MARS.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Writer• Film Photographer • Born & raised Detroiter based in Chicago • MFA Candidate at Randolph College • Author of FLOWER BOI available via Gold Line Press • Co-Director at Third Wave Fund 🖖🏾
@thirdwavefund.bsky.social
☄️ Gender Justice fund 💰 Resourcing U.S. youth-led organizing 🎤 Listen to our podcast, “Mic Check!” 🔌 Subscribe to our newsletter linktr.ee/thirdwavefund
@phillewis.bsky.social
detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
@gochujunghan.bsky.social
한정인 • they / them • mutual aid organizer, street medic, birth / death / grief worker • just trying to get us all to abolish policing & prisons, demilitarize the planet, expand access to books, & watch the wnba
@katehasthoughts.bsky.social
Writer | NYT, Washington Post, Men’s Health, Good Housekeeping, River Teeth & more ⭐️ https://linktr.ee/katehasthoughts Editor | In A Flash 💫 https://inaflashlitmag.substack.com Substack | The Village🌟 https://katehasthoughts.substack.com
@laurachowfun.bsky.social
🌀writing + drawing 🐍 author: A SMALL APOCALYPSE (@nupress.bsky.social) 🔗 linktr.ee/laurachowfun
@vanessamicale.bsky.social
(she, they, ella) Multidisciplinary artist, writer and performer. Somatic practitioner and facilitator. https://linktr.ee/vanessamicale
@jaquiradiaz.bsky.social
Author of Ordinary Girls, Whiting Award winner. THIS IS THE ONLY KINGDOM (a novel) dropping October 2025. Boricua en la luna.
@chiaraacu.bsky.social
💖 CULTURE WORK⤳STRUCTURAL CHANGE 💜 art + community care + centering the margins from a disabled queer immigrant perspective 💙 resources & more⤵ linktr.ee/ChiaraAcu
@mlensheffer.bsky.social
Author of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (Nov 2024, Iowa Short Fiction Award from U of Iowa Press) writer and teacher in New Orleans stories in Asimov's, Lit Hub, The Dread Machine, The Pinch and others
@elegystreet.bsky.social
po collections, eco-po anthologies, Revolute Litmag, 2022-25 Black Earth Institute fellow, river rat bird nerd linktr.ee/lauragraystreet
@gabbat.bsky.social
Poet Person. The days I don’t kill myself are extraordinary. Here for community and animals eating carrots. For booking readings and other businessy stuff contact Vaughan Fielder at The Field Office. Thanks! https://www.fieldofficewriters.com/gabrielle
@syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
He/him. PhD. Activist. Assistant Professor. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada and Wildseed Centre for Arts & Activism. 🌈💕🌱
@isarockz.bsky.social
I have come to understand that our collective nature, united vision, understanding, acceptance, love, and compassion are at the core of our shared humanity.
@adriennemareebrown.bsky.social
writer. gardener of healing ideas. emergent strategist, pleasure activist. earthling. good witch. homecoming southerner. https://linktr.ee/adriennemareebrown
@jverchwrites.bsky.social
Author: THREE-FIFTHS; AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT; DEVIL IS FINE (PEN/Faulkner and Aspen Words Literary Prize longlist); Artist-in-residence, Monmouth University; Faculty, Randolph MFA; Rep: David Hale Smith; Film/TV: Will Watkins; Speaking: The Tuesday Agency
@monicakkish.bsky.social
@stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social
Chicago | Writer | 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow | Tin House Summer 2023
@tracedepass.bsky.social
black shinnecock author of self-portrait as the space between us & BOOTless→ (@DiodeEditions)
@zuri-writes.bsky.social
(she/her) ✊🏾🏳️🌈 🍉 Writer & Poet. Words in Prism, roots.wounds.words., Asparagus Magazine, and others. Randolph MFA loading.
@yoloakili.bsky.social
Cornbread connoisseur. Healing Justice Worker. Founder & Executive Director of (BEAM) the Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (YoloAkili.com) (Beam.community)
@kebpoet.bsky.social
Queer nonbinary, poet, editor, educator | MFA from Randolph College | Author of “Bloodroom” forthcoming in 2026 from Sundress Publications 🩸 linktr.ee/kayebancroft
@taylorbyas.bsky.social
PhD | Corporate Baddie | I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (Soft Skull ‘23, Winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award, 2024 Ohio Book Award) | RESTING BITCH FACE (August 2025) | she/her www.taylorbyas.com
@splitlipthemag.bsky.social
We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys. https://splitlipthemag.com/
@anthonycody.bsky.social
Poet: The Rendering & Borderland Apocrypha w/ Omnidawn | American Book Award, Whiting, Nat'l Book Award Finalist & other things | Co-publisher at Noemi | Faculty at Randolph MFA & visiting prof at Iowa Writers’ Workshop https://linktr.ee/anthonycody
@earthtokb.bsky.social
they/them | 2023 NEA fellow | author of 3 books — my latest is PRETTY | rep’d by Annie DeWitt & The Shipman Agency https://earthtokb.com/
@sethwleeper.bsky.social
Poet. Teacher at Brooklyn Poets. Work in/forthcoming: Foglifter, Waxwing, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, and more. @sethwleeper on Instagram https://linktr.ee/sethleeper www.sethleeper.com Photo Credit: Savnnah Lauren
@williekinard.com
Kinard, like cigar. Author of ORDERS OF SERVICE (Alice James Books, 2023). Poet, Designer, Musician. Gamer. Hoodoo. He/they. 803. 🔮🌱✍🏾✨🎶 IG/X/Dribbble: @williekinardiii williekinard.com
@voicemailpoems.bsky.social
highlighting the intimate + raw voices of new + established writers of all styles | missed calls you actually want to hear | voicemailpoems.org
@mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social
Grammy-nominated Writer, Performer, Interdisciplinary Artist. Author of A MAP OF MY WANT (Haymarket Books , 2024) and HOODWITCH (Acre Books, 2019).
@dujietahat.bsky.social
Read. Write. Ball. Raised immigrant. Raising Americans. Politics is sacred. Poetry is vital. He/they. dujietahat.com / dopetightcool.com
@workshops4gaza.bsky.social
https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need Writers, artists and educators organizing workshops to raise money for Palestinians: https://linkin.bio/workshops4gaza 🇵🇸 Image copyright: Middle East Eye / Haroon James
@mickmakesmagic.bsky.social
poet professor poly princexx ✨DEAD GIRL CAMEO forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2025 ✨ www.mickpowellpoet.com
@kirsutherland123.bsky.social
Poet, Clinical Data Manager, Music lover, Black Movie lover, Drake Hater...............
@paige-meowster.bsky.social
detroit-based screenwriter, filmmaker, game-changer, JESTER (she/her) site: www.blkdaria.com
@jasonbcrawford.bsky.social
I write things Forthcoming collection titled YEET! from Omnidawn fall 2025
@cashlybanks.bsky.social
club dancer, DJ. Or in other words, vibe curator. she/they. Instagram.com/cash.moneyrecords
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2026). Black. Still. Life. (2027) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
@haymarketbooks.org
radical publisher of politics, culture, current events haymarketbooks.org
@moyazb.bsky.social
Moya Bailey. Quirky Black Girl. Queer Androgyne. 90s R&B Lover. Teacher. Gatherer. Mozzarella Stick Aficionado. https://linktr.ee/moyabailey
@moonsatdusk.bsky.social
Poet. Theologian. Educator. Neurodivergent disco queen. Co-host of the VS Podcast. Theology Editor: @ecotheo
@britrogers.bsky.social
Detroit Girl. Poet. Creative. EIC of Muzzle Magazine. Co-host of VS Podcast. 🏳️🌈.🐩