Isabel Kaplan
Author of the national bestselling novel NSFW and that viral essay “My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I’m a writer,” among other things. Substack: isabelkaplan.substack.com / Happiest underwater or surrounded by dogs.
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Smart Writers
An entirely subjective and limited list of excellent writers, mostly literary fiction. To be expanded. If you want to be included, comment/repost and I’ll add you!
@rebeccanagle.bsky.social
Cherokee writer and journalist, check out my substack: https://gohini.substack.com/ Author of BY THE FIRE WE CARRY out now https://www.harpercollins.com/products/by-the-fire-we-carry-rebecca-nagle?variant=41322925359138
@karlajstrand.com
Feminist Writer-Guide-Historian-Gender & Women’s Studies Librarian Reads for the Rest of Us @msmagazine Coming soon: Bibliotherapy, tarot, astrology, and genealogy https://www.karlajstrand.com/ karla@karlajstrand.com
@ruthjoffre.bsky.social
Author of Night Beast | Instructor at Hugo House, Corporeal Writing, and StoryStudio | Editor at Reckoning | Contributing Editor at Copper Nickel | Queer | Bolivian American | Birder | www.ruthjoffre.org
@jenniferlunden.bsky.social
Author of AMERICAN BREAKDOWN: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life. She/her.
@michaelnobbs.bsky.social
Artist and tea drinker living on a hillside in Wales. Learning to live a gentle creative life and encouraging others to do the same. Diagnosed with #MECFS in 1997. www.patreon.com/gogently https://linktr.ee/michaelnobbs ✍️🧶
@natebear1.bsky.social
Disease, climate, ecology, tech, empire, other stuff. About me and where I write about these things: http://donotpanic.news
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social
Writer of The Gauntlet, about COVID and public health. Read: thegauntlet.news Subscribe: thegauntlet.news/subscribe
@kaufmanwrites.bsky.social
Writer--mysteries, YA and non-fiction. Worked in 50 countries engaging men to support women's rights & positively transform men's lives. Latest: "The Male Ally Handbook" & "Moon Storm Rising" (K Quinn) & "The Last Resort" both with climate change themes
@alicemaglio.bsky.social
writer & product designer | words in DIAGRAM, No Tokens, Black Warrior Review, Fugue, Wigleaf, X-R-A-Y | she/her 🌈 https://www.alicemaglio.com/writing
@jesslahey.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author (Gift of Failure, Addiction Inoculation), host #AmWriting pod, mom, sober. Past: NYT columnist, Atlantic, WaPo. Teacher. Vermonter. Prevention works.
@ikushner.bsky.social
Minneapolitan. Former endurance athlete with #longCOVID. Dad joke enthusiast. Avid reader and cook. Aspiring birder. Suns, Capitals, and Twins fan.
@matthewklam.bsky.social
Writer, reader, professor, editor • Author of NYT Notables Who Is Rich? and Sam The Cat • editing help at https://www.matthewklam.com/worktogether
@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
@skibu.bsky.social
Long Covid has annihilated me. Disabled musician. Created tech behind transit data companies Swiftly and NextBus. Person behind robotaxi.news & helpBluesky.me . Co-founder of Walk SF. The War on Cars will be won by @safeStreetRebel !
@baddestmamajama.bsky.social
Filmmaker (WHAT LIES WEST) and formerly a little Twitter famous. Married to @sean-a-tiger.bsky.social, writes with @nicksinnott.com
@onviewlesswings.bsky.social
Writing, reading, running. Poetry PhD: vital instability in the 2nd generation Romantics. Am actually writing. Interested in the amplification of working class voices, northern voices, & kind & talented voices. Writing, I swear. Meliorist, still.
@esmewang.com
📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise 🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller 🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com 🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her 🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
@edmarkey.bsky.social
U.S. Senator fighting for the families and future of Massachusetts. Malden Native, Red Sox Fan, Net Neutrality Defender, co-author of the Green New Deal ( he/him )
@markey.senate.gov
Senator for Massachusetts. Ranker on Senate Small Business Committee & HELP Primary Health & Retirement Security Subcommittee. Fighting for a Green New Deal.
@maxberger.bsky.social
Just happy to be here. Co-Founder IfNotNow, More Perfect Union, Momentum Training Institute. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc.
@stephenarhodes.bsky.social
Lover of democracy. Proud Appalachian (living in RVA). Progressive Democrat. Seeker of a more just society. Writer. Reader. Doodler. Indivisible. Dog Lover. CFS/ME. He/Him.
@roseclifflit.bsky.social
DC-based literary agency | where stories find their path | founder @jessicaberg.bsky.social
@onalifeglug.bsky.social
Writer — Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and Spirituality (Repeater Books), Shock Doctrine of the Left (Polity), now working on some utopian fiction https://repeaterbooks.com/product/red-enlightenment/
@just-jack-1.bsky.social
"Our capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but our inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." https://buymeacoffee.com/justjack1
@scarletteharris.bsky.social
Tomatometer-approved culture critic at Vogue, New York Times, Cosmo & elsewhere. Author & editor. I have a lot of opinions. Pay me to write about them 📩 scarlett.harris@y7mail.com she/her scarlettwoman.com.au/about/ scarlettwoman.substack.com
@cherylpappas.bsky.social
Writer. Book: THE CLARITY OF HUNGER Word West Press (2021). MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com Novel-in-progress: Abandon www.cherylpappas.net
@louisstaples.bsky.social
Journalist: The Guardian, New York Times, NYMag, BBC, Vogue, GQ, Rolling Stone. Rep'd by United Agents 📚 ✉️: louis-staples@hotmail.com
@asportsminister.bsky.social
⚾️ Writer and illustrator 🍿 Amateur movie critic 🔗 ballharder.substack.com 📧 mattlanark@gmail.com
@jennybartoy.bsky.social
Writer & Editor | NO CONTACT: 28 WRITERS ON FAMILY ESTRANGEMENT (Catapult, 2026) | Author profiles, interviews & book reviews | Developmental editing & manuscript critique | Reading lit fiction, mystery, memoir | PNW lefty
@colinhamilton.bsky.social
Occassional writer (The Discarded, The Thirteenth Month). Collector of imaginary books, library lore, and other miscellany. Sucker for the spurious glamor of certain voids.
@kwistent.bsky.social
Author of THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW, coming 01/21/25 from Bold Type / critic with words in NYRB, WaPo, NPR, The New Republic, and elsewhere / member Freelance Solidarity Project and National Book Critics Circle / Philly / kristenmartin.net
@laurensandler.bsky.social
Journalist, author, jaywalker. Books: THIS IS ALL I GOT, ONE AND ONLY, RIGHTEOUS. Next up: AMERICAN PROPHECY. Thought I'd finally join Twitter.
@karensmiley.com
AI ethicist, data strategist, innovator, author. Host of "AI, Software, & Wetware" podcast/interviews. #EthicalAI #DiversityInTech #WomenInSTEM #DataPrivacy #Equity #Software. 100% #WrittenByHuman. Unaffiliated. eX @agile_teams. She/they. 🇺🇸
@burnedbybooks.bsky.social
Burnedbybooks.com Literature Professor with a books podcast. Guests include: Jennifer Egan, Percival Everett, AM Homes, Rebecca Makkai, Kevin Wilson, Victor LaValle, Celeste Ng, Katie Kitamura, Elif Batuman. Author of: http://tiny.cc/3e7vzz
@jonathanames.bsky.social
Author of a dozen books, including the DOLL series: A MAN NAMED DOLL (2021), THE WHEEL OF DOLL (2022), and KARMA DOLL (January 2025). Other titles include: YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, WAKE UP, SIR!, and THE EXTRA MAN. TV shows: BLUNT TALK, BORED TO DEATH.
@kermichele.bsky.social
mouse detective. HOUSE OF BETH out from Simon & Schuster in July 2025 & available for preorder now. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/House-of-Beth/Kerry-Cullen/9781668074596
@spencerfleury.bsky.social
Author, THE SHITBIRD (Stanchion Books, 2026), I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU (Malarkey Books, 2024) (https://malarkeybooks.com/store/iblamemyself) and HOW I’M SPENDING MY AFTERLIFE. Hat enthusiast. Former Florida man. My Erdos number is four. SF, CA.
@kevinashton.bsky.social
Called a thing the Internet of Things—Wrote How to Fly A Horse—http://amzn.to/1jTEwzf—He/Him—Literary Agent: Richard Pine/Inkwell—Speaking Agent: Mary Ellen/Leigh Bureau. Bi, queer, British—Austin, TX—New book 3/3/2026—I do not argue, debate, or engage.
@readandbreathe.bsky.social
Writer. Editor of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (2019) and WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (May 2025). www.michelefilgate.com
@czoffness.bsky.social
Author of SPILT MILK (McSweeneys). Sunday Times Short Story Award winner. Fellowships: The Center for Fiction, MacDowell. Creative Writing Director at Drew University.
@dieworkwear.bsky.social
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. If you have a style question, search: https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
@physiologyfish.bsky.social
Professor of marine biology at James Cook University, Australia - #biodiversity #coralreefs #fish #sharks #stress #physiology #evolution #conservation #climatechange #physioshark #TEDx #LGBTQ #STEM
@laurahazardowen.bsky.social
Editor of @niemanlab.org / a fun mom in Cambridge, MA https://illberightback.substack.com/ Ebikes | Mysteries | Baking | Parent gossip | Public schools
@hels.bsky.social
“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches” New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication 🍉