Fall for the Book
Year round events with an October festival, based in Northern Virginia and at George Mason University. Find out more: https://linktr.ee/FallfortheBook
@demisty.bsky.social
Mother of twins, wife of dude, writer of stuff, prof. of student, PhD. Website at demistybellinger.com. Story collection All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere (U-Nebraska Press: Zero Street Fiction: https://tinyurl.com/prdacfrt)
@betsyaoki.bsky.social
Game producer, writer, poet. Clarion West grad and currently poetry editor at Uncanny Magazine. See Betsyaoki.com for more.
@yermiyahu-a-taub.bsky.social
Librarian, Poet, Writer, and Translator of Yiddish Literature.
@superbiracialman.bsky.social
GIVE MY LOVE TO THE SAVAGES: Stories. Finalist for PEN/Bingham Prize and Oregon Book Award. Paperback out now from Amistad/HarperCollins. Links below!
@emanquotah.bsky.social
Novelist, essayist, comms professional -- author of BRIDE OF THE SEA (Tin House)
@danikastegeman.bsky.social
Ablation | 11:11 Press (11/1/23); Pilot | Spork Press (2020) more at https://www.danikastegeman.com/
@deanjobb.bsky.social
Strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. A Gentleman and a Thief • The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream • Empire of Deception (Algonquin Books/HarperCollins Canada) Website: www.deanjobb.com Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y935u82h
@rumiwithaview.bsky.social
Speaker & author who dances with refugees 💃 Wrote A Girl Called Rumi & Rumi's Gift ✨ @ Teen Vogue, WashPost, The Guardian, etc Joy as an Act of Resistance
@bettysueblue.bsky.social
Author. Editor. Educator. Anti-fascist. EIC & Publisher of Black Lily Zine. Living w C-PTSD & vocal about ending the stigma surrounding mental illness.
@klausdodds.bsky.social
Executive Dean and Professor of Geopolitics in the School of Life Sciences and Environment at Royal Holloway University of London. Co-Author of Unfrozen (Yale UP 2025) and deeply interested in polar geopolitics. Hon Fellow of British Antarctic Survey.
@victoriachang.bsky.social
Poet and writer. Avid reader. Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
@oliviacampbell.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling author of WOMEN IN WHITE COATS and SISTERS IN SCIENCE. Editor, Parents & Everyday Health. Regular contributor, NatGeo. Journalist. Essayist. Feminist. Mom. Lover of cats, books, baking, tea, & thrifting
@msoledadcaballero.bsky.social
Poet, Literature & WGSS Professor, Book: I Was a Bell (Red Hen Press, 2021) & Book: Flight Plan (Red Hen Press, fall 2025). More writing stuff: msoledadcaballero.com Also: I LOVE birds of prey.
@jennbouchardbos.bsky.social
Writer in Boston of New England coastal foodie romance. FIRST COURSE (2021), audiobook by Tantor (2023). CONSIDERING US (2025) by Black Rose Writing. PALMS ON THE CAPE coming 2026.
@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
@exclamate.bsky.social
@legalethics.bsky.social
Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston | writing at legalethics.substack.com | author of Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court (2020) and Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis (2024)
@porochista.bsky.social
author | 5th book: Tehrangeles @pantheonbooks (2024) | contrib editor @evergreenreview | Iranian | she/her | agent Susan Golomb | IG pchza | www.porochistakhakpour | [email protected]
@shanakeller.bsky.social
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." A.E.
@ayanaeliza.bsky.social
Marine biologist, writer, policy nerd. Co-founder Urban Ocean Lab, think tank for the future of coastal cities. In love with climate solutions.
@jennifershirsch.bsky.social
Writing a book. Doing the work. Loving my people. Making some pies. Skiing while there is still snow. Co-author (w Shamus Khan) of #SexualCitizens (@wwnorton)
@rhemley.bsky.social
Award-winning author of 16 books of nonfiction and fiction. Guggenheim. Pushcarts. Rockefeller Foundation. Former Director Nonfiction Writing Program, University of Iowa. Founder, NonfictioNOW. Co-founder Authors at Large. Co-editor, Speculative Nonfiction
@poetnikki.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, general word-nerd, gardener, photographer, foodie, film lover. My favorite people on the planet are children, which is why I write for them. Oh! And I'm a freak for roses, watercolor, and collage. Author of Ordinary Hazards, a memoir.
@kellijoford.bsky.social
Crooked Hallelujah (Grove Atlantic). Cherokee Nation>TX>Virginia. Cherokee. she/her. Hiatusing over here now. kellijoford.com
@susanmd.bsky.social
Novelist 📚 BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA (Harper Collins, Jan 2024) 🌟 FARAH ROCKS series (Capstone Books) 🏆American Book Award. Teaches creative writing @ Johns Hopkins Univ. She/her 🇵🇸 www.SusanMDBooks.com
@lisaampleman.bsky.social
Poet (Mom in Space), parent, editor (Cincinnati Review; Acre Books), space nerd.
@sarahweinman.com
Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Author, SCOUNDREL and THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN. Next nonfiction book (November 2025): WITHOUT CONSENT http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
@katyupperman.bsky.social
author 📖 swiftie 🪩 GWP mom 🐶 OC 🍊 EVERYTHING I PROMISED YOU — 1/28/25
@katiadulysse.bsky.social
Kreyol-speaking Haitian Woman. Born and Raised. Mother. Wife. Avid Reader. Fiction Writer. Teacher. Songwriter. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katia.d.ulysse/ https://www.threads.net/@katiadulysse www.katiadulysse.com
@sarvenaztash.bsky.social
Author of THE GEEK’S GUIDE TO UNREQUITED LOVE, A WHOLE SONG AND DANCE, THE QUEEN OF OCEAN PARKWAY and more. Geek. Mom. Showtune enthusiast. www.sarvenaztash.com
@erikaswyler.bsky.social
Novelist. Garden variety weirdo. Unrepentant typo queen. Books: We Lived On the Horizon (Atria, 1/14/25), Light From Other Stars, The Book of Speculation. She/her (all pronouns are fine) https://linktr.ee/erikaswyler
@alicestephens.bsky.social
FAMOUS ADOPTED PEOPLE (Unnamed Press, 2018), THE TWAIN (forthcoming from Regal House Publishing 2027), book reviewer, essayist, transracial adoptee, KAD, hapa www.famousadoptedpeople.com
@laurasimswriter.bsky.social
Novelist, Poet, Librarian. Author of HOW CAN I HELP YOU and LOOKER.
@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.)
@reeamilcarscott.bsky.social
Camouflage fatigues & dashikis. Somewhere in between Ralph Ellison and PE 📚:🔥INSURRECTIONS🔥(PEN/Bingham winner) and THE W🌍RLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU I write love notes to black people & dis songs to white supremacy. 90% love. 10% dis. I deserve it all.
@jessica-p-robinson.bsky.social
Jessica Robinson is Executive Director of Better Said Than Done, a storyteller, the co-author of Roar: True Tales of Women Warriors, author of the novel Caged (JP Robinson), and the memoir Stages: My Life in Stories. https://jessicapiscitellirobinson.com/
@zachpowers.bsky.social
Author: THE MIGRAINE DIARIES (2026), FIRST COSMIC VELOCITY (2019) & GRAVITY CHANGES (2017). Artistic Director at The Writer’s Center & Poet Lore. zachpowers.com
@phdamaka.bsky.social
Assoc Professor of Sociology | Author of To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions (2019) | Oral Historian | Social Movements, Race/Place/Space, Black Brooklyn 📍DC
@laurenmorrill.bsky.social
Author of spicy romcoms, co-owner of Good Girl Books (Knoxville), ravenous romance reader, and inveterate yapper.
@jennifermilitello.bsky.social
poet & memoirist 🌎🌻✨📚 Poet Laureate of New Hampshire author of THE PACT (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books) and KNOCK WOOD (Dzanc Books) https://jennifermilitello.com/
@gmmalliet.bsky.social
Author of the Max Tudor and St. Just and Augusta Hawke mysteries, and dozens of short stories.
@raimalarter.bsky.social
Writer & Scientist. Nonfiction Editor @utopiascifi.bsky.social Author of 3 novels, 2 collections & 1 nonfiction science book. Websites https://raimalarter.com/, raima.substack.com, https://writing.exchange/@raimalarter In Denver & loving it!
@stevekettmann.bsky.social
Baseball fan. Book author, coauthor and editor. Titles: "One Day at Fenway" "Baseball Maverick." Occasional bylines: Washington Monthly, NYT. Host writers at www.wellstoneredwoods.org in Northern California.
@bychristinajune.bsky.social
Award-winning kidlit author - It Started With Goodbye, Everywhere You Want To Be, No Place Like Here. NoVa. Professional problem-solver. Traveler. Dog mama. Yoga. linktr.ee/bychristinajune
@garethhinds.bsky.social
Creator of acclaimed graphic novel adaptations of classics like The Odyssey, The Iliad, Beowulf, and more. www.garethhinds.com
@yonaharvey.bsky.social
Author of the poetry collections You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love and Hemming the Water. Co-writer of Marvel's World of Wakanda and Black Panther & the Crew.