Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social sinǎḱii. ǎmsḱǎaṗii ṗīīḱǔni nation. real big ndn. words at the newyorker, atlantic, paris review, espn, etc. “I’m a disco guy.”
substack @ https://aphoristic.substack.com
Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com I’m on my way. https://www.stephengrahamjones.com
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Norah Piehl @ncpiehl.bsky.social Fast reader, slow runner, executive director at Litquake
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, & Hawthorne Books.
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History @Howard.edu • Director @huadvstudy.bsky.social • Editor @TheEmancipator.org • National Book Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author. #BeAntiracist. 🐍🦁🌱
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Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 
Oscar Villalon @ovillalon.bsky.social Editor, ZYZZYVA (zyzzyva.org); contributing editor, Lit Hub; publications: Freeman's, The Believer, VQR, Lit Hub, Stranger's Guide, Alta, and other places. San Francisco is my home.
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Keep Turning Pages.
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social Inviting readers into a community of caring for the planet—justly, sustainably, and joyously. orionmagazine.org
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org Authors working together to ensure fair pay, protect copyright, and defend free speech.
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HarperOne @harperonebooks.bsky.social Books that transform and inspire ✨
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Omnivore Books on Food @omnivorebooks.bsky.social The Bay Area’s one and only culinary bookshop! I’m Celia, and I run the show.
Riverhead Books @riverheadbooks.bsky.social We’re a publisher dedicated to extraordinary, ground-breaking, unique fiction and non-fiction writers and their work.
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Amy Tan @amytan.bsky.social Author of The Joy Luck Club, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and more. AMYTAN.net
Alta Journal @altajournal.bsky.social 
Heyday @heydaybooks.com Indie press publishing books on California culture, nature, Indigenous perspectives, and social justice | Publisher of @newsfromnativeca.bsky.social
Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social Fiction [Stealing the Fire]. Critic [BBC_Culture LitHub. Community [@bookcritics.bsky.social SFGrotto BayBookFest Litcampwriters .
s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
national magazine award-winning culture critic & writer for hire
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Grace Hwang Lynch @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social Taiwanese American storyteller. Preorder my memoir HOW TO COOK RICE 📗gracehwanglynch.com
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Cinema, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Blaise Zerega @beezee.bsky.social Editorial Director, Alta Journal
The Booksmith @booksmith.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood independent booksellers. Haight Street, San Francisco. Est. 1976.
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Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social Publishing award-winning literature from around the world in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard.com Reporting on the people, power, and culture shaping San Francisco.
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soleil ho @soleilho.com critic and food writer @coyotemedia.org | James Beard award winner | they/them 🍊 av by max graves
signal: soleil.94 | www.soleilho.com
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
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.
Nancy Jooyoun Kim @nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social Umma / Author of LA Koreatown novels
WHAT WE KEPT TO OURSELVES
THE LAST STORY OF MINA LEE
https://bio.site/nancyjooyounkim
Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social San Francisco bureau chief for the New York Times. Northern California native; San Franciscan for 25 years.
www.nytimes.com/by/heather-knight
Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social Fiction writer. Like Water & Other Stories (WTAW Press)
Co-moderator, San Francisco Writers Workshop (Tuesdays 7-9 pm at Noisebridge)
Co-founder, Punctured Lines, a blog ab literatures of the former USSR & diaspora, w Yelena Furman
Finishing 1st novel
Frances Dinkelspiel @frannydink.bsky.social Journalism junkie from paper to digital to newsletters to Insta and TikTok. Co-founder of Cityside. Reporter and author, too. Hand me a book, and I am happy. https://francesdinkelspiel.com/
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.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
Jon Hickey @jonvhickey.bsky.social San Francisco. Novel BIG CHIEF (Simon & Schuster) available now wherever books are sold! Anishinaabe (LDF). Repped by Michelle Brower at Trellis Literary.
Preeti Vangani @preetivangani.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Email Hater. Author, Mother Tongue Apologize (RLFPA, 2019) and Fifty Mothers (River River Books, Feb 2026). 
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
California Book Club @calbookclub.bsky.social A virtual book club devoted to literature from and about the Golden State.
Brought to you by Alta Journal.
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Kirstin Chen @kirstinchen.bsky.social NYTimes bestselling author of Counterfeit, Bury What We Cannot Take & Soy Sauce for Beginners. Tech Wives forthcoming 🌸
ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social Award-winning, indie lit journal—made in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 132 is now available. Subscribe: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
Beth Nguyen @bethnguyen.bsky.social Books: Owner of a Lonely Heart (Scribner); Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (Viking/Penguin); two novels. Guggenheim fellow. CW prof at UW-Madison
Laurie Ann Doyle @ladoyleauthor.bsky.social #Author of historical #novel LIGHT AND ASH coming from #Sibylline Press in April, 2027, & WORLD GONE MISSING: #STORIES (Regal House). Two-time nominee for Pushcart Prize. #Words in McSweeny's, Alta, The Rumpus, LA Review. www.laurieanndoyle.com
kate folk @katefolk.bsky.social Author of OUT THERE and SKY DADDY
@ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social Author: IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD, AFTERWORD, THE TRANSLATOR, THE PAINTING; HOW TO WRITE STUNNING SENTENCES; Lover of lemons, dogs, snails.
Instructor: Stanford Continuing Studies
website: ninaschuyler.com
Stunning Sentences: ninaschuyler.substack.com
Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social Writing about belonging & diaspora. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024). https://linktr.ee/graceprasad?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=89b54520-7f8d-4182-91dd-cb30d74a6cd7
Jenny Qi, Ph.D. @jennyqi.bsky.social Author, Focal Point (2021)
freelance med/sci writer, poet
essays & poems in NYT, The Atlantic, etc.
www.jqiwriter.com
Dominic Lim @jdominiclim.bsky.social he/him 🏳️🌈🇵🇭| Writers Grotto member | Babylon Salon cohost | Actors Equity Assoc | rep by Talcott Notch Literary | KARAOKE QUEEN ‘24 and ALL THE RIGHT NOTES ‘23 from Forever/GCP/Hachette
Anoop Judge @anoopjudge.bsky.social Author: Book Club Fiction: MERCY & GRACE📚NO ORDINARY THURSDAY📚THE AWAKENING OF MEENA RAWAT📚THE RUMMY CLUB/ Non-Fiction: LAW: WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT & HOW TO GET IN📚Writing Instructor💻/SFGrotto#/ Pushcart nom. 2019/ website: https://anoopjudge.com
Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social Writer/ interviewer/ Author of 1 memoir and 3 chapbooks- Fiction @ghostparachute @bendinggenres @soflopojo and others. Member @writersgrotto
@leekravetz.bsky.social @leekravetz.bsky.social 
Babylon Salon @babylonsalon.bsky.social San Francisco's premier reading & performance series since 2007! www.babylonsalon.com
Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social COYOTELAND | FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming UPROOTED
Audrey T. Williams @audthentic.bsky.social Liberation through Literature.
Maw Shein Win @mawsheinwin.bsky.social poet / writer / educator / editor
PERCUSSING THE THINKING JAR (Omnidawn, 2024)
mawsheinwin.com
literarycherry.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✨
Lauren C. Johnson @laurencjohnson.bsky.social 🦉🦜Writer of words, lover of birds
📖THE WEST FAÇADE (SFWP '26)
Co-host @babylonsalonsf & @clubchicxulub
CA 🌊 & 🐊 FL
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Devi S. Laskar @devislaskar.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Photographer, Artist, former newspaper reporter, Lifelong #TarHeel
devislaskar.com
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
The Writers Grotto @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social An inclusive community of writers providing cross-pollination, and insider expertise as well as classes and membership.
Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social Satire is my business. NY Times bestselling author of 19 novels, including Lamb, Fool, Noir, Razzmatazz, and Anima Rising (released May 2025).
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com