Neema Avashia
Proud Boston educator since 2003. Proud West Virginian since 1979. Kahani's Ammi. ANOTHER APPALACHIA, WVU Press, 2022.
@jhowardhistory.bsky.social
applied historian by trade, but expect more kpop, sports, appalachia, and video games honestly. personal account. staunton, va // dc
@tamrynspruill.bsky.social
Author [COURT QUEENS: A History of the WNBA & the Power of Persevering Women is forthcoming from ABRAMS Books], consultant, award-winning journalist, artist, poet, and musician.
@gregmoore.bsky.social
West Virginian. Current middle school teacher. Former Charleston Gazette-Mail executive editor. Mountain State Spotlight co-founder. Longtime arts and sciences advocate and Pittsburgh sports fan.
@dougvangundy.bsky.social
Neurodivergent. Poet. Fiddler. Humanist. Proud West Virginian. Proud Liberal. Proud Weirdo.
@kenwardjr.bsky.social
Investigative journalist in West Virginia. Founding editor-in-chief of @mtnstspotlight.bsky.social watchdog newsroom. Former ProPublica local reporter. MacArthur Fellow.
@mycologist.bsky.social
Native WV Mycophile Yallternative anti-fash We use GNU/Linux in this house 🅥 🌱 2A 🏳️🌈 ❤️🖤 ♻️
@walkyourcamera.bsky.social
Hillbilly. Veteran. West Virginian. Montani Semper Liberi. Operations Director @appalshop. Creator of http://lookingatappalachia.org. IG @walkyourcamera. http://rogermayphotography.com
@justicehudson.bsky.social
27-year-old 6th+ generation West Virginian, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Wheeling Free Press, “manic and highly unprofessional” www.wheelingfreepress.com
@tombragg.bsky.social
Bad jokes. Marshall columns. High school sports play by play. Ex-newspaper beat writer, ex-247Sports publisher. Support your local soccer club. #wvprepfb forever
@leannray.bsky.social
Editor-in-chief of @westvirginiawatch.com. Former news / city / FlipSide editor at the Charleston Gazette-Mail. She/her
@appli.org
The Appalachian Learning Initiative (APPLI, like “apply”) is a Morgantown, WV-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that conducts research on, reports data about, and advocates for issues impacting adults living in the Appalachian Region. https://linktr.ee/APPLIOrg
@tatecurtis.bsky.social
Energy & environment reporter, West Virginia Public Broadcasting. Son & grandson of immigrants. Dog dad. Rail enthusiast. He/him.
@pmwearinghats.bsky.social
Your Filipino Appalachian friend who used to work in newspapers. (The Register-Herald, Charleston Daily Mail, The Post & Courier, Charleston Gazette-Mail) EAO 🇵🇭🇺🇸✊🏽🏳️🌈#HailWV 💛💙
@sam-workman.bsky.social
Professor & Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Public Affairs at West Virginia University 🍸cocktails 📜 policy 📊 data 📍Morgantown, West Virginia, Appalachia, USA 🌎https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-workman
@amelianews.bsky.social
Reporter, West Virginia Watch | Proud WV native. Mom of 3 and baseball fan. News on TikTok: @amelianews
@four4thefire.bsky.social
Made by West Virginia. Writer, sometimes a talking head, frequent VA patient Writer/M.E. https://ordinary-times.com/ Commentary for WV Watch https://westvirginiawatch.com/ Subscribe to heardtell.substack.com
@wvupress.bsky.social
West Virginia's largest book publisher. https://linktr.ee/wvupress
@hknipp.bsky.social
she/her | eng MA, Marshall University | digital history PhD candidate @ Clemson University | Appalachian studies | histories of medicine | women, gender, sexuality | reproductive history | early 20th century hallieknipp.net
@marcellison.bsky.social
Executive Director, WV Autism Training Center, Marshall University Licensed Professional Counselor Proud progressive living in deeply red West Virginia. Bigfoot enthusiast, pannapictagraphist All opinions are mine
@svershbow.bsky.social
Writer: NY Mag, Esquire, The Atlantic, Vogue, etc. Head of Social Media @ tech job. Mostly posting about dogs & books. Opinions all mine. vershbowiswriting@gmail.com https://www.sophievershbow.com/writing
@nezhukumatathil.bsky.social
🇵🇭🇮🇳 roller-skater since I was ten • school supplies • gardens • bioluminescence • lumpia • axolotls • Buckeye • NYT bestselling author • BITE BY BITE (food essays) • WORLD OF WONDERS (nature essays) • four books of poems, and one coming in 2026!
@cfbalestier.bsky.social
Writer. Leftie, both handed and politically. PGH. Appalachia forever. 🌹 courtneybalestier.com for words wmfapodcast.com for convos about words
@imaniperry.bsky.social
Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less.
@readappalachia.bsky.social
celebrating & appalachian literature & writing founded by @kdwinchester.bsky.social
@wesblake.bsky.social
Writer | PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press, 2024) |💙 music, cats, & trees | ✍️Words in Electric Literature, storySouth, more | wesblake.com | linktr.ee/wesblake |📍Kentucky PINEVILLE TRACE, book club kit, & teaching guide: wesblake.com/pineville-trace-2
@tkiramadden.bsky.social
author: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls & forthcoming Whidbey • hapa kanaka ‘ōiwi dyke • soup enthusiast & magician • land back • aloha 'āina • she/her
@ginaruiz.bsky.social
She/her/ella. Los Angeles-based Chicana writer. English M.A. from ASU. Sometimes writes quirky SFF. Jasmine and Aiden’s grandma, bibliophile, dog person, baker, foodie, and scholar. I read and hoard all the books.
@catemcgowan.com
Author of books, two arriving soon: an essay collection, WRITING IS REVISION (Brill, Dec. 2024); a poetry collection, SACRIFICIAL STEEL (Driftwood Press, June 2025). My other works are lit fic: a story collection & novel. PhD (FWIW) https://catemcgowan.com
@mauricenow.bsky.social
Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way. 💐 Middling Writing Advice at my Substack: Sitting in Silence.✍️🏿https://mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/
@chenchenwrites.bsky.social
poet • phd in english • 2 books with BOA Editions • latest chapbook @ghostcitypress.bsky.social • abolish the police & free palestine • https://www.chenchenwrites.com/the-latest
@smashfizzle.bsky.social
Author of the bestselling memoir, Somebody’s Daughter. Podcast host. I deserve it all. https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
@erininthemorning.com
Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking & content: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888 Subscribe to support my journalism and read my reporting at www.erininthemorning.com
@nataliehastings.bsky.social
Research/Organizing for a better Ohio. Education advocate @honesty4ohioed @ohagainstextremism Battling the Right-wing extremists who live rent-free in my head. Kentucky girl at 💚#SOSNicaragua PS My dog is cuter than yours
@connieschultz.bsky.social
Columnist, novelist, j-prof. NYT bestselling novel, The Daughters of Erietown. Children’s book, Lola and the Troll. On Substack at Hopefully Yours. I love Sherrod Brown. https://connieschultz.substack.com/
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
@mdbell79.bsky.social
Writer, teacher. Out now: APPLESEED, a novel (2021, @marinerbooks). REFUSE TO BE DONE, a guide to novel revision (2022, @soho_press). He/him.
@rpmirabella.bsky.social
Writer, reader, office potato. I'm queer. Author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Lambda Award Finalist. NY Times Editors' Choice. Real human. No, really. richardmirabellawriter.com
@dseuss.bsky.social
Author of Modern Poetry, frank: sonnets, Still Life w Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, all from Graywolf Press, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (Univ. of Massachusetts Press), Chancellor for Academy of American Poets.
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. celesteng.com
@tacobellquarterly.org
Taco Bell Quarterly is a Literary Magazine more prestigious than the New Yorker and Paris Review. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
@htreseler.bsky.social
poet & critic, author of AUGURIES & DIVINATIONS, PARTURITION, and HARD BARGAIN; poems/essays/rambles in Boston Review, LARB, Harvard Review, Narrative, and PN Review; heathertreseler.com