Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social Disabled poet and artist. American roots music enthusiast. Revolucionísta del corazón.
Poetry Foundation bit.ly/3BydKOn
Every Place on the Map tinyurl.com/yvkjezzm
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social jonmooallem.com
Writer
Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social Writer, reader, office potato. Author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Lambda Award Finalist. NY Times Editors' Choice. Real human. No, really.
richardmirabellawriter.com
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
Annie @annjancan.bsky.social 
Ryan Prosser @prosserryan.bsky.social Educator. JD. M.Ed. Husband. Dad. Identical Twin. Atheist. Short story writer. Philosopher. Perpetual Survivor Applicant. #blacklivesmatter #unionstrong He/Him https://music.apple.com/us/album/blue-sunshine-single/1864686012
Emmett O'Connell @emmettoconnell.bsky.social Blogger, podcaster, local government communicator, rec soccer defender
OlympiaTime.com
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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social Writer, reader, walker. Producer of the Signal award-winning People’s Recorder podcast. Fulbright Scholar, Hawthornden Fellow http://linktr.ee/dataylor1
Stephen G. Eoannou @stepheneoannou.bsky.social Author of the novels The Falling Woman (SFWP 2027), After Pearl (SFWP 2025), Yesteryear (SFWP 2023), Rook (Unsolicited Press 2022), and the short story collection Muscle Cars (SFWP 2015). Made man in Bills Mafia.
THE AIDS MEMORIAL @theaidsmemorial.bsky.social #whatisrememberedlives #theaidsmemorial 🏳️⚧️
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King's Books @kingsbooks.bsky.social Community-centered independent bookstore in Tacoma, WA centering queer, trans, BIPOC, and disabled authors.
Grit City Books @gritcitybooks.com Where every page feels like home.
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Anna @izenmaam.bsky.social Professional communicator. Perpetually salty.
Lea Kelley @leakelley.bsky.social Bad at small talk. Also, teacher. she/her from Tacoma.
Anna Wang @annawangyuan.bsky.social A Lifelong Student of Literature 
KburnsinWA @kburnsinwa.bsky.social Gen X counselor from the PNW, 🎹, 🐶🐈 🍕🍨, Vote Blue 💙💙💙, support independent media, fight fascism, 🍊🤡 has to go!
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social Author: TACOMA; A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social Santa Fe Writers Project - globally distributed publisher of fiction & CNF since '98. Subrights repped by @susanschulman.bsky.social
Distributed by IPG. Find out more at sfwp.com
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social Ex-investment banker, marketer, & public school teacher: pick your ad hominem. Co-author of nonfiction books Carjacked & Schooled. Cranky in the AM.
Newsletter: https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/
Michael Artime @docartime.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Pacific Lutheran University. St. Louis Cardinals aficionado. 
Halley Knigge @halleyrebecca.bsky.social Thirty-something and enthusiastic.
Anti-fascist 🏴.
Runner and adventurer.
Outdoor industry porte-parole.
Oobiewon (AnnaN) @oobiewon.bsky.social Policy professional, political geek, cosplayer, and unapologetic activist
Nancy Jorgensen @nancyjorgensen.bsky.social Nonfiction writer navigating education, music, family, and sport.
Mother to Olympic Champion Gwen Jorgensen & teacher/author Elizabeth Jorgensen.
My work ⤵
https://nancyjorgensen.weebly.com
Anthony Addis @anthonyaddis.bsky.social I used to write, read and live in Cairo, KL, Jakarta and Riyadh. Now I do all that in Lichfield while placating two Indonesian streetcats.
My novel 'Do Not Keep Silent' is available on Amazon.
anthonyaddis.co.uk
Patricia Sully @patriciasully.bsky.social Law & Policy. Harm Reduction. Criminal Justice Reform. Higher Ed. Cats. Brought to you by news, jokes, and Diet Mountain Dew. 
Marguerite @movetotacoma.bsky.social MovetoTacoma.com | Tacoma Real Estate Agent | Business Consulting
You’re doing amazing sweetie.
Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social Amazon Best Selling Author, top 1% of inventors, maker of things.
Currently posting The Penguin Games novel.
Full novel copyright Nicole Reineke 2024
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Grant™ 🖤 @grantruby.bsky.social Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite: All of which are American dreams | Politics 🏴🚩 | Music 🤘🏻 | Books 📚 | Sports ⚽️ 🏈🏒 | ACAB | 🇵🇸 | #BlackLivesMatter | #ProtectTransKids | #AbolishICE
Erik Hanberg @erikhanberg.bsky.social Author and a bunch of other stuff. ErikHanberg.com and ForSmallNonprofits.com He/Him
Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. FATHOM forthcoming. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️🌈
radtacomadad @radtacomadad.bsky.social Keeping it weird. Sharing photos of favorite places, things, and sometimes nerdy shit.
Nathe Lawver @nathelawver.bsky.social Yup.
Go get 'em tiger.
Justin Camarata @justincamarata.com Desperately in need of a new bio
Rob Huff (he/him) @robertphuff.bsky.social Communicator, runner, cyclist, and sometimes photographer. Deeply cares about nature, the climate, and housing for everyone. Working to end homelessness in Pierce County, Washington, USA.
Hope Teague Bowling @hopeteague.com NBCT 2010 • Co-host of the IWL_Podcast • Faith, Social Justice, Ed Policy, Minutiae, and Shade • hopeteague.com • bowlingsabroad.com
DocBrooke @docbrooke.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies at PLU in Tacoma, WA.
My research focuses on game studies, gender, race, and media.
My opinions are my own.
Isaac Fitzgerald @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social 📝📚 Author of back-to-back instant NYT bestsellers Dirtbag, Massachusetts + American Rambler (+ others)
📺 Talking books on @todayshow
🥾 I walk. A lot.
Annie Cole @thatanniecole.bsky.social education | language | my agora
"As you start to walk on the way, the way appears." - Rumi
Laura Rink @laurarink.bsky.social Writer. WIP: piecing together the story of how my grandmother and her two sisters survived the Armenian Genocide. Rainier Writing Workshop ‘21. Website/Blog: LauraRink.com. PNW forest dweller. She/her.
Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social Proudly independent literary magazine & small press, established in 2004. Books + print issues + online issues + conferences + writing retreats + other stuff.
https://barrelhousemag.com/
The Washington Bus @washingtonbus.org The political organization of young people, by young people, for all people in Washington State. http://registerinwa.org ✨ http://linktr.ee/washingtonbus
Amy Stuber @amystuber.com Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com
Colleen Morrissey @colleenmoz.bsky.social Writer, PhD, O. Henry Prize-winner, rogue literary scholar. Writing in The Rumpus, Southern Review, Studies in the Novel, Chicago Reader & others. Prose editor for Cottonwood. Rep. @howlandlit. Available to rant about stories.
linktr.ee/colleenmoz
Brandy St. John @brandystjohn.bsky.social Writer. Musician. Former wardrobe stylist for rock stars. Current writing instructor at Oregon State University. 
Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social Culture journalist for Esquire, Wired, etc. Author of A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS (Simon & Schuster), MYST & RIVEN: CAN GAMES BE LITERATURE? (University of Chicago Press, 2027).
https://linktr.ee/adamm0rgan
Contact: adam@adam-stephen-morgan.com
Cheryl Graham @cherylgraham.bsky.social Writer, rider 🚲. Music essays at KORD, PopMatters. I have a Substack about mixtapes. Formerly @FreeTransform on the bird app. 🏳️🌈
Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social Senior Essays Editor: @therumpus.net / Associate Writing Professor / Program Director: MA in Writing / Books-in-progress: 1) CNF: A history of Jerusalem's City of David 2) Flash Fiction: Bill Murrays / Robbie & James Talk Music: https://bit.ly/RandJTM
Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social Writer / Librarian
Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, etc
Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency.
Novel: Living in Cemeteries
Collection: Haunted Ecologies
CoreyFarrenkopf.com
Waterdog @jp-waterdog.bsky.social Curriculum Designer, NBCT. Civically engaged. Anti-racist, anti-fascist, pro-sovereignty. Girl dad. VP of WA Civic Learning Council and WA State Council for the Social Studies. Opinions mine.
Cassandra Whitaker @casswhit.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Educator 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (She/they/Mx). NBCC, Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf available from Jackleg Press. https://queerthewolves.wordpress.com/
Neurospicy
dan friedman @danfriedmanme.bsky.social From Leeds he/him. Drinks whisky. Reads books. Writes culture. Organizes stuff. At times funny. @danfriedmanme on platforms Ebook http://bit.ly/shout2change 
Wendy J. Fox @wendyjfox.bsky.social Deckled edges is my safe word. Reading and writing from the Sonoran desert.
Polina Gortman 🎨 | Illustrator @polinagortman.bsky.social Picture book maker • Reader & star gazer
✨ SEEKING REPRESENTATION ✨
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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com Seattle-based writer of journalism, criticism, progressive economics and politics pieces, and comic books. Snelson, my comic with Fred Harper was a New York Public Library Best Adult Comic selection for 2022. Email: thisispaulconstant at gmail dot com.
Laurie Ann Thompson @lauriethompson.com Author for kids. Raised in rural WI, former software engineer, still a nerd, animal lover always. I root for underdogs and cry at the drop of a hat. https://linktr.ee/lauriethompson
Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social poet & teacher. author of DEAR MEMPHIS (River River Books, 2024). living in seattle. learning yiddish. rachelsedelman.com.
melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social she/her. storyteller. impatient optimist. pop culture enthusiast. trauma expert. fat queer w/ adhd. trying to find joy every day.
melissaboles.com
Hallendaise @ineeedmoresleep.bsky.social 📍Seattle 🏳️🌈 he/they, 27
stay sexy, don’t get murdered
💕 @thegayboi.bsky.social
Powell's Books @powells.bsky.social The legendary independent bookstore.
Portland, OR | est. 1971
ezra kupor @ezrakupor.bsky.social associate editor @harperbooks + @harperperennial • not here but views still very much my own • he/him 🫠
ezrakupor.com 🙂↕️
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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social Freelance writer and editor. Contributor to Pitchfork, Paste, Vulture, The Guardian, etc. Author of two books. Still sitting in a room. Email: zschonfeld@gmail.com.
B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Coach—editor of the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship; Founder, Severancemag.com
katie cusumano @k-e-c.bsky.social writing about culture and the outdoors, which is kinda writing about everything. words in nyt mag, the believer, orion, etc; assistant nonfiction editor for agni. signal = kec.51. katherinecusumano.com
Steven Moore @stmoore.bsky.social Oregon nonfiction writer. Book on Janet’s music forthcoming from UNC Press. Previous books THE DISTANCE FROM SLAUGHTER COUNTY (UNC Press), THE LONGER WE WERE THERE (UGA Press). Afg vet. Oregon State MFA alum.
www.stevenlmoore.com
Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social Writer of feelings & the environment (Orion, NYT, Guardian, etc), teacher, author of Wolfish (winner of 2024 Oregon Book Award). Portland, OR. She/her. www.ericaberry.com
Isaac Swindle @iswindle.bsky.social Comic book editor and Master of Publishing graduate from Portland State University. Editor/Letterer of The Pacific Northwest Disaster Guide from Ooligan Press.
Current: Contributing Writer at Comics Beat
isaacdswindle.com
Maria Marshall @mmarshallauthor.bsky.social Children's writer, book blogger (The Picture Book Buzz), poet, editor, bird watcher, photographer, nature lover ... #SCBWI #12x12 #Cybils Judge
linktr.ee/MariaMarshall_
jane c. hu @janehu.bsky.social journalist, host of @citycastseattle.bsky.social, psychedelics reporter at The Microdose. always gets the name of the dog.
janehu.net
seattle.citycast.fm
themicrodose.substack.com
Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷SOCIAL DISTANCING out March 2027 from Semiotext(e)💐 ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK out Fall 2027 from Haymarket 🌸 https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
Bethany @bethanyrobison.bsky.social Books, sports, raindrops on leaves 💙💚 Always supporting Treehouseforkids.org & kids experiencing foster care 💚💙 Seattle via Chicago + Indy
Profile pic by Roselle Lim
Annual Foster Care Fundraiser: https://engage.treehouseforkids.org/fundraiser/6806915
Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social Poet, parent, professor.
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editors’ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawai’i http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek 💫 and wristwatch ⌚️ obsessed.
Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social Debut novel ENDPAPERS (Algonquin 2023), writer, cat person, #AuthorsAgainstBookBans, #5amWritersClub, production editor at Cornell University Press, she/they | jennifersavrankelly.com
Elinor Ann Walker @elinorann.bsky.social Poet| writer| editor| PhD
she/her/hers | FUGITIVE BUT GORGEOUS forthcoming (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions)| GIVE SORROW forthcoming (@whittlemicropress.bsky.social)|poems in AGNI, Plume, Poet Lore, Terrain, PHQ & more.
https://elinorannwalker.com
JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social bold. vibrant. authentic.
www.jacklegpress.org
Query Us @ https://jacklegpress.submittable.com/submit
Eric Lochridge @ericedits.bsky.social Poet | Editor (he/him)
Author of My Breath Floats Away from Me (FutureCycle Press, 2022). Associate poetry editor @okaydonkey.bsky.social
https://ericedits.wordpress.com
Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social Writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Currently missing the ocean and being a voiceover artist. 🇨🇦
SHIFTINGS & OTHER COORDINATES OF DISORDER (Pinhole Poetry, 2024).
LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA (Bull City Press, 2026)
jenwithwords.opencorners.ca
Darby Price @darbyprice.bsky.social • Poet/Writer of All the Lands We Inherit https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/all-the-lands-we-inherit/
• Continuing Lecturer at UC Irvine
• Born on the bayou 🐊 Living in the (coastal) desert 🌴
• Also at darbyprice.com 📚
Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social (she/her) Poet. Editor. Paddleboarder. Easygoing Capricorn. Next book: Accidental Devotions (Copper Canyon Press, 2026)! Co-host of "Poems You Need" with Melissa Studdard. Faculty at Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.🏳️🌈Bi/Queer
West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social Publishing the best contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry since 2009. Literary magazine based out of Charlotte, NC.
https://westtradereview.com/
Identity Theory @identitytheory.bsky.social Classic online lit mag (founded 2000). Interviews, fiction, CNF, micro, poetry, etc. We may or may not be edited by a corgi. Read us at identitytheory.com.
Seth Dowland @sdowland.bsky.social American religion, Prof & Honors Director @ PLU, author of Family Values & Rise of Christian Right https://amazon.com/dp/0812224299, golf nut, UVA fan
Amy Young @amyyoung.bsky.social Yacht rock enthusiast, drinker of coffee, knower of things, talker, professor of words, mom.
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
seenfromafar @seenfromafar.bsky.social Dr. Ami V. Shah | she/her/hers | Assoc Prof Global Studies | Global Dev, Critical IR, Decolonialism, Race, Representation | Dance, Gardening, Hiking | Fierce, Female, Desi, Diaspora, Wife, Mom, Sib, Daughter
Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social author of First Love and Negative Space
Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social Personal account.
Sportsaholic, geek, ASOIAF addict, relentlessly curious, award-winning political consultant. You know something I don’t.
Currently: Strategic Communications Consultant to the Mayor of Seattle
@HacksAndWonks.bsky.social (on hiatus)
Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social I work for county governments and get mad online about soccer.
Kenny Coble 🌹 コーブル健 @kennycoble.bsky.social Noveller // America's Bookseller Emeritus // he, him
Sean @spdean.betafaith.com Doctor of Ministry. Development Manager at SiteCrafting. Foster adoptive parent of 3 boys. Lover of pointing dogs, music, and theology.
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Timothy Thomas McNeely @ttmcneely.bsky.social Words, all sorts. he/him
Tacoma, WA
Toby Crittenden @crittenden.bsky.social 
Nate Bowling @natebowling.com Teaching Political Science and World History in Abu Dhabi since 2019 — Teacher, Traveler, and Sounder
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/natebowling
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