Shala Erlich @shala-24.bsky.social Doctor, writer, cold water immersionist, hardened door-knocker, technophobe.
Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
https://www.joybaglio.com/
Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com A reader-supported online film journal, offering a different lens on movies since 2013.
issues/essays: brightwalldarkroom.com
podcast: @bwdrpod.bsky.social
all the things: https://linktr.ee/brightwalldarkroom
Eirinie @eirinieee.bsky.social Author of THE DEAD ARE GODS (2023) and BLOODFIRE, BABY (2026)
V.V. Ganeshananthan @sugi.bsky.social Writer. BROTHERLESS NIGHT: http://randomhousebooks.com/books/57844/
Kate Lockwood Harris, PhD @katelockwoodharris.bsky.social Communication scholar, coach, and consultant. Building thriving relationships for a more just world. Get my monthly newsletter at
https://katelockwoodharris.substack.com
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social Poet. If I Had Said Beauty in spring 2025. Three earlier collections with Story Line/ Red Hen Press, Word Tech Editions, and Lost Horse Press. 
Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com Filmmaker, author, illustrator, artisanal astro-hobbit
BendFilm: Basecamp Fellow | Tin House & Stowe Story Labs | Town Hall Seattle Writer-in-Residence ‘22 | SFWA |
Film/prose/art: https://sarah-salcedo.com
Website design: @tallfirsproductions.com
Susan_Rich_Poet007 @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social Poet, Editor, Alchemist --- lover of visual art --- especially that of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. Proud cat lover and bird watcher. Author of 6 books of poetry, most recently BLUE ATLAS, Red Hen Press, 2024. 
Shigeko Ito @shigekoitoauthor.bsky.social Writer • Educator • Complex Trauma Advocate • Lover of Idioms
Author of The Pond Beyond the Forest (forthcoming, 2025)
https://www.shigekoito.com/
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Author, he/him
Kari Nguyen @knguyenwrites.bsky.social Writer. She/her/hers. karinguyen.wordpress.com.
Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
pjmaciak.substack.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
Michele Filgate @readandbreathe.bsky.social Writer. Editor of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (2019) and WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (May 2025).
www.michelefilgate.com
Anya Kirshbaum @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social Pacific Northwest poet, queer mama, somatic therapist, beekeeper, and lover of wild and tended gardens.
https://anyakirshbaumpoet.com
Megan Troup @megantroup.bsky.social MG & YA Writer; Mom of Teens; Hiker/Explorer; Highlights Scholarship Recipient; RMC SCBWI Golden Pen Award Finalist; WM Novel-In-Development Reader’s Favorite; https://megantroupbooks.com
Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social sff/romance writer - sometimes a librarian - reader for Diabolical Plots - very specific - partly titanium - rep: Ashley Reisinger @ Triada US - http://roseciesla.com
Anne Margaret Daniel 🌻 @annemargaretdaniel.bsky.social Teacher, reader, writer, editor, music lover, rescue dogs. The New School University, NYC. Working on an edition of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's letters and a Bob Dylan book. https://www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-anne-margaret-and-rescue-dogs-in-need
Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). Fiction instructor: Harvard Extension School. MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
www.cherylpappas.net
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)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
She/They/Dr/Bruh
Catherine Parnell @victoriancat.bsky.social Writer, editor, educator. Director of Publicity, Arrowsmith Press. Editor, MicroLit. CatherineParnell.com
Margaret Juhae Lee @mjuhae.bsky.social Author of STARRY FIELD: A Memoir of Lost History (Melville House). Journalist, public speaker, waning soccer mom, enthusiastic dog owner, my own social media manager, founding member of Radical Ahjumma. www.margaretjuhaelee.com
Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. ancawrites.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
Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social Novelist. Museum worker. Garden variety weirdo.
Books: We Lived On the Horizon, Light From Other Stars, The Book of Speculation.
She/her (all pronouns are fine)
https://linktr.ee/erikaswyler
Coll Thrush @collthrush.bsky.social Historian, University of British Columbia. My newest book Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific will be released by the University of Washington Press in May 2025. For more, see collthrush.com. Also birds, ghosts, and tattoos.