Ben Purkert
debut novel, THE MEN CAN'T BE SAVED, Top 20 Book of 2023 Vanity Fair. words / poems in The New Yorker, The Nation, Slate. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-men-can-t-be-saved-ben-purkert/19736868?ean=9781419767135
@gmvelez.bsky.social
Asst Prof, Educ Policy & Leadership College of Education Faculty Director BLEST Hub Center for Urban Research, Teaching, and Outreach Marquette University adolescent dev & identity, peace ed, restorative justice
@sophieklahr.bsky.social
wrote TWO OPEN DOORS IN A FIELD (University of Nebraska), MEET ME HERE AT DAWN ( YesYes Books) and co-wrote THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD ( Fiction Collective Two ). For online poetry classes, manuscript consultation & more ---> sophieklahr.com
@meghandunnpoet.bsky.social
nyc public school teacher. NBCT. author of Curriculum, @GunpowderPress, 2021. perpetually running five minutes late. mostly here to listen. (she/her)
@courtneyaj.bsky.social
writer / cat lover / team seltzer ✨ director of writing institute at SLC
@coolmomyoga.bsky.social
@iandenning.bsky.social
Writer || NY Center for Fiction fellow || Repped by Sophie Bark and Sian-Ashleigh Edwards at WME || Retro games, beer, horror, sci-fi || Dad to dogs and babies || NJ and PNW || He/him
@kentdshaw.bsky.social
Second book: Too Numerous (UMass Press, 2019). CW Prof (Wheaton College in MA). US Navy veteran.
@joannafuhrman.bsky.social
Poet, 7 books including To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021) and Data Mind (Curbstone/Northwestern 2024). Co-ed. Hanging Loose Press and Rutgers professor, joannafuhrman.com
@unsung-masters.bsky.social
"Admirable!" —The New York Times "Combines scholarly rigor with poetic chutzpah!" — Kenyon Review The Unsung Masters Series brings great unknown writers to new readers. Distributed for free to subscribers of Gulf Coast and Pleiades. unsungmasters.org
@briantierney.bsky.social
author of RISE AND FLOAT from Milkweed Editions “nothing short of exquisite” - Chicago Review of Books Philly and Oakland and Scorpios 4ever
@anniejowrites.bsky.social
author of TURMERIC & SUGAR (Thirty West). stories in Wigleaf, Berkeley Fiction Review, Necessary Fiction, Short Story Long, HAD, etc. annavangalajones.com
@chowleen.bsky.social
@chowleen elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times. Duke prof, APSI Dir of Grad Studies, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Taiwan: Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher 周成蔭 #everynightapoem
@maureenlangloss.bsky.social
Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Harvard Review | Next up: Wigleaf | http://maureenlangloss.com/
@henkaipantomime.bsky.social
she + they art historian poet Fil Am messing with Renaissance practices U Delaware + Philly co-founder of the journal Selva https://linktr.ee/henkaipantomime for books and pubs
@stevenespadaw.bsky.social
writer | Late to the Search Party (Scribner, ‘25) | your fat tío | poet laureate of madison, wi
@francescamari.bsky.social
Contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and Assistant Professor of the Practice at Brown University | Also published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, + www.francescamari.com
@the-harmoniummist.bsky.social
Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitude of things Author of Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last, Milkweed Books
@eswinstead.bsky.social
Writer (NYT, BOMB, Interview, etc.), editor (EIC of Guernica, now long retired), occasional journalist, full-time pedant.
@nathanhmcclain.bsky.social
Author of PREVIOUSLY OWNED and SCALE from Four Way Books. Food and wine lover. Edits poetry for the Massachusetts Review.
@cariluna.bsky.social
Author of THE REVOLUTION OF EVERY DAY (Tin House Books), winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. Words in The Nation, Guernica, Street Roots, Salon, Jacobin, etc. https://linktr.ee/cari.luna
@awestenfeld.bsky.social
writer and freelance book editor | formerly Books and Fiction Editor at Esquire adriennewestenfeld.com
@matthewlansburgh.bsky.social
Author of OUTSIDE IS THE OCEAN. Iowa Short Fiction Award. Finalist for Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction & Ferro-Grumley Award in LGBTQ Fiction. 🌈 🌈 🌈 Recipient of Fellowships to Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Yaddo & MacDowell. He/him.
@emmabolden.bsky.social
Just trying to put words together. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull 22), House Is an Enigma (Bull City Press), medi(t)ations (Noctuary Press, 16), Maleficae (Gen Pop Books, 13).
@hbrenhouse.bsky.social
Founding editor of elasticmag.bsky.social, the new print magazine of psychedelic art & literature. Formerly editorial director of Bold Type Books, EIC of Guernica mag. Writer. Sleeping in my tent in your backyard.
@thebookmaven.bsky.social
NEW PODCAST: The Book Maven: A Literary Revue https://thebookmavenpodcast.substack.com/ Critic @LATimesBooks LIFE B memoir: https://bookshop.org/p/books/life-b-overcoming-double-depression-bethanne-patrick/1874245 https://linktr.ee/bookmaven
@rossshowalter.com
Deaf, queer, postmodern surrealist. Writing in NYT, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, et al. https://bio.site/rosshowalter
@thefrontlist.org
Culture journalist @Esquire and elsewhere. Author of A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS (One Signal, Dec 2025). Newsletter: https://linktr.ee/adamm0rgan Tips: [email protected]
@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
@alinapleskova.bsky.social
poet-in-residence of the astral realm / fog aficionado / Toska (Deep Vellum, 2023) / 🥨 Philly IG: @alina_pleskova alinapleskova.com
@heatherchristle.bsky.social
It’s a two-book year! IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf coming in April. PAPER CROWN: Poems coming in August. https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle
@andrewporter01.bsky.social
Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof. www.andrewporterwriter.com
@nathanheller.bsky.social
New Yorker staff writer, hapless itinerant, reader. My concise and infrequent newsletter announces significant new publications, public appearances, and nothing else: nathanheller.substack.com/about
@irishali13.bsky.social
Mom. Doctoral Candidate. Teacher. University Faculty Lecturer in Linguistics & Literacy Poet - Published: in Canada & The United States. PaddlerPress / Texas Poetry/ Wax Poetry & Art Songwriter. Dem. Ally. No DM’s.
@nicolechung.bsky.social
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW. the dog is Peggy and she loves you already. linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
@alyssaexposito.bsky.social
@booksandbooks | social media content/ production manager | consult | outreach | freelance writer | 📩 [email protected]
@skygoneout.bsky.social
Author of BROTHER SLEEP (@AliceJamesBooks 2022) & THE HOUSE HAS TEETH (AJB, 2026) | NEA & CantoMundo Fellow | they/them https://skygoneout.carrd.co
@ambersparks.bsky.social
Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; wrote AND I DO NOT FORGIVE YOU; HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE in October; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
@czoffness.bsky.social
Author of SPILT MILK (McSweeneys). Sunday Times Short Story Award winner. Fellowships: The Center for Fiction, MacDowell. Creative Writing Director at Drew University.
@chenchenwrites.bsky.social
traveling poet • phd in english • 2 books with @boa-editions.bsky.social • latest chapbook @ghostcitypress.bsky.social • faculty at new england college • abolish the police & free palestine • https://www.chenchenwrites.com/the-latest
@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
@kristenarnett.bsky.social
writer, librarian, huuuuge lesbian. dad. floridian. New York Times Bestselling author. Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com