Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social NYT Reporter, #SkateTwitter enthusiast and @candacej superfan.
Matt Hamilton @matt-hamilton87.bsky.social Journalist at LA Material. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter. Carrot cake connoisseur.
Email: Matt.hamilton@lamaterial.com
Hayes Davenport @hayesdavenport.bsky.social lamaterial.com
L.A. Material @lamaterial.com Making Los Angeles legible.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Rob D. Smith @robdsmith.bsky.social Writer of crime, horror, and dark speculative fiction. Editor at Rock and a Hard Place Press. Author of pulp thriller Good-Looking Ugly. Find more about me at https://robdsmith.carrd.co/
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Lowry Pressly @lowrypressly.bsky.social writer, teacher | new book The Right to Oblivion https://bit.ly/3W5dv5p | rep
@FischbachCre8
Dr. Melissa Chadburn @melissachadburn.bsky.social author and recovering journalist, debut novel A Tiny Upward Shove (@fsgbooks April 2022) my mother taught me how to sharpen a pencil with a knife and I’ve basically been doing that ever since.
Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social These hips don’t lie
Daniel Dae Kim @danieldaekim.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇰🇷🤙🏽🌎✌🏽
Dwyer Murphy @dwyermurphy.bsky.social New book THE HOUSE ON BUZZARDS BAY out 6.24.25 from Viking Books; STOLEN COAST, AN HONEST LIVING. Adrift off the coast of Miami.
Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social executive editor @phillymag.com // THE EAGLES OF HEART MOUNTAIN (2021) // First person to win a Presidential Fitness Award and National Magazine Award (maybe)
David DeGusta @davidwrites1.bsky.social Writer / fiction / Iowa Writers’ Workshop / MacDowell / Yaddo | Ethiopia / literary translation from Amharic | Previously a paleoanthropologist.
www.davidwrites.net
Translator of the Ethiopian novel Oromay by Baalu Girma.
www.davidwrites.net/oromay
Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social Sociologist at Swarthmore College, trans man. Wrote Producing Politics & The Class Ceiling & a bunch of articles on class & race & inequality &/or political participation.
DanielLaurison.com = me
WeAreHigherEd.org = standing up for education and democracy
Shane Anderson 🏳️🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social Filmmaker: The Shroud (Out now!)
https://youtu.be/MNvGMxiZ5aU
and THE CARDINAL (coming soon!)
Incompetently Gay. He/Him
Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social Journalist, audio producer, cat lady, native plant gardener ⚡️ Pinch hitter/fill-in host at KCRW ✨ Bylines: NPR, LAist, Prism, LA Public Press 💫
🌐 andreagtrrz.com
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social London -> NYC -> Paris. PhD gone public. Writing GOOD LOOKS & BAD MANNERS, a history of American women in Paris. Previously: HOTBED; THE EXTRA WOMAN; FIREBRANDS.
A Writer in Paris: joannascutts.substack.com
www.joannascutts.com
The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social Cultural critic and historian, author, podcaster, non-Zionist Jew. Co-host: CHARM OFFENSIVE. Writer: THE METHOD: HOW THE 20TH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT
Rider Strong @onthestorm.bsky.social Was an actor. Now a writer. Director. Podcaster. I teach, too.
As Socrates once said…
“We’re all influencers now.”
- Socrates (2025)
Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social A Woman’s Guide to True Crime available: https://boswellbooks.com/book/9798993883656 She/her. rep’d by Lori Galvin at Aevitas Creative. Aggressive UWM Stan. Panther Pride.
Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social Organizing LA block by block.
follow the fam @knockdotla.bsky.social @power-la.bsky.social
Nodarse @nodarse.bsky.social Author of BLOOD IN THE CUT @Flatironbooks. Magic City Storyteller. Son of Cuban Exiles. Hiker/Biker/Camper of the Everglades & Neverglades. He/Him.
Twist Phelan @twistphelan.bsky.social Crime fiction writer. World traveler. Athlete. Former blonde.
Gina Frangello @circegirl.bsky.social I write books about troublesome women. Developmental editor/teacher/book coach/ghostwriter at Circe Consulting. Faculty at UNR-Tahoe’s low res MFA. Find out more at circeconsulting.net
Kelly McEvers @kellymcevers.bsky.social Founding host, NPR's Embedded. Former host, All Things Considered. Former NPR Middle East correspondent. Teacher/trainer, Uncuffed. Dodger fan with the zeal of a convert.
http://www.npr.org/people/131876588/kelly-mcevers
Spike Friedman @spikefriedman.bsky.social I’m just here so I don’t get fined
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE is the moderate position.- S Stefanie P @stefjams.bsky.social
Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social author of First Love and Negative Space
Frank Shyong @frankshyong.bsky.social Journalist, most recently as a columnist for the LA Times. I write about food, culture, neighborhoods and Los Angeles at a newsletter called Lunch Box on Substack. Bento.me/frankbear
Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social New novel WIFE out now, Meanwhile: The Exhibitionist, Almost English, When We Were Bad, gardener
Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier @armbernier.bsky.social Writing Caribbean joy…and mystery…one story at a time! 🇻🇮👩🏾💻🙌🏾🤩
www.ashleyruthbernier.com
Faye Snowden @fayesnowden.bsky.social Award-winning author of the southern gothic A Killing series mysteries. A Killing Breath due out March, 2026. Pre-orders open now!
Kirstin Chen @kirstinchen.bsky.social NYTimes bestselling author of Counterfeit, Bury What We Cannot Take & Soy Sauce for Beginners. Tech Wives forthcoming 🌸
Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor. 
Jennifer Pooley @jenniferpooley.bsky.social I love Los Angeles and all of the extraordinary people who make our city so magical • Editor at Lucasfilm Publishing & Marvel Press
Kim Fay @kimkfay.bsky.social Author of forthcoming (3/11/25) KATE & FRIDA and national bestseller LOVE & SAFFRON. "Joy is not made to be a crumb." - Mary Oliver
regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social 교포 입양자 KAD 🇰🇷 (adoptee) she/her
not a journalist. don’t be weird!
@cathyparkhong.bsky.social @cathyparkhong.bsky.social 
Ed Lin @edlinforpresident.bsky.social Author, ghost hunter, interim executive director Asian American Writers’ Workshop
www.edlinforpresident.com
Elaine Hsieh Chou @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social Author of WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM: STORIES (2025) and DISORIENTATION (2022) from Penguin Press | she/her
www.elainehsiehchou.com
@tmc720.bsky.social @tmc720.bsky.social 
James Queally @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social Crime: Real & Imagined.
L.A. Times Courts/Chaos Reporter
Alleged Author: Russell Avery Novels (Counterpoint Press)
Rep: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
Knows Ball (kinda)
SURVIVING THE LIE, the third and final Russell Avery novel, out 8/11/26.
Roberto G. Gonzales @rggonzales1.bsky.social Sociologist at Penn| Founding Director Penn Migration Initiative| Previously at Harvard| Author Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America| Writing book on DACA| Fan of the Yankees, Broncos, Springsteen, & my son’s baseball teams
Min Jin Lee @minjinlee.bsky.social New York State Author Laureate 2025-2027. Writer. New Yorker. Late Bloomer.
www.minjinlee.com
박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social Associate Professor iSchool University of Illinois; Asian American Youth Lit; Asian American Studies; Critical Adoption Studies; RDYL co-editor #VeryKorean #VeryAsian sarahpark.com
Cover art: Nancy So Miller
Agent: Tricia Toney Lawrence (Aevitas CM)
Miwa Messer @miwamesser.bsky.social “Not a good bullshitter but a good podcast host.” EP/host Poured Over pod on Apple + Spotify. Opinions my own, of course. 📷DP Jolly
@itsmesarahlabrie.bsky.social @itsmesarahlabrie.bsky.social NO ONE GETS TO FALL APART: A MEMOIR (Harper, Oct 2024)
Margaret Wappler @margaretwappler.bsky.social Writer rollerskating the infinite. NEON GREEN (2016), a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and A GOOD BAD BOY: LUKE PERRY AND HOW A GENERATION GREW UP (2024). Order BAD BOY here: http://bit.ly/3HMOx25 #riptim
Hilary Davidson @hilarydavidson.bsky.social Bad influence. Bestselling author of ONE SMALL SACRIFICE, THE DAMAGE DONE, & 5 other crime novels. Out now: HER LAST BREATH. Toronto born, NYC based.
Joel Walsh @joelwa.bsky.social CS prof @ OxyCS. Former public school teacher and ML eng. Interested in: AI+Learning Technologies, computational models of cognition, language acquisition, Math and CS education, justice.
Kent Osborne @kentosborne.bsky.social Don’t follow if you can’t handle my truth bombs 
Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
chi (taylor’s version) @chiwan.bsky.social poet. publisher. swiftie.
Maurice Ruffin @mauricenow.bsky.social Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way. 💐 I'm probably on my Substack: Sitting in Silence.✍️🏿https://mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/
Ashleigh B @ashleiugh.bsky.social Is it time to go to bed ?
Janelle Brown @janellebrown.bsky.social Novelist and professional lurker
Adam Dalva @adamdalva.bsky.social Writing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, etc. Contributing Editor, Yale Review. President, National Book Critics Circle. Rep: Duvall Osteen
Vera Kurian @verakurian.bsky.social Author of NEVER SAW ME COMING and A STEP PAST DARKNESS. psychologist. film consumer. semi-ironic watcher of reality TV. available for DC area events. yes I want to be on your podcast. www.verakurian.com. writing about craft: verakurian.substack
‘Dr’ Dorothy Koomson @dorothykoomson.bsky.social 📚Award-winning, Sunday Times Bestselling Author | Writer ✍🏾 l Reader 📖 | TV & Film Lover 📺 | Podcaster 🎙️| Latest book Give Him To Me out now 📚⚡️
Alyssa Cole @alyssacolelit.bsky.social Writer of thrillers, romance, and more! Next release: IT TAKES A VILLAGE (Wildthorn): February 9, 2027.
Natashia Deón @natashiadeon.bsky.social Friend, Mother, Wife, Lawyer, Novelist: GRACE and THE PERISHING. 👋
Toni Ann Johnson @toniannj.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer
Flannery O’Connor Award for
Light Skin Gone to Waste
Screenwriter of Ruby Bridges and Step Up 2
Attica Locke @atticalocke.bsky.social Writer, page and screen. #FromScratch #LittleFiresEverywhere #WhenTheySeeUs #Empire NY-Times bestselling author of six books.
https://linktr.ee/atticalocke
Stella Oni @stellaonithewriter.bsky.social Writer | Author | Host of ‘Talking Tech With Creatives’ podcast | Foodie | Technologist
https://linktr.ee/Stellaonithewriter
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press proprietor, Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
Gigi Pandian @gigipandian.bsky.social USA Today bestselling, Anthony & Agatha Award-winning author. Cancer survivor. Locked-room mystery enthusiast. she/her
James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social Novelist (“Fobbit” & “Brave Deeds”), husband (42 years), human father (3x over), Cat Daddy (3x over). Avid reader. Founder and curator of #SundaySentence. Author of Van-ishing America on Substack: https://davidabrams.substack.com/
Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social 📚🐈🪴
Reagan Arthur @reaganart.bsky.social Here to read and deliver firm opinions about books, music, tennis, grammar, and I suppose also the news. Launching new imprint, Cardinal, 9/25
Delia Pitts @deliapitts50.bsky.social Twins mother, historian, diplomat, university administrator, crime fiction writer. DEATH OF AN EX is out now. TROUBLE IN QUEENSTOWN is in paperback.
Michael Robotham @michaelrobotham.bsky.social Writer, author, scribbler, scribe, wordsmith, storyteller, ink smith, ghostwriter, hack.
Chris Gonzalez @livesinpages.bsky.social Author, I'm Not Hungry but I Could Eat: stories l Barrelhouse Fiction Editor | 2021 NYFA Fiction Fellow | 2025 VCCA Fellow | Husky bochinchero 🇵🇷 🏳️🌈
📍 Brooklyn, NY
https://chris-gonzalez.com/
Janet Fitch @janetfitch.bsky.social Novelist. Most recent novels, THE REVOLUTION OF MARINA M and CHIMES OF A LOST CATHEDRAL, epic novels of the the Russian Revolution.
Lisa Unger @lisaunger.bsky.social NYT bestselling author. Co-president of ITW.
SERVED HIM RIGHT is on sale now.
Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau.bsky.social The Years of Blood, Fordham Press ‘25
Wallace Stegner Fellow ‘25.
Cave Canem Fellow.
Editor-in-Chief, Agbowo Magazine.
Rep: Salma Begum (Greyhouse Literary Agency)
Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social writer, teacher, author of fiction including The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and Willful Creatures. Happy to be on here.
Linwood Barclay @linwoodbarclay.bsky.social Writer, former trailer park operator
@katiekitamura.bsky.social @katiekitamura.bsky.social Novelist, etc. New novel: AUDITION, out now from Riverhead Books. Please note there are several fake accounts impersonating me on Bluesky. Please do not engage with these accounts and report if possible. Thank you.
Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social Journalist, @bookcritics.bsky.social board member, raised in the canebrake by an old mama lion. mschaubtx@gmail.com.
@vmburnsbooks.bsky.social @vmburnsbooks.bsky.social 
Matthew Quirk @mquirk.bsky.social Author of The Night Agent, now a #1 Netflix hit. My latest book, The Method, now available for pre-order and in stores 1/20/2026.
Lisa Brackmann @otherlisa.bsky.social Author (Rock Paper Tiger trilogy, Go-Between, Black Swan Rising), singing bassist, traveler, lover of cats, baseball masochist (go Padres! 🤎💛), Californian www.lisabrackmann.com 🌊🇨🇦🇩🇰🇺🇦
Heather Scott Partington @hspartington.bsky.social Book critic & teacher. Board member and fiction chair @bookcritics.bsky.social.
📍Elk Grove, CA.
Laura McHugh @lauramchugh.bsky.social Award-winning, internationally and USA TODAY bestselling thriller author (Safe and Sound, What’s Done in Darkness, The Weight of Blood & more). Tech writer by day.
www.lauramchughbooks.com
Luis Alberto Urrea (& Cindy) @urrealism.bsky.social Author and reader, husband & grandpa, scribbler in notebooks, wanderer. Team Urrea is always on the scenic route.
Jac Jemc @jacjemc.bsky.social Author of EMPTY THEATRE, FALSE BINGO & THE GRIP OF IT (MCD/FSG), A DIFFERENT BED EVERY TIME & MY ONLY WIFE (Dzanc). Guggenheim Fellow. UCSD & Clarion.
Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social Author/ Illustrator/ Partner In Crimes
Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social Journalist. Created @thebarbedwire.com. Words in Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Slate, The Daily Beast, Texas Monthly etc. My debut novel “Something’s Wrong With The Girls“ will be published by Rare Bird.
Wanna work together? oliviamesser@protonmail.com
Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social Literary Publicist / Cheerleader
Proud co-founder Broadside PR
Native Californian in New York
Lori Rader-Day @loriraderday.bsky.social Writer. Muppet. Reserve grand champion ribbon winner in the 4-H category of Personality.
Chris Bohjalian @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social Third most talented artist in a family of three. Jesse the Wonder Dog's Dad. Look for his new novel, THE AMATEUR, on August 4. www.ChrisBohjalian.com .
SJ Rozan @sjrozan.bsky.social Writer, reader, gardener, New Yorker, basketball player, NY Liberty and NY Knicks fan. Author of 20 novels and 100+ short stories. Former architect.
Duane Swierczynski @swierczy.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of CALIFORNIA BEAR, SECRET DEAD MEN, LUSH and BILLION-DOLLAR RANSOM. WGA. MWA. "The Pole WIth Soul." gleefulmayhem.com