Sakinah Hofler @blackquisition.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Engineer. Manchester Fiction Prize Winner. Hurston/Wright Award. Analog Emerging Black Writer. TED Speaker. Lecturer @ Princeton University. Social Media is very confusing but figured I'd give this a try...
Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social Poet. 5 books, University of Akron Press. Memoiring. Translating. Gardening. Educator. Trans Nonbinary. OCD/hEDS/Long COVID. Views mine. They (Eng.)/Elle (Esp.)
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John Glover @jtglover.bsky.social Writer, poet, librarian, unhallowed revenant.
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Crystal King @crystalking.com Author of IN THE GARDEN OF MONSTERS, and bestselling food-laden novels, THE CHEF'S SECRET and FEAST OF SORROW. Next! THE HAPPINESS COLLECTOR (Dec. 2, 2025). Also, the HubSpot Academy #SocialMedia Professor. 🍒Food Italy📚 Books
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Sarah Thomas- Dusing @sarahtdus.bsky.social Queer Mom in Iowa.
National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature since 1974.
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Danny Ramadan @dannyramadan.com 🏳️🌈 - Syrian-Canadian author
Crooked Teeth, The Foghorn Echoes, The Clothesline Swing, and The Salma Books.
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Former refugee.
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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
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social Author/Mom/Wonder Woman/Queen of the North
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Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
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Alissa Nutting @alissanutting.bsky.social Writer
Chad Luibl @chadluibl.bsky.social book dad. metal and hockey.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social “Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
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Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
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Erin Hoover @erinhoover.bsky.social My new poetry collection, Consent, will be published in May 2027 by Black Lawrence Press.
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Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social Award-winning author. 📍Kentucky
HAZELGREEN & OTHER HAUNTS is forthcoming in ‘27 from WVU Press;
PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press)
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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social Lammy award winning author. Novels: BEINGS (🛸📚💌); ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS (💀🚗🌈). Co-editor of the anthology HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor🌹.
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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social Mom of twins, wife of dude, writer of stuff, prof. of uni, PhD. Lives at demistybellinger.com. All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere out now (U-Nebraska Press: Zero Street Fiction: https://tinyurl.com/prdacfrt). JVNLA (https://www.jvnla.com) represents me.
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).
Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social Atlanta-area author of Southbound, The Parted Earth, and Ballot, out from Bloomsbury Academic on 2/5/26; Affiliate Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles MFA; proud poll worker. linktr.ee/anjalienjeti.
Wendy Oleson @wendyoleson.bsky.social MFA & PhD. Work in BOTN, Ninth Letter, SmokeLong. Works for @SplitLiptheMag.bsky.social & WritersProgram. she/they #BLM 🏳️🌈
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social Axcan quema, tehuatl, nehautl…
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Diane Gottlieb @dianegotauthor.bsky.social Editor-Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness (ELJ-Editions Oct 2023). Words in 2023 Best Microfiction, River Teeth, SmokeLong, The Rumpus, 100 Word Stories, Huff Post, Bending Genres and other lovely places. Prose/CNF Editor-Emerge Literary Journal.
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.
Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
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Melissa Faliveno @mlfaliveno.bsky.social writer, editor, teacher, rock/roller | author of TOMBOYLAND and HEMLOCK, out now from Little, Brown | asst. prof at UNC | she/they
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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social Rose Metal Press is a non-profit publisher specializing in the publication of hybrid genre books. Founded in 2006. Posts by co-founders Abby Beckel and Kathleen Rooney. Check out our books and amazing authors here: www.rosemetalpress.com
Sarah A. Chavez @sachavez.bsky.social Poet, profesora, literary community organizer, amateur dog pillow, ☕️ & carb enthusiast. 📚 Hands That Break & Scar; All Day, Talking; like everything else we loved; & Halfbreed Helene Navigates the Whole. 
Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social Agent of chaos, professor by day. Author of False Offering. Editor of Honey Literary and Split Lip Magazine. Board VP of Sundress Publications.
K. Iver @ivertownandcountry.bsky.social (they) | Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco (Milkweed, 2023) 🎥
Penn Stewart @pennstewart.bsky.social Writer, professor, musician, husband, father, dog dad, chef, and editor. www.pennstewart.com
Caleb Tankersley @calebtankersley.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Author of SIN EATERS
Managing Director at Split/Lip Press
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Rita Chang-Eppig (she/they) @rchetypes.bsky.social Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (Bloomsbury, 2023)
The Ones Who Do Not Wake (Archer, 2028)
Stories: Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, One Story, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, etc.
rchetypes.com
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TrustMiguel @trustmiguel.bsky.social Farmworker | Queer Elder | Library Gay | Latinx Writer
Coeditor Pulse/Pulso, Fat & Queer, Farmworker Portfolio
ALUM: Lambda Literary, Macondo Writers, VONAVoices
A.E. Osworth @aeosworth.bsky.social They/Them. Author of WE ARE WATCHING ELIZA BRIGHT and AWAKENED. Lecturer at University of British Columbia. Opinions my own.
Avniously @avnidangerfield.bsky.social Poet, professor, part-time jackal
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Honey Literary @honeyliterary.bsky.social Welcome to the Hive. We’re a BIPOC-focused 501(c)(3) literary arts organization and journal 🍯✨🐝 founded by Dorothy Chan & Rita Mookerjee
https://www.honeyliterary.com/issue-8-
Dorothy Chan @dorothykchan.bsky.social 💥 Poet, author of five collections
💥 RETURN OF THE CHINESE FEMME (Deep Vellum, April 2024)
💥 HBIC of Honey Literary 🍯
Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social Author of A Season in Hell with Rimbaud, Millennial Roost, and A Family Is a House. Asst. Prof. @Utoledo. Indie movie poet. SC native. OhioMichigan based.
Matt Bell @profmattbell.bsky.social Into film, theatre, tennis, and queer studies. Denizen of Boston and Provincetown. Dog dad. Oh, and opposed to fascism.
Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social www.IlyaKaminsky.com
Dave Madden @davemadden.bsky.social Writer, editor, journalist, lecturer....all pretty much ex. Oh, and dad. Walking around Edinburgh most days. Opinions about books, politics, pubs, and, for my sins, MUFC, Hibs, and Scottish rugby. Typos my own.
Trey Moody @treymoody.bsky.social >> poet + writer // omaha, ne
>> autoblivion // @conduit.org
>> thought that nature // @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
>> professor // @creighton1878.bsky.social
Erin Belieu @erinwriter.bsky.social Copper Canyon poet (Cocklebur: New & Selected Poems coming fall 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her
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
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. 🦃
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social writer, The Way Disabled People Love Each Other, Future Is Disabled, Care Work, Bodymap,Dirty River co-ed w/@ejeris of Beyond Survival ,1/3rd of http://cripsforesimsforgaza.org. seen a lot, still doing the rest. brownstargirl.org
Cheryl Strayed @cherylstrayed.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Portlander. Traveler. Cat/dog lady. Author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Torch, and Brave Enough. Also: Dear Sugar.
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
Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
Nick White @nicholaswhite.bsky.social Fiction writer. Associate Prof at Ohio State. Pronouns: he/him. Opinions my own.
Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social Author of five books—next up The Dry Season 6/3/25
Thoughts my own and not representing any institution.
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU (AJB, 2027) | Alice James Award for IF THIS IS THE AGE WE END DISCOVERY | commissions @ Paramount, 9/11 Memorial, Holocaust Memorial
Hoa Nguyen @peacehearty.bsky.social Poet. Educator. Aquarius stellium. Not really here.
Sejal Shah @sejalshah.bsky.social Writer & author of THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE: Essays, an NPR Best Book of the year & HOW TO MAKE YOUR MOTHER CRY: fictions, long-listed for the 2025 Story Prize. More at www.sejal-shah.com. #invisibledisabilities #neurodiversity #ADHD
Namrata Poddar 🧿🌀 @namratapoddar.bsky.social Author of BORDER LESS | Faculty at UCLA | Essays/nonfiction at Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Longreads, LA Times, etc.
Interests include Decolonial —> storytelling, parenting, yoga, healing. Desi everything.
Writing 2nd book. Intermittently here.
Jared Lipof @jaredlipof.bsky.social Fiction in @salamandermag.bsky.social, @LAReview, and @emersonreview, Madison Review, and The Best American Mystery Stories 2019. Novel-in-progress. Sound Mixer for TV/Film. He/him.
Thomas Bevilacqua @thbevilacqua.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Bibliophile. Cinephile. Former DJ/Music snob. Sometimes golfer. English PhD from Florida State University. BA in English from University of Texas at Austin. Originally from Alameda, CA.
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Ravi Howard @ravihoward.bsky.social Author of Driving The King and Like Trees Walking. Work in Best American Mystery and Suspense, Salon, and Gravy. NEA Fellow and winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. 
Karen Tucker @karentucker.bsky.social Service Animal, Cat Freak, Author of BEWILDERNESS (Catapult)
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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social Poet and Trail 🏃🏻♀️ Runner, Magician
Vermont Book Award in Fiction 2023 for Assia. 9 books of poetry
Burning Oracle (poetry-ish) coming 2026 Wesleyan University Press
Arctic Circle Residency, May 25 ❄️
Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. FATHOM forthcoming. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️🌈
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