RS Deeren
Cat Stepdad
Michigander in the South
Michigan Notable Book Author
ENOUGH TO LOSE from Wayne State University Press
Prof. & Coordinator of Creative Writing at Austin Peay State University
@sfmontgomery.bsky.social
Author of HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. Forthcoming craft book and flash nonfiction collection. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️🌈
@bcar.bsky.social
Wisconsin Poet Laureate, author of TRACE (Red Hen Press, 2023) and BOOMERANG (Bilingual Press), and three chapbooks. Co-editor of Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest and Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance.
@toddsummar.bsky.social
Writer of supernatural & horror fiction. Editor. Marketing professional. Board member, Artists Book House. Work in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, @pankmagazine, @thelithub, & elsewhere. ToddSummar.com
@darklake.bsky.social
Poet, writer, editor, professor, friend. She/they. Books: Pretend the World, Dark Lake. Recent words in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Mollyhouse, Voicemail Poems.
@michaelcopperman.bsky.social
Writer (Teacher UPM 2017), Educator (MSU), gardener, boulderer, runner, wrestler, Aikidoka.
@karentucker.bsky.social
Emotional Support Animal, Author of BEWILDERNESS (Catapult) www.karen-tucker.com
@erikatwurth.bsky.social
Writer. Prof. Ghost Kat. 📚WhiteHorse TheHauntingofRoom904. NYT editors & GMA buzz pick. IndieNext. Target & BOTM. Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent.
@amorak.bsky.social
Loyola dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU professor & proud union member. Co-founding editor at @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. Auburn fan. Dodgers fan. I like board games and ttrpg. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
@jdisip.bsky.social
Professor, Poet, Dog Person, Disney Adult, Nerd Goals: Be like Jesus and Socrates. Tend my garden. Pocketing Feathers (Sadie Girl Press, 2015) Kissing the Wound (Moon Tide Press, 2023) Reluctant Prophets (Moon Tide Press, 2025)
@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.
@sarahjanecody.bsky.social
📖 Writer. Words: Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, The Common, Joyland, & more. Bathrobe Gal webcomic. 👋 autistic. Rep: Jess Regel. Former Asst. Editor Pigeon Pages. she/her. sarahjanecody.com bathrobegal.com
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
The other one. Poet & NYT bestselling author. Next 📚: DEAR WRITER (April 2025), THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT (Sept 2025), A SUIT OR A SUITCASE (March 2026).
@zoebossiere.bsky.social
Writer | Managing Editor at brevitymag.com | CACTUS COUNTRY: A BOYHOOD MEMOIR out now from Abrams Books | Indies Introduce & Indie NEXT | rep’d by @frecklywench.bsky.social | they/she 🏳️⚧️🏜 | https://linktr.ee/zoebossiere | zoebossiere.com
@atrubek.bsky.social
founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
@rinapalumbo.bsky.social
Ph.D. (JHU - history); Italian-Canadian expat. Writer, Editor, avid reader. Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al. https://rinapalumbowriter.com/ EIC Third Street Review https://third-street-review.org/
@raymondgibson.bsky.social
MFA from FAU. Speak, Shade (2013) and Meridian (2016) available from Glass Lyre Press, New Ruin (2020) from Ghost City Press. Verse found in Rust+Moth, HOOT, Moist, and Voicemail Poems.
@rachellayown.bsky.social
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
@andrewporter01.bsky.social
Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof. www.andrewporterwriter.com
@mbwwelch.bsky.social
EIC at @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. Words in Electric Lit, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, North American Review, & more.
@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
@mitchnobis.bsky.social
Writer. Doofus. Old man hooper. Pretty much anything you want to know is at http://mitchnobis.com. Posts are my own, obviously—that's why I said it & not my employer, parents, dog, or whoever. Also: WNS: @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social NAWP: @notatawp.bsky.social
@curtischin.bsky.social
Writer, producer, co-founder AAWW. Written for ABC, Disney Channel, PBS, CNN, Bon Appetit, etc. New memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” (Little, Brown)
@annachen.bsky.social
UK writer, historian, poet & broadcaster. Orwell Prize shortlisted. Ted speaker. BBC presenter & writer back when it was good. https://www.annachen.co.uk/home/about-anna-chen/
@maryleoson.bsky.social
Author of The Butterfly Circle, professor of word weaving and the psyche, Assistant Director of MTSU Write, Co-Host of Exuming the Bones Podcast for horror writers. #WritingCommunity #HorrorWriters www.maryleoson.com https://exhumingthebones.buzzsprout.co
@mooninabucket.bsky.social
Winner of Southeast Review’s 2023 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest. Lapsed scholar/ Pun Perpetrator/ Montana Expat. Words in HAD, Wigleaf, Stanchion, Five South, etc. Debut poetry chap - Bottlecap Press https://inabucketthemoon.wordpress.com
@cherylpappas.bsky.social
Writer. Book: THE CLARITY OF HUNGER Word West Press (2021). MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com Novel-in-progress: Abandon www.cherylpappas.net
@thurbad.bsky.social
Distinguished Dissertation Fellow, UWis-Milwaukee | Grad Certificate Women’s & Gender Studies | Fmr. Fic Editor Cream City Review | he/him/his johnthurgood.com
@ellenrhudy.bsky.social
Fiction writer with work in Story, Florida Review, Cream City Review. Instructional designer by day. Philadelphia! ellenrhudy.com
@lkelly.bsky.social
Professionally nervous. By day I build community for educators, by other parts of the day I try to put my fiction MFA to good use. Currently querying an adult fantasy novel about witches and motherhood.
@mollyebeckwith.bsky.social
they/she/dr - daily editor @ the Chicago Review of Books - fiction in Granta, One Story, Lightspeed, & more - mollybeckwith.wordpress.com - Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️ Don’t be fucking evil 🙂
@msanvick.bsky.social
artist ~ art director @ Woodland Pattern ~ upper midwesterner ~ and other stuff
@sashahemon.bsky.social
Writer Screenwriter Music Producer and DJ (as Cielo Hemon) Dipleša Sarajevo Princeton
@kristenmiller.bsky.social
Sarabande Books Director & EIC Poet, translator, chaos virgo linktr.ee/kristenreneemiller
@kellylink.bsky.social
unserious moonlight www.kellylink.net Always happy to make book recommendations if you tell me two writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. If you'd like signed copies of my books, you can find them at www.bookmoonbooks.com.
@koreyhurni.bsky.social
Poet, Educator, and Karaoke Enthusiast. Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at Waldorf University. PhD from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Work in Quarterly West, RHINO, West Branch, and elsewhere.
@dintywmoore.bsky.social
Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@mdbell79.bsky.social
Writer, teacher. Out now: APPLESEED, a novel (2021, @marinerbooks). REFUSE TO BE DONE, a guide to novel revision (2022, @soho_press). He/him.
@rebeccamakkai.bsky.social
Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too. rebeccamakkai.substack.com https://rebeccamakkai.com
@emilyfmaloney.bsky.social
Author of COST OF LIVING (Holt), now in paperback. New book forthcoming. I also make pots and ride horses. Incoming Artist in Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma. she/her www.emilymaloney.net
@joshuasiegal.bsky.social
Chicago Writer, Musician, Creative Technologist 🖊️ in Michigan Quarterly Review, PodCastle, Skeptic Magazine, Peatsmoke Journal, etc 🎶 at http://redspotrhythmsection.com Also: game dev, software dev, making things in general http://joshuasiegal.org
@twonnet.bsky.social
liberal/progressive, union forever, writing (poetry, essays), reading, music, sports (Nottingham Forest, cycling, biathlon, and, um, Mets)
@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
Poet, parent, professor. Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/