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
@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.
@daniellefferts.bsky.social
WAYS AND MEANS (Abrams, 2024), longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; work in Paris Review and elsewhere; repped by Janklow & Nesbit
@raxkingisdead.bsky.social
Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and the forthcoming SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
@micahchatterton.bsky.social
Writing Instructor. Former-ish librarian. Waiting for a new heart. Author of GO TO THE LIVING. http://amazon.com/author/micahchatterton
@theferocity.bsky.social
Poet and cultural critic. Also, I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. Pre-order THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT now.
@haleyswanson.bsky.social
writer and co-editor of SEX AND THE SINGLE WOMAN (Harper Perennial). She/hers. haleyswanson.com
@modaviau.bsky.social
I wrote EVERY ANXIOUS WAVE (SMP ‘16) and EPIC AND LOVELY (WVU Press '25). Bookseller. Elder Marfanoid. Indie kid forever.
@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
@safiyasinclair.bsky.social
Author of HOW TO SAY BABYLON, memoir (@simonschuster & @4thEstateBooks) | Poet | Born & raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica | Booking: @shipmanagency.bsky.social
@nomistone.bsky.social
Poet. Anthropologist. Author of 3 books, 2 of them about war and empire. Wife to a farmer wife. Mama to a peach. I cry a lot. Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (UC Press 2022) Kill Class (Tupelo Press 2019)
@rmennies.bsky.social
author of THE NAOMI LETTERS & THE GLAD HAND OF GOD POINTS BACKWARDS | assistant poetry and reviews editor, AGNI | poetry, also bread | she/her
@notquitehydepark.bsky.social
poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. New super gay book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674273115Podcast: https://teamupmoves.com
@seminewblack.bsky.social
poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
@brendashaughnessy.bsky.social
Poet, friend. Wrote TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016 CCP) Our Andromeda (2012 CCP) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008 CCP) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999 FSG). In UK—Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems (2022 Bloodaxe.)
@dapowell.bsky.social
Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈 http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
@alinaetc.bsky.social
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
@literaryhub.bsky.social
A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism. https://linktr.ee/lithub_
@sarahali.bsky.social
poet & author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024) • poetry editor of West Branch • more at sarahgali.com 🍃
@kirstinchen.bsky.social
NYTimes bestselling author of Counterfeit, Bury What We Cannot Take & Soy Sauce for Beginners. Tech Wives forthcoming 🌸
@adriennebooks.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author of SKY IN THE DEEP, THE GIRL THE SEA GAVE BACK & FABLE @wednesdaybooks // Rep'd by @bpoelle @IGLAbook
@jamestatehill.bsky.social
memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice) novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel) editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social WV native still living in 1986 jamestatehill.com
@manadurphy.bsky.social
part-time garbage person, full-time literary agent at @ Trellis Literary Management
@peterkispert.bsky.social
Author of I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM: Stories (Penguin Books). Posts inane & my own. Here now. www.peterkispert.com
@agnimagazine.bsky.social
Our avatar is the Vedic god of fire, our goal is literary combustion. A beacon for 50 years, shining brightly in print and online. bu.edu/agni [Art for AGNI 101 by Malak Mattar]
@meghanor.bsky.social
Writer and poet | Editor of The Yale Review | Professor of Creative Writing at Yale | playing with a Substack about writing Most recent book: THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: REIMAGINING CHRONIC ILLNESS, which was a finalist for the nonfiction National Book Award.
@hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Co-Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
@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
@mayacpopa.bsky.social
Cheerleader for other poets' poems | Founder of Conscious Writers Collective | Writes the Substack newsletter Poetry Today
@a-woo.bsky.social
Attorney & Chief Program Officer (Legal, Policy, Organizing) at @ACLU of Virginia. Poet—NECK OF THE WOODS, Alice James Books. Teaching Law & Lit—UVA Law. Legal aid alum. Former bartender. she/her. Words here = mine alone.
@gabehabash.bsky.social
“I swear on my honor or whatever.” - Bolaño https://coffeehousepress.org/products/stephen-florida
@okaporia.bsky.social
You know, poetry. EAT Poems, Paper Nautilus, Trio House Press. @ AGNI, Barrow St, Colorado R, Diode, Massachussets R , New England R, Poetry NW.
@patrycjasara.bsky.social
author of We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, March 2025) 🖤 patrycjasara.com
@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social
writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her https://www.emmacopleyeisenberg.com
@erinwriter.bsky.social
Copper Canyon poet (new book coming 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her 🇺🇦
@karalearota.bsky.social
Senior literary agent at TLA (nonfiction) / book editor / writing sometimes / reading always ♏️☀️♒️🌑♍️⬆️ https://www.thompsonliterary.com https://querymanager.com/query/KaraRota https://reedsy.com/kara-rota
@peterblackstock.bsky.social
Deputy Publisher, Grove Atlantic & Publisher, Grove Press UK. British & Punjabi Malaysian heritage but English accent privilege. IG: peterbookstock | he/him
@clintsmithiii.bsky.social
Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.