Rachel León
writer | editor | social worker
managing director @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
editor of THE ROCKFORD ANTHOLOGY
debut novel HOW WE SEE THE GRAY
both forthcoming
(she/they)
https://linktr.ee/rachelleon
@marisa-wright.com
Civil rights lawyer and writer. Bylines: The Millions, Electric Literature, Ms. Magazine, Prism, Harvard Review, and more.
@joshuwa.bsky.social
Writer - WaPo, USA TODAY, Guardian, WIRED, The Nation, etc. Chicago + UVA 🤙🏽+ USC Annenberg. Assistant Prof. at Columbia College Chicago Joshua 1:9 🙏🏽
@juliebabcock.bsky.social
poet (Autoplay & Rules for Rearrangement) writer, human. co-editor of the lit & craft mag Public School Poetry. publicschoolpoetry.com juliebabcockwrites.com
@mattsing.bsky.social
Chicagoan; civil rights/employment lawyer; writer; enjoyer of sports, books, music, and the outdoors.
@barbnatividad.bsky.social
I’m always write! | Buckeye 🌰 | MFA - Poetry | Currently revising my Fil-Am contemporary fiction novel. | Mini book reviews. | Find me at: https://barbnatividad.substack.com where I write about mental health, writing, reading. | @barbflashes.bsky.social
@daisyatter.bsky.social
Writer, faculty at University of New Mexico in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program 🏳️🌈📚THE KÁRMÁN LINE (2024) @rescuepress.
@rubyprosenthal.bsky.social
writer/editor, second funniest person you know, was once called "garbage propaganda" on X and stands by it, social media @ Chicago Review of Books https://52badessays.substack.com/ https://rubyprosenthal.com/
@egjames.bsky.social
Screenwriter and author of The Bullet Swallower, Mona at Sea. One time Ben Stein said he liked my hair.
@hillaryleftwich.bsky.social
Author of Saint Dymphna’s Playbook (Limit Zero, 2025) Aura, & Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock. Owner at Alchemy Author Services & Writing Workshop. Pro Tarot Reader. Death Worker. Speaks with the dead. www.hillaryleftwich.com
@katmoore.bsky.social
PhD. Writer. Dweller at Cat Palace. Essays in: Brevity, Image, Creative Nonfiction, Diagram, Passages North, Salt Hill and more. Bread Loaf Scholar ‘21. Tin House Winter Workshop ‘22. she/her katmoorewriter.com
@sarahceniaminor.bsky.social
visual essayist, hype man, collaborator, prof Author of Carousel (Yale University Press, 2026), Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press, 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press, 2020) www.sarahceniaminor.com
@emilyskaja.bsky.social
Poet, professor, dog enthusiast. Author of BRUTE (Graywolf 2019). CW faculty at Memphis MFA.
@jpullen19.bsky.social
Writer, scholar, teacher, feminist, environmentalist, nerd. PhD (Ohio University). Associate Professor of Creative Writing at ONU. Author of: Writing Fantasy Fiction from Bloomsbury & A Bead of Amber on Her Tongue from Omnidawn. Talks to cats & trees.
@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.
@suzig.bsky.social
Co-Publisher, Noemi Press. Here to talk books, editing, & whatever I just watched. Poet, Reality TV fan & cat owner. Brown & queer & tired
@trippweavpoet.bsky.social
Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
@yashwinacanter.bsky.social
“yesh-win-ah” | she/they | @prismreports.org community ed., books columnist, sports dork, boots-wearing overalls enthusiast, & mixed-race indian dyke to watch out for 📚🌈 nsh➡️cle➡️ox➡️pdx cle guardians❤️ nsh predators💛 sea kraken 🩵 mil admirals 💙
@ladoyleauthor.bsky.social
Award-winning author of the novel LIGHT AND ASH, forthcoming from Sibylline Press & WORLD GONE MISSING: STORIES (Regal House). Nominee, 2025 Pushcart Prize. Words in McSweeny's, Alta, The Rumpus, LA Review. www.laurieanndoyle.com
@kmog.bsky.social
(Thinks of words, writes them down) Stories in Open Pen, Idle Ink, W.A.R, on paper and in the head. When not writing, you’ll find me playing the guitar, fussing in the kitchen or doing graphic design to pay the bills. www.krystianmorgan.com | Wales, UK
@arammrjoian.bsky.social
Managing Editor at Michigan Quarterly Review, Editor-at-Large at The Rumpus. Debut novel, WATERLINE, coming June 3, 2025. Pre-order here: https://bookshop.org/a/243/9780063393523
@roybattyreplicant.bsky.social
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
@spinetingling.bsky.social
Nancy Forde | Writer/Photographer | she/her🇮🇪🇨🇦🏳️🌈 MFA in Creative Nonfiction (Class of '26) | MA in Doc Photography & Photojournalism ('21) | Grab a cuppa & curl up: spinetingling.substack.com (This here's my 📚 bsky. I also run: @nancyforde.bsky.social)
@bradleymorgan.bsky.social
Author of “Frank Zappa’s America” (LSU Press, June 2025) and “U2’s The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America” (Backbeat, 2021). 2nd U2 book publishing Fall 2025. Author interviewer for the New Books Network. Music film fest director for CHIRP Radio
@sarahesmith23.bsky.social
Houston Chronicle senior storyteller. Probably reading. Send me secrets, sad stories, weird things: sarah.smith@houstonchronicle.com
@marisaemily.bsky.social
Burning down the patriarchy since 1983. She/her. https://marisasiegel.com/
@chillsatwillpod.bsky.social
The Chills at Will Literary Podcast is a discussion of the visceral beauty of literature, w/ Pete. Ep 272 up now on all platforms!-join the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl
@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
@ninesnowboots.bsky.social
43 year old trans femme in Halifax, NS. Mostly human at times. AuDHD. My posts do not represent my employer. Pronouns: they/them. MDNI. http://linktr.ee/ninesnowboots
@nataliezed.bsky.social
Author of HENCH. She/her. Spec fic, videogames, heavy metal, horror, MMA, comics, TTRPGs, LARP. CanLit Tank Girl. Extremely unlikely. Rep'd by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid.
@rustbeltlab.bsky.social
Our lab works to tell the story of this region through the voices of its people. Learn more about our work at Rustbeltstudies.org
@observacious.bsky.social
Writer, dabbler, daydreamer. Halloween queen. Chicago by way of a lot of places. She/her
@sevenstories.bsky.social
Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨ sevenstories.com
@beltpublishing.bsky.social
@atrubek.bsky.social
founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
@filibjurj.bsky.social
@tellmeastory314.bsky.social
Writer. Trail runner. Hiking enthusiast. Book nerd. Chicago born and raised.
@armanchowdhury.bsky.social
Writer 🇧🇩 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Finalist. Associate Fiction Editor, West Branch magazine. Notre Dame MFA ‘23. Tin House ‘22. Loft literary Fellow ´21. 📍South Bend, IN | armanchowdhury.com
@firstdraftdotblog.bsky.social
Accidental writer. Querying Fragile, third place winner in the Chicago Writers Association’s First Chapter Contest. #amquerying
@chicagowriterspod.bsky.social
The Chicago Writers Podcast is the official podcast of the Stories Matter Foundation. Hosted by @danfinnen.bsky.social and @mbwwelch.bsky.social. https://chicagowriterspodcast.libsyn.com/
@whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com
Your essential guide to the shock and awe in national politics. A sane, once-a-day newsletter helping normal people make sense of the news. https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ By @mattkiser.bsky.social Backup account @wtfjht.bsky.social
@britt-kathryn.bsky.social
staff writer at Literary Hub 🌹 actor, prosewright, playwright Big Chill apologist * words in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Lampblack, Kenyon Review, Epiphany, etc.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
@richardscottlarson.com
author of the memoir THE LONG HALLWAY (University of Wisconsin Press) / NYFA & MacDowell Fellow in Nonfiction / NBCC member / 🏳️🌈 (he/him) http://richardscottlarson.com
@awolfson.bsky.social
Memoirist, poet, essayist in Chicago. I also do software. Newsletter every few weeks: newsletter.aaronjacobwolfson.com