Tom Toro @tbtoro.bsky.social New Yorker cartoonist, award-winning children’s book author and illustrator 📚
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Sara T. @maudegregory.bsky.social Book designer, letterpress printer, UIowa Center for the Book. Coffee, cats, fiction.
Marty Ross-Dolen @martyrossdolen.bsky.social Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter’s Search for Truth, available May 6
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social Screenwriter and Emmy nominee. Author of LA Times bestseller & Thurber Prize for American Humor finalist “AMP'D." Smartest of pants. Repped @ WME
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Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social Winner of the 2025 Thurber Prize for American Humor, Cartoonist and Author https://www.paulnoth.com https://substack.com/@paulnoth?r=7j6we&utm_medium=ios
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Jane Roper @janeroper.bsky.social Writer of words. Lover of justice. Hater of olives. Most recent book: The Society of Shame. 🦢 Substack: Jane’s Calamity.
Jason Roeder @jasonroeder.bsky.social Former senior editor, The Onion.
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Out now! "Griefstrike! The Ultimate Guide To Mourning."
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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, muting mansplainers since 2010, uncoupled since February 2020. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Shelley Mann Hite @shelleymannhite.bsky.social Writer, editor & mom in Columbus, OH.
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Brooke Preston @brookepreston.bsky.social Comedy writer, author, host. Irrevocably Midwestern.
Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social Author/Mom/Wonder Woman/Queen of the North
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Steven Rowley @stevenrowley.bsky.social New York Times Bestselling Author of five novels and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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Jessica Strawser @jessicastrawser.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling author of suspenseful book club favorites (Catch You Later, The Last Caretaker, Not That I Could Tell, others); Writer's Digest Editor-at-Large; recipient of 2024 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. www.jessicastrawser.com
Scott Woods @scottwoods.bsky.social Writer, poet, Prince fan
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Ruth Awad @ruthawad.bsky.social Lebanese-American author of Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017) and Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024). 2021 NEA fellow. Poet, abolitionist, bi, Pom mom, she/her
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