Joanna Pearson
📍Chapel Hill-Carrboro, NC
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https://joanna-pearson.com
@beekaekae.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, workshop leader. Hand holder Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others. Pushcart nominee. www.bethkanter.com Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
@afterdinnerconversation.com
Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers. Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
@agawande.bsky.social
Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
@pshares.bsky.social
The award-winning literary journal based at Emerson College. Publishing established and emerging writers since 1971. mtr.bio/pshares
@emdashphillips.bsky.social
Poet w/ 5 books, most recently: NONBINARY BIRD OF PARADISE (UAkronP, 2024). Finishing a memoir. Translator. Prof at @mfagreensboro.bsky.social. Nonbinary. Disabled. Views mine. Pronouns: they (eng), elle (esp).
@southeastreview.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/southeast_review Est. in 1979 as Sundog 🍊 Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Book Reviews, Interviews, & Art.
@ndbookshop.bsky.social
Charlottesville's independent bookshop since 1924. Shop local and support your community bookstore!
@electricliterature.com
Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive electricliterature.com
@acrebooks.bsky.social
Acre Books, the small press offshoot of The Cincinnati Review, brings you volumes of beautifully crafted, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. www.acre-books.com
@ianpoweromg.bsky.social
Composer & performer of unrestrained, unambiguous, emphatic music and music theater. Assoc. Prof. & Director of Arts Production & Management at University of Baltimore. he/him. Los Angeles/Baltimore ianpowerOMG.bandcamp.com ianpowerOMG.com
@btrapperkeeper.bsky.social
Writer and Human; Range of Motion (@acrebooks.bsky.social, 2025); Steinbeck Fellow 2021-22; Work in Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Longreads, and Brevity. www.briantrappwriter.com
@macdowell1907.bsky.social
Art and artists are made at MacDowell. For more than a century, MacDowell has given artists time, space, community, and freedom to create. https://www.macdowell.org
@wendyjfox.bsky.social
Deckled edges is my safe word. Reading and writing from the Sonoran desert.
@bookbent.bsky.social
THE BELLES (Simon & Schuster / Atria, Sept. 2025), a dark academia novel with a Southern gothic twist, is available for preorder: https://linktr.ee/laceyndunham
@rlmaizes.bsky.social
New novel out November 4 titled A COMPLETE FICTION (Ig Publishing). Author of novel Other People's Pets, winner of Colorado Book Award, and short story collection We Love Anderson Cooper. Assistant to white cat and big-eared dog. Knitter. 🧶
@jocelynjohnson.bsky.social
Reader, Writer, List-drafter, Former public school art teacher, Author of My Monticello
@aaronburch.bsky.social
Author: A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack) https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
@iambicellen.bsky.social
Poet cat lady surviving capitalism so far as a scholarly publishing data nerd. queer she/her 🍉 I need alt text; please provide it
@memonteith.bsky.social
Walks further than people think. Humanities teacher & fiction writer with words in Bomb, McSweeney’s, Evergreen Review, Fugue, Gargoyle and more. USC BA/Columbia University MA/Brooklyn College MFA. she/her/hers www.margaretzamosmonteith.com
@brynnejones.bsky.social
she/her | writer/stay-at-home astronaut | shorties in The Iowa Review & The Missouri Review online
@mlfaliveno.bsky.social
writer, teacher, rock/roller | author of TOMBOYLAND: ESSAYS & forthcoming novel, HEMLOCK | asst. prof at UNC | she/they www.melissafaliveno.com
@juliatrifles.bsky.social
Writer. www.juliaridleysmith.com Sex Romp Gone Wrong: Stories (Blair, 2024) The Sum of Trifles (U of Georgia Press, 2021) Not here much because I'm trying to write things and live IRL.
@laurenhilger.bsky.social
@bullcitypress.com
Small press publisher of poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction chapbooks located in Durham, NC | est. 2006 | https://bullcitypress.com | linktr.ee/bullcitypress | posts by @noahstetzer.bsky.social & @rosswhite.com
@triangleblogblog.bsky.social
A civic news cooperative in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. We are funny people who care about civics and North Carolina. triangleblogblog.com
@cfrayforcarrboro.bsky.social
Town of Carrboro councilmember, land use nerd, plant dork, fandom lurker, non-binary (they/them)
@carrboronc.bsky.social
@chayab77.bsky.social
Writer. Doctor. @nytimes. WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS. PEN/ Bingham Finalist. Find me: www.chayabhuvaneswar.com
@cartersickels.bsky.social
Author: THE PRETTIEST STAR (Hub City 2020), THE EVENING HOUR (Bloomsbury 2012) www.cartersickels.com
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
staff writer @theatlantic. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and now AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
@mayleechai.bsky.social
Writer. Prof at SFSU. Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories; Useful Phrases for Immigrants; The Girl from Purple Mountain, etc. Board member of NBCC @bookcritics. Web: https://may-leechai.com/
@susanperabo.bsky.social
Fiction writer, professor. Needs include baseball, dogs, Chekhov, the sun, black coffee, and a functioning, humane democracy.
@sassoneric.bsky.social
Fiction and nonfiction writer trying to figure out a way forward during these uncertain times. Substack.com/@ericsassonwriter
@racheltaube.bsky.social
Writer, snacker in Richmond, VA. | Fabulist fiction and book crit. | Words in Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Catapult, The Millions, Hayden's Ferry Review, etc. rachelranietaube.com
@gwenekirby.bsky.social
author of SHIT CASSANDRA SAW // stories in One Story, Guernica, Tin House, Smokelong, and elsewhere // corgis, baking, knitting, swearing // she/her gwenekirby.com
@kristinrussell.bsky.social
Writer, reader, mom, author of A Sky for Us Alone kristinrussell.substack.com
@xwaldie.bsky.social
@talluchan.bsky.social
Amy Talluto Visual Artist (Painting and Sculpture), MacDowell Fellow 2024 and host of the Pep Talks for Artists podcast amytalluto.com peptalksforartists.com
@thehighsign.bsky.social
Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
@jonahgarsonnc.bsky.social
Attorney • Organizer • NC Dems Vice Chair Carolina ‘09, Columbia Law ‘14