mountain-based.
Nancy Yang @nobrieny.bsky.social Writer/Poet. Classroom Educator. MFA, Pacific University. Words in Poetry South, Willows Wept Review, & Salvation South.
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Tina Mozelle Braziel — Poet @tinamozellebraziel.bsky.social Glass Cabin (Pulley Press)—SLR’s Poetry Book of the Year
Known by Salt (Anhinga Press) Winner of Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
Rooted by Thirst (Porkbelly Press)
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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com Small press publisher of poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction chapbooks located in Durham, NC | est. 2006 | https://bullcitypress.com | linktr.ee/bullcitypress | posts by @noahstetzer.bsky.social, @amelialoeffler.bsky.social, & @rosswhite.com
Hub City Press @hubcitypress.bsky.social Nonprofit press publishing new and extraordinary voices from the American South. Learn more at hubcity.org/publishing. Shop our catalog at hubcity.org/books.
Blessyourheart @catsareawesome3.bsky.social Animal lover, true crime reader, classic rock fan. Dislike MAGA, Trump, racists.
Ellen Ann Fentress @eafentress.bsky.social 
Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social Award-winning author. 📍Kentucky
HAZELGREEN & OTHER HAUNTS (WVU Press, ‘27)
PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press, ‘24)
💙 cats, trees, music | wesblake.com
Lang Whitaker @langwhitaker.bsky.social Emmy-nominated content creator for Memphis Grizzlies and Grind City Media. GM of Grizz Gaming. Helped SLAM get in the HOF. Also ex GQ/NBATV. #CookingWithLang
Joy Priest @dalai-mama.bsky.social Poet | Professor | Scholar | Curator @ Center for African American Poetry & Poetics (CAAPP)
Marlanda Dekine @dekinesoul.bsky.social wife • silly • reverent • kin • poet
Licensed Social Worker
Author: Thresh & Hold (Hub City Press)
Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
Poets & Writers @pw.org Official account of Poets & Writers, the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers since 1970. Sign up for our newsletter: at.pw.org/newsletter
Cherokee Lair ~ FFS & WTaF & #COYS @cherokeelair.bsky.social
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2026 The Greatest Grift
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My pronouns are~DEI & LGBTQ🌈
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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social Lovechild of the Rust Belt & Appalachia.
Reprobate reader. Rogue writer.
Blow up the Data Centers.
This is a no AI Zone.
Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021).
Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social
Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC.
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Grace Buckner @gracematlyn.bsky.social Appalachian Writer + Raft Guide
App State '24 + '26
Marshall, NC
Laney Lenox, PhD @laneylenox.bsky.social writer and researcher by trade, autistic by brain
writes about building our hoped for futures
PhD in anarchism, anthropology, and memory work
(she/her)
hopes to be remembered for bringing weird vibes to the function
https://linktr.ee/laneylenox
Ellen Eldridge @elleneldridge27.bsky.social I’m the senior health care reporter at NPR’s statewide member station @gpbmedia.bsky.social Opinions based on facts. EEldridge@GPB.org
The Appalachian Folklore Podcast @appfolklorepod.bsky.social 
Proud Appalachian @rwheeler.bsky.social Posting about the news, politics and culture of Appalachia.🦋
The W's MFA in Creative Writing @thewmfacw.bsky.social 
Tammy Oberhausen @tammyoberhausen.bsky.social Author of THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOSPELETTES (Fireside Industries)
tammyoberhausen.com
Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social Editor of Appalachian Journal. Scholar, educator, writer. Books with WVU Press and U of Georgia Press. Lover of gardening, living with MCAS/hEDS/other immune wonkiness.
https://www.jessicascory.com/
Mark E. Johnson @markejohnson.bsky.social Photojournalist, educator, CTO, map lover, back roads wanderer. @universityofga, @ugagrady, @nppa, Athens, Georgia. mejphoto.com
Julia Franks @juliafranks.bsky.social Author of two award-winning novels (The Say So and Over the Plain Houses). Still kayaking Southern rivers and sleeping on the ground. 
NC Writers' Network @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social Supporting "The Writingest State" since 1985. We provide a network for North Carolina writers through conferences, online classes, critique services, and other programs. Learn more: https://linktr.ee/ncwriters
R Robin McDonald @rrobinmcdonald.bsky.social Veteran legal journalist. Dogged reporter (print: DC, AL, KS, TX, ATL; plus CNN, CourtTV). True crime author. Georgia ex-pat relocated to the great Northwest who still knows the right way to punctuate y'all. Inkstained wretch in a cyber world.
Travis Nichols @travisjnichols.bsky.social Director of https://tinyurl.com/y2y3rkts
Editor of http://bit.ly/326rRrY
Author of http://bit.ly/2x7mxCB & http://bit.ly/2CO2DSi
Formerly of CARE, Stand, Greenpeace, Poetry Foundation, Wave Books Poetry Bus, Seattle PI, Amherst Books, Flagpole, AHS Web
Katherine Scott Crawford @thewritingscott.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Recovering academic. Time traveler. Would rather be outside with dog. THE MINIATURIST'S ASSISTANT, May 2025 (Regal House). Rep'd by Joelle Delbourgo.
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michelle weber @michelleinchief.com Roman with a New Jersey core. Any dog is better than all people . Editor, formerly Longreads and Pipe Wrench. Late-breaking artist. "As demure as a brick to the head."
Disegni: schizzibizzi.com
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James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
jadee @jaded2x.bsky.social Made in Dade
Ross White @rosswhite.com Publisher: @bullcitypress.com. Poet: CHARM OFFENSIVE & three chapbooks from Unicorn Press. Professor: UNC #GoHeels. Views my own. Host: @triviaescapepod.com. Goofus. Durham, NC.
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com Nashville’s alternative-weekly newspaper since 1989. We cover state and local politics, music, food and the arts — and throw the city’s best events. https://www.nashvillescene.com/
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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social ‘signs and characters from the type-case of forgotten things‘ Sebald
Late Heaney (https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social Band from Athens, GA, 1980-2011, made music, lasts forever.
David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social Barroom historian. Author of The Comic Book History of the Cocktail, Imbibe, Punch and a mess of other books. Ardent Wet. Brooklynite and part-time Triestino. Intellegentia mechanice generata delenda est.
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Russell Kaye @russellkaye.bsky.social Photographer in Brooklin, Maine.
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Bertis Downs @bertisdowns.bsky.social Good schools for all kids, public education Warrior, Davidson Wildcat and GSW fan. Democracy isn’t a spectator sport. bertisdowns.com
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Marnie Fisher-Ingram @marnhead.bsky.social mom, progressive minister, spouse, lover of red sour candies, hot tea, Subaru fanatic, a good book, and my peloton.
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Andrew Bryant @magnoliastate.bsky.social The other guy from Water Liars
Richard L. Eldredge @eldredgeatl.bsky.social Atlanta Reporter since 1990. Eldredge ATL editor and co-author of “Mr. Charlie Brown: Bitch of the South.”
Skye Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social Mom 💙 Wife ❤️ Texan
Pres & CEO @DemocracyForward.org (views mine)
Our kids will ask what we did.
My book: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times
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HappyGoth @happygoth.bsky.social Yep, the very same!
Rebecca Burns @rebeccapburns.bsky.social semi-retired journalist, part-time prof, unskilled gardener, Athens GA
Audrey Hayworth @audreyhayworth.bsky.social Feminist writer of uncomfortable things in the Deep South | Survivor of childhood sex trafficking & CSAM | Namesake of the Audrey Wascome Act | she/her
Steven Ward @wardeditor.bsky.social Magazine Editor - Today in Mississippi. Tamale and unsweet tea fan. Husband. Father. U.S. Navy vet. NOLA raised. Book hoarder.
Jackson, Mississippi.
Janet Chess @janetchess.bsky.social To whom much is given, much is required.
N.C. | Atlanta | Seattle | Chicago
Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social Ugh, fine.
Writer in Texas.
I curse on the internet now.
#HouSky
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Interfaith Alliance @interfaithalliance.org Building an inclusive democracy that fulfills America’s promise of religious freedom and civil rights for all since 1994
Bo Bartlett @bobartlett.bsky.social Painter Filmmaker Georgia and Maine
Miles McEnery Gallery NYC
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago @mcachicago.bsky.social The MCA is an innovative and compelling center of contemporary art where the public can experience the work and ideas of living artists.
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
The Atavist Magazine @atavist.com One incredible true story every month. Part of Automattic Inc. https://magazine.atavist.com
Journal of Southern History @joursouhist.bsky.social The Journal of Southern History—published by the Southern Historical Association and edited at and supported by Rice University—is a quarterly devoted to the history of the American South broadly conceived. thesha.org/jsh
Bayou Debutante & Southern ReBelle @aimn2pleasee.bsky.social ♌️ 38. Single & Childless. RAV / WBL. Traveler. Beauty & Opulence. 601 ⚜️ 225. 📸 legallyclueless. Politics. Fashion . Spelman💞💚 Ole Miss Law.
Drew Taylor @mrdrewtaylor.bsky.social Former digital managing editor at CBS42.com, Journalist, Husband, Music Lover, Reader, all-things Alabama
Looking for my next adventure.
Chuck Reece @chuckreece.bsky.social @salvationsouth.com co-founder and editor in chief. Founding editor of The Bitter Southerner.
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle @annettesclapsaddle.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Cyclist (esp. MTB). Eastern Band Cherokee citizen. WNC. Appalachia.
Brandon Duke @brandonduke.bsky.social Founder, Filmmaker, Podcaster & Musician at Karkata Media. 🎥🎙️🎸🦀
J. Michael Hayes @jmichaelhayes.bsky.social Creative Director, Writer, Filmmaker, Husband, Father, Lover of mysterious things
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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.
Adam Smith Photography @adamsmithphotog.bsky.social Fine Art Documentary Photographer photographing the Music and Landscape of the Deep South for 30 years now!
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Chelsea Risley @crisley.bsky.social poet + french fry enthusiast | she/her | eic @southrevbooks.bsky.social
Southern Review of Books @southrevbooks.bsky.social Exploring contemporary literature of the American South & beyond. Published by Queens University of Charlotte MFA. Editor-in-chief @crisley.bsky.social, founding editor Adam Morgan. linktr.ee/southrevbooks
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Bill Diskin @bdisk.bsky.social English teacher, reader, music enthusiast 
Ed Southern @edsouthern.bsky.social Chief writer-connector at NC Writers’ Network, author of FIGHT SONGS & more, not as grumpy as I look.
Neema Avashia @avashianeema.bsky.social Proud Boston educator since 2003. Proud West Virginian since 1979. Kahani's Ammi. ANOTHER APPALACHIA, WVU Press, 2022.