Arula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social 3rd year Computational Neuroscience PhD candidate at Boston University (advisors Cynthia Bradham & Gabe Ocker). Mathematically modeling corticogenesis.
I also write trippy scifi & mathfiction.
Ignyte Award Finalist 2025
6 stories in Clarkesworld
Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.org We’re moving! Visit the link in our bio to see how you can help. Seattle's smallest & weirdest movie theater. Non-profit & 100% volunteer-operated. linktr.ee/grandillusion
Ted Geoghegan @tedgeoghegan.bsky.social Overly-emotional bi dad who loves cartoons and horror, hosts trivia, and is occasionally lucky enough to make movies // WE ARE STILL HERE. MOHAWK. BROOKLYN 45.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Bonnie Burton ✍️ @bonniegrrl.bsky.social 👧🏻 WRITER: Books, Comics, TV, Games, Crafts, News & Podcasts. Clients: Lucasfilm, Disney, Microsoft, Penguin Random House, Hunt A Killer Games, CBS, NBC
👩🏻💻 https://linktr.ee/bonnieburton
Gale Anne Hurd @galeannehurd.bsky.social Fighting disinformation/misinformation. Film/TV producer (The Walking Dead, The Terminator, Aliens, T2, Tremors, Armageddon) and documentaries (The YouTube Effect, Mankiller) & a bunch of stuff you've never heard of. Full-time Gooner. Part-time Cassandra.
priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social I write about cars, movies, & cars in movies.
words for Hagerty, Arrow Video, Empire Magazine, Polygon, StudioCanal UK, Second Sight, Southwest Review, Bright Wall/Dark Room, etc.
https://linktr.ee/scillapage
Brea Grant @breagrant.bsky.social (She/Her) Writer/Director 12 Hour Shift/Torn Hearts/Lucky/Reading Glasses #wgastrong
April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social Bette Davis eyes. Make movies. Comb cats. Michigandery. WGA.
Book: BURY ME IN VEGAN LEATHER (Soho Press) May 2027
BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social digital managing editor @Fangoria | fat lesbian wife | mouthy midwest broad in LA | co-wrote the book on SLEEPAWAY CAMP | co-host @thisendsatprom
Kate Siegel @katesiegel.bsky.social often actress, always dramatic. 
Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social writer. critic. essayist. on staff at New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://angelicabastien.com/
https://angelicabastien.substack.com
Barbara Crampton @barbaracrampton.bsky.social Actor/ Producer Re-Animator, From Beyond, You’re Next, Jakob’s Wife, Suitable Flesh, Hysteria!
Monica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.social The A.V. Club film critic, programmer, dancer, dog person.
Meredith Borders @mereborders.bsky.social 🌀Senior Editor, FANGORIA and STARLOG
🌀Head of Single Issue Publications, FANGORIA
🌀Author, First In Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium
🌀Strong Sender
Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social Pop™. Writer. Various & sundry. Genderqueer game show host: Dare to Karaoke @daretokaraoke.bsky.social. Film, books, board games, horror. She/They. NYC. 🏳️⚧️ https://mxtiffanyleigh.bio.link/
Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social TV critic & union woman @ TIME. Writer & catastrophist @ Brooklyn. Exhausted & bored @ Twitter. Guess I'm here now, too.
Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social Film Critic (Film Comment, Reverse Shot, Criterion). GALECA.
Co-Author of CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS
Currently writing a book about TWIN PEAKS
Mallory O’Meara @malloryomeara.bsky.social Author • Host of Reading Glasses and Reading Smut • she/her
🌴LA
www.malloryomeara.com
Katie Rife @rifewithkatie.bsky.social You’ve seen me around. Writing all over: Letterboxd, Indiewire, AV Club, Vulture, Ebert, etc.
Alex West @alexwest.bsky.social Genre film critic and author. Co-host of the Faculty of Horror podcast. She/her.
Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social SFFH writer. L’nu’skw (Mi'kmaw). She/her. Bi cis anarchafeminist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Pessimism of intellect, optimism of will. Views mine, not employers. Fuck AI forever.
Books:
🩸Carnalis
🌿 Green Fuse Burning
💀 Elegies of Rotting Stars
📧 Rep by Jo Ramsay
Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social Journalist & Author who celebrates horror, sci-fi & the artists who make the world of cinema so great.
Follow my writing here: https://from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/B2Te6h0Js
jenni @msjennimiller.bsky.social Copy editor and writer and editor and whatever. aging goth getting weird with it. NYC by way of TX. she/her. no terfs.
Amanda Miranda @amandamiranda.bsky.social Morbidly doodling with human body parts.
amandamiranda.net
Maitê Mendonça @thefinalgirl.bsky.social Jornalista/Produtora de Conteúdo/Pesquisadora de Cinema de horror latino e asiático/Colagista/Sunset Lover/Final Girl brasileira//
https://linktr.ee/thefinalgirl_?utm_source=linktree_profile_share
🎥 Kathy 🍁 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social Music and film writer. Northwest Film Forum board member and former Seattle Film Critics Society president. Unions: SAG-AFTRA and IBEW. Past/present contributor: KCMU/KEXP, KUOW, Rock and Roll Globe, Seattle Film Blog, The Stranger, and Video Librarian.
doloresquintana needs a nap @doloresquintana.bsky.social Contributor @ Fangoria, editor Mirror Media Group, words @ recordingacademy @ altpress 🍅 Critic doloresmquintana@gmail.com Actor: WB Horror Made Here, Alone: an existential haunting, Screenshot Productions, film.
Reyna Cervantes @jfcdoomblade.bsky.social writer. critic. programmer. degenerate.
britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social i don't care if you like it.
Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social Film critic. Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Jan ‘25). My writing about film has appeared in the NYT, Art in America, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and elsewhere. NYFCC member
https://linktr.ee/violetvlucca
Sarah Lind @sarahlindish.bsky.social Bra-monger. Corn dog. Janky.
Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social Poet | Writer | Filmmaker | Scholar |
Editor, @screenanarchy.bsky.social |
OFCS, AQCC, Fipresci | Tiohtià:ke/Montréal |
Letterboxd, https://boxd.it/6L6X |
she/they
https://shelaghrowanlegg.com/
Alyse Wax @alysewax.bsky.social Author: “Curious Goods: BTS of Friday the 13th The Series.” “The World of IT.” “Creepy Bitches.”
Journalist: Fangoria. Screenopolis. ComingSoon. Collider. SYFY Wire. FEARnet (rip). More.
Horror nerd. TV addict. X-Phile. Anti-fascist, pro-LGBTQ. She/her
Dede Crimmins @dedecrim.bsky.social Film critic. Horror Fan. Spinster. Smithie.
Rue Morgue, That Shelf, CFCA
she/her
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/deirdre-crimmins/movies
Anya Stanley @anyastanley.bsky.social 
Kimberly Pierce @kpierce624.bsky.social Critic. Archivist. Author.
Co-Chair Denver Film Critics.
https://piercingpopculture.substack.com/
pierogiwitch @pierogiwitch.bsky.social non-binary waver, video artist, writer, leftist, twin peaks historian + founder of @A69Presents.bsky.social 🇵🇸 (they/them)
glitch + video art commissions now open, dm me ✨ no AI
vimeo.com/pierogiwitch
Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social @seattlecritics.bsky.social, GALECA | http://sgn.org & http://Moviefreak.com | Tomatometer-Approved Top Critic | sara@moviefreak.com | She/Her | 🏳️⚧️
elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social film scholar + critic | books abt 60s sex films, global cinema, place | in '25: The Prop (Fordham); Wanda (BFI); toiling: Cinemas of Exhaustion | teach @ King's College London | post-soviet newyawker, ekphrastic perfume fiend | elenagorfinkel.com
Maura McHugh @splinister.bsky.social Writer. Works across media. Lives in the West of Ireland.
https://splinister.com/easylinks 
Haleigh Foutch @haleighfoutch.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Host. Green Witch. Monster Enthusiast.
Director of Audience at TheWrap. 
Mary Beth McAndrews @mbmcandrews.bsky.social Marketing Director, Little Spark Films
Director of Bystanders (out now on VOD)
Cohost of the Scarred For Life podcast
GALECA and OAFFC member
Found footage defender
Always searching for Mothman
Ariel Vida @arielvida.bsky.social Director: Trim Season, Vide Noir
Production Designer: Something in the Dirt, She Dies Tomorrow, Synchronic, The Endless, Archenemy, Aporia, V/H/S/85, Shadow Kingdom
Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social Writer • SVP, The Black List • videostore vixen, constant collector, wild at heart + weird on top • katehagen.co ✨📼✨
Melody Cooper @melodyc.bsky.social Writer Director Producer. TV, film,OMNI comic book. Rideback Rise, Sundance Episodic Lab, Half Initiative. Writer: CW’s 2 Sentence Horror Stories, Law & Order: SVU Co-producer, Power: Force, @NyxHorror #13MinutesofHorror CAA/The Cartel IMDb.me/melodycooper
Kier-La Janisse @kierlajanisse.bsky.social Author, House of Psychotic Women / Cockfight
Writer/Director/Producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched / The Haunted Season
Acquisitions/Producer @severinfilms.bsky.social
Owner @spectacularoptical.bsky.social
https://www.kier-lajanisse.com
Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social Author - http://amzn.to/2kqeKwz - journalist, filmmaker and human rights campaigner. Strategic advisor at Trans Media Watch, commissioning editor at Eye For Film and EDI lead at the Bylines Network. #NUJ #OFCS #CherryPicks #binders #writer #author
Izzy Lee @izzylee.bsky.social Storyteller. Debut novella I Can See Your Lies via Dark Matter Ink and debut horror feature, House of Ashes, both 2024. 💀
https://linktr.ee/izzylee
Jenn Adams @jennferatu.bsky.social Pods: The Losers’ Club, The Lady Killers, Murder Made Fiction, The Girls on The Boys,
Words: Bloody Disgusting, Dread Central, Rue Morgue, Strong Female Antagonist
she/her witch 🖤 I thrive in darkness.
Meg Shields 🦂 @theworstnun.bsky.social Hard at work in the Tubi mines.
🦂 Film critic, editor, genre film fanatic
🦂 bi lady about town
🦂 living in Vancouver / K'emk'emeláy̓
✉️ meg.shields.freelance@gmail.com
🎬 https://letterboxd.com/MegShields/
Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social NZ film academic, arts critic & frock enthusiast. Cultural omnivore, bad at sports. Feminist horror deep dive WOMEN, MONSTROSITY AND HORROR FILM @routledge. Ōtautahi arts writing at flatcityfieldnotes.com. She/her/Dr. My views. 
Louise Weard @weard.moe maker responsible for all unnecessary sex scenes
https://louiseweard.com/
Ninjaworrier @ninjaworrier.bsky.social Working at a high fret level. Film words at
@eyeforfilm.bsky.social and other places...
Dayna Noffke @daynadirector.bsky.social I tell stories.
WGAE writer, director, forever-monster-kid. Fueled by caffeine and gallows humor. MFA student/screenwriting instructor.
Author of Spider Baby.
This Ends at Prom @thisendsatprom.bsky.social A coming-of-age podcast about teen girl cinema of all styles and genres w/ The Wives Colangelo: BJ & Harmony. 
Madeleine D'Este @madeleinedeste.bsky.social Dark Mysteries are my thing.
The House on Rookery Rock. Black Soil White Bread. Radcliffe.
Aurealis Award & Shadow Awards nom'd.
No DMs.
https://madeleinedeste.com/
Jill Gevargizian @jillsixx.bsky.social Hairstylist in KCMO.
Director, Writer, Producer of THE STYLIST.
Adventure seeker. Rock climber
Dr Kate Thagrinus 🏴 @katelaity.eurosky.social Professional Dilettante • Arcane Artist • Fulbrighter • Uberskiver • x💀SLAC Medievalist • Tarotist • Owl-Blasted Surrealist | she/her |Dundee & Hudson| https://linktr.ee/katelaity
Jenny Nulf 👻 @jennyleighx33.bsky.social Film Critic. Film Programmer. Video Editor ✂️. Emo music fangirl 🖤. 🍅 approved. xoxo 👻 girl.
Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social Film website. From blockbusters to brand new short films & festivals to world cinema. Find us on Twitter @EyeForFilm, Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@EyeForFilm - or like us on Facebook https://facebook.com/Eye4Film/ Visit http://www.eyeforfilm.com
The Adams Family @adamsfamfilms.bsky.social Filmmaking fam. Mother of Flies (coming!); Where the Devil Roams; Hellbender; The Deeper You Dig; Hell Hole. www.WonderWheelProductions.com
🧚🏽Sezín Devi (Koehler)🧙🏽♀️ @sezindevikoehler.bsky.social Lankan/Lithuanian USian. Pop-culture writer. “Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory” from Chicago Review Press, April 2025—preorders open! Rooted and Written fellow 2024. Fae horror enthusiast. Fannibal. Queerdo. ✨She/herses✨
Katelyn from the Black Lagoon @24thdoctor.bsky.social 🍅-approved critic/Assistant editor @DailyGrindhouse. Writer, reviewer, reader. Bylines at Daily Grindhouse, Dread Central, Killer Horror Critic, We Are Horror, and more. Horror enthusiast, disability representation ranter. Book witch.
Ariel 아리엘 @archivistariel.bsky.social Seoul-based writer & media archivist w/focus on: gender, sexuality, & disability in Korean classic films. Kim Ki-young fan ❤️ & enthusiastic physical media contributor. Still claim Angeleno as a personality trait. She/Her.
Emma Westwood @emmawestwood.bsky.social Writer & Talker. Books on SECONDS 🕰️ THE FLY 🪰 MONSTER MOVIES 🧌 and BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN 👰🏽♀️
Linktr.ee/emmawestwood
Kate Robertson @kate-robertson.bsky.social Not that kind of Dr. Lapsed Art Historian, part-time author/critic, full-time film lover. Current work: horror; women cannibals on screen; Australian art 1890-1914. 
Andrea Subissati @necromandrea.bsky.social A swarm of bees
Sarah Dobbs @sarahdobbs.bsky.social Going on the computer professionally (freelance writing/social media/podcasting).
she/her
https://www.sarahdobbs.com/
Jolene Marie @jolenemariedesigns.bsky.social Costume Designer | Fashion Historian | Writer | she/her |📍NYC USA Local 829
Sophia Cacciola @sophiacacciola.com Cinematographer, Director, Musician, ancient chihuahua enthusiast.
Alison Star Locke @alisonstarlocke.bsky.social Writer/Director/Producer - THE APOLOGY (Hulu, Shudder, AMC+, VOD & Blu-Ray), SHHHHHHH..., PICK UP TIME, UNTIL THE END. Rep: Jeff Portnoy - Bellevue. Will absolutely talk to you about THE SHINING for three hours.
Cressa Maeve Áine @beeragon.bsky.social girlhood rot
fuck AI
beeragon@gmail.com
Instagram.com/beeragon
Jen Handorf @jhandorf.bsky.social Filmmaker and Academic.
Producer of Prevenge & The Borderlands, Director of Wolf Whistle & Flayed, LA LLAMADA DEL VULCANO
www.jenniferhandorf.com
Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social academic, feminist, lover of clothes, devoted audience member and reader (she/her) 🏳️🌈 ‘without community there is no liberation’-Audre Lord
me, a goth @nmccaff.bsky.social talk theory to me | PhD candidate in Screen Cultures at Northwestern, Chicago IFF After Dark programmer, lover of pink furniture, Kristen Stewart filmography completionist, & part-time pin maker @vvitchroom
Brook. @futuresadghost.bsky.social Local cryptid. Maker of things. Long live horror.
they/them
Maeve Gee @mgart76.bsky.social She/her - 50 going on 35 - queer trans woman - into rock’n’roll & punk and horror movies - “Mistress Of Midnight” for Count Zaremba @ LSUG - Chicagoland
Courtney Love is a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Fast 2 Furiosa @hexadecibelle.fyi …a mirror, reflecting life's vicissitudes, vagaries, ritual magic, and dreary reality.
you'll love me, i promise
3 days on remand and they still can’t keep me down
Emily vS @horrorella.bsky.social Movie lover, writer, kitty mom. Co-host of the Dead Ringers Podcast, bylines at Daily Dead and some other places. She/Her
Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social Editor & Writer | Recovering entertainment journo | Unbreaking.org editor | Pittsburgh sports, literature, history, politics, the weird & dark, ADHD, druid, cool aunt, nature & conservation | Find me among the trees 🌿🌲/|\ https://muckrack.com/alisha-grauso
blayne the hag @ewhag.com genderqueer halloween trash • indie poet • they/she/any
• creator: EW, HAG
• eic: @salonsinister.com
• bite back: poems
ewhag.com/links
horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social Massive human raccoon, broad spectrum nerd, 6ft 1 of ADHD chaos, a cishet she/her of mayhem, used to be a SFF bookseller.
'Ever'.
carcosa-based lifeform. UK.
@EwaSR on twitter
DID NOT INTENTIONALLY KILL OPTIMUS PRIME
Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social Hollywood writer whose stuff you may have seen: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1, Luke Cage. Malignant. M3GAN. The Nun 2. The Boulet Bros. Holiday of Horrors (with a directing credit!). It's a pleasure scaring the shit outta you.
Kimberly @crazysexyghoul.bsky.social FANGORIA Community & Content Manager
PHL
jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social film & culture & TV critic • associate programmer @mixnyc.bsky.social • repped by marya spence (janklow & nesbit)
• https://linktr.ee/jsearles
Jamie Alvey @jamiealvey.bsky.social Writer. Actress. Filmmaker. Intersectional feminist. Autistic nightmare maker. Organizing member of Love and Horror Productions.
https://jamiealvey.com
🖤🦇📝📚🎥 🎬🎭 (she/her)
All views expressed are my own.
Liz @schlockvalue.bsky.social Queer film historian, programmer, distributor |
@muscledistribution.bsky.social | elizabethpurchell.com
Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social Writing about women and surrealism and cinema. Cat worshipper. Small Brummie. Tired.
https://linktr.ee/SabinaStent
Harmony Colangelo @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social I was born with rust in my blood.
Midwest trash who co-authored a Sleepaway Camp book at DieDieBooks and is the trans half of the wives from This Ends At Prom.
Stephanie Crawford @scrawfish.bsky.social Writer for hire (about films) · Editor by day (not films) · Tastemaker (uncredited) · Frustrated vaudevillian (doomed) · 🍅 (approved) LV, NV
🌵 my writing & podcast episodes: http://www.hoaraoh.com 🛸
McControversy @mccontroversy.bsky.social Festival programmer. Human.
NYX Horror Collective @nyxhorror.bsky.social Women-led #horror content. Fdrs. of #13MinutesofHorror on Shudder. Nyx Horror Fellowship for Stowe Story Labs. Diversifying horror since 2019. Co-founders: Melody Cooper, Kelly Krause, Core Members: Lisa Kröger and Mo Moshaty
https://www.nyxhorror.com
Alphena 🌌 Horror VTuber @alphena.vtuber.gg (No minors)
🌌 Artist / Horror Streamer
🌌 @Twitch @GamerSupps Partner
🌌 ママ @AkatsukiEnma @iron_vertex
🌌 @Sightless💍
✨🌯 jamie @glitterburrito.bsky.social the lovechild of Dolly & Elvira
actor who writes & podcasts
roll tide
https://linktr.ee/glitterburrito
High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com Antifascist middle-aged mall goth, making the most of her plantwitch era. Book rep: Stacia Decker at DCL; film rep: Tara Timinsky, Grandview LA. Contact - Cherie.priest@gmail.com
Destiny K @artsyghoul.bsky.social Visual Artist and Horror Creator
destinykelly.com
Gigi Murakami 🔪 Queen of Horror Manga @gigimurakami.bsky.social Award-winning creator of RESENTER
🔪| Punk Rockin’ Horror mangaka w/ ADHD
✍🏾| Viz, Abrams, NLite, Kodansha, Boom Studios
💌| repped by: janna@jannaco.co
🌹Solidarity Forever🌹
https://www.gigimurakami.art/