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@heatherklanier.bsky.social
Essayist, poet, TED Speaker, thrift store shopper. BOOKS: Raising a Rare Girl (New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice) & Psalms of Unknowing: Poems. Work in Longreads, The Sun, Atlantic. Writing Prof @RowanU. Trying to be more human, not superhuman.
@jamiljankochai.bsky.social
Story Collection "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories" - Aspen Lit Award Winner - National Book Award for Fiction Finalist - Stories in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, and The Best American Short Stories.
@jasonachristian.bsky.social
writer / English lecturer / cinephile / co-host: Cold War Cinema: sites.libsyn.com/501203 / website: jasonchristianwrites.com / 📍Atlanta
@itsjina.bsky.social
writer, editor, trauma-informed journalism advocate, and budding printmaker. jinamoore.com
@maijar.bsky.social
Go-go dancer in retirement. Finnish-American Jewish writer: Subset of a subset of a subset. Proud Democrat. ✡️🇫🇮🐕🌊
@bmcnely.bsky.social
Professor, University of Kentucky. Speak German, learning Norwegian, dabbling in Dutch. I read a lot and race bikes. Hmu with trap and Deutschrap recommendations. http://brianmcnely.com
@colindaileda.bsky.social
Typing. Work in The Atlantic, The Baffler, Longreads, Mashable, etc. Pulitzer Center grantee. He/him +91 7338618484, [email protected] https://colindaileda.org/about https://uncannythread.substack.com/p/rain
@tamikonimura.bsky.social
Writer, community journalist, public historian. Words in SF Chronicle, Zocalo Public Square, Smithsonian, Discover Nikkei, HistoryLink, The Rumpus. Occasional poet, food writer. 4ever English major. <3: @joshpar.bsky.social Rep: Transatlantic Agency
@lucaseschaefer.bsky.social
Debut novel THE SLIP coming from Simon & Schuster on 6/3/25.
@katjolewis.bsky.social
I write books and video games 🎮 | GOOD PEOPLE forthcoming from Simon & Schuster (2026) | Writing Craft Lessons on Substack | Rep: Robin Rue @ Writers House | Views = my own | she/her
@jackiewrites.bsky.social
Artist, writer, rep by The Book Group. www.jackiedesforges.com
@tkiramadden.bsky.social
author: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls & forthcoming Whidbey • hapa kanaka ‘ōiwi dyke • soup enthusiast & magician • land back • aloha 'āina • she/her
@ericajberry.bsky.social
Writer of feelings & the environment (Orion, NYT, Guardian, etc), teacher, author of Wolfish (winner of 2024 Oregon Book Award). Portland, OR. She/her. www.ericaberry.com
@dianahubbell.bsky.social
James Beard Award-winning food journalist Associate Editor at Atlas Obscura dianahubbell.com
@srilatha91.bsky.social
Writer, long distance mom,distracted wife, doglover. Pushcart nom 2025. BFFA long listed. Recipes http://rasaala.com https://linktr.ee/srilatha.rajagopal
@kristinamico.bsky.social
Single rabbit lady. Typewriter nerd. I write #Travel articles, #CreativeNonfiction & mystery thrillers. I quit my corporate job, sold all my belongings, and backpacked around the world in my 40s. Ask me about it #TravelWriter #Memoir #DigitalNomad
@jiminkanggg.bsky.social
Now: writing, mostly. Prev: geography & comp lit at Oxford, Princeton ('21), Reuters in 🇧🇷. Born 🇰🇷 raised 🇭🇰. https://www.jimin-kang.com/
@jackiecraven.bsky.social
What if Hours Could Speak? — Jackie Craven reimagines time in a prize-winning poetry collection: WHISH from Press 53. https://jackiecraven.com https://facebook.com/writerjackiecraven #poetry #poems #fiction #writing #painting #art
@dianamheald.bsky.social
@taniamalik.bsky.social
Author of novels HOPE YOU ARE SATISFIED and THREE BARGAINS. More information and other writings at www.taniamalik.com
@victoriajane.bsky.social
Writer | Mother | Immigrant | Managing Editor @mlnjournal.bsky.social | PhD in Hispanic Literature | Fulbright alum (Brazil) | Bylines The Washington Post, Time, Inside Higher Ed, etc. (she/her)
@beranena.bsky.social
Author of The Lies We Tell for America, a memoir forthcoming from Flatiron Books, Fall 2026. PhD student @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln ll alum @ Columbia University 🎓 ll Author of A Nation in Labour 📚 ll Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa 🏆
@halliepritts.bsky.social
Writer. Finalist, Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize ‘24, Sewanee Writers ’22. CHTQA fellow. NZ writer-in-residence. Words in Mcsweeneys, MissouriReview, LitMag, Barrelhouse, TheBelladonna, OffAssignment, etc. Rode a bike across the US once. #nativeplants
@jeremybassetti.com
Writer. Photographer. Educator. Human. Currently thinking about mountains. More info ⤵ jeremybassetti.com/link-in-bio
@eb-bartels.bsky.social
writer, teacher, former bookseller, @wellesley.edu staff, author of GOOD GRIEF: ON LOVING PETS, HERE AND HEREAFTER (@harpercollins.bsky.social) & 🐢 mom. (she/her)
@jaichakrabarti.bsky.social
Author of A Play for the End of the World and A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness @Aaknopf Faculty @BenningtonMFA jaichakrabarti.com
@maggiedowns.bsky.social
Author of BRAVER THAN YOU THINK and the forthcoming 50 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU’RE FIVE. Really good at traveling and coffee-ing.
@mountains37.bsky.social
@steventagle.com
Writer & philhellene @icwafellows.bsky.social @FulbrightGreece @DisquietILP @aaww-nyc.bsky.social. @PDSoros.bsky.social Fellow. @UmassMFA '16 & @Stanford '07. Just landed in 🇨🇭
@elizabethendicott.bsky.social
Writer and textile artist Primarily on IG @weirdbirds ✍️ New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, LA Times, SciAm, Elle, Orion, etc
@charlottemcmanus.bsky.social
Writer and editor. Deputy Ed of Maybourne magazine. Words in Wallpaper*, The Independent, Adventure.com, Sphere, Small Luxury Hotels etc.
@dennismugaa.bsky.social
@kplumhoff.bsky.social
fiction @flashfrog.bsky.social, @theforge.bsky.social, @gonelawn.bsky.social, @xraylitmag.bsky.social elated Pushcart, BotN, BSF nominee 2025 fellow @smokelong.bsky.social organizer @saloneurope.bsky.social valencia, es katherineplumhoff.com
@ishmish17.bsky.social
a passionate, fragmentary girl(boi), maybe writer, feminist, gymnerd, & admirer of the well-written college mission statement they/she
@annekorkeakivi.bsky.social
Author of novels AN UNEXPECTED GUEST and SHINING SEA (Little, Brown). Reader, writer, traveler, New Yorker abroad. Anne not Anna. annekorkeakivi.com
@christinajcooke.bsky.social
Author of BROUGHTUPSY | Winner, Journey Prize | Finalist, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize | shit-talker & snack monster | all snark & unpopular opinions 100% mine | https://linktr.ee/christinajcooke
@porochista.bsky.social
author | 5th book: Tehrangeles @pantheonbooks (2024) | contrib editor @evergreenreview | Iranian | she/her | agent Susan Golomb | IG pchza | www.porochistakhakpour | [email protected]
@sarahmanguso.bsky.social
Writer: Liars, Questions Without Answers, Very Cold People, 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, The Two Kinds of Decay, Siste Viator, etc. Work with me: shipmanagency.bsky.social
@rachelyoder.bsky.social
the original Nightbitch, novelist, screenwriting prof at UIowa, WGA West, "Every ending is a beginning, motherf**ker." -Lidia Yuknavitch
@jocelynjohnson.bsky.social
Reader, Writer, List-drafter, Former public school art teacher, Author of My Monticello
@lidiamiles.bsky.social
Writer. Aquanaut. Motherloverother. Being with other beings human and beyond.
@michelletea.bsky.social
DOPAMINE Books: OUT NOW Days Running by Shawn Stewart Ruff NEXT UP WITCH Anthology Dopaminebooks.org Me: Modern Magic Knocking Myself Up Against Memoir Modern Tarot Black Wave Valencia + more
@margosteines.bsky.social
in the 90s i had a livejournal where i reviewed various brands of heroin, now i fold tiny laundry. oh yeah and i wrote a book. everything is here: https://linktr.ee/margosteines
@lutimestwo.bsky.social
Host of Radiolab and Terrestrials. Author of Why Fish Don’t Exist and Trucky Roads. Cofounder of NPR’s Invisibilia. Science nerd. Mom. Queer. Lover of trees. Maker of bad puns.