Villain Era 🖤🔪 @villaineralit.bsky.social A literary magazine obsessed with revenge. Open for submissions! https://www.villaineralit.com Mastermind: @charlesjensen.bsky.social
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The Indignataries @wildergoose.bsky.social You don't have to look up the word "biome" to know we're all connected. Science, science fiction writer. Music and book reviews. Music on co-operatively owned Subvert and (for now) Bandcamp. Jazz guitarist in the trio Confluence.
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Phillipa Runyon @philliparunyon.bsky.social Artist
Karen Scott @karenescott.bsky.social Not the designer! Poet living in Columbus/ mother/ compulsive reader and bookdragon/ science, language and history nerd
Will @willgarcia820.bsky.social Feel free to share my posts. Get the message out there. Inform everyone.
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic.
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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social Poet! AuDHD! She/her!
Eliza @elizafixlerpoetry.bsky.social Therapist and sometimes, slowly, a poet. Still writing way too much about love. Pittsburgh, PA.
Amy Baskin @amybaskin.bsky.social Poet. Connectress. Aunt Beast.
SKULL (The Poetry Box, Dec 2024)
NIGHT HAG (Unsolicited Press, 2023)
HYSTERICAL CAKE (Dancing Girl Press, 2022)
MariKula@bsky.social @marikula.bsky.social My home; the pale blue dot commune: Earth. Wretched refuse yearning to breathe feminist freedom fighter. Illinois Indivisible social justice blue worrier. Persister for universal self determination. Resister for Pax Americana, and against united abnormies.
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Ashley Honeysett @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social 2024 Miami University Press Novella Prize Winner. She/her. Evanston, IL, USA. ashleyhoney.substack.com
tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social tiny wren lit focuses on tiny poems + tiny issues (2-3 times per year). Readers can download each issue in a zine format. Home of the tiny zine. Subs open.
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@ajsammarco.bsky.social @ajsammarco.bsky.social Attorney, Writer & Poet. The world needs to read words the shape of clouds! New book, Paper Doll, 2026 from Main Street Rag. Pre-order open https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/paper-doll-alissa-sammarco/ .
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Rayne Hall, Author & Publisher @raynehall.bsky.social "In a world of AI, bots and fakes, Rayne Hall will always be real."
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Lady on a Wire @ladyonawire.bsky.social Shannon Lynette is an author, poet, and editor. She’s also the owner of Lady Chaos Press, a small independent press. ❤️🔪🖤
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Bridget @8rid6et.bsky.social Poet, playwright, songwriter, ally, dog mom🐕
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Jeremiah Walton @cancelpoetry.bsky.social founder of the New England Renaissance
host Bards On The Rocks + Poems You Can Mosh To in Manchester NH
Robin Mullet @rmm75.bsky.social Poet, reader, great-grandma, beekeeper's wife, tree-hugger, bird appreciator and dog lover.
Bonnie Proudfoot @bonnie-pfoot.bsky.social I'm a poet, fiction writer, avid reader and occasional book reviewer, glass artist and aspiring blues harmonica player. My 2020 novel, Goshen Road (OU Swallow Press) was long-listed for the PEN/Hemingway and was named the WCONA Book of the Year. 
Joe Arcangelini @poetbear.bsky.social Poet, Paralegal, gay, old fart, living north of San Francisco. 
Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Author: One for Sorrow, The Love We Share Without Knowing, Wonders of the Invisible World, Before & Afterlives, The Gone Away Place, Monstrous Alterations, and A Voice Calling. Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single Author Collection. Stonewall Honor.
Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social Poet: Books: Lady Wing Shot (Blue Lynx Prize, 2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press, 2022)
Loved working with Driftwood so much, I became Managing Poetry Editor in 2023
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Cheryl A Townsend @cheryltownsend.bsky.social Poet, photographer, gonzo gardener, geocacher, being
Kent State University Press @ksupress.bsky.social Publisher of books and journals based at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Learn more at kentstatebooks.wordpress.com and www.kentstateuniversitypress.com.
Kelly Boyer Sagert @kbsagert.bsky.social ASJA/SABR/pet lover. Freelance writer with dozens of published books/numerous plays. Scriptwriter of the Emmy-Award-nominated film, Trail Magic: The Grandma Gatewood Story, and the film festival winning film Victoria Woodhull: Shattering Glass Ceilings.
Kip Knott @kiptain.bsky.social Poet, writer, photographer. Author of FAMILY HAUNTS (Louisiana Literature Press). Wigleaf Top 50 2024. Best Microfiction 2024.
Matt Weinkam @mattweinkam.bsky.social Executive Director of Literary Cleveland
Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
David Baker @davidbakerpoet.bsky.social Poet, reader, environmentalist, dad, hopeful doubter. 
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Literary Cleveland @literarycleveland.bsky.social Fostering excellence, amplifying diverse voices, and building a vibrant literary community. litcleveland.org
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J.I.B. @jibpoet.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Died in a plane crash in the mid 90’s.
Michael Salinger @michael-salinger.bsky.social Author, world traveler, sculptor, coffee roaster, father etc. etc.
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Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
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Dan Newland @dannewland.bsky.social Author, blogger, journalist, editor, ghostwriter, translator (Spanish-English) and expat Southern Yankee - Lost in Patagonia
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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social I'm a poet. Cancer survivor. Feminist. Reader OBR. Writes in Baja, MX & Los Angeles. MFA CalArts. Multiple BOTN & Pushcart nominations. Penn Review. Mantis. Pinch Journal. Frontier Poetry. Redivider. The Maine Review. Poetry Salzburg Review. 150 + journals
Grace Curtis @gracecurtis.bsky.social Poetry and other literary, artful, birdy, funny, beautiful, or interesting things.
Karen Schubert @karen-youngstown.bsky.social Poet, author of "The Compost Reader" (Accents), "I Left My Wings on a Chair" (Kent State University Press), winner of Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Prize
Founding Director Lit Youngstown LitYoungstown.org
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Alison Stine @alisonstine.bsky.social Writer of books, most recently: DUST. Next in 2027: THE RAVEN ENGAGEMENT @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social @macmillanlib.bsky.social NEA winner, Philip K Dick Award https://linktr.ee/alisonstinewrites
Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social Historian. Author of "Elizabeth Boleyn". Writing a book on Perkin Warbeck. Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Book History MA graduate.
Ann VerWiebe @anngoesdecaf.bsky.social I write emails for The Cleveland Orchestra. Also, crafter/sewing/cat lover/reader/drives stick shift
Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social Poet. Recent books with BOA Editions, Jacar Press. I work as a Medtech and caregiver, and teach part-time in the Western Connecticut State U MFA Program. Disability rights advocate, father, husband, obsessive Cleveland Cavs fan.
ZombiManos @zombimanos.bsky.social Mid-Ohio. Guitarist/singer for 99 Spirits. Sufferer of multiple degenerative joint diseases. Spoonie/chronically ill. Mst3k. Columbo. Takashi Miike. Eraserhead.
Also a serious sleep disorder for good measure. Still can't DM due to illegal Ohio laws.
Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social Mostly teach college writing and herd teenager. Four long-forgotten books of poetry including Types of Canadian Women (Gaspereau) and Exquisite Monsters (Turnstone). Originally Albertan, long time in Winnipeg.
Conrad Tao @conradtao.bsky.social Musician & composer
Steve Brightman @1brightman1.bsky.social Most likely some squirrel content, baseball card posts will bore you if that’s not your thing. All other posts TBD. #TeamPeteForever. Vegan. Poems sometimes. Pittsburgh Pirates always. He/Him.
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social In the heart of literature since 1939. journal | workshops | fellowships
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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social Ohioan. Poet. Librarian.
Carolyn Forché @carolynforche.bsky.social Poet, memoirist
Audie Cornish @audiecornish.bsky.social Journalist - CNN Anchor - co-host Engagement Party
Louise Robertson @ouisie.bsky.social Poet. Novelist. Writer. Email developer on the side. RewritingOvid.net
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
Philip Metres @philipmetres.bsky.social Poet, writer, translator
Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social Writer, poet, book editor, hope monger, cranky pacifist, effusive introvert. Author of five books. Braided Way editor. she/her Ohio 6a/ ecoregion 8 lauragraceweldon.com
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social the cleveland of reviews of books
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Jeff Gundy @gundyj.bsky.social I'm a poet, biker, lucky husband, father, and grandpa, retired professor and writer in residence at Bluffton University, lifelong left-wing Mennonite, guitar player, songwriter . . . not necessarily in that order. 
Kari Gunter-Seymour @karigunterseymour.bsky.social Ohio Poet Laureate, 9th Generation Appalachian, Photographer, Author of DIRT SONGS and ALONE IN THE HOUSE OF MY HEART, featured in World Literature Today and American Book Review
Milenko Budimir @milenkobudimir.bsky.social The guy from the old Twitterverse, ya know — adjunct philosophy prof, tech writer/editor, curious human...Balkanalia, photography, architecture, poetry
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Adrian Lime @adrianlime.bsky.social Husband, father, poet, spray paint artist, probably some other things
Scott Woods @scottwoods.bsky.social Writer, poet, Prince fan
Paula J Lambert @pjlpoet.bsky.social Eleven collections of poetry. Literary translator, micropress publisher, visual artist. Unapaulagetic on Substack. Always writing. Mostly trying to be mindful. And kind. www.paulajlambert.com
Elise @elisejy.bsky.social 
John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social NBPF Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Past Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs 🏳️🌈
Michelle @palmapodaca.bsky.social Feeler. Healer. Potato peeler.
Jen Pezzo @jenpezzo.bsky.social Homebody, Wife, Cat Mom, Photographer, Poet, more Introvert than Extrovert
Will Cowman @uuill.bsky.social Chief Starving ARtiste and AI Whisperer at VirtURL Productions (tinkering with reality)
MEH. @mehood.bsky.social PhD in Classics.Latinist, Historian, Journalism and sports enthusiast. Roman Military impact on the environment in Northwest Europe.
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61Flaneur @chaptal.bsky.social Retired. Worked in a library. Socially awkward. I yell at the TV during baseball, soccer and hockey games. Autism father. Haver of unpopular opinions. Griller of sacred cows. Epic force behind Authority Control.
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social Poetry. Writing. Art. Knitting. Birds. Squirrels. Politics. Religion. Books. Libraries. (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/treeskwerl
Kat Prince @suspiciousspectre.bsky.social Full time artist, glitter and galaxies 💖
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