Jessica Keller
Reader, writer, dog lover, traveler. Formerly always in motion, I'm learning how to stand still and I love it.
@kdrahota.bsky.social
@jonsteinhagen.bsky.social
author, screenwriter, playwright, actor, musician, songwriter (not always at the same time) - The Hanging Artist; Blizzard ‘67; The Big Book of Sounds; Party Favors; The Teapot Scandals; Successors et al
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
The 🌎’s oldest and largest library association. Find us at https://ala.org. We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
@melanieben.bsky.social
NYTimes bestselling author - The Swans of Fifth Avenue, The Aviator’s Wife, The Children’s Blizzard & more. Cat lady, movie fiend & proud Chicagoan. www.melaniebenjamin.com
@taylormoore.bsky.social
Freelance journalist in Chicago with work in The Guardian, WBEZ, Chicago Reader, Block Club Chicago, etc. Ex-IWMF. Bloomin' onion apologist. taylorgmoore.com
@bryndonovan.bsky.social
Author, blogger at BrynDonovan.com, freelance book editor at LuckyAuthor.com, and hopeful romantic in Chicago. Get my romcom novel HER KNIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: https://amzn.to/3CxgpYF
@awmuseum.bsky.social
Our mission is to excite audiences about the impact of American writers—past, present, & future—in shaping our collective histories, identities, & daily lives.
@writernatswift.bsky.social
Author of time travel stories BLUE SKIES (in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective Volume 1) and FROM NOW ON (Vol. 3). Working on PBs, MG Sci-fi, and haiku as @haikuformykids.bsky.social (he/him)
@skron11.bsky.social
Writing, translation and psychiatry. Assoc Editor Longform CNF @craftliterary. Translating French-English. Essays, transl. & reviews: @HungerMtn, @pleaseseemelit1, @JAMANetwork, @NecessaryFic, @worldkidlit, @ChicagoRevBooks @mayday.mag . Insta: @skron11
@evanderlang.bsky.social
writer in Chicagoland. all publications here: https://www.evanderlang.com/ reader for @fracturedlit.bsky.social and Hypertext Magazine
@bside-editions.bsky.social
Occasional book publisher. Not the obvious popular hits, just the sneakily enduring songs. Chicago, IL. www.bsideeditions.com
@stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social
Chicago | Writer | 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow | Tin House Summer 2023
@zakmucha.bsky.social
social worker, psychoanalyst, author of Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work... and president of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
@jennaschmenna.bsky.social
Author of MADE FOR YOU, out now, THE NEW YEAR'S PARTY (Nov 2025) and BEACH BODIES (PRH UK, summer 2025)/ A KILLER GETAWAY (Sourcebooks) under pen name Sienna Sharpe. Literary Agent at Storm Literary. Tenacious.
@marthabayne.bsky.social
Writer, editor, dancer, souper. Various responsibilities @ University of Illinois Press, South Side Weekly, Theater Oobleck, Soup & Bread. Essays @ marthabayne.substack.com.
@leahblaine.bsky.social
Probably needs more coffee and definitely lost her glasses. Chicago writer and all around bad influence. she/her leahblaine.com for writerly things
@adamsleper.bsky.social
Dad, hubby, writer. Illinois artist grants, Chicago Writers Assoc, Horror Writers Assoc, Page/AFF finalist, PEN Emerging Writers. Black List 8+. Shakespeare/R.E.M. USMNT/Huskers/Red Sox. Rep: Mark Gottlieb@Trident www.adamsleper.com AdamSleper.substack.com
@eveewing.bsky.social
I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [Exceptional X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
@rosemetalpress.bsky.social
Rose Metal Press is a non-profit publisher specializing in the publication of hybrid genre books. Founded in 2006. Posts by co-founders Abby Beckel and Kathleen Rooney. Check out our books and amazing authors here: www.rosemetalpress.com
@jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social
Small used & new bookstore in Rogers Park, Chicago. 1522 W. Jarvis Tuesday-Sunday, 11-6 Posts most often by @kateharding.bsky.social
@martinseay.bsky.social
Author of The Mirror Thief (Melville House 2016). Suspicious of brevity.
@urrealism.bsky.social
Author and reader, husband & grandpa, scribbler in notebooks, wanderer. Team Urrea is always on the scenic route.
@rebkel.bsky.social
Artist Writer Professor Parent Citizen Human. Fulbright scholar, Pushcart Nominee, NEA award winner, Author of You Should Have Known/Crooked Lane; Excavating History /Stepsister press; professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
@pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
Established 2016, worker owned and operated since 2020. Always Carry A Book
@observacious.bsky.social
Writer, dabbler, daydreamer. Halloween queen. Chicago by way of a lot of places. She/her
@haymarketbooks.org
radical publisher of politics, culture, current events haymarketbooks.org
@mpmthewriter.bsky.social
Author of the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series; DEATH IN THE CARDS (May 13, 2025) Filipino American 🇵🇭🏳️🌈 She/her https://linktr.ee/mpmthewriter
@robertloerzel.bsky.social
Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
@windycitytimes.com
Windy City Times: Your go-to source for LGBTQ+ news, culture, and community stories in Chicago. Founded 1985.
@mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social
Grammy-nominated Writer, Performer, Interdisciplinary Artist. Author of A MAP OF MY WANT (Haymarket Books , 2024) and HOODWITCH (Acre Books, 2019).
@adnauman.bsky.social
I am an author and educator in Chicago. My latest novel is DOWN THE STEEP, a Great Group Reads 2024 pick for book clubs. I teach literacy education at Northeastern Illinois University. Also, I have a cat.
@purelyfiction.bsky.social
I teach at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Here for writing: experimental, fictional, constrained, with images, with music. My book reviews are on Goodreads. All the art stuff is over on Academia.
@roscoebooks.bsky.social
We are your friendly neighborhood bookstore located in Chicago's Roscoe Village. Order online at www.roscoebooks.com.
@bookends.bsky.social
Evanston's independent bookstore 1620 Orrington Ave. Open every day! 10-6 Sunday-Tuesday 10-8 Wednesday-Saturday
@nupress.bsky.social
Northwestern University Press is dedicated to publishing books of enduring scholarly and cultural value, from philosophy, to poetry, to lit crit, to translations, and beyond. We are home to TriQuarterly and Curbstone Books.
@andymboyle.bsky.social
Chicago person. Nonfiction books with Penguin Random House. Journalism in Esquire, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Fiction in some hip spots. 2023 Hugh Holton award winner. Medium tall.
@awolfson.bsky.social
Writing memoir, poetry, essays, and performance-stuff, etc., in Chicago. I also do software. If you wanna keep up with me: newsletter.aaronjacobwolfson.com
@ignatius2u.bsky.social
Host/Curator: sundaysalon-chicago.com > Ragdale, Board of Trustees member & Co-Chair, Curatorial Bd. Writer & poet. Books: Fishhead. Republic of Want (novel) & Salt Pruning (poetry) https://linktr.ee/ignatius.valentine.aloysius
@dahlialithwick.bsky.social
Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
@taniel.bsky.social
Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
@amandamull.bsky.social
Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.
@imaniperry.bsky.social
Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less.
@adriennemareebrown.bsky.social
writer. gardener of healing ideas. emergent strategist, pleasure activist. earthling. good witch. homecoming southerner. https://linktr.ee/adriennemareebrown
@mjsdc.bsky.social
Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Dad to one toddler and several other animals.