Kim Kankiewicz
Author of Bellwether: A Telephone Operator, a Landmark Court Case, and the Women Whose Voices Connected a Nation (Union Square 2026). History and culture writer. Words in The Atlantic, NPR, Salon, Washington Post. she/her
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@leahbroad.bsky.social
Writer | Presenter | Historian I write about music, women's history & cultural history. QUARTET out now at https://linktr.ee/leahbroadwriter Substack: http://leahbroad.substack.com Website: http://leahbroad.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/leahbroad
@jeanettemrozinski.bsky.social
MFA candidate at Washington University in St. Louis Memoirist and live lit performer. Former sex worker, church worker, bureaucrat, etc. 'Practice: A Search for Salvation in Hotel Rooms, Churches and Other Wrong Places' querying soon. Chicago, Nashville
@torimarlan.bsky.social
Journalist | Bylines in the US and Canada | The Marshall Project, The Atavist Magazine, The Walrus Magazine, CBC, The Seattle Times, Buzzfeed News, and more. Chicago Reader alum. National Newspaper Award. torimarlan.com
@ksz714.bsky.social
Writer, reader, mom, yogi. All comments are my own. Join my writing community at www.penspalsprose.com
@sms22.bsky.social
💙✡️🇺🇦🇨🇦🐶💃🏻 Gen X Dem, NEVER Trumper, wife, stepmom, grandma, running, hiking, movies, music, coffee, HUMOR, dogs, travel, photography. Continuing the FIGHT 👊RESILIENCE 🇺🇸
@jessielchaffee.bsky.social
Author of Florence in Ecstasy. Living with and writing about #longcovid https://lithub.com/a-single-ray-of-light-on-ray-bradburys-all-summer-in-a-day-and-living-in-the-shadow-of-long-covid/ www.JessieChaffee.com
@marcelkrueger.bsky.social
Run out the boat, my broken comrades. Books & essays on memory and place, especially about Ireland, Germany, Poland. Antifascist and proud member of #NAFO. I live in Berlin. Editor of @elsewherejournal.bsky.social https://www.marcelkrueger.eu/
@caitlinjgorman.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, over-thinker. I spend a lot of time pondering and writing about the personal politics of parenting and partnering.
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
@kaylacalkin.bsky.social
Full-Time Federal Campaigns Director @NRDC.org🌎. Part-Time Westie belly scratcher 🐶. Breast cancer thriver. 🫶🏻 Denver based🏔️World bound. ✈️ Alum of: ✔️Kamala Harris ✔️First Descents ✔️Hillary ✔️Planned Parenthood ✔️Wellesley College
@piperformissouri.bsky.social
Executive Director, Blue Missouri. Grassroots organizer. Writer. Educator. Former State House nominee. Rural mom fighting for rural schools.
@boozybiblescholar.bsky.social
Angela Parker, PhD, Womanist New Testament Scholar, teacher, preacher, trying to make a difference in her corner of the world. I am the author of If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I? Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority.
@sideboob55.bsky.social
Easily distracted Gen X’er fighting for democracy and human rights 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Married mom of 2 KC Chiefs-Royals-Current Taylor Swift/Robert Plant/Ethel Cain My body MY CHOICE #abortionishealthcare #Ivoted4her
@susanstinson.bsky.social
Novelist. Author of Martha Moody, Spider in a Tree, and Venus of Chalk from Small Beer Press. Essays in The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies and The Portable Feminist Reader. Triker. she/her.
@mikehixenbaugh.com
NBC News senior reporter | Author of THEY CAME FOR THE SCHOOLS | Co-creator of SOUTHLAKE & GRAPEVINE podcasts | Retired t-ball coach www.mikehixenbaugh.com
@marybattenauthor.bsky.social
Author, nature/science books, articles, TV documentaries. Emmy nominee for work on Children’s Television Workshop’s series, 3-2-1 CONTACT. Recent book, Life in Hot Water: Wildlife at the Bottom of the Ocean. #AuthorsGuild Website: MaryBatten.com
@carolinewampole.bsky.social
Writer, artist, cofounder/singer/bass player for 90s rock band Big Soul. Working on a memoir about music, men, my mother, and how art can lead you to a true home. https://carolinewampole.com/
@lwroseauthor.bsky.social
Author of Embers on the Wind (8/22 Little A), Mirror Me (out 12/1 Little A) Psychotherapist, former Ballet Dancer, cancer mom, binder, She/Her
@whirlyjoy.bsky.social
Writer, life navigator, unapologetic crone. Pot-stirrer, beanstalk-grower. Play from where the monkey drops the ball ✨ joygehner.com #Binders #CNF #memoir
@erikabolstad.bsky.social
Journalist, doc filmmaker and author of Windfall. Portland, Ore. Find The Windfall Dispatch on Substack. erikabolstad.com
@richdunbar.ca
📘 #1 Amazon Best Seller – Business Mentoring 🔥 Bottom-Up Breakthrough is changing how orgs grow 💡 Driving impact w/ Bottom-Up Communication 📖 Buy my book: a.co/d/fORQgrn 🔗 bottom-up.ca | LinkedIn.com/in/rich-dunbar
@lilyehirsch.bsky.social
Writer (often about music). Reluctant book promoter. Ok, I can do this: author of Can’t Stop the Grrrls and Weird Al: Seriously. Sometimes tries to be funny.
@joannplockova.bsky.social
Journalist//Design+Architecture+Travel. Writer. Essayist. Author. Prague + US.
@katiewsimon.bsky.social
Author of Tell Me What You Like: An Honest Discussion of Sex and Intimacy After Sexual Assault, out July 29, 2025. Words in NYT, Vogue, Tin House, BuzzFeed, Washington Post, etc. 🏠 in Texas with 🐶 named Babka 🌈
@katiedarbymullins.bsky.social
Writer, Founder/Editor in Chief at The Apologist, Heavy-Metal mouth. I’m too online— I’ve lost the context. I want to be the OK Go of writing.
@mungomortimer.bsky.social
Ohioan (but I have come to accept it). MAGA hater. Hard core liberal. Retired newspaper writer. Sober 20 years. Trusts no one, suspects everyone. Follows Ravens and Orioles. Towson State Class of 1976. NO DMs!!!
@ravenreyes.bsky.social
Politically engaged 🦋 | Progressive Democrat 🌱 | Pro-democracy Constitutionalist 🗽 #BlueCrew 💙 #Resist ✊🏻 #FBR 🤝🏻 Patriotic 🇺🇸 | Millennial 🌈 | Married 💍 | Coloradan 🌸🌲 | FDT 💀 ❌ No MAGA — ⚠️ Blocked on sight 🚫 No DMs | 🚫 No trolls | 🚫 Don’t ask for 💲
@inbetweenqueen.bsky.social
Queer Jewish writer in Chicago. Author of Homegrown Jewish Heart.
@laurenemilywrites.bsky.social
Author and writer for hire: I HEART JENNIFER COOLIDGE, four novels, a Christmas book about a screaming goat. https://linktr.ee/laurenemilywrites
@elissaaltman.bsky.social
Author of Permission (3/25), Motherland, Poor Man’s Feast, Treyf, many essays. Author, teacher, editor, musician. Ever hopeful. 🕊️🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺 Poormansfeast.substack.com
@shannontsonis.bsky.social
Essays in Booth, Memoir Magazine, Little Patuxent Review, Lunch Ticket and others. MFA from Goucher, MBA from Towson.
@kalindivora.bsky.social
Writer, thinker, teacher. Books: Life Support, Surrogate Humanity, Reimagining Reproduction Prof. at Yale #criticaltheory #sts #cres #feministsts #futureofwork #surrogacy #medicaljustice #criticalAIstudies kalindivora.com
@patrickobrienstrickland.com
Writer from Texas Managing editor @inkstickmedia.com Books: You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave (2025), The Marauders (2022) & Alerta! Alerta! (2018) Fiction: Epiphany, Porter House Review, Cleaver, etc.
@barbarajferraro.bsky.social
writer, foodie, furniture junkie. oaky, not buttery. chicago girl. stay curious. www.barbarajferraro.com
@edvigegiunta.bsky.social
Sicilian American writer, editor, teacher. Author of Writing with an Accent. Coeditor of Talking to the Girls. Writing in DECEMBER, ADROIT, PITHEAD CHAPEL, FICTIVE DREAM, WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS, ASSAY. Prof of English at NJCU. Www.edvigegiunta.com
@micheledhaber.bsky.social
Writer, Potter, Step Adoptee, Worker Advocate, Slowest Cyclist Ever. Salon, NYT Modern Love. TAL #binders, #memoir #canadianwriter #reconstructionistjudaism
@rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social
Poet & novelist. Author of The Sweating Sickness & Ringer (University of Pittsburgh Press) & Between the Crackups (Salt). EIC @coupletpoetry.bsky.social Opinions my own.
@lakshgiri.bsky.social
Parent. Author. Woman in tech. Kdrama watcher. Ahjumma ARMY. Documentary - Love, Chaos, Kin. Editor @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙 Website: lgiyer.com
@jamiebeth.bsky.social
I write things. And do things. And read things. Not in that order. Or any order. she/her secularjewishfeminist
@rgj1wydem.bsky.social
💙👧🏻 I'm a blue dot with brown skin in blood red WY. Yes, I've dealt with racism my entire life. Antifa/BLM/LGBTQ ally/pro choice/ Christian, NOT Evangelical. In recovery since 2011! NO DM'S or I will BLOCK!