@drshabazz.bsky.social @drshabazz.bsky.social 
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social Oregon’s Attorney General. Fighting for working families, keeping communities safe, and defending Oregon’s values every day.
Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social Afghanistan combat veteran (OEF 10/11), New York Jets/Mets sufferer. I post videos about the Brooklyn Nets.
Center City, Philadelphia.
Instagram: jasonkirell
TikTok: phillynetsfan
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Read me: HamiltonNolan.com
My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
Email: Hamilton.Nolan@gmail.com
Scott Latta @scottlatta.bsky.social Writing from Portland about Christofascism, rivers, etc. My new book, GODS OF THE SMOKE MACHINE, is out now!
“Scott Latta” -The New York Times, 2016
University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social Book publisher, est. 1925.
Helen Kyriakoudes @hkyria.bsky.social Book publicity @ the University of North Carolina Press | she/her
For media/review copies 📧 helen.kyriakoudes[at]uncpress[dot]org
Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social Writer, dog dad, Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press 
University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu Mission-driven nonprofit publisher committed to the idea of scholarship as a public good, serving intellectually curious readers for over 100 years.
uwapress.uw.edu
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.
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
www.megireid.com
ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social Figuring out post-Army life in the PNW. Lots of Mom-Posting. She/Her.
Lucy Calkins' #2 hater
Play it fucking loud.
Charles Finch @charlesfinch.bsky.social Novelist and literary critic. Most recent books “What Just Happened” (Knopf) and “An Extravagant Death” (Minotaur) available in paperback.
Moss @mosslit.bsky.social A journal of the Pacific Northwest, established in 2014. Poetry, prose, and thought.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Casey Parks @caseyparks.bsky.social Author of “Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery.” Washington Post reporter. I cover the PNW + all things gay and trans.
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
Michael E. Neagle @mikeneagle.bsky.social Historian; Former Reporter; Dad; Husband; Author of “Chasing Bandits: America’s Long War on Terror” (UNC Press) & “America’s Forgotten Colony: Cuba’s Isle of Pines” (Cambridge UP); President of New England Historical Association. michaeleneagle.com
OPB @opb.org Connecting people across Oregon and the Pacific Northwest through the power of a shared story. Share your tips: 🔗 https://www.opb.org/submit-idea/
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Sam Ferree @samferree.bsky.social People say I have an "NPR accent" and that when I say f*ck you can hear the "c" and the "k." I write grants, stories, reports, essays, and scripts. I will show you fear in a handful of deadlines. Development Manager with Escape Artists Foundation. He/Him
Riley Yuan @sidehilling.bsky.social 
Brendan O'Meara @brendanomeara.bsky.social Host of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast ... The voice of a generation, haha ... Author of The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine (2025) ... https://welcometopitchclub.substack.com/
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social civil rights lawyer, exhausted
DM for Signal info
Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Oregon. Rotisserie chicken enthusiast. Senate’s resident privacy hawk.
senatefinance.bsky.social
wydenpress.bsky.social
Kaitlyn Airy @kaitlynairy.bsky.social Poet ❤️🔥 Associate Editor for Poetry Northwest ⛰️ Research Associate & Lecturer at UVA 📚
Connor Guy @connorguy.bsky.social freelance book editor (guyeditorial.com), formerly with Metropolitan Books & elsewhere; co-founder and editor of Moss, a literary journal focused on the Pacific Northwest (mosslit.com)
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic: TV, books, culture, women. GIRL ON GIRL is out now: https://bookshop.org/p/books/girl-on-girl-how-pop-culture-turned-a-generation-of-women-against-themselves-sophie-gilbert/21683668?ean=9780593656297
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich @alexmlwrites.bsky.social THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder & A Memoir / US Artists & NEA (RIP) fellow / work in Best Amer Essays, NYTimes, Harper’s, etc / next up: a 🏳️⚧️ work of haunted 👻 nonfiction, BOTH & NEITHER, forthcoming from Doubleday & internationally
liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social writer in nyc, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, co-host of @criticallistening.bsky.social
lizpelly.info
@ninaperrotta.bsky.social @ninaperrotta.bsky.social 
paige thomas @paigethomas.bsky.social writer & visual artist
https://linktr.ee/paigethomaswriting
all opinions are my own
Fernando D. Maldonado @fernastymaldo.bsky.social film guy. east coast boy cosplaying as a pnw lad. trivia with bootie & the blowfish. outlet for my intrusive thoughts. fdmaldonado.com.
Jeremy Klemin @jeremyklemin.bsky.social Editor at Coefficient Giving. Writing in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, etc. Views my own. Ⓥ
Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social Senior Writer, Rolling Stone. Nashvillian, etc. Wrote a book called HER COUNTRY for Holt. Writing one now for Da Capo called I'VE BEEN A BAD, BAD GIRL. Don’t Rock The Inbox newsletter: https://www.dontrocktheinbox.com
Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social Award-winning historian. Author of four books.Op-eds in NYT, WaPo, CNN, Time, & Smithsonian Magazine. Warren Center Fellow, Harvard University, Fall 2026. https://karencoxhistorian.substack.com
Susan Lerner @susanlitelerner.bsky.social Assistant memoir editor at Split Lip Magazine, assistant editor at Brevity. Reader for River Teeth, Fourth Genre, TriQuarterly
The Sun magazine @thesunmagazine.bsky.social The Sun is a magazine that publishes roughly forty thousand words a month, about a dozen of which are funny. This is where we share those dozen.
Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir, and the essay collection RARE GOOD: ESSAYS ON ART, AUTISM, AND ASTONISHMENT. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social Creative Director @theverge.com, writer/drawer of books incl SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS
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.
Melissa Matthewson @mazzymaple.bsky.social Writer ~ Prof ~ Author of Tracing the Desire Line (Split/Lip Press) & The Fire Trees (Forthcoming 2025 from punctum books) 🤎✨🌲
melissamatthewson.com
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.
Donna-Claire - Author @donnacwrites.com Bestselling music book author of BOOK OF MAC (2021) and CRYBABY (2025).
SHOULDN'T WE DANCE?, a novelette, is out now.
Writes about sad things and board games.
Tabitha Blankenbiller @tabithabee.bsky.social The rise and fall of a Pacific Northwest Princess. 🌈
Substack: https://tabithablankenbiller.substack.com
Essays in Salon, Tin House, Electric Lit, etc.
Former columnist and teacher at Catapult
Kayla Williams @kwilliams101.bsky.social Author, veteran, advocate, kidney donor
Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social National Security Coordinating Producer at CBS News | Marine infantryman + Afghanistan veteran | Fan of Carolina Hurricanes and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Kendra Winchester @kdwinchester.bsky.social Contributing Editor Book Riot | Founder @readappalachia.bsky.social | Cofounder @littlebirdslit.bsky.social | she/her
Afmiller @afmiller1.bsky.social TV Watcher. Dog Walker. Designer. Hawkeye.
Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com 📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise
🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller
🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com
🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her
🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
Patrick Madden @pcmadden3.bsky.social Essays!
@stevenchurch.bsky.social @stevenchurch.bsky.social Writer of essays, passenger in the minivan of enlightenment , Founding Editor of The Normal School for the preternaturally flatulent
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
Zoë Estelle Hitzel @stellarzoe.bsky.social Author: Gender Flytrap from Sundress Publications
she/her surviving in spite
Poet, drummer, typist, outdoors, dogs, wonder, read books.
jstgerma @jstgerma.bsky.social 
Brenda Shaughnessy @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social Poet, friend. Wrote Sensorium Ex, an opera, with composer Paola Prestini (2025.) Books of poetry: TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016) Our Andromeda (2012) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999).
Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social Author of Here Is What You Do. NEA Fellow, public health, harm reduction, rural gay dad. Writing in: Best American Essays, Paris Review, Granta, Playgirl, Guernica, McSweeney's.
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
Su Cho @sucho.bsky.social Poet, sometimes essays, author of THE SYMMETRY OF FISH (Penguin 2022)
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman @jessicahindman.bsky.social Author of Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Fluent in West Virginian, advanced proficiency in New Yorker.
www.JessicaHindman.com- K Kate Hope Day @katehopeday.bsky.social Author of IF, THEN and IN THE QUICK (Random House)
Rachel Riederer @readerer.bsky.social writer on science, culture, and the environment
professional allegiances: @newyorker & @newsguild.
back in the day @guernicamag
Anis Mojgani @mojgani.bsky.social Poet & picture maker. NOLA born & raised. Oregon’s 10th Poet Laureate Emeritus. Trying days, trying heart.
Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social 
Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. 🏳️🌈🦌🐊🦀
Ashley Marie Farmer @amfarmer.bsky.social Writer, educator, desert rat. Dear Damage: Essays (Sarabande Books), Beside Myself (Apocalypse Party), & others. she/her. http://linktr.ee/am_farmer
Alison Clement @alisonclement.bsky.social Oregon Book Award. Published in High Country News, Salon, The Sun, Calyx.
still trying to stay human
I came here for Palestine and found the world.--Omar Sakr
Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com publisher of boundary-breaking prose books
come get us @ splitlippress.com and https://linktr.ee/splitlippress
posts by yrs truly @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press, forthcoming) and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF Flash editor, CRAFT Lit Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
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
Debs @lantern-light.bsky.social Formerly debsbasement / buryingsongs
Book reader, book seller, book buyer (professional & personal); theatre/film/Josh Ritter enthusiast who would always rather be outside 🌲
Never Again means just that. Not here, not in Palestine, not anywhere.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social I cry a lot but I am so productive! 
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
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
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
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.
https://linktr.ee/melissafebos
melissafebos.com
https://www.prairielights.com/pre-order-dry-season-june-2025-prairie-lights-0
R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • Lambda Literary Prize
www.ro-kwon.com
Ian Denning @ian-denning.com Writer || NY Center for Fiction fellow || Retro games, beer, horror, sci-fi || Dog- and human-dad || NJ and PNW || He/him
Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social Writer. Podcast host. Book Boyfriends (10/6/26). The Godmother. The Prince Mixtape. Thirst Aid Kit. This Is Good For You. Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be (memoir). Lilith, But Dark (poetry). soft. nicholeperkins.com
Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social Poetry and nonfiction / art and communit(ies) / plants, animals, kids /community college / co-host Constellation Reading Series / she/they
In Absolutes We Seek Each Other (Diagram ‘14)
Metabolics (Acre Books ‘23)
Mettlework (Acre Books ‘24)
Abby H @killerbreeze.bsky.social Here I am. Rock you like a hurricane. Let’s be letterboxd friends https://boxd.it/35Zmb
THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT BUT GOLD (essaypress chapbook, ‘21)
Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social Director of Publicity and Communications at UNC Press 📚📣
Currently reading: Fed Up: A History of Why You're So Stressed About What to Feed the Kids by Carla Cevasco (Spring 27, a W. Hodding Carter III book) and Maria, Maria by Jennifer Galvão (2/27, RHPG)
Zach Powers @zachpowers253.bsky.social Telling stories about advocacy & culture in the PNW. Frequent Seattle Times contributor, recent MFA grad, first book coming soon from UW Press.
ZachPowersWrites.com
Alex Horton @alexhorton.bsky.social Military reporter at The Washington Post. Iraq veteran. Signal: alexhorton.85
Liam Corley @liamcorley.bsky.social Professor and Creative Writer, author of Bayard Taylor, Determined Dreamer (2014, Bucknell UP). Works on Sci Fi and American Lit. See http://www.liamcorley.com
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies @assayjournal.bsky.social Assay publishes the best critical, pedagogical, and craft-conversational work exploring everything #nonfiction
Posts by Jay Kibble and @karenbabine
Claire Dederer @clairedederer.bsky.social Author of MONSTERS: A FAN'S DILEMMA, a New York Times Notable Book and a national bestseller. Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Fresh Air, The Washington Post, Esquire, Kirkus, Vulture, Electric Lit & more.
Joseph Osmundson @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social scientist, writer, activist. VIROLOGY (Norton, 2022) "dazzling... love essays" -NYTimes Book Review, NBCC & Lambda Literary Finalist in Nonfiction
Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
Kiese @kiese.bsky.social 
Sergio olmos @sergioolmos.bsky.social Investigative reporter @CalMatters | Winner of no awards | sergio@calmatters.org | dm for Signal | 🇲🇽
Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social Oregon-based investigative journalist. | Co-founder thewesternedge.media
Former OPB. Podcast producer, Bundyville, Dying for a Fight, and Hush.
www.ryanhaas.net
Tell me secrets on Signal: ryanjhaas.01
Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social Portland city politics reporter, @opb.org
Past lives: CA, DC, TX
📬 azielinski@opb.org
Signal: alex_zee.03
www.opb.org/author/alex-zielinski/