Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
Read us: https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/
Email us: ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Clare Doornbos @claredoornbos.bsky.social Kids' book expert bookseller. Some time crooner. Knitting icon. Mom of a grown up. 
Angela J Reynolds @angelajrey.bsky.social Kidlit Author, librarian, picture book enthusiast, fabric artist, folk tales & witchy stuff. she/her
Instagram: Picturebookpile_Angela 🇨🇦
Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social writer | translator | friend | out now: THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY | HOMESICK | up next: NOTES ON POSTCARDS | croftwork.net | https://bookshop.org/lists/books-i-ve-translated-or-written
Leilani Clark @leilaniclark.bsky.social Writing about freeways in East L.A, living off the 101 in Northern California. Published at The Guardian, The Rumpus, Civil Eats, Mother Jones, KQED, Coyote Media. Day job: environmental nonprofit comms manager.
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
USBBY @usbby.bsky.social The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) is a nonprofit organization devoted to building bridges of international understanding through children's and young adult books. 
Ellen Myrick @libraryellen.bsky.social Library advocate, and children’s book enthusiast, cat fancier, history geek, nature lover
Republic of Consciousness Prize (US & Canada) @usrofc.bsky.social The Republic of Consciousness Prize is dedicated to supporting small presses in the USA & Canada. Learn more at https://www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/.
Paula Holmes @qsprite.bsky.social Reader & occasional blogger of #WorldKidLit, huge fan of Finnish translations, beginner weaver, library advocate, magpie
Roman Mars @romanmars.bsky.social Creator of 99% Invisible, Trump Con Law, A History of the US in 100 Objects, Power Broker Breakdown- http://99pi.org
TEDTalk on flags w/ over 7M views
NYT Bestseller The 99% Invisible City: http://99pi.org/book
East Bay, CA
Alum: Oberlin, Simon's Rock, UGA
Point Reyes Books @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social "The best nature and environmental bookstore in the U.S." -- William duBuys
Tamál-Húye | Marin County, CA | www.ptreyesbooks.com 
Berkeleyside @berkeleyside.org Award-winning nonprofit local news provider in Berkeley, California. Powered by Cityside Journalism Initiative.
Robin Moger @robinmoger.bsky.social L'Hospitalet de Llobregat- R Mandana @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social Founder/Editor-in-Chief, Nowruz Journal
Editor-at-Large, Chicago Review of Books
Board Member, National Book Critics Circle/VP Barrios Book in Translation Prize
President of the Board, The Flow Chart Foundation
زنان. زندگی. آزادی
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
David DeGusta @davidwrites1.bsky.social Writer / fiction / Iowa Writers’ Workshop / MacDowell / Yaddo | Ethiopia / literary translation from Amharic | Previously a paleoanthropologist.
www.davidwrites.net
Translator of the Ethiopian novel Oromay by Baalu Girma.
www.davidwrites.net/oromay
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
John Schu @mrschureads.bsky.social Librarian. NYT Bestselling Author. | LOUDER THAN HUNGER, RUTHIE ROSE’S BIG IDEA, THE GIFT OF STORY, THIS IS A SCHOOL, THIS IS A STORY | Agent: Molly O'Neill
Lauren LeBlanc @laurenleblanc.bsky.social Writer, critic, National Book Critics Circle board member
She/Her
Formerly: Alfred A. Knopf, Atlas & Co, Penguin Random House Digital, Times-Picayune, Guernica, Brooklyn Book Festival
Chapel Hill, NC
Two Dollar Radio HQ @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social Indie bookstore/bar/vegan restaurant in Columbus, OH. 🌴
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social Sharing news about kids books from international publishers and domestic library and teacher conferences https://www.publisherspotlight.com
KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social 📻 KQED's daily news call-in program, 9-11 AM on 88.5FM.
🎙️ Co-hosted by Alexis Madrigal (9-10 AM hour) and Mina Kim (10-11 AM hour).
💬 Replies may be used on air.
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Alexander Wells @ajbwells.bsky.social Freelance critic/essayist from Aus with bylines at Guardian, Drift, Baffler, European Review of Books, Meanjin, etc. Ex-Berliner Books editor, now at The Auflauf
https://sites.google.com/view/ajbwells
Josh Rothes @joshuarothes.bsky.social Writer, editor, worker. Thinks a lot about moving books around. Founder at Asterism.
Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social Catalogued as high modernist for expediency’s sake. AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS (Dalkey) APHASIA (FSG) REVOLUTIONARIES TRY AGAIN (Coffee House Press).
Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social • Author of SURRENDER (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018) & GREYHOUND (Fitzcarraldo Editions & Soft Skull Press, 2025).
• Words in Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman, TLS, The Nation, etc...
• Creative Writing tutor at the University of the Arts, London.
Paul Wilson @bibliopaul.bsky.social Co-host of The Mookse And The Gripes podcast with @mookse | 2023 @USRofC judge | Slowly and happily burying myself in books
Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social avid reader w/focus on womxn writers • virgo sun sagittarius moon • my library is an archive of longings • feminist #NYRBWomen26 #SundaySarton #AContinuation
Pacific Coast • joiedevivre9.com
Joyelle McSweeney @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social Poet, critic, publisher 
Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social Books and Film | The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast with @bibliopaul.bsky.social | 2017 Best Translated Book Award Judge
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
A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness.bsky.social essayist + critic + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites) ⎔ Critic in Residence at IDM-NYU ⎔ THESE NEW FRAGILITIES coming in 2028 from Seven Stories Press
avmarraccini.com
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social An independent publishing house devoted to fiction and narrative nonfiction from around the world.
Dan Wagstaff @danwagstaff.bsky.social Books and stuff. Manager of expectations. Toronto. He/him.
www.casualoptimist.com
Shuchi Saraswat @saraswat-s.bsky.social writer︱senior editor of AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/shuchisaraswat
Manuel Marsol @manuelmarsol.bsky.social Autor de álbum ilustrado / en Fulgencio Pimentel / otros libros en Sexto Piso, Nórdica o Alma / cubiertas en Anagrama, Babelia ElPaís, Libros del KO, Barrett / fui BlogerDeNiro 🤠⚽️
www.manuelmarsol.com
instagram: @manuelmarsol
John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social I write about books and edit others’ writing about books, previously for NY Times and Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. (Photo: Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, 2018.)
And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social Not-for-profit press led by readers, writers & translators. Consider subscribing to help us take publishing risks. http://andotherstories.org/subscriptions/
Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social London-based independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies & interdisciplinary projects, committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature.
https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/
Mekong Review @mekongreview.com A quarterly magazine of arts, literature, culture, politics, the environment and society in Asia, written by people from the region or those who know it well.
Subscribe: https://mekongreview.com/subscribe/
Newsletter: https://bit.ly/mekongreviewweekly
Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social Author & Literary Translator | Deputy Editor, Sydney Review of Books.
I am not very active here!
http://tiffanytsao.com
Emily Tarr @emilytarr.bsky.social Lots of books, tennis, and a little dog too
Cercador Prize (2025) Chair 👩🏻⚖️
@thankyoubooks.bsky.social
📍 Birmingham, AL
Anthony Garrett @anthonygarrett.bsky.social novelist, editor @atmosphericquarterly.com
National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature since 1974.
bookcritics.org
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
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
John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social Library Director, POETS HOUSE; Co-Chief Art Critic, CULTURED Magazine
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
http://linktr.ee/The_Rumpus2.1
PGC Books @pgcbooks.bsky.social Canadian distributors of the best in independent publishing. Part of the Raincoast Distribution Group. 🇨🇦
www.raincoastgroup.com 
Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social The Whiting Foundation provides support for writers, editors, educators, and the librarians and archivists who preserve our shared cultural heritage. www.whiting.org
Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com Two Lines Press is a book publisher committed to daring and original literature in translation. We're part of @catranslation.org. Browse our books at www.catranslation.org/books/.
@sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social Sandorf Passage publishes work that creates a prismatic perspective on what it means to live in a globalized world. It is a home to writing inspired by both conflict zones and the dangers of complacency.
https://sandorfpassage.org
Open Letter Books @openletterbooks.bsky.social Publishing world voices that are extraordinary and influential, works that we hope will become the classics of tomorrow!
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social Book*hug Press is a radically optimistic Canadian-owned publisher working at the forefront of contemporary book culture.🍁
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
electricliterature.com
Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social Award-winning independent literary press.
Read independently. https://linktr.ee/biblioasis_books
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com a podcast about Japanese fiction + some of its best works | posting updates on new Japanese fiction | apologies for the typos | blocking new follows that look like bots | DON’T buy or read AI translations | all stories are political
@worldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social 🌟non-profit helping readers of all age discover diverse, translated and global children's books and YA
🌟anti-racism through reading
🌟year round, and especially September #WorldKidLitMonth
🌟posts by teacher Ruth and translator Sarah
The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social Online lit mag. Authoring change. From the people who built these cities.
theoffingmag.com
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨
sevenstories.com
Honford Star @honfordstar.bsky.social Publisher of translated East Asian fiction 🌟 Buy our books/ebooks direct at http://honfordstar.com 🌟 Sign up to our newsletter: https://t.co/v9Oozdt652
Charco Press @charcopress.com Award-winning publisher of outstanding Latin American literature. Edinburgh.
charcopress.com
Sublunary Editions @sublunary.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Seattle, WA, devoted to small books of unmissable writing.
Anita Felicelli @anitafelicelli.bsky.social author of the short story collection HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and other works of fiction. books editor at Alta Journal, critic, essayer.
Lissie Jaquette @lissiejaquette.bsky.social Executive Director at Words Without Borders | Arabic translator, most recently of Adania Shibli's MINOR DETAIL, and of works by Rania Mamoun, Basma Abdel Aziz, Dima Wannous & more
Mendocino Coast Writer's Conference @mcwconf.bsky.social mcwc.org
A vibrant, inclusive literary gathering in Mendocino, California with workshops in a wide range of genres, as well as seminars, open mic events, and one-on-one consultations.
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.
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social Some things I do: write (Sarabande, Jonathan Cape/Random House, Dzanc), translate (Soho Press, Serpent’s Tail), teach, read, bind, photograph. Ideal job: walking around looking at stuff. Photos mine unless otherwise noted, e.g. profile tintype by Amy Güth.
Shook @shxxk.bsky.social Poet/Translator/Hairless dog enthusiast
Newt Beach, CA
James @exhaustdata.bsky.social Thumbs down
Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social Author, THE BOX, DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
www.mandysuzannewong.com
🌊
Laurence Laluyaux @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social Literary agent at RCW
Needs coffee
Chris Fischbach @fishmpls.bsky.social Literary agent @ Fischbach Creative; former publisher at Coffee House Press (25 year tenure); board member, MN Prison Writing Workshop, etc. Mr. Nobody from Nowhere.
Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social Wrote FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE / DUST SUCKER, translate German lit, publish Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Tutor, Granta Writers’ Workshop. www.jencalleja.com
Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social translator of Italian &c. “irresistibly drawn by a web of thrilling daydreams awash on a shore of panic”. 🇮🇹 🇬🇷
Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social Literary translator from the Italian: Michele Mari (Verdigris and You, Bleeding Childhood), Lalla Romano (A Silence Shared and In Farthest Seas), Walter Siti (Paradise Overload)
Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social Literary translator from German to English, occasional publisher, Berlin lover, appreciator of wallets on chains. She/her.
Photo © Nane Diehl
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
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.
Join here for free: https://www.altaonline.com/california-book-club/
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social A book prize celebrating writing by women translated into English. Winner announced 27th November 2025. From SCAPVC at the University of Warwick. Posts by Holly Langstaff.
Mireille Juchau @mireillejuchau.bsky.social Writer, Critic. The World Without Us (Bloomsbury), Burning In (Giramondo). Essays here and there. Researching archives, dreams and war.
www.mireillejuchau.com
Erika Stevens @estevens.bsky.social Indie lit person; formerly literary agent with Salky Literary Management and editorial director of Coffee House Press.
Lizzie Davis @lizziedavis.bsky.social Editor and rights manager at Transit Books. Translator from Spanish and Italian (next up: Daniela Tarazona, Pilar Fraile, Begoña Gómez Urzaiz).
Katie Heindl @wtevs.bsky.social basketballfeelings.com
NBA TV, The Association
Writer: NYT Magazine, SLAM, Rolling Stone, Ringer, The Believer, Yahoo Sports, SB, NBA dot com, Dime, VICE, few more.
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social Fiercely independent bookstore in Cambridge and Boston, MA
https://linktr.ee/portersqbooks
Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social Irish writer. Leonard and Hungry Paul, Panenka, Ghost Mountain. Richard Heart Julianne out in summer 2027
www.ronanhession.com
Music as Mumblin' Deaf Ro https://mumblindeafro.bandcamp.com/
Jason Kincade @jasonkincade.bsky.social Partner at Parson Weems. Sweary Gay. Semi-sentient mirrorball. Book slinger, occasional DJ, Balearic bod, rave veteran, disco enthusiast.
Brad Johnson @ahablives.bsky.social A part of the Twitter Diaspora.
Also run East Bay Booksellers in Oakland, CA - @ebbooksellers.bsky.social