Donald Ely @3ringstudio.bsky.social Hi, I’m Donald Ely, an award-winning art director, illustrator, graphic designer and muralist. I once did some work for Madonna and Erykah Badu (if you know me, you know that’s a big deal).
I’m also on insta at: instagram.com/3_ring_studio/
The Bitter Southerner @bittersouth.bsky.social Indie media co, 2 print magazines, books, record label, podcast, tees, flags, ASME 🏆 2026 (General Excellence Literature Science & Politics), 9 James Beard Awards #BetterAmerica #BetterWorld — please subscribe
Melinda-wvu @melinda-wvu.bsky.social Daycare Teacher, #JohnBrown fan,exRep bc DJT,BLM✊️,🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ally,❤️Star Wars,,GOT,LOTR,horror 📽, ❤️📚
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"There are 3 things you should do every day.Laugh,think,and have your emotions moved to tears"Jimmy V
Sierra Club @sierraclub.org Explore, enjoy, and protect the planet!
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Mountain Laurels: Women of Appalachia @mountainlaurels.bsky.social A podcast about Appalachian Women, both past and present. Hosted by Jessica Miles.
https://linktr.ee/mountainlaurels
Jason Kyle Howard @jasonkylehoward.bsky.social Senior Ideas Editor @salon.com writing about Democrats and political rhetoric | Author of two books | Street Haunter à la Virginia Woolf | Lover of tea, history, books, dogs, music, G&Ts | https://linktr.ee/jasonkylehoward
Kathleen Driskell @kathdriskell.bsky.social Free-thinker & writer living in a KY country church built before the Civil War. Chair, Spalding MFA. Words in The New Yorker & River Teeth—💙Resist. KY Poet Laureate 25-26.
Sara J. Henry @sarajhenry.bsky.social Wrote some books, won some awards. Tennessee-born Vermonter. Three dogs, 2 cats, 1 teen. Acquiring editor - query at submissions@CrookedLaneBooks.com. Bio pic is me at 16. Other pic is our yard before the flood scoured it clean and left a sand dune.
Jeremy B Jones @thejeremybjones.bsky.social When I say writer, Siri hears rider
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New book out: cipherthebook.com
In the NC mountains
Repped by Justin Brouckaert at Aevitascreative
@spaldingwriting.bsky.social @spaldingwriting.bsky.social 
Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social Author: ONCE THESE HILLS and COAL BLACK.
https://www.chris-mcginley.com/ Writer at Crimereads, Mystery Tribune, Reckon Review, etc. 
Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com Writer, photographer, Kentucky history nerd. Retired newspaper editor, columnist, reporter. (AP, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Lexington Herald-Leader.) Opinions are my own.
Shawn Reynolds @shawnreynolds.bsky.social Senior Producer, CNN
📍ATL via NYC via L.A. via ATL
Alum: MSNBC / NBC News NOW / NBC News
JustFundKY @justfundky.bsky.social 🌈✨🏳️⚧️ 2nd largest endowment in the south.
your favorite nonprofit’s favorite nonprofit
Just Fund Education Project, Inc, or JustFundKY, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2007
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MJ Hatfield @themomeswrath.bsky.social Queer Appalachian. Writing, performing, & art. Fat positive. Nerd by day, entertainer by night. She/they 🍄 Berea College alum 🏳️🌈 grad student at Morehead State University ❣️ Bean’s auntie-mom 🐭
Elsewhere:
https://mjhatfield.carrd.co/
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/
A.L. Blanton @blantonfish.bsky.social IT flunky and leather artist. LGBTQ. Proud Kentuckian and bona fide Liberal hillbilly.
Tammy Oberhausen @tammyoberhausen.bsky.social Author of THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOSPELETTES (Fireside Industries)
tammyoberhausen.com
The Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning @carnegiecenterlex.bsky.social Empowering people to explore and express their voices since 1992.📚
Deborah Kessler @octoberpress.bsky.social 
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social Folklorist & writer | MAKING OUR FUTURE: VISIONARY FOLKLORE & EVERYDAY CULTURE IN APPALACHIA (UNC Press 2022) | @spinstersounds.bsky.social co-owner | @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social podcast |
M Hendrix @mhendrixwrites.bsky.social Ⓜ️ is for EMpathy
✍️ Author of THE CHAPERONE (Sourcebooks Fire)
📍Jersey Girl ➡️ Kentucky Colonel
📚 booksky
https://www.mhendrixwrites.com
Wylie @wyliecaudill.bsky.social I paint
Marianne Worthington @mworthington.bsky.social Poet, Educator, Editor; author of Water. Witness. Word (Belle Point Press) The Girl Singer: Poems (UP of KY 2021), words in Oxford American, Shenandoah, Calyx, Zone 3, Salvation South. Reformed college professor. . .
la grande dame du jazz & l'incomparable chanteuse @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app poet, visual artist, & nyeusiphile
entering my fifth intermediate period of poetry
Tiffany Williams @tiffanywilliams.bsky.social Appalachian • Kentuckian • Singer-Songwriter Fiction Writer • Dialect Coach
📍Nashville
Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @Salon.com | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | March Xness Die-hard https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
Jennifer Burchett @jenniferburchett.bsky.social Fiction writer, foodie, artsy-craftsy Bonne Vivante. Lexington, KY
Foodie insta/Threads: @eatwellathome
Richard A Bailey @richardabailey.bsky.social Historian. Professor. Author, “Race and Redemption in Puritan New England” (OUP, 2011). northern AL in western NY. Fly fisher. Personal account. Thus, opinions = mine.
http://richardabailey.com
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Spencer Jenkins @spencerjenkins.bsky.social I write gay stuff. Sex. Business. Culture. EIC @ Queer Kentucky. Spencerjenkins.com
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay. Headquartered in Louisville, KY.
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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
Parnassus Books @parnassusbooks.bsky.social An independent bookstore for independent people in Nashville, TN (shop + airport + blog + bunch of shop dogs) Owned by author Ann Patchett📚
Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social Author, most recently, of "The Weedy Garden" (for children) and "The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year" (for adults).
Wes Browne @browneallover.bsky.social Kentucky author of the novels THEY ALL FALL THE SAME, winner of the 2025 Weatherford Award, and HILLBILLY HUSTLE. Attorney/Pizza Purveyor. Repped by Alice Speilburg.
www.wesbrowneauthor.com
Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
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