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Amanda Hunt @thenextgenlib.bsky.social TheNextGenLibrarian is a TX HS librarian who reads 1 📖 a day, loves #edtech, presenting & being a LIBRARIAN!
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Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie.bsky.social Two-time Lambda-award-winning Author of The Summer We Got Free, Skye Falling, and These Heathens (June 2025). Mama. Visionary. Queer icon.
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Quinci LeGardye @quinciwho.bsky.social Culture Writer, Marie Claire. Storyteller. LA native. Fangirl.
Margaret Cho @margaretcho.bsky.social Comedian etc
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Elizabeth And Her Monsters @lizzyloveshorror.bsky.social 🙋🏽♀️proud grad of the derek zoolander center for kids who don’t read good
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Andre Clemons @andrecthatsme.bsky.social Writer of prose, web serials, & the occasional script. Comic/literary geek. Infrequent artist. Check out my books on Amazon.
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Word In Black @wordinblacknews.bsky.social 'Black America's Digital Daily' — innovating on the near 200 year legacy of the Black Press.
Kat Stafford @katstafford.bsky.social Journalist
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Connie Briscoe @conniebriscoe.bsky.social Fiction and non-fiction writer. PG COUNTY, SISTERS AND LOVERS, STEPPING OUT, CHLOE and others. Long walks, traveling, and creating things.
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Yvonne Battle-Felton @whyiwrite.bsky.social Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems
Mary Lambert @marylambert.bsky.social Director : Pet Sematary I & II, Siesta,
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Imani Perry @imaniperry.bsky.social Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app writer, film + culture critic, producer, full-time bisexual ✨
I used to write about movies. now I make podcasts and write about movies.
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social Co-Host of You Are Good and The OC, Again. Manager for folks in the arts. Bewildered person. Picture taker. Zine-maker (High Occulture). Activist. Into being.
J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social Xicana writer/editor. She/her/ella. Editor Hell Gate (hellgatenyc.com), cofounder Hearing Things (hearingthings.co), Vaquera forthcoming on Penguin Books, etc
Stan Yan - Kidlit Graphic Novelist @zombicatures.bsky.social THE MANY MISFORTUNES OF EUGENIA WANG (‘25 JLG Selection)
@SCBWIRockyMtn member
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Rep: @annmrose at Marsal Lyon Literary
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AI, NFT, Crypto, MAGA gets you blocked
Ryan Douglass @ryandouglass.bsky.social writer
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CubbyMagoo @delta247.bsky.social Reader, writer, pen-addict, trying to traverse this journey thru life with my two beautiful babies!!
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Macmillan Children's School & Library Marketing @mackidssl.bsky.social We are the MacKids School & Library marketing team! Follow us for news about books for kids & teens and resources for teachers & librarians!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
B. Sharise @bsharise.bsky.social Kidlit Author, FIYAH Editor, & Curriculum Developer
Rep'd by Laurie McLean @ FUSE Literary
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Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social Writer. Black SFF always! Hugo Award Winner. One of the co-hosts for Just Keep Writing.
he/him http://brentclambert.com
Genine Tyson @quirkywritergirl.bsky.social Acquiring Editor at FIYAH Speculative Fiction Magazine, Writer, Full-Time Worker, and Part-Time Student (Data Science). Bay Area
Christian M. Ivey @ageedubb.bsky.social Art Director at @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social + Digital Comms at @OBI-Belonging.bsky.social
Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social Codex and SFWA member, Voodoonaut's alumna, reader at FIYAH and Podcastle.
BIPOC, disabled, neurodivergent, and queer as a clockwork orange. She/?
Find me at https://emmaliah.wixsite.com/emmaliawrites
My book is out! https://books2read.com/u/mdapOW
Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social 🇹🇹 Poet, SFF writer, TTRPG designer. Worldcon 2025 Poet Laureate.
@rascal.news columnist. Podcaster @speculate.bsky.social & @skiffyandfanty.com.
Author of CAN YOU SIGN MY TENTACLE? and other things.
Thank God for words.
https://www.brandonobrien.xyz/
P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Jumbie & Duppy Conqueror. Rambler of Things. Doer of Stuff. Brotha From Another Planet | pdjeliclark.com
Justina Ireland @justinaireland.com Award winning writer and New York Times Bestseller. Sometimes agent at Handspun Literary. I also do TV and comics.
Food is a scam in this country.
Up next: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN HALLOWEEN - October 2026
geneva 🖍️ nycc soon @gdbee.bsky.social Artist! Won a Hugo once! Got nominated for another! Black! I like everyday fantasy! Made a graphic novel! Drew some kids books! Estoy aprendiendo español!
Rep'd by @grahamophones.bsky.social
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Milton Davis @miltonmvmedia.bsky.social Black Fantastic author and owner of MVmedia, LLC
Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social Writer, librarian, practice adult, forever mentor...
Khaalidah 🍉 @khaalidah.bsky.social WFA Nominated editor. Ignyte Nominated Editor.
Writer. Podcaster. Narrator. SFWA. Codex.
she/her
#BLM ✊🏽 ☪️🎙
So be it. See to it. ~ Octavia Butler
Russell Nichols @russellnichols.bsky.social I'm not really here. Look for me: russellnichols.com
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy.
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Crawford Award winning collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press now. https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com Engineer | Writer | Editor
Enjoyer of Equations, Ideas & Assorted Nonsenses
Hugo, Nebula, Locus & Caine Prize finalist
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Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app Editor and writer of speculative fiction, recovering journalist, SFWA/ACES member, Unbreaking volunteer, cat lady. Clarion West '26
Nonbinary, but she/her, please.
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X (Xen/Cole McCade)🏳️⚧️He/Him🏳️🌈 @thisblackmagic.bsky.social The dead make better companions.
Queer romance author + artist.
IndigiBlAsian POC.
Call me X.
Level 46 Xennial himbo.
Audiophile.
Bone witch of the woods.
FFXIV Mateus.
AuDHD🏳️⚧️demigray disaster bi.
🔞Minors DNI.
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Mame Bougouma Diene @mamebougouma.bsky.social Caine Prize 2023, bunch of stuff in a bunch of places. Follow at your own risk.
Uche Ogbuji @uogbuji.bsky.social Igbo-NaijAmerican immigrant
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Cherae @clclarkwrites.com SFF’s buffest lesbian. BFA & Ignyte & Locus Winner. Nebula & Hugo & BFA Finalist. TOURAINE'S ARMS & TOURAINE’S LEGS & TOURAINE'S @$$ & AMBESSA'S ARMS (Orbit ‘21,‘23,'25). français, العربيّة. they/she/sir/Hey, soldier.
https://linktr.ee/clclark
LH Moore @lhmoore.bsky.social BREATH OF LIFE out now! Science fiction, fantasy & horror author 📖. Artist🎨. Poet ✒️ Historian 📜
Call me Elle. SFWA, HWA, SCBWI. She/Her. Opinions my own.
Irette Y Patterson @irette.bsky.social Writer. Gardener. Lover of theatre. Amateur bird watcher. I know way too much about baking cookies. Words in FIYAH, Strange Horizons, and other places. www.iretteypatterson.com
Shari Paul @mousielouse.bsky.social Writer, fan, Trinbagonian 🇹🇹. Published in FIYAH, The Dark, Escape Pod and Clarkesworld. Reprints in Podcastle and Il Buio.
Trevor Fraley @illustrevor.bsky.social (He/Him) Creator of Things. Illustrator of Disney Villains: Scar series. Represented by ASH Literary Agency 
Takim Williams @takimwilliams.bsky.social Author of literary and speculative fiction | Coming out of nowhere in slow motion | 2024-2034, follow my pre-meditated ten-year overnight success
WC Dunlap @wcdunlap.bsky.social Speculative storyteller. 
Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social Omnivorous bookworm and SFFH writer/poet. Words at LeVar Burton Reads, Strange Horizons, The Rumpus, and others. Colorado by way of California. https://linktr.ee/stefanicox
Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw and others.
Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA award winner, Hugo finalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Etc.
Reading worm.
Opinions mine.
He/him
LaShawn M. Wanak @tbonejenkins.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy writer. Editor of GigaNotoSaurus Magazine. Anime watcher and knitter. Follower of Womanist theology. She/Her. Also, pie.
Stephen Kearse @kearse.bsky.social Journalist, critic, and author of novels Post, Liquid Snakes, and In the Heat of the Light.
Noreasontopretend.com
Sarah IS LOOKING FOR WORK!!! @killianfantasy.blacksky.app Artist and writer.
Books: The Heretic Series. Bride of the River God
Comics: The Violent Vixens Ride Again, Soul Food War, Villainous (webcomic). #art #books www.sarahamacklin.com
https://linktr.ee/sarahamacklin
ArtOfEdge @artofedge.bsky.social Crafting hyper-whimsical art is my jam ✨️
Nicky Drayden @nickydrayden.bsky.social Writer of sci-fantasy, taker of naps.
Prosper with Dragons, coming soon to a game night near you: https://nickydrayden.com- D Del Sandeen @delsandeen.bsky.social
Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social Bi, Black academic librarian (she/her); Ignyte Award nom'd SFF author; Clarion West alum (Novel Workshop '25). Stories in Fantasy, Reactor, FIYAH, & more (🔗s on jencbrown.com).
Rep'd by Fabienne Schwizer at Ki Agency.
Header by well_dipper.
Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
www.teresemasonpierre.com
Duke Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social [he/him] ignatz award-winning graphic novelist
thinks a lot about werewolves
for all inquiries: oliveoilcorp@gmail.com
repped by @jenazantian.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/oliveoilcorp
tamara jerée 🖤 @tamarajeree.com author of lesbian paranormal & gothic fantasy | represented by Bethany Weaver | they/them
www.tamarajeree.com
art by @northyme.com
Maz Hedgehog (they/them) @mazhedgehog.bsky.social writer/performer/general thinking person. dyke. there will be typos.
mazhedgehog.com
Errick Nunnally @erricknunnally.bsky.social Graphic designer, author, artist, and some other shit probably.
Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social Citizen of the Wildeeps! Writer Editor Podcaster TeachingArtisr of Speculative Fiction! Words in Apex, Fiyah, Anathema, Prismatic, Escape Pod, PodCastle. Ghost Class/Clarion c/o 2030-2022. Just Keep Writing co-host. Art Institute Chicago BFAW c/o 2027.
Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social Award-winning Illustrator and corn veggie enjoyer / no AI here
Literary agent - kelly@andreabrownlit.com
Links + portfolio - dominiqueramsey.com/carrd
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social Sarungano. Author of Drinking from Graveyard Wells. Tin House Scholar. CW ‘22 Voodoonauts Cofounder
https://linktr.ee/YvetteL
Aurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social Words in Apex, Apparition, Fiyah , Fantasy & Science Fiction, Black Power, Bitter Apples, Strange Horizons. SFWA, Writer & Teacher. VooDoonauts c/o '21
Air Bender 💨
Vincent uses they/them pronouns 🐸 @v-e-tirado.com afrodominican 🇩🇴 🏳️⚧️ they/them or die mad about it 👻 award winning horror author. I write a lot.
https://vetirado.carrd.co
Bishop Garrison @bishopgarrison.com Nat Sec Policy/Sci-Fi Writer/Adjunct Prof & Poker Enthusiast - Founder www.orangecourtstrat.com - determined Wash Wiz & CMDRs Fan
Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social writer extraordinaire~ Spec fic is my jam. Words in Uncanny Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways,
GigaNotoSaurus, Augur Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH, Apparition Lit, etc.
EN/FR/JP. she/her. Photo by Madeeha Photos. https://www.aline-mweziniyonsenga.com/
Odera Igbokwe @odera.bsky.social 🧚🏿♂️ Painter / Illustrator / Movement Artist
🌻 Summer sketchbook sale 🎨
www.odera.net/shop/sketchbook
🌞 patreon.com/Odera
Some posts are NSFW / queer & embodied / get me bodied/
M H Ayinde 🍉 A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES out now! @mhayinde.bsky.social She/Her. Blerd. Sunday Times bestselling author. Nommo, Ignyte, British Fantasy & Locus Award Finalist.
A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES out now! (Orbit UK/Saga)
https://linktr.ee/mhayinde
Kel Coleman @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social Writer with stories in FIYAH, BCS, Best American, & more | CW '22 | Ignyte Award Finalist 🔥 | they/them
kelcoleman.com
Jade Stewart ❄️ @ja-stewart.bsky.social Writer. Loves video games and anime.
Daydreams about other worlds 24/7.
Stories in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social, and @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social. Upcoming story in @tco-anthology.bsky.social!
https://linktr.ee/jade.stewart
LA Knight & Co. (NEED RENT HELP, CHECK PINNED) @laknight89.bsky.social SFF writer (pro & fic); nommed for Locus 2021; Fiyah Lit alum; queer Black ♿ LDS autistic byke. 37. OSDD (9+). 6-peep polyam (1Sp, 2LP, 2Mm). Cat mom. Poor af. Cassgenderfluidwtf; she/they/fae/jæ/xe/etc. Anti-censorship. Pfp = illustrated version of me.
Nicole Givens Kurtz @nicolegkurtz.bsky.social Award-winning author of cyberpunk noir, SF mysteries, Fantasy suspense and weird westerns.
Morgan Madeline @knightmaremorgan.bsky.social TATTOO APPRENTICE in Seattle 🌻 former concept artist in games or whatever
Fuck it we ball
she/they. black lives matter. trans rights are human rights. free palestine. NO AI/NFT
https://morganmadeline.com/
Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social NOLA. SFFH/crime/journalist. BASFF & Locus notable stories ‘23. Indie author
Contributor to Antigravity Magazine & Gambit
Words in: Buzzfeed News, Politico, Apex Mag, Fiyah, more.
NOLA 40 under 40 2025!
NOVEL: “The Pike Boys” books2read.com/thepikeboys
C. L. Polk @clpolk.com I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/
Beatrice Winifred Iker @beatriceiker.bsky.social CHARLEY'S HONKY-TONK (2026).
I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU (2025).
they/them
Rep: James McGowan at BookEnds Literary
https://linktr.ee/BeatriceWinifredIker
Gnesis Villar @vgnesis.bsky.social I (sometimes) teach, I (occasionally) write, and I (mostly) experience existential dread over late capitalism at my university.
Find my work here: https://beacons.ai/gnesis_v
Naomi Day @thenaomiday.bsky.social queer Black spec fic writer
clarion west '22, the new school mfa '25
words in FIYAH, Black Warrior Review, The Seventh Wave
thenaomiday.com
✨️intelligentwat✨️ BRING BACK ŁINK @zinrock.bsky.social ZinRock.com
Black. Queer. Genderweird. Author.
rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social
preliminary editor and sensitivity reader. don't fuck with AI. horror obsessed.
toss a coin? https://ko-fi.com/zinrock
Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Author. Monster (golden-hearted, love-hungry, moon-blessed).
https://www.amazon.com/Delphinium-Gospel-Denzel-Xavier-Scott/dp/1942004680
Lysz Flo aka 🇭🇹Bat Yo Ministries🇭🇹 @lyszflo.bsky.social Reimaginer of worlds
Afrocaribbean 🇭🇹🇵🇷⚔️
Ignyte Award Winner
Poet | Educator | Afrofuturist | Oracle
Lyszflo.com
Plangdi Neple @plangdi.bsky.social SFF writer and nerd! || He/Him
Stories in: Omenana, Anathema, Translunar Travelers Lounge, FIYAH, Baffling, and more.
https://plangdineple.wixsite.com/plangdi
Nkereuwem Albert @nkereuwxm.bsky.social author, The Bone River ( phoenix 25’) || win: Dream Foundry ‘23 || words in: omenanamag, FIYAH, Fusion Fragment and Will This Be A Problem. BSFA and Ignyte Finalist 🐍
Chris Kindred @chriskindred.com Narrative Designer, Educator, Illustrator, DJ, Something or Other
chris@chriskindred.com
K.W. Onley @kwonley.bsky.social Mama, entrepreneur, leader. I write speculative fiction for grown folk and littles. Viable Paradise 2022, Grub Short Story Incubator 2021.
http://www.kwonley.com
Conrad Loyer @conradloyer.bsky.social Writer, editor, gamemaster | Embracing the new mess 🌵| MFA candidate at the University of Alabama | Clarion West 2024 🐸| he/him
Regina YC Garcia @profesoragina.bsky.social Author of Whispers from the Multiverse: https://aquariuspress.myshopify.com/collections/black-history-month-collection/products/whispers-from-the-multiverse
P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com Author of RABBIT, FOX, TAR (2026) & THE BLOND (forthcoming)
Playwright of BAD MEDICINE & CROCODILE DAY (2023)
Lit rep: Alyssa Jennette.
pcverrone.com
Chris Campbell @chriscampbell.bsky.social Words in FIYAH, Asimov’s, Escape Pod and more. VP2023 CW2024. Rep Sara Megibow. 45% goblin proof 65% decidedly not. clundycampbell.com Editor of NewYearNewYou.