David DeGusta
Writer / fiction / Iowa Writers’ Workshop / MacDowell // Ethiopia / literary translation from Amharic // Previously a paleoanthropologist.
www.davidwrites.net
Oromay by Baalu Girma, a great Ethiopian novel, now in English www.davidwrites.net/oromay
@spoem.bsky.social
* #Chinese #Literature: A Very Short Introduction * (Oxford) & *The Heart of Time* (Harvard) Translator & Interpreter: En/Fr/繁中/简中/Ru 雙語 @SabinaKnight.bsky.social Care ethicist @FairbankCenter #PIPfellow @NCUSCR.bsky.social Prof Emerita WLT @SmithCollege
@lameese.bsky.social
lover of music, films, tv // lit manager @ marathon management // palestinian and proud
@jordanstempleman.bsky.social
Poet and professor. Author of the forthcoming collection, Spilt, winner of the 2025 Wishing Jewel Prize, Green Linden Press. Editor for The Continental Review, Windfall Room, and Sprung Formal. jordanstempleman.com
@christytending.bsky.social
book: HIGH PRIESETESS OF THE APOCALYPSE https://elj-editions.com/high-priestess-of-the-apocalypse/ she/they
@sharmand.bsky.social
Archéologue préhistorienne lithicienne africaniste spécialiste de paléocognition plus vieux outils Kenya
@jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social
Retired physician. Will fight health misinformation to the end. Wigging out about the coup. Gen X🤷🏻♀️ https://jenniferbrokaw.substack.com/
@dsparis.bsky.social
Escritor de libros. Cullman Center Fellow 2022. Finalista Premio Herralde 2021. Eccles Center & Hay Festival Writers Award 2020. English y español aquí.
@njanekalu.bsky.social
PhD candidate at USC | MFA from UNM | Stories in American Short Fiction, Narrative, Boston Review, Isele Magazine, Hopkins Review Website: www.janekalu.com
@carolekirschner.bsky.social
Director, CBS Writers Program & WGA Showrunner Training Program. Entertainment Career Coach, Speaker & Author Once kicked out of girl scouts for telling a dirty joke. https://linktr.ee/carolekirschner
@msatris.bsky.social
Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday www.heydaybooks.com
@jowedekind.bsky.social
Researcher, currently @abi-freiburg.bsky.social + freelance. The nature of the state and state–nature in #Ethiopia. Political ecology, land conflicts, agrarian change, resource frontiers, and transitional justice. Berlin based, Addis raised.
@erintheswan.bsky.social
Writer, reader, teacher. Ready ear for your rage, welcoming shoulder for your woes. Debut novel WALK THE VANISHED EARTH (Viking, 2022)
@jbaileywrites.bsky.social
Screen and TV writer, editor, love child of David Milch and Jennifer Saunders, avid cursewordologist. Proud member of WGAw. Repped by Gersh and Heroes & Villains I block all MAGA & Bible-thumpers. #BlueCrew #Resist
@katharv.bsky.social
Paleoanthropologist, human evolution, Neanderthals, modern human origins, S-E Europe and Greece. Dog enthusiast! Professor, University of Tübingen, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironments & University of Bergen. Opinions my own.
@eastbayyesterday.bsky.social
Local history podcast, tours, events, and even a puzzle. #oakland https://linktr.ee/eastbayyesterday
@aaronburch.bsky.social
Author: 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
@vauhinivara.bsky.social
author of pulitzer finalist THE IMMORTAL KING RAO, story prize-longlisted THIS IS SALVAGED, and SEARCHES. contributing writer at businessweek. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project.
@roguereader7.bsky.social
I love cool days, grey skies, a good book, movies, my hounds, and most of all my awesome family! #bassethound #mansbestfriend #books #read #photography
@jenniferlcroft.bsky.social
writer | translator | friend | out now: THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY | HOMESICK | up next: STILL LIFE WITH POSTCARDS | croftwork.net
@theofficialword.bsky.social
Literary Manager, Producer (1BR, JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH), drummer.
@pavlahorakova.bsky.social
@soojhong.bsky.social
Mother, daughter, partner, friend | teller of stories | lover of words | believer in karma and the power of kindness | fiction in Narrative, Summerset Review and forthcoming CQR | #alwaysgrateful ✌️❤️🪩💃 https://linktr.ee/soojhong
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
The body is a temporary gathering place (2024 Autofocus) . One Person Away From You (2021 Moon City Press)3x notable at Best American Essays. Work in The Best American Poetry, The ThreePenny Review, Prairie Schooner etc.
@williampeishih.bsky.social
Words in Best American Short Stories, VQR, Joyland, McSweeney’s, Boston Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Los Angeles Review, Ursa, & elsewhere. Fiction Editor at Guernica Magazine. williampeishih.com
@emmasloley.bsky.social
Writer, gadabout, author of a novel I think you'll like -- THE ISLAND OF LAST THINGS -- out August 12, 2025. Preorder: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-island-of-last-things-emma-sloley/K4KD2ktViQqEW3A8?ean=9781250329257&next=t&digital=t
@sarahjgrimm.bsky.social
@chayab77.bsky.social
Writer. Doctor. @nytimes. WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS. PEN/ Bingham Finalist. Find me: www.chayabhuvaneswar.com
@iamjeremykarn.bsky.social
MFA student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop https://www.jeremyteddykarn.com
@joriegraham.bsky.social
Resilience requires Imagination. Resistance requires Imagination. Recent book“To 2040”,’23(Laurel Prize for Ecological Writing) Carcanet (UK) Copper Canyon (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).“[To]The Last [Be] Human”,’22.
@colbyday.com
screenwriter (Spaceman, In the Blink of an Eye) and TV writer (For All Mankind) and also I guess writer of other things Hollyweird.colbyday.com
@shanders.bsky.social
THE GREAT WHEREVER (forthcoming from Holt, summer ‘26); COMPANY, 2024 winner of the L.A.Times Book Prizes Award for First Fiction: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/company. Mom, twin mom, lawyer, Silver Springer. She/her
@littranslate.bsky.social
The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) promotes literary translation through advocacy, education and services to literary translators. https://literarytranslators.org/
@translatorsaloud.bsky.social
The Voice of Translated Literature: a YouTube channel featuring translators reading from their own work | Founded in 2020 & run by Charlotte Coombe & Tina Kover 👯 | www.translatorsaloud.com
@yaddocommunity.bsky.social
Yaddo provides creative artists the gift of uninterrupted time and work space in a supportive environment.
@laurienovelist.bsky.social
Indie author • desert dweller • chronic uplifter — "Let's be stars to each other" 📚 Speculative Fiction • Visionary • Adult Contemporary & YA | https://lauriepereznovelist.com
@alisonclapham.bsky.social
Screenwriter - comedy/drama, training videos and marketing animations. Writer on The Impact. Science PhD, loves nature and art.
@paulseesequasis.bsky.social
Curator, writer, photography. Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun. People of the Watershed (one of ‘the 10 best things about visual arts in 2024’) - The Globe and Mail.
@indiehallett.bsky.social
Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate, college professor, and proud owner of a mini schnoodle.
@tiafishler.bsky.social
poet MFA iowa writers’ workshop adjunct professor @ u of iowa bartendress poetry in/soon to be in: Seneca Review, Bullshit Lit, Prompt Press, Broken Stone Review, and Feminine Collective
@willdonnelly.bsky.social
Writer/Founder of the Avid Writers' Collective/No Fun at All. Iowa MFA, Houston PhD. Words in Barrelhouse, Zone 3, Hobart, Sequestrum, etc. he/him Athens, Georgia, USA
@chelsdingman.bsky.social
Author of Thaw (@ugapress 2017 National Poetry Series) Through a Small Ghost (@ugapress 2020) I, Divided (@lsupress 2023) PhD Candidate @ualberta Poetry editor @sweetliterary
@kellyluce.bsky.social
author of THREE SCENARIOS IN WHICH HANA SASAKI GROWS A TAIL (A\SO) and PULL ME UNDER (FSG). Radcliffe fellow. Editor of Electric Lit's The Commuter