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#BKind - Some of the Kindest people I know! (1)
I wanted to share with you some of the kindest people I know! This is just a start with many more to come. Rufus came up with #BKind over on X over 2 years ago. Rufus, Lynn, and I wanted to continue the tradition here!
@dlapato.bsky.social
Assistant professor interested in psychiatric and behavioral genetics, open science initiatives, and dinosaurs.
@skyfyre88.bsky.social
She/her. A geeky librarian, full of tea and anxiety. Co-host of No Story Is Sacred. Viable Paradise staff. https://linktr.ee/pippin_m
@sorenstuve.bsky.social
Video editor by day. Speculative fiction writer by night. Viable Paradise 2024. Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop 2025. (I am not very active on social media but trying to get better!) sorenstuve.com
@waldo.net
Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and the Biden administration. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
@jeffekennedy.bsky.social
Award-winning, Bestselling Author of epic fantasy romance. @sfwa.bsky.social Past-President. Swiftie. She/Her. Opinions my own. Who else's opinions would they be? Rep by Sarah Younger at Nancy Yost Literary Agency https://give.vowforgirls.org/give/638986/#
@clairejiawen.bsky.social
avid grocery shopper | vp 2024 | codex | words in clarkesworld + khoreo repped by @allegramartsch.bsky.social clairejiawen.com
@lisashortauthor.com
Texas-born, Kansas-bred, Maryland-resident writer of fantasy, science fiction and horror. Member SFWA and HWA and Taos Toolbox '24 grad. Writing at lisashortauthor.com
@dianarowland.bsky.social
I write about demons and zombies and social/class issues… but funny. Related, I’ve done unspeakable things to a whole lot of dead bodies.
@bintadixon.bsky.social
Writing my way toward strange and hopeful futures. Crafting a care-centered life in the present. Fantasy/Sci-fi. Viable Paradise 2024. Bird enthusiast. Earth steward. Care advocate. Herbalist. Afrofuturism Collective 2024-2025.
@babarnett.bsky.social
Fantasy & horror writer. Musician. Occasional orchestra librarian. Odyssey Writing Workshop grad, critiquer & blog editor. Taos Toolbox 2024. Repped by Emily Keyes. She/her. https://babarnett.com
@abraham.bsky.social
Novelist, screenwriter, and the James half of James SA Corey. He/him [email protected]
@numberwright.bsky.social
Landscape ecology, multivariate statistics, geospatial everything. All opinions my own; none are official positions of my employer.
@tbonejenkins.bsky.social
Science fiction and fantasy writer. Editor of GigaNotoSaurus Magazine. Anime watcher and knitter. Follower of Womanist theology. She/Her. Also, pie.
@jessieroywrites.bsky.social
SFF writer, dungeon master, professional lurker. VP 2024. Check me out at www.jessieroy.com
@matociquala.bsky.social
Multiple award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat. Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/matociquala Next book: THE FOLDED SKY June 2025 https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
@scottlynch78.bsky.social
47, fantasy writer, author of THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA. ex-firefighter, veteran MechWarrior. Minnesotan transplanted to Massachusetts. Gizmonic Institute (1989-92). Instructor at Viable Paradise.
@darylwriterguy.bsky.social
Daryl Gregory, a guy who writes things. WHEN WE WERE REAL out April 1 2025, no foolin'. He/him
@maxgladstone.bsky.social
NYT bestselling writer. Newsletter and updates at maxgladstone.com.
@fondalee.bsky.social
NYT bestselling, World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga & other books. Breath of the Dragon out now. News: http://eepurl.com/O9JDn
@tnh.nielsenhayden.com
Editor, writer, teacher, moderator, pottery maker, keeper of hamsters, skiffy trufan, high lyric baritone, old lady, neener neener. Also, @[email protected].
@pnh.nielsenhayden.com
VP and editor-at-large at the Tor Publishing Group. Series editor, Tor Essentials. Winner of three Hugos and a World Fantasy Award for editorial work. Opinions mine, not Tor’s. Happily working out of Tucson, AZ. He, his. Anti-trans dingbats, get lost.
@clpolk.com
I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/
@viableparadise.bsky.social
The writing workshop you've been looking for! https://viableparadise.com
@lezliethepoet.bsky.social
#author, poet, artist. Editor of Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre and Roses & Wildflowers Mythopoeic Fiction Magazine
@spencerorey.bsky.social
Writer | PhD anthropology | Odyssey '21 | Taos Toolbox '24 | Codexian | mostly SFFH things | Denmark | he/him find my stories here: https://spencerorey.com
@cmsullivan.bsky.social
new here! queer adult epic fantasy author, library dweller. taos toolbox '24. she/they. https://www.cm-sullivan.com
@sparklingrobots.bsky.social
Queer SFFH (and romance) fiction writer | Co-Founder of www.MañanaCon.com | Graduate of Taos Toolbox & Mary Robinette Kowal's Short Story Cohort | Codexian | they/them
@ramseyhootman.bsky.social
Author of COURTING GRETA, SURVIVING CYRIL, and CYRIL IN THE FLESH. Viable Paradise class of 2024 (!!!) "Well-developed and nontoxic" according to my doctor's notes. www.ramseyhootman.com
@flowerhorne.com
Writer, Quaker, candlestick maker. Open source technologist and occasional tailor. Fiction in F&SF, Futurescapes, Fireside, Friends' Journal, and places that don't start with F. They.
@vivmit.bsky.social
Writing SFF and non-fiction re race, migration, masculinity and other fun stuff. Immigration lawyer at UC. Writing "All My Regret” at vivmit.substack.com. Viable Paradise 2024 alum, VONA alum. Former Federal Clerk & EJW Fellow.
@travishime.net
Data scientist, writer, former physicist. Viable Paradise 2024 alum. He/him.
@devzmiller.bsky.social
Writer of sapphic SFF fiction and poetry, cyborg, Seattleite, plant nerd. devzmiller.com
@lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social
Pursuing the peccary with pardine limers. Lapsed academic. PhD in Japanese Art History. Writing, sewing, painting, and other assorted endeavors. Viable Paradise 2024. Short fiction in Old Moon Quarterly vol. 8. She/her www.elizabethmorrissey.com
@cycling2asylum.bsky.social
Writer of speculative, interstitial, and queer fiction; social rights activist. Author of Cycling to Asylum/Les lignes invisibles (longlisted for the Sunburst Award), Run J Run, and Zee. Viable Paradise 2024! Pronouns: xe, xyr /iel
@brightwhitney.bsky.social
Award-winning narrative designer & writer🎮 Developer at CDPR Future Class 2020, IndieCade (twice!), Top 100 Women in Games Speculative fiction Author👽🦄😱 Viable Paradise 24, SFWA, Codex https://brightwhitney.com
@jomizuno.bsky.social
@bzelkovich.bsky.social
A real piece of work (in progress). She/they. bzelkovich.com VP2024, stories in Luna Station Quarterly, Life Beyond Us, Folk Horror Short Stories (Beyond & Within), and more.
@mruthrobinson.bsky.social
MR, she/her. PhD candidate and writer of SFF · reader at Diabolical Plots · Clarion West ‘25 · VP2024 · SFWA · Codex · words at BCS, Small Wonders, Haven Spec, elsewhere · co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🪐 🗡️ 🌈 https://m-r-robinson.com
@jgownder.bsky.social
VP analyst @Forrester. Opinions mine alone. Future of work + tech. Viable Paradise 2024 (sci-fi/fantasy writers' workshop) graduate. Multiracial POC. 🏳️🌈 Harvard MA, BA. I regularly delete all posts and likes.