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Taj McCoy (she/her) @tajmccoy.bsky.social Author, Literary Agent (open to queries), Higher Ed Consultant, Private Chef… tumbleweed. Author website: https://tajmccoywrites.com Agency website: https://ldlainc.com Rep: https://bsky.app/profile/jemiscoe.bsky.social
Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social Biorisk analyst
WastewaterSCAN @wastewaterscan.bsky.social WastewaterSCAN monitors infectious diseases through municipal wastewater systems across the U.S. to inform local & national public health responses. https://www.wastewaterscan.org/en
Deborah Jeanne Weitzman @deborahjeanne.bsky.social www.deborahjeanne.com I am a singer-songwriter, Alexander Tech. teacher, writer and truth seeker. I lead workshops in Vocal-activation, breath and movement. My new novel: 'The Sinking of the Leonardo di Vinci' comes out spring 2025!
Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher, karenpalmer.com. Memoir SHE'S UNDER HERE (Algonquin Books). NEA, Best American Essays, Pushcart Prize. If I had to choose between reading and eating, I'd be dead in a week. She/her
T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social Back off man, I'm a scientist. Evolutionary biologist. Professor. Genome size, junk DNA, applied evolution, sci comm, philosophy of science. Also political stuff. Plus jokes. Onions have 5x more DNA than you do (not a joke). Vimy, not Vichy. He/him.
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁 www.megireid.com
Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social Data Visualisation and Data Integration specialist - Melbourne, Australia https://linktr.ee/mike_honey_ Support my projects by sponsoring me on Github: https://github.com/sponsors/Mike-Honey
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com. I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007. Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com Signal: mattnovak.11
Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social Teacher. Learner. Investigating mysteries of SARS-CoV-2 evolution. LongDesertTrain on another platform.
Elizabeth Cutler @elizabethcutler.bsky.social Writer, improv teacher/performer, Bachelor(ette) enthusiast. Creative writer | Improv Teacher/Performer/Facilitator | Playwright | Storyteller | Bachelor(ette) Enthusiast | Learn more about the first four: https://www.thisiselizabethcutler.com/
Briallen Hopper @briallenhopper.bsky.social Author of HARD TO LOVE (Bloomsbury) and GILEAD REREAD (Columbia UP, forthcoming). Teaching at Queens College CUNY. Repped by Rob McQuilkin at MMQ&A.
Cara Meredith @carameredithwrites.bsky.social freelance writer, author type, occasional minister, slightly funny human. Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation releases in April! Oakland, CA.
Sofia Perez @sofia-perez.bsky.social Writer, editor, New Yorker, https://sofia-perez.com // Words in BBC Travel, CNTraveler, Forbes, LitHub, Saveur, Travel+Leisure // ‘24 Sustainability Award (for Spain reporting), ‘23 ASJA Writing Awards Finalist // Beats: food/drink, travel, art, eco-issues
Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social Author of Bellwether: A Telephone Operator, a Landmark Court Case, and the Women Whose Voices Connected a Nation (Union Square March 2027). History and culture writer. Words in The Atlantic, NPR, Salon, Washington Post. she/her
@annareisman @annareisman.bsky.social Primary care doctor, professor of medicine, critical medical humanities, flute player, writer (bylines include NEJM, Slate, NYT, Atlantic). www.annareisman.com
Katherine Schaefer @klschaefer.bsky.social Writer of creative nonfiction, memoir, and short stories.
Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com I report on the publishing industry through my paid newsletter, The Bottom Line, and educate writers on the business of authorship in THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press).
Stevie Trujillo 💙🦋💃🏽 @stevietrujillo.bsky.social Writer, mama, American dreamer in despair. Fighting the good fight with words in The NYT, The Guardian, WaPo, Huff Post, Salon, Vogue, etc. Drove The World's Longest Road. Resides in Spain. Huge crush on FDR. Votes BLUE 💙 Born + raised in L.A
Jenna Flanagan @jflannys.bsky.social Journalist - Podcaster - Creator Laid Off and Looking Podcast https://soundcloud.com/laidoffandlooking-podcast
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
Mesa @mesafama.bsky.social Writer with words in The New York Times, Substack, and The Mighty. Currently writing a memoir- “Let the Words Fall Out” Find me on Substack for more of my work: mesafama.substack.com
Sally Chaffin Brooks @thesallybrooks.bsky.social Author (memoir Going to Maine: All the Ways to Fall on the Appalachian Trail https://a.co/d/4F70waz ) comedian (albums Street Bird & Brooks Was Here), podcaster (The Ridiculist). Here to party. sallychaffinbrooks.com
Ellen Sheng @ellensheng.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Content strategist. 2x WSJ alum. Mom to boys and cats. Indoor enthusiast. ellensheng.com
Harley Rustad @harleyrustad.com Senior editor @thewalrus.ca: harley@thewalrus.ca Author of LOST IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH (2022) and BIG LONELY DOUG (2018) Founder @portrenfrewwritersretreat.com harleyrustad.com
Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social I do advocacy for public good, communications, problem solving, and sometimes I get people elected. She/her. 📍Treaty 7 Territory (Calgary, Canada) (Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not reflect the views or opinions of my employer.)
Infectious Disease Tracker @hmpxvt.bsky.social Infectious disease news. Sharing reports on outbreaks, from bird flu to Ebola. Now on Substack :) https://outbreakanalyst.substack.com/
Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social Associate Professor of OBGYN. MFM Clinician-Researcher (placenta & cardiometabolic health) at Western University, London (the one in Ontario) Striving to become the kind of woman my ancestors would have shunned & excommunicated. Opinions are my own.
Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social Mother, wife, Australian, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb. She/her 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social I cover infectious diseases for STAT (www.statnews.com). 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. I write about H5N1 (in all species), Covid, polio, flu, Ebola, RSV, mpox, STIs. Send me news tips on Signal: HBranswell.01
Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social Science communicator & writer ✍🏼 🧬 MSc epidemiology grad student @ LSHTM Activist 📍Vancouver, BC
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social truth, science, hope
Island Social Trends @islandsocialtrends.bsky.social Island Social Trends is a longstanding independent regional & national news publication on south #VancouverIsland, BC (series since 2008); editor & publisher Mary P Brooke. #News analysis to support readers who think for themselves. IslandSocialTrends.ca
NBC News @nbcnews.com News updates from around the 🌎, all day, every day.
Sirena Bergman @sirenabergman.bsky.social Life & Trends editor at Newsweek. Frequently explaining the internet. Tips+pitches: s.bergman@newsweek.com
Anne Panning @apanning.bsky.social Professor of English, Creative Writing, SUNY-Brockport Books: Super America (Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction). Butter (novel) Dragonfly Notes: On Distance & Loss (memoir) The Price of Eggs (short fiction) Spit & Glitter (poetry, forthcoming)
Kimberly Mack @drkimberlymack.bsky.social Memoirist. Music Critic. English Professor. Food and wine enthusiast. #binders
Anesce Dremen 许梦安 @anescedremen.bsky.social Anesce Dremen is a U.S. writer and educator often found with a tea cup in hand, traveling between the U.S., China, and India. Fulbright, Critical Language Scholarship, & Gilman alumna AnesceDremen.com
Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social Also known as @CatchTheBaby on Twitter OBGYN physician, innovator, baker Weekly newsletter at https://drruth.substack.com/ #Medsky #LongCOVID
Shelley Buck @shelleybuck.bsky.social Author. From Amherst to Oregon via everywhere. Books: FLOATING POINT, EAST, INDIA BOUND #cnf #travel Photos on IG: shelleybuckauthor
Melissa @melissafirman.bsky.social Writer of things. Memoir in progress. Avid reader. GenX'er. Philly girl in Pgh. #Woolfer. Opinions here and everywhere = mine.
Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social celebrating, promoting, & nurturing mama writing & writers at https://literarymama.com/ since 2003 Podcast, This Mama Is Lit! at: https://literarymama.substack.com/s/this-mama-is-lit Subscribe for our newsletter at: https://literarymama.substack.com
Amy ☀️ @amygrier.bsky.social https://amygrier.substack.com Writer, classical pianist, singer, dog-lover, traveler. Writing memoir about surviving childhood abuse and family estrangement. Living with chronic blood cancer for 30+ years. I am hard to kill and I look fabulous.
Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist / Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Biology, Next Generation Proteomics, Liquid Biopsy, SynBio, AI/ML in biotech // http://albertvilella.substack.com
Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social An online writing community with classes, events and more with @shastagrant.bsky.social and @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social https://www.brownbaglit.com
M Morgan Baker @morganbaker.bsky.social Author of Emptying the Nest: Getting Better at Goodbyes, Essayist, Writer, Teacher, Dog lover, Wife, Mother, Quilter.....
Jessica Gigot @jessicagigot.bsky.social 📚 A LITTLE BIT OF LAND & FEEDING HOUR Her Deepest Ecologies Podcast Any and all 🎾 news! https://jessicagigot.com/ https://herdeepestecologies.substack.com/
Melissa Fraterrigo @mfraterrigo.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Founder Lafayette Writers' Studio University of Nebraska Press Indiana Review The Millions https://linktr.ee/lafwritersstudio/
Jayne Warren @jaynecw1119.bsky.social Writer working on my first memoir about my mental illness (and yes McLean does actually have tunnels!). Points of you get that reference! Essays published in Seventh Wave, works of poetry in Doubleback Review and Plainsongs!
Merlisa @merlisa.com Award-winning journalist and author of the book: Serena Williams: Tennis Champion, Sports Legend and Cultural Heroine. Contributor to Forbes. Creator of Courtside Coffee Substack, highly-caffeinated tennis coverage. https://courtsidecoffee.substack.com/
Char Wilkins @charwilkins.bsky.social Writer. Unraveling and stitching understanding with threads of compassion. Essays and memoir-in-progress. Learning craft from generous, supportive teachers in a vibrant community of women writers.
New England Review @newenglandreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College since 1978. https://www.nereview.com/
Suzette Mullen @suzettem.bsky.social Authenticity is worth the cost and it’s never too late for a new beginning. Author of The Only Way Through Is Out (U Wisconsin Press, 2024), a midlife coming-out and coming-of-age story. Speaker, book coach, LGBTQ+ advocate, boy mom, yogi.
Nicole Graev Lipson @nglipson.bsky.social Author of MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS (coming March 4, 2025) | Best American Essays 2024 | Pushcart Prize | Words in The Sun, Virgina Quarterly Review, LA Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe + more www.nicolegraevlipson.com
Randye Sundel @wryrandye.bsky.social A New York Times published author, lyricist, and actress/singer. Advocate for family caregivers and those living with grief. Woman working to empower other women. Member of Binders Full of Memoirists.
Carolyn @ampayingattention.bsky.social dog/cat mom, raindrop dodger
Megan Reilly @meganreilly.bsky.social Award-winning lighting and media designer for theater, dance, and immersive experiences. USA 829. www.meganreillydesign.com
Muffy Bolding @muffybolding.bsky.social Mother. Writer. Director. Suffragette. Witch. Knitter. Embroiderix. Cummari. Chingona. Siciliana. Latina. Filipina. Lyin’ Whore. Trollop. Shitkicker. Thief. Withered Debutante. “Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of my stature.”
Kelly what’s left of a real cool chick Thompson @tnwwyatnw.bsky.social They would not listen, they did not know how. There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was) ™ https://thompsonk.substack.com/about Born&raised2x2 #religioustrauma @LAReviewOfBooks @GuernicaMag @BOMB Founding editor #VoicesOnAddiction @TheRumpus.net
Heather Lanier @heatherklanier.bsky.social Essayist, poet, TED Speaker, thrift store shopper. BOOKS: Raising a Rare Girl (New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice) & Psalms of Unknowing: Poems. Work in Longreads, The Sun, Atlantic. Writing Prof @RowanU. Trying to be more human, not superhuman.
Lisa Levy @lisalevywrites.bsky.social Critic. Essayist. Style maven. Chronic Migraineur and Patient Advocate. Lover of reality TV, fancy notebooks, and vintage dresses. WIP FUNERAL IN MY BRAIN: A BIOGRAPHY OF MIGRAINE (St Martin’s).
SueWSilverman @suewsilverman.bsky.social Write memoir and essays. "How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences." Co-chair of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. I love irony, metaphors, obsessions. Recovering from election.
MVanstrom @mdv400.bsky.social #NYSMasterNaturalist, Certified #PollinatorSteward, documenter, #writer of #prosepoems & micro #lyric-essays. Words in Kerning, Quadrangle, Writers’ Review, and others, Chautauqua Prize reader. #Binders #SundaySentence #AMasterNaturalistMinute
Emily Brisse @emilybrisse.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Dreamer. Presence and positivity (not the toxic kind). 💫 Words in NYT, Washington Post, The Sun, Parents, CSM, River Teeth, & CNF’s True Story. Oh, and on whiteboards. 🍎 @emilybrisse on Insta ✔️
Eileen Vorbach Collins @eileenvcollins.bsky.social Essayist, author of Love in the Archives, a Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss. Lover of dogs, cats, and bugs that might make me scream. Binders
Debbie Weingarten @cactuswrenwriter.bsky.social writer, editor, coffee, thunderstorms, introvert, sonoran desert --> western nc, former vegetable farmer, currently writing about organic seeds and writing a book.
Danna Schmidt @dannadschmidt.bsky.social Writer. Ceremonialist. End-of-Life Navigator. Medical Aid in Dying advocate. Wife. Mother. Abolitionist. Adoptee. Survivor. Other duties as assigned. (Seeking rep for memoir); https://altaredmoments.substack.com/
Eleanor Vincent @eleanorpvincent.bsky.social Memoirs DISCONNECTED and SWIMMING WITH MAYA, member of the Writers Grotto, Left Margin Lit, and Memoir Binders.
Heather Sweeney @heathersweeney.bsky.social Author of CAMOUFLAGE (Post Hill Press, Oct 2025). Bylines: NYT, WashPo, TODAY, HuffPost, Newsweek, Business Insider, Good Housekeeping, Next Avenue, Brevity, etc. Pre-order CAMOUFLAGE: http://posthill.to/B0F316HJTD/
Brenna Humphreys @brennahums.bsky.social I write fiction and nonfiction, play tennis, walk my giant dog, cheer on my amazing kids, and own a business. I'm writing about my husband's prostate cancer journey at https://brennahumphreys.substack.com/
Jennifer Matesa, LCSW, MFA @matesa.bsky.social Psychotherapist. Author/Binders. Artist. Student of Portuguese. "Gentileza gera gentileza" = Kindness begets kindness (carioca saying)
Estelle Erasmus @estelleserasmus.bsky.social TEDx Speaker. Author, WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED. NYU writing prof. Contrib. Editor, Writer’s Digest. Freelance Writing Direct podcast host. Award-winning journalist with bylines in The New York Times, Washington Post, Slate + https://EstelleSErasmus.com
Author Karina Dahl-Olsen @karinadahlolsen.bsky.social Im a mother of two, suffering from Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. From 2020 to 2023 my family went on a sail around the world to make memories before my body is too disabled, but the journey took some unexpected turns. I wrote a book about it.
Nancy Balbirer @nancybalbirer.bsky.social Writer. Sometime Actor. Cinephile. Author of 3 books: Take Your Shirt Off and Cry; A Marriage in Dog Years; Almost Romance. Gen X but not mope-y. Libra. Leopard-print enthusiast. She/Her.
@phoebepatten.bsky.social @phoebepatten.bsky.social Writer of creative nonfiction
Nancy E Newman @nancyen.bsky.social Essayist, former family therapist and gardener; wife, mom, grandma, feminist socialist, dual citizen of Canada and California.
Casey Mulligan Walsh @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social THE FULL CATASTROPHE memoir, Motina Feb 25 | In a Flash founding editor | ✍️@nytimes @HuffPost @nextavenue @splitlipthemag etc. | @familyheartfdn amb/board ♥️ | Grief & joy walk hand in hand 🤝
M. Terry Bowman @mterrybowman.bsky.social Occupational therapist & manager in mental health here. Writer & poet there. Traveler, photographer, foodie, cinephile, friend, & Severance addict everywhere. (she/her)
Jeannine Ouellette @jeannineouellette.bsky.social I write and I teach. I wrote The Part That Burns, and I write Writing in the Dark on Substack, and both are dreams come true. Doing language together is the best. Otherwise, I'm a super fun Nana, an avid dog lover, and a helluva gluten-free baker.
Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social Writer, artivist, teacher, culture disruptor Substack bestseller w/ the Feral Stack https://open.substack.com/pub/summerisferal
Allison Wallis @awallis.bsky.social Journalist Disability Rights Clippings.me/allisonwallis I also sell vintage jewelry! https://www.ebay.com/usr/northshorealohavintage (I alt text when I don't have a bad headache. Sometimes I can't.)
Jane Ratcliffe @janeratcliffe.bsky.social Newsletter: Beyond, series of author interviews with today's greatest heart-centered minds. https://janeratcliffe.substack.com Words in The Sun Magazine, O, the Oprah Magazine, Creative Nonfiction https://janeratcliffe.com Dog/kitty mama. Beekeeper Boxer
Elizabeth Kadetsky @ekadetsky.bsky.social 2025 NEH Public Scholars fellow, 2024 MacDowell fellow, Fulbrighter to India, recent work in Colorado Review, American Scholar, Chicago Quarterly Review. NER nonfiction Ed.
Rebecca Swanson @rebeccalswanson.bsky.social ND writer. Words at NYT, WashPo, Boston Globe and more. Repped by Sara Crowe at Sara Crowe Literary.
Heidi Croot @heidicroot.bsky.social An editor with and contributing writer to the Brevity Blog. Memoir in progress. Occasional developmental editor. Recovering corporate writer. Trading out Twitter for Bluesky and books. Favourite thing: taking my journal on cappuccino dates.
Natalie Pascale Boisseau @npboisseau.bsky.social Writer - Ecrivaine. Montreal -Seattle Acupuncture. Récit. Traduction. CNF, poetry, memoir. Trauma, adolescence. Publications: Les Ecrits des Forges, Raven Chronicles, Isele Magazine, Crab Creek
Jen Gilman Porat @jengilmanporat.bsky.social Writer of personal essays & memoir. Driven by uncertainty. Obsessed with time and memory. Bucket List: Dance with John Travolta.
Aisha Sultan @aishas.bsky.social columnist @stltoday.com, indie filmmaker, writer, mom
Michele Filgate @readandbreathe.bsky.social Writer. Editor of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (2019) and WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (May 2025). www.michelefilgate.com
birukti @biruktiwrites.bsky.social 'brick-tea.' author. TOO PRETTY TO LIE with viking/PRH. rep: jennifer march soloway. 🍉 linktree: https://shorturl.at/b9sAh
LaVonne Roberts @lavonne.bsky.social Leads the Scott-Morgan Foundation, proving that disability barriers are engineering problems. Writes for NYT, WIRED, TIME. Forbes Under 30 scout. Speaker & moderator on AI ethics.
Ruth Laney @ruthlaney.bsky.social Author of CHERIE QUARTERS: THE PLACE AND THE PEOPLE THAT INSPIRED ERNEST J. GAINES. Former stringer for People Magazine. Fan of libraries, vertical files, Oxford comma. Collector of books, magazines, and art. Drive a stick shift.
Sally Jane Smith, Travel Author @journeysinpages.bsky.social Book 1 - Unpacking for Greece (Winner of the Greek-Australian Cultural League’s 2024 Book Award for Prose in English) Book 2 - Repacking for Greece #Binders she/her www.linktr.ee/SallyJaneSmith Writes on Darkinyung/Guringai land
Suzanne Clores @suzanneclores.bsky.social Writer + Podcast Creator. Mystery Chaser. Webby Award Honoree. Ingo Swann Research Fellow. Words in NYT, NPR, Salon, Hypertext Magazine, ASP Bulletin. Exec Producer of www.theextraordinaryproject.net part of the Spectrevision Radio Network