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Thomas Grayfson @thomasgrayfson.bsky.social Author of the Pigborne series. Writes dark fantasy shaped by sword and sorcery traditions. Published in CQ Quarterly, S&S Magazine, and Rogues in the House Presents.
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Jamie M. Boyd @jamieboyd.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Recovering Journalist. Words in Strange Horizons, Heartlines Spec &more. SFWA. Codex. www.jamiemboyd.com
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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social stories, poems, & reviews—most recently in Crooked Spine, Interzone, Locus, MudRoom, and Trollbreath. fictionaljosh.com
Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social Writer | UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (2025) | Hugo, Nebula, Locus Winner | Philip K. Dick Special Citation, Finalist for other things | Best American SFF, Brave New Weird | Korean/Irish Dad o' 3. Rep: Michael Curry. thomashawrites.com
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Ryan D. Matthews @rydmatthews.bsky.social Winner of NYSCA and de Groot Courage to Write Awards. Fellowships from Hawthornden, LMCC, Lighthouse Works, Tin House. Nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize & 2x semifinalist for Bennett Fellowship. Work in Lit Hub, Litro, Joyland, and MQR.
Vanessa Anderson, MFA @nightowlfreelance.bsky.social Professional Character Therapist at ℕ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕆ꖿ𝕝 𝔽𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 ⁀➴
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Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Joshua Chaplinsky @jchaplinsky.bsky.social Author of 'Letters to the Purple Satin Killer', 'The Paradox Twins' & 'Kanye West—Reanimator.' LitReactor Managing Editor (2011-2023).
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Propeller Books @propellerbooks.bsky.social Indie press seeking viable business model since 2009. Sling books, movies, and gifts in PNW-focused company store at Urbanite in Portland, OR.
Leah @deepdabble.bsky.social Social media wallflower. Local gov groupie.
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J. Matthew Saunders @jmattsaunders.bsky.social Writer of vampires and werewolves and demons (oh my!). HWA, SFWA. Fan of fiddles and bagpipes. Star Wars, history, linguistics. https://linktr.ee/jmattsaunders
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Michelle M. Smith @michellemsmith.bsky.social Author & Reader of Horror, Suspense & Thrillers. Current WIP: A psychological thriller. Addicted to sunsets and Red Vines. Day job: Blowing sh*t up
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Brian Benson @mrbrianbenson.bsky.social Writer, teacher, wanderer. He/him. Books: GOING SOMEWHERE, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. Essays: Tahoma Review, Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, Sweet, Hippocampus & elsewhere. brianbensonwrites.com- N @northmantrader.bsky.social @northmantrader.bsky.social
Archie @artemwriting.bsky.social UPenn. MBA. Books 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Cooking & Gardening 🌱 Photos my own 📸 Married. From California ☀️ Got a Wacko Immune System 😅 Connecting here 🤗 https://substack.com/@archartem
Randy Henderson @randyauthor.bsky.social Author of quirky FINN FANCY fantasy trilogy from TOR /Titan. Clarion West grad, relapsed sarcasm addict, WotF winner, RPGer. Pan. Neutral good. He/Him
Louise M. Aamodt @louisemaamodt.bsky.social Picture book author, SCBWI, educator, ant-watcher, defender of the underdogs. Rep’d by Emily S. Keyes @esc_key. www.LouiseAamodt.com
Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social I'm an artist, musician, poet, writer, a creative being. I live in France, but born in the UK. I have written anything from horror books to a children's book. Vegetarian, dog lover, anti war maybe a bit woke Follow me if you can.
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A. J. Payler @ajpayler.bsky.social Author/musician A. J. Payler has published 5 novels, 2 short story collections, & 6 albums of original music to date as well as opened for Silkworm & Schizophonics, among others.
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Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social “IDEAS OF IMPROVISATION” (2023) from Thread Makes Blanket Press, Poet, autistic mystic atheist & Johnny Black velvet rumbler, HyperQbic colorpuntalist, self-unemployed—Pi is my spirit guide, if it isn’t black—it isn’t liquorice.
Melody Owen aka Pearl Hyacinth @melodyowen.bsky.social Multidisciplinary artist, remixer, curator, and xr world builder from the pacific northwest of the American continent (and her avatar)
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c22 @c22press.bsky.social An experimental publishing collective focusing on Dada, Surrealism, and the avant-garde. Nathan Anderson, Lachlan J McDougall, Vernon Frazer, Joshua Martin
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WEspero @wespero.bsky.social Writer, Novelist, Poet, Self-Taught Artist, Advocate, Retired Hawaii State Senator. A very Blue State. Hawaii Filipino Chronicle
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Scott Edward Anderson @greenskeptic.bsky.social Award-winning author of WINE-DARK SEA, AZOREAN SUITE/SUITE AÇORIANA, FALLING UP: A Memoir of Second Chances, and DWELLING: an ecopoem. RTs≠endorsed
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Jessica Goodfellow @jessicagoodfellow.bsky.social poet | author of Whiteout (Univ Alaska Press) | creative writing instructor in Japan | new to Bluesky and looking for the poets | www.jessicagoodfellow.com
Bethany R. @bethanyrwriting.bsky.social Creating found poems and gathering flowers
Tania Runyan @taniarunyan.bsky.social Author, editor, musician, mom. Give me all the coffee, gardens, and dogs while you’re at it. Find my books at https://taniarunyan.com/ & https://www.amazon.com/Tania-Runyan/e/B0073Z3IDQ
Will Willingham @willingham.bsky.social Author of Adjustments: a novel (https://a.co/d/e5TsIC2). Sr. Editor @tspoetry.bsky.social. Maker of açaí bowls and tacos. Sometimes reader of Keats, always upside down.
Katharine Whitcomb @katharinewhitcomb.bsky.social Poet, writer: THE EARTH CLOCK coming in 2027! HABITATS (2024) from Poetry NW Editions, THE DAUGHTER’S ALMANAC @UnivNebPress & 4 other 📚Prof @cwuenglish she/her www.katharinewhitcomb.com Living in VT.
Sarah Etlinger @drsaephd.bsky.social Poet. Professor. Milwaukee. Coffee. Dogs. Most recent collection: A Bright Wound, Cornerstone Press.
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Jen Karetnick @kavetchnik.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, eater. 23 books written by a human. Mini dachshund and kitty lover. Co-founder of SWWIM.org.
Sally Wen Mao @sallywenmao.bsky.social author of Ninetails, The Kingdom of Surfaces, Oculus, and Mad Honey Symposium
Sandra Marchetti @sandrapoetry.bsky.social Switch hitting witch. Cubs poet. Books at TAMU Press & Sundress Publications. Writing: Ecotone Magazine, Blackbird, Fansided. Former Poetry Ed at River Styx. George Mason MFA.
Megan Merchant @meganmerchant.bsky.social Poet (Glass Lyre Press / Stillhouse Press), (New American Press), Children’s Book Author (Philomel Books), Editor (Shiversong, LLC. / Pirene’s Fountain) , Visual Artist. Mother (Exhausted / Coffee).
Andrea Potos @andreapotos.bsky.social Poet, author of eight poetry collections, lover of books, coffee, dogs and woodsy trails by the water.
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Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social Author of Modern Poetry, frank: sonnets, Still Life w Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, all from Graywolf Press, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (Univ. of Massachusetts Press), Chancellor for Academy of American Poets.
Karla Van Vliet @karlavanvliet.bsky.social I’m an artist, a poet, a writer of asemics… I believe in kindness, and in caring… and in truth speaking…
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social Poet, prof, she/her. Books at @MilkweedEditions @W.W.Norton (forthcoming) #resist
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K. Iver @ivertownandcountry.bsky.social (they) | Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco (Milkweed, 2023) 🎥
Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social www.IlyaKaminsky.com
Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social Poet • Writer • IBCLC • Author of three books of poems, including The New Life (2024), a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year • www.wendywisner.com
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
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MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
Hannah Copley @hannahcopley.bsky.social Writer and SL in Creative Writing at Uni of Westminster. Author of Speculum (Broken Sleep Books, 2021) and Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry, 2024). 2nd in the Laurel Prize 2024 . Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024. Hosts poetry nights at the Soho Poly.
David Morley @profdavidmorley.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social Poet, essayist, lover of insects & trees | 📚: The Explosive Expert's Wife, Two-Headed Nightingale, The Poem's Country: Place & Poetic Practice (co-edited w/Bruce Snider) | CNF Ed: West Branch | Consulting Ed: Acre Books | Mentor / 🐾 & human mama | 🏳️🌈
Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social Author of Thaw (@ugapress National Poetry Series) Through a Small Ghost (@ugapress 2020) I, Divided (@lsupress 2023) PhD/Assistant Lecturer @ualberta Postdoctoral Fellow @SSHRC Poetry editor @sweetliterary
Jayant Kashyap @jaydkash.bsky.social Buy NOTES ON BURIALS: http://bit.ly/3EBKSXb • Toto Awards 2025 • New Poets Prize 2024 • Young Poets Prize WellsLitFest ’21 • Pamphlets (’19, ’20, ’25) • Zine (’21) • 2x Pushcart Nom. • 2x BotN Nom. • 2x Dan Veach Prize Honourable Mention
Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social Poet, artist, music lover. (She/her)
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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social dad/poet/educator/tradesman/gardener/bodhrán player/former boxer 🇮🇪🇸🇮
Winner, The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry, 2024 (ESTATE SALE: University of Utah Press, 2025)
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