The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social The NCS is a scholarly community committed to fostering research and interest in the age of Chaucer broadly speaking. We welcome any and all members to join our community! https://newchaucersociety.org/
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Pawel Frelik @nomad93.bsky.social I live in transit and specialize in everything but particularly in science fiction, ocular media, House of Leaves, dark musics, indie games, California, unpopular culture, Coil, outsider art, digital literature, Mass Effect, archives, and Southland Tales. 
Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Analog Game Studies is a quarterly journal dedicated to the study of games containing a substantial analog component. Hosts of #GenerationAnalog
https://analoggamestudies.org
Electronic Literature Organization @eliterature.bsky.social international community of artists and scholars working on the exploration and preservation of digital literature.
Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
Trang Thanh Tran @nvtran.bsky.social NYT & Indie bestselling author of She Is a Haunting | Morris YA Debut Award finalist & Bram Stoker Award winner | They Bloom at Night out now!
University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social Book publisher, est. 1925.
Uncanny Valley Girl @jolietoomajan.bsky.social Horror Writer & Angry, Downwardly Mobile English PhD & Hye-Brid & Queer & Shirley Jackson Award Winner & Brave, New, and Weird & EiC @ CHM
Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social English Prof @ University of Denver
Weird books, all genres
rachelfeder.com
Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social I write books and post too many cat pictures. She/her, only.
Autumn A. Griffin @autumnadia.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Urban Ed @ UNC Charlotte
Black Girlhoods | Digital Literacies | ChYA Lit | 500 hr yoga teacher 🍉
sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social Associate Professor @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | #Literacies, #EduSky, #AcademicSky, #BlackSky |she/her| Award-winning author (😆) | website: www.ReadingBlackFutures.com 💖💚
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Rep @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Steven Kapica @sskapica.bsky.social Neurodivergent rhetorician. Driven by distraction and dirty words. The circle must be broken.
Vicky Brewster (they/them) @vickybrewster.bsky.social ✏️Copy & developmental editor, & indexer
👻Gothic, horror & sci-fi academic
🧑🏫 Occasional lecturer & support at Swansea U
🏳️🌈Asexual-agender-panromantic
Joy Sanchez-Taylor @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social Scholar of SFF Literature. Author of Diverse Futures (OSU, 2021) and Dispelling Fantasies (OSU, 2025). Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY). https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215906.html
Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social A journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy. Ed. Alexandra Pierce.
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/
Jay Paredes @jayparedes.bsky.social Wildlife Photographer
South Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism covering Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties in Florida. 🗞️ https://www.sun-sentinel.com/
Madeleine McQuilling @madeleinemcq.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, studying detective fiction
Currently trying to collect my contacts from other platforms
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social American Medieval is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. If America has never been modern, it’s because we’ve always been slightly medieval.
Host @profgabriele.com, part of @multitude.productions
linktr.ee/americanmedievalshow
Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social PhD Ancient History; Gaming the Past (2022), Musings, research, & pedagogies of history, education, games, game design & intersections; High school history teacher; Game Designer; fan of Buddhist compassion; jmc.hst@gmail.com
https://gamingthepast.net
Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social Director of Development at Imperial War Museums. Tolkien Scholar and author Live in Balham London 🏳️🌈
Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com Historian in Tkaronto (Toronto). Likes bats, monsters, sincereposting, alt text, and DEIA. Genderqueer. Trans. Autistic. 40s. 👬 🧛 nicomaramckay.com
There will be typos.
Subscribe for queer and trans culture and histories: patreon.com/ephemeralrecord
Rafaella Marcus @rafaellamarcus.bsky.social Director/writer/dramaturg. JMK Runner Up. Sap (bisexual tree play) 🌿 Rep: LARK. She/they
@gbelliottphd.bsky.social @gbelliottphd.bsky.social 
GIFCon @gifcon.bsky.social Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations is a meeting-place for academics, creative writers, and other fantasy-minded folks (we call them fantasts) to come together and discuss fantastical works in a supportive setting.
#GIFCon2026
@17lands.bsky.social @17lands.bsky.social 
Solvejg Nitzke (sie/she) @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social Plant-Book-Person, academic with a tree-twist, fern-obsessed
Books: Farne. Ein Portrait @ Matthes und Seitz,
Fremde Verwandtschaft. Eine Kulturpoetik der Bäume @ Wallstein Verlag, Making Kin with Trees @ Palgrave
Alex Pheby @alexpheby.bsky.social Writer: GRACE/PLAYTHINGS/LUCIA/MORDEW/MALARKOI/WATERBLACK
Galley Beggar Press and Tor
Forthcoming: THE PICNIC/NOONE/LUMA
Agent: David Godwin david@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk
@sleepship.bsky.social @sleepship.bsky.social Writer, artist, parent.
I write about art in lutruwita at Makeando.art
they/them.
Free Palestine.
Classic SF with Andy Johnson @andyjohnson.xyz Exploring classic science fiction, with a focus on the 1950s to the 1990s. Weekly articles and podcast at andyjohnson.xyz 
Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social Wrote a book about American literature, masculinity, and magazines
https://utorontopress.com/9781487522162/leading-with-the-chin/
He/him
Tobi Ogundiran @tobiogundiran.com Ignyte, British Fantasy award-winning author of GUARDIAN OF THE GODS duology (Tor) • JACKAL, JACKAL (Undertow) • BSFA, Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy award nominee• Rep: Alex Cochran
Cavar 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social transMad & queercrip writer, editor, phd-haver. cooler on goodreads. edits manywor(l)ds.
wrote FAILURE TO COMPLY (featherproof) + DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS (Northwestern UP)
rep: Noah Grey Rosenzweig.
🕸️ www.cavar.club
📖 goodreads.com/cavar
Samuel Poots @pootsidoodle.bsky.social Writer of fiction, TTRPGs and lost to-do lists. PhD Researcher and Writer in Residence at Ulster University.
Published in WFRP, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth RPG, Factor Four and Opulent Syntax
https://samuelpoots.wordpress.com/
Erin Roberts @nirele.bsky.social Game Designer for Dungeons & Dragons. Writing Excuses co-host. Storyteller. She/her. #WotCStaff. Opinions are my own.
writingbyerin.carrd.co
dr. sarah HANNAH gómez @shgmclicious.bsky.social reader | editor | writer | pilates instructor | once librarian | occasional professor | phd (kidlit/cultural studies) | afrolatina jew | she
http://about.me/mclicious- G Gillian Polack @gillianpolack.bsky.social Writer, historian, educator, foodie. Maker of seriously bad jokes.
Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social Writer / Science Fiction / Fantasy / Birds / 🍸
Warhammer 40K Darktide / Black Library Author / Lancaster University Creative Writing Scholarship PhD Candidate 🌈
Principal Investigator: Fair Realms Project (BA/ACE/AHRC funded)
All views her own, she/her
T.O.Munro @tomunro.bsky.social Reviews for www.fantasy-hive.co.uk, creative writing PhD, author of Lady of the Helm, Climate change is REAL, the Fossil fuel industry and its allies are guilty of ecocide. Loves beautiful sunsets & good books! Occasional editor https://tomunroedits.co.uk
Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛♂️🏳️⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social
WARNING: May cause "discomfort & distress" 🏳️⚧️
Dr. Monster (PhD)
E-mail: stevehughwestenra@proton.me
Canadian author of questionable taste. Words in New Edge Sword & Sorcery. Book reviewer. Expert on monsters. HWA. He/him
linktr.ee/SteveWestenra
NO AI
Calvin Coquí @arwainian.bsky.social he/she | bigender snob | second generation nerd | love interest coded
alex 🪐 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social writer of the weird, the creepy, and the hopeful 🦇
#querying my adult genre-blend sci-fi horror
https://linktr.ee/alexwritesstuff?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=b4f8a043-9c34-427d-88b4-cfc4449d8ca0
Grand Admiral Shaun Duke @shaunduke.net SF/F/H writer/editor (The Duke of Editing), Prof of #scifi #writing, podcaster (The Skiffy and Fanty Show)!
Twitch (W/Su 6-8PM Central. Skiffy on Fri 7PM): http://twitch.tv/alphabetstreams
Opinions my own. Things here: https://shaunduke.net/dukethings
A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social Associate Professor, History of Religion. Migrant. Bad at gender, worse at writing bios. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once. Posts mostly in English, ibland på svenska, ובעברית רק כדי לספר בדיחות
Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social Cartographer, podcaster, academic studying wildfire, Q method, and fantasy maps. Settler in Jaödeogë’ (Pittsburgh). They/them.
https://mapsburgh.com
https://carrierbagpodcast.blogspot.com/
https://glittercats.itch.io
Carl Olsen @calleinthesky.bsky.social PhD in Scandinavian Studies, working as a tutor for the moment and painting and writing. More on carlolsen.net and vikingsbooksetc.wordpress.com. Shops at etsy.com/shop/CallePaints and vikingsbooksetc.redbubble.com. IG and YT @callepaints.
HP Bookcraft @hpbookcraft.bsky.social 38. She/they. Folklore, horror, hauntology. Master's in Gothic literature. Keeper of wayward books, editor, and thing that goes bump in the night.
Khitkhite Buri @shinjinidey.bsky.social essayist, lapsed academic, commie propaganda.
👀: @dilettantearmy@LAReviewofBooks @strangehorizons @decolonialhackr +
🏆:@dream_foundry'21
(she/her)
Marisa Mercurio @marmercurio.bsky.social PhD in 19c literature | Acquiring Editor, University of Michigan | (she/they)
Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I wrote a book, ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023). I post about media and environment in approximately equal parts.
🔗 https://JayOwens.me
Casey Wayne Patterson @cwp.bsky.social UMD—>Stanford—>Assistant Prof of Black literary studies at LSU. 5 times winner of witch weekly’s most charming smile award 
Bren Ram phd @brenram.bsky.social <1% of the phds in the United States belong to islanders and one of them is me!!! 🇫🇯 artist, conservationist, apocalypse studies guy, word understander, friend to birds, enjoyer of vertical sports ⛷️🤿🧗♀️ https://linktr.ee/brenmakesthings
Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social John WM Thompson. Shirley Jackson nominated editor (MOONCALVES, 2024). No subversion, only vandalism.
Out east, out west, up north. NO Press is a cute place for books! https://www.no-press.org
Zoe Tongue @whiterxbbit.bsky.social Dr | Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds | abortion, international human rights, animals, science fiction, comics | vegan | bisexual | she/they
Leticia Urieta @leticiaasu.bsky.social (she/her) Tejana writer, teaching artist, editor and mentor. Author of Offerings to a Tumbled Temple with @purpleinkpress.bsky.social & The Remedy is the Disease, forthcoming in 2026 @undertakerbooks.bsky.social
Find my work at: http://linktr.ee/lurieta16
Misha Grifka Wander @mishagw.bsky.social he/they | writer and game designer | american midwest
Dr. U. Whitcher (U. is for Bear) @yarntheory.bsky.social Math, history, science fiction, string theory, games with string.
yarntheory.net
Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social Enthusiastic family historian since 2006; moderator pro tempore at Genealogy & Family History Stack Exchange. http://genealogy.stackexchange.com Fan of F&SF, figure skating, baseball, equestrian sports, cycling. Former bookseller; book junkie.
Michael J Patrick @michaeljpatrick.bsky.social He/Him.
Creator of the dark fairytale podcast ABirdforaHeart.blogspot.com
and Many D&D and other TTRPG things https://rpg-trader.com/creator/51/raccoon-pinion-games
Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social Programmer and SFF reader. Sega fan. Asexual and otherwise queer. She/her. 📚
Caroline @jcarolinet.bsky.social That leftie professor you're supposed to be scared of. (Not actually scary, but considering it.) Interests: useful gardens, subversive spec-fic (and books in general), dragon boats, writing, getting authoritarians out of office.
Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com Neuroscientist, psychologist & science communicator ✨
www.helenahartmann.com
Pain & expectations in the (social) 🧠
Postdoc @ulrikebingel.bsky.social's lab & @SFB-TRR-289.bsky.social 💊
Explaining science with fictional stories 📖 @scienceandfiction.net
Science & Fiction @scienceandfiction.net I am ✨ Science & Fiction ✨ a #scicomm project created by @helenahartmann.com. Fictional short stories that explain the science behind them.
New story monthly.
🇬🇧 www.scienceandfiction.net
🇩🇪 www.scienceandfiction.net/de
#ScienceandFiction #wisskomm
Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Dwarf Stars Award-winning Horror/SF writer. Rhysling finalist, Pushcart nominee.
THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP (Out Now!)
ECHOES AND EMBERS (Out Now!)
THE FIB (Out Now!)
Repped by Peter Steinberg, UTA
www.pedroiniguez.com
John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social award-winning world history teacher, writer, arkansas grad, phd from uva in early medieval things 🗃️ #stlcards 2028
📍ATL
johntrterry.com
Donna Trembinski @medievalatx.bsky.social New to bluesky! Finally leaving the darkside that was twitter.
Who I am:
Professor of Art and Material Culture at STFX
Settler living in Mi'kma'ki, unceded territory
Specialist training in medieval religion and medicine
Student of the global premodern
Andy Bull @f-in-darke.bsky.social Has PhD on medieval Scottish music, is now in a records job. Occasionally plays violin, has cats and rabbits. Generally interested in anything early Scottish. He/him, queer. Mastodon @F_in_Darke@mastodon.scot Twitter F_in_Darke
Vicki Blud @vickiblud.bsky.social Medievalist / writer / editor
(she/her. KingsManorGhost on the bird app)
Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw and others.
Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA award winner, Hugo finalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Etc.
Reading worm.
Opinions mine.
He/him
Katherine Zieman @kzinpoitiers.bsky.social 
Lee Raye @leafyhistory.bsky.social Associate Lecturer, Research Officer, studies medieval/early modern wild animals & plants.
Author, Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife & Creatures of Story and Song.
Secretly a fox? 🦊 Slow worm friend. 🧚🏻🐉 they/them. 🍞🌹
(No access to DMs, email me)
U of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social The University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies hosts one of the largest interdisciplinary medieval studies programs in the world. https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/
ProfPTJ @profptj.bsky.social Professor of International Studies. Prog-rock fan. Whisky hound. Beer and coffee snob. Disney adult. Sci-fi&fantasy nut. Tolkienhead. Singer. Percussionist. Teacher. Jedi. Mk 4:26-29.
Natasha DeHere @cyborgmermaid7.bsky.social Querying fantasy author | 🇹🇹🇺🇸 | NJ | She/Her| Easily manipulated by 80's music | A serious scholar who studies imaginary beings |🖕🏾AI
linktr.ee/cyborgmermaid7
NatashaDeHere@gmail.com
O’Nika Princess Auguste @onikaprincess.bsky.social #consent #bodyautomony #slavery #migration #violence #gender #age #literature #bible #classics #ancienthistory #myth
#socamusic #writinghistoricalfiction #writingfantasy #cooking #poetry #dancing #caribbeanculture https://linktr.ee/princessonikaauguste
J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social sapphic fantasy with very normal levels of angst
Author of The Phoenix and the Sword, The Shoreless River, and The Seaglass Blade
Rep: Bridget Smith
https://linktr.ee/jcsnow
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine @asimovssfmag.bsky.social The world’s leading science fiction magazine. 
BAFTSS Science Fiction & Fantasy SIG @baftss-sff-sig.bsky.social We are the SFF special interest group for
The British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies https://www.baftss.org/science-fiction-and-fantasy.html Posts by @amycchambers.bsky.social
Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social Germ studs prof at Binghamton University (SUNY). I write and teach about German modernism, science fiction, Marx, critical theory, literature, visual studies, Philosophical Anthropology, and other things. In a union (UUP). Opinions my own.
Mochyn 🏴🏳️🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social Welsh medievalist. Dafydd ap Gruffudd apologist. Julian of Norwich obsessive. Boar of Babylon. Castle botherer. Map drawer. Annibyniaeth. Gamer. Horror fan.
He/him.
Gwnewch y pethau bychain.
🍉
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
Matt Zandstra @inflatableink.bsky.social Writer and coder
Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social Writer, phantasist, bon viveur; a litigation support paralegal as needed. Spouse to a cartoonist, parent to an aspiring large-animal veterinarian, four cats and (now) two dogs to be fed on a regular basis. See also @thecityofroses.com
Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social Historian of law, society, and politics in medieval and Tudor England at The Ohio State University | Alumna of the universities of York and Cambridge | Research and publications -> https://history.osu.edu/people/flannigan.15
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
Jess Maginity @jmaginit.bsky.social 
Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, essays & podcasts. Every Monday, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024.
linktr.ee/strangehorizons