Mary Jane Lange @maryjanelange.bsky.social Wine lover, tree hugger, children's book author-illustrator, middle/high school art teacher in Paris.
California (native) 🐻
France (adoptee) 🐓
https://serendipiti.myportfolio.com/
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Ashley Gayle @ashleygwritespb.bsky.social •Writing picture books for the kid in all of us
•✨PB Rising Stars Mentee 2024 ✨
Kinsey @poor-artist.bsky.social Illustrator, novice handler (dog show), clown enthusiast
BookishPerseus @bookish-perseus.bsky.social 22yrs
Book Count: 2002
TBR: 6770
2026 Reading Challenge: 171/200
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Sue (Susan Uhlig) she/her @susanuhlig.bsky.social Married. Children's Author. Writing PB, MG, some YA. Kidlit. SCBWI Regional Advisor Emerita. Former Institute of Children’s Literature Instructor.
I write helps & book recs on my site susanuhlig.com.
WA state. Owned by cat.
Sarah Wheeler @sarahsart.bsky.social Artist • Illustrator
Member of SCBWI
@whatchudrawing.bsky.social @whatchudrawing.bsky.social 
Beehandi @beehandi.bsky.social She/her
Kidlit Illustrator/ writer.
Insta @bhandiillustration
http://www.bhandiboe.com
Catholic 😂, wife 😊, mom of 3 🤪 ADHD and ASD 💖🎨💪🎧 SCBWI IC MD/DE/WV
kocona @kocona.bsky.social 🐚Picture books| Illustration
🚂Hop on!
Michelle Jing Chan (she/her) 🌈 @michellejingchan.bsky.social ✏️ 🎨 Kidlit Author-Illustrator
💜 Rep: @jemiscoe.bsky.social
📚2025: PRIDE, 100 DAYS, WEIWEI'S WINTER SOLSTICE
💻 https://linktr.ee/michellejingchan
Sara Holly Ackerman @sarahollyackerman.bsky.social children's book author of THE GABI THAT GIRMA WORE (Little, Brown 2024), NOT JUST THE DRIVER (Beach Lane Books, April 9, 2024), CHALLAH FOR SHABBAT TONIGHT (Fall 2024), school librarian
Lian Cho @liantomato.bsky.social Author and illustrator of many goofy books.
I won an award and I won’t shut up about it.
I also run a newsletter about my silly life.
Jackie Morera (she/her) @jmorerabooks.bsky.social Latina author of IN CASE OF LAS MOSCAS (9/8/26), TOGETHER WE REMEMBER, ABUELO’S FLOWER SHOP, and more!
Carrie Logsdon McCullough @zoodocwrites.bsky.social Mom, Grammy, retired zoo dentist, kidlit author, Regional Advisor #SCBWI Ohio Central & South, #12x12, #CtC, #STA, #PBRisingStar mentee ‘24&’25, PBRS Collective, Back in the query trenches carrielogsdonmccullough.com
Amy R. Murrell @amyrmurrellauthor.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist; Author, Member of the Authors' Guild, SCBWI, Mighty KidLit, 12x12, Storyteller Academy, Children’s Book Academy , and more :)
Maliha Sheikh @malihasheikh.bsky.social Mom to Humans, Dogs, and Cats, Psychologist and KidLit Author
#12X12, #SCBWI NJ
Board Member of Women Who Write, Inc.
Vivian Kirkfield's *50 Words* Honorable Mention 2026
Anya-Kaye @afrancis211.bsky.social Picture book creator. Woman of God. Former School Counselor. Disabled Vet. Wheelchair operator 🦽👩🏾🦽➡️♿️ Living by faith 🐝🐝🐝 DST 🔺🐘
Jackie @jackieyacky.bsky.social 🌟 Jackie (they/he/she) 🌈💕
✏️ Storyboard artist, 2D animator, Illustrator
🔗 https://linktr.ee/jackie_yacky
🧶 Crafter and plant lover 🌱
😷 Chronically Ill
🖖 Trekkie
🪲Shop: @discobeetle.bsky.social
🐭 Personal project: @spriggeandsprout.bsky.social
Shuba Mohan @shubamohan.bsky.social Writer, wanderer, and wonderer
Shaunessy Sinnett @shsinnett.bsky.social #KidLitWriter/SCBWI/12x12 • Published in Little Thoughts Press • ‘24-25 Winner Halloweensie, #KidLitChuckleChallenge & SunWriteFun • ‘25 HM #50PreciousWords & Valentiny • Performer: Riverdance
Susan @sburdorf.bsky.social Member of 12x12 PB Writing Challenge; The Writer’s Sanctuary; Ebony Lynn Mudd’s PB Retreat; published author; collector of socks; herder of cats. Welcome to my world.
Cheri Thriver @cherithriver.bsky.social Always curious. Writer. #PBRisingStarsCollective #12x12PB #amquerying #kidlit Recipe developer. Product designer. Funma! (she/her) Blog: http://cooking2thrive.com
Jerrold Connors @jerroldconnors.bsky.social 
Kate Allen Fox @kateallenfox.bsky.social #kidlit author:
🍃PANDO (SLJ ⭐) Capstone, 2021
🌖A FEW BEAUTIFUL MINUTES (Kirkus ⭐/ PW ⭐) LBYR, 2023
🔥WINTER SOLSTICE WISH, Beaming Books, 2024
Kailei Pew @kaileipewbooks.bsky.social Children’s Book Author
THE MONSTER ABOVE THE BED
KID-VENTORS
I SEE COLOR
Repped by Emily Forney of Bookends Lit
kaileipewbooks.com
Ebony Lynn Mudd (she/her) @ebonylynnmudd.bsky.social PEOPLE Magazine ✨ featured author
🎤 Just Like Tina (PRH • Jan 27th)
🌊Swim Like Them (S&S)
🩰 Junior Takes a Leap (Scholastic)
Now booking school visits for Black History Month ‘26 + beyond.
🌸Website: www.ebonylynnmudd.com
📚PB Courses: www.thepbretreat.com
Andrew Allsop @allsopsfables.bsky.social Children’s book author, #PBParty Finalist ’25, #PBRisingStars Mentee ’23, WriteHive Mentee ’24, member of SCBWI, repped by @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social at Bradford Literary Agency.
Liz Lazar (she/her) @lizlazarlit.bsky.social #PB writer, former reading teacher, boy & dog mama, 🎶 & 🌎 lover. Highlights/Boyds Mills Scholarship Winner 2026, #12x12 Scholarship Winner 2025 & 2024, #PBParty HM 2024, #PBRisingStars Mentee 2023, #SCBWI #KidLit #CBA #LyricalLanguageLab ✨Seeking Rep
Brooke Baum @brookebaum.bsky.social 🌟 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentee
🎨 #kidlit author-illustrator
📚 Former children's bookseller and school librarian
😴 Current tired mom
🤓 Self-taught and still self-teaching
Represented by Marissa Brown at Pippin Properties
brookebaum.com
Clay Adamah @clayadamah.bsky.social (they/ze)
Author-Illustrator of #KidLitArt (long-press)
https://linktr.ee/clayadamah
just reading books, drawing stuff,
and tree-watching with birds. 🌳 👀 🐦
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Human made - No AI
Illustrator of Kismet, No! (PJP 2027)
Katie McEnaney @katiemcenaney.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. Lover of words and history. One-time archaeologist. Nonfiction Ninja mentee. SCBWI. 12x12. #amquerying #5thgrade She/her. https://katiemcenaney.com/ and https://www.thelogonauts.com/ for book rec's
Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social Nebula-winning and Hugo/Sturgeon-nominated writer. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Unrepentant punster. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled w #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories
Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social transformative justice. disability justice. abolition.
(she/her)
https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com
https://www.soiltjp.org
Snowball @snowballcommunity.bsky.social
What’s is Snowball??…Think TripAdvisor for the disabled community.
Apple https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/snowball-community/id1624679548
Android https://play.google.com/store/search?q=snowball+community&c=apps&hl=en&gl=US
Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social Locus, BSFA, Ignyte Finalist. Award winner. Chef. Librarian. Author of 7+ books. Next: Until the Clock Strikes Midnight, 2/3/2026. Bostonian in Germany.
Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social A record of the plague years. Z”L.
https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/plague-poems/
lizwhatsherface @lizwhatsherface.bsky.social abolitionist artist / CEO of GAY ARBYS / sentient sandwich
linktr.ee/lizwhatsherface
realgayarbys.com
chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social just trying my best. death transition companion. chronically ill. future therapist (LPC). TX she/her
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com Scientist, science communicator, public health & climate justice advocate
Biology PhD from Cambridge
WHO Fides member, Grist 50 Fixer, Creative Change alum
New Yorker/Aussie
Opinions my own
https://instagram.com/luckytran
http://linktr.ee/luckytran
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Freedom Oklahoma @freedomoklahoma.bsky.social Building a future where 2SLGBTQ+ folks have the safety and resources to thrive in Oklahoma and everywhere we call home. www.freedomoklahoma.org
Care in Action @careinaction.bsky.social Fighting for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States. #CareCantWait
Paid for in part by Care in Action PAC, 45 Broadway, NY, NY 10006. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.
National Domestic Workers Alliance @domesticworkers.bsky.social Organizing to win respect, recognition, and labor rights for domestic workers. #CareCantWait
Ai-jen Poo @aijenpoo.bsky.social ❤️ National Domestic Workers Alliance, Caring Across Generations, Care in Action, Supermajority. Opinions entirely my own. #CareCantWait
Kiana Jackson @kianarenai.bsky.social ⛪️ • asu alumna • jhu grad alumna • researcher • data analyst
Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization run by and for autistic people.
https://autisticadvocacy.org/
Nicole Jorwic @nicolejorwic.bsky.social Connector of People, Issues and Coalitions. Chief of Advocacy and Campaigns @CaringAcrossGen Advocating and organizing for care. Community Living. Disability, Medicaid, Medicare. Opinions are my own. #CareCantWait
Coset The Table @cosetthetable.bsky.social Disability & food policy, preferably with data. she/her. 💙😈🩷. none of this nonsense, please!
Andrew Pulrang @apulrang.bsky.social Disability, politics, popular culture. I'm a Baby Boom / Gen X hybrid. #CripTheVote. Freelance disability writing. https://disability-thinking-weekday.ghost.io He/him.
Jenn Stowe @jennstowe.bsky.social Executive Director
@domesticworkers.bsky.social
| Senior Advisor
@careinaction.bsky.social
| Black feminist | mom ♥️ | #HUBison
Caring Across Generations @caringacross.org A movement of caregivers and care recipients working to better care systems so everyone can live, work, age, and parent with dignity. #CareCantWait
Justice in Aging @justiceinaging.org Since 1972, we've used the power of the law to fight senior poverty nationwide. Explore our resources: https://to.justiceinaging.org/resources
Anjali Forber-Pratt, Ph.D. @anjalifp.bsky.social 2-time Paralympian & Medalist. Disabled Researcher. Disability Activist.
Jamie Lynn @jamielynntn.bsky.social 👋 Social justice advocate. Antifascist. Feminist. Humanist. Dog enthusiast. Invisibly disabled & covid conscious.
💼 I've worked in criminal legal reform, racial justice, counter-extremism, labor rights, & disability justice
📍IA>WI>DC>PA>TN
Opinions my own
Dom Kelly @thetattooedjew.com founder, president and ceo of @newdisabledsouth.org | husband to catie and dad to mahalia | triplet with cerebral palsy | anti-zionist ashkenazi jew | irish/US dual citizen | speaking: @collectivespeakers.bsky.social | atlanta based
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
#DisabilityJustice feed I created:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:65kss3ewg5ida5mjyuk73v5r/feed/aaaba7ikg4sho
More about me
https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land Chronically ill public health JD writing to make sense of the policy hellscape so you don't have to do it alone. Actionable analysis & trustworthy guidance for people the system wasn't built to protect. Free & paid: ShouldntNeed.com
Sr. Fellow DFP. 🏳️⚧️nb
Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social Disabled Loudmouth.
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFjqA7WtS0/11YO6Ql6Yl9J792_jipiwQ/edit?utm_content=DAFjqA7WtS0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
Maria Town @mariatown.bsky.social Disability Advocate. Cat Mom. 
Julia Bascom @juststimming.bsky.social She/her. Taller than you. Congress has a secret train and it should belong to the people.
Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com Award-Winning Director/Screenwriter
#FilmDis Study
Activist. They/He. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ♿ Twitch: DomeVansOfficial.
DETROIT! #OnePride 🎮🏈🎶🎥 geek. dad. GenX. LandBack. #FreeLink
linktr.ee/Domevans
Sarah Blahovec @sblahov.bsky.social Queer & disabled. Dog mom and fiber artist. 1/2 disability civic engagement nerd, 1/2 virtual assistant. Owns more heating pads than you. she/her/hers
Winn Periyasamy, JD, MPH (They/she, அசுவினி) @wperiyasamy.bsky.social Personal Sky: views are my own.
Disabled public health & policy analyst.
Words: @theGuardian.com, @thenation.com, City & State NY, etc.
Now: Gov Affairs by Day, Legoing Always
Then: @FordhamLawNYC @ColumbiaMSPH @BarnardCollege
DE ➡️ PA ➡️ OH ➡️ NY
Original Berf of Chicagoland @kdc.bsky.social Slinging zines in Chicago @wildramppublishing.bsky.social.
Co-host of "Rough Draft with Keidra and Liz" podcast
https://linktr.ee/KeidraC
Profile ID: Black woman looking up at picture of mountains
brittany packnett cunningham (she/her.) @mspackyetti.bsky.social the NY post once called me a “racial rabble rouser.” points for alliteration.
writer. talker. strategist. activist.
Black. loved. grateful. free.
subscribe to #UNDISTRACTED wherever pods are 🙏🏾.
An Oganizers' Economist @economistaatl.bsky.social 🇲🇽 organizer turned economist. I've run campaigns, marched on bosses, been teargassed. Southern, queer, & autistic AF. Views are mine only.,
Yuh-Line Niou @yuhline.bsky.social Zoe and Samson’s mom
Running for State Senate District 27
🐺Former New York State Assemblymember
loves doggos 🐕
(personal account)
she/her/hers
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/yuh-line-niou-1
Emily Ladau @emilyladau.bsky.social Author of "Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally." Disability rights activist who lives life on wheels. ♿️
Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social State Rep | Running for SD 7 and building a movement for a Georgia we can afford 🍑 | Early Voting: October 13 - 30 | Election Day: November 3
linktr.ee/ruwaforgeorgia
Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer
subscribe to my newsletter: newsletter.mariannedhenin.com
send reporting tips: marianne@mariannedhenin.com, signal: @mariannedhe.26
Darren Bates @dlbllc.bsky.social Disability Policy Director | Global Accessibility & Disability Inclusion Strategist | Bulldog Lover | Disabled | LGBTQ+ | “If your fight for democracy doesn’t include disabled people, you’re doing it wrong.”
https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenbatesll
Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social Grad student, policy nerd, and public speaker
호랑이 담배 피우던 시절
Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social Sociologist, social work faculty
Posting topics include community, disability, social welfare, Chicago, social movements, organizing, policy, the state, labor, coffee, and various nerdy side trips. Personal account
AnarchaEnby @anarchaenby.myatproto.social they/them
Disabled anarchafeminist killjoy researching the history of scientific racism and eugenics. The State is fundamentally ableist.
I'm a fat nonbinary transfem bi lesbian. Things are going great.
Call me Ace or AnarchaEnby.
victoria @vashetc.blacksky.app † doktora | research+policy | perpetually horizontal
ID’s: Brown skin grl w/ curly hair wearing shirt that says hot girls arent ableist. Banner: Sepia picture of a couple married w/ family around.
vashetc.com | restandmecfs.com | survivorsandallies.com
Erin Ryan Hey ♿️ @erinryanhey.bsky.social disabled writer, speaker, educator, and creator | 🏳️⚧️
Profile:  white person with glasses and brown hair, smiling
Banner: my life has always been a continuous struggle with ill health and ambition, and I have mastered neither.
David Zoltan (he/they) @wonkicorn.bsky.social Human Rights Activist specializing in Housing & Disability policy. Queer, multiply disabled, formerly homeless, socialist, abolitionist, anti-Zionist Jew & son of immigrants. Antifa, always.
All opinions are my own, not of any organization, unless stated.
Tory Cross @queerspice.bsky.social Policy at Caring Across Generations | Cat mom, C-SPAN fan, disabled, fat, survivor, human asana | alive because of the ACA | lover of abortion, Medicaid, care, and screaming | views my own| she/her
Disability Culture Lab @disabilitylab.bsky.social DCL is a nonprofit disability media and narrative lab, by and for disabled folks. We exist to dismantle ableism and celebrate disabled community and culture.
https://linktr.ee/disabilityculturelab
Vilissa Thompson @vilissathompson.bsky.social #DisabilityTooWhite Creator • Founder of Ramp Your Voice!, LLC • #Disability_Rights #Consultant • Social Worker • #Writer
https://www.rampyourvoice.com/
https://www.vilissathompson.com/
http://patreon.com/RampYourVoice
Mark Crenshaw (He/Him/His) @crenny75.bsky.social Disabled (Ceep), Teacher, Working to Lead With Love, Husband, Dad, Panther Family, Boomer Sooner
Mary Fashik @maryfashik.bsky.social Queer Disability Justice Activist
Author of the Adventurous Adeline series
Public Speaker
Three-time award winning podcast host
Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com Family-led group advocating for our kids with complex medical needs and disabilities. Little Lobbyists Action Network is a 501(c)(4) org.
Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social @littlelobbyists.com Executive Director & Co-founder advocating for children with complex medical needs and disabilities. I ❤️ Medicaid.
Fighting for disability justice, health equity, and tater tots for all.
e.k. hoffman (they/ze) @ekhoffman.bsky.social trans, disabled, & jewish in the u.s. South. thoughts are my own. but you can catch me in movement at
@NewDisabledSouth.org. they/them or ze/hir pronouns.
Ashlee Bruner, MS @astoldbyashlee.bsky.social Strategist and Soror 💙.
NeuroSpicy Political Problem Child.
Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social Academic. Pleasure activist. Author of Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics. Both open access from Duke University Press. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/samischalk
K Agbebiyi, MSW @kagbebiyi.bsky.social Organizer + writer based in Brooklyn| REJECTING SURVIVOR POLITICS forthcoming @ Beacon Press | Repped by Odom Media Management.
Thinking about prisons, organizing dynamics, housing, private equity, $$
Kagbebiyi on most socials, views my own
New Disabled South @newdisabledsouth.org Working to achieve liberation and justice for all disabled people in the South.
jess caraway @jcaraway.bsky.social here for a good time... and honestly hopefully a long time, this is so exhausting 
ac facci @acfacci.bsky.social terminally earnest / a cool person who is not riddled with anxiety
s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
national magazine award-winning culture critic & writer for hire
🌿 @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder
🐈⬛ 📖 ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES out now!
🖋️ get your grief advice on @allmydeadcats.com
✉️ sesmith at realsesmith.com
Jane Rayburn @janerayburn.bsky.social Democratic Pollster, Adjunct Professor
FL 🐊 DC 🏛️ MA 🦪
Elena DiTraglia @elenaditraglia.bsky.social F1 girlie (#TeamLH) | Bravo Fan | Seltzer Enthusiast | Civil Legal Aid Supporter