@melinda-wvu.bsky.social
Daycare Teacher, #JohnBrown fan exRep,BLM,🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ally❤️Star Wars Wednesday,,GOT,LOTR,Last ofUs, Horror📽 #Swiftie, #ChappelleRoan Despise DJT,I support 🇺🇦🇵🇸 🚫DMs "There are 3 things you should do every day.Laugh,think,and have your emotions moved to tears"Jimmy V
@mountainlaurels.bsky.social
A podcast about Appalachian Women, both past and present. Hosted by Jessica Miles. https://linktr.ee/mountainlaurels
@jasonkylehoward.bsky.social
Politics & Culture Writer | Street Haunter à la Virginia Woolf | Work in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Salon, etc. | Author of two books
@kathdriskell.bsky.social
Free-thinker & writer living in a KY country church built before the Civil War. Chair, Spalding MFA. Words in The New Yorker & River Teeth—💙Resist. KY Poet Laureate 25-26.
@sarajhenry.bsky.social
Wrote some books, won some awards. Tennessee-born Vermonter. Three dogs, 2 cats, 1 teen. Acquiring editor - query at [email protected]. Bio pic is me at 16. Other pic is our yard before the flood scoured it clean and left a sand dune.
@thejeremybjones.bsky.social
When I say writer, Siri hears rider thejeremybjones.com New book out in Sept: cipherthebook.com In the NC mountains Repped by Justin Brouckaert at Aevitascreative
@mcginley.bsky.social
Author: ONCE THESE HILLS and COAL BLACK. https://www.chris-mcginley.com/ Writer at Crimereads, Mystery Tribune, Reckon Review, etc.
@tomeblen.com
Journalist, writer, photographer, cyclist, Kentucky history nerd. Retired editor, columnist, reporter at AP, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Lexington Herald-Leader. Biased in favor of truth, facts, justice, democracy, bourbon.
@shawnreynolds.bsky.social
Senior Producer, CNN 📍ATL via NYC via L.A. via ATL Alum: MSNBC / NBC News NOW / NBC News
@justfundky.bsky.social
🌈✨🏳️⚧️ 2nd largest endowment in the south. your favorite nonprofit’s favorite nonprofit Just Fund Education Project, Inc, or JustFundKY, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2007 JustFundKY.org
@themomeswrath.bsky.social
Queer Appalachian. Writing, performing, & art. Fat positive. Nerd by day, entertainer by night. She/they 🍄 Berea College alum 🏳️🌈 grad student at Morehead State University ❣️ Bean’s auntie-mom 🐭 Elsewhere: https://mjhatfield.carrd.co/
@jessicascory.bsky.social
Editor of Appalachian Journal. Scholar, educator, writer. Books with WVU Press and U of Georgia Press. Lover of gardening, living with MCAS/hEDS/other immune wonkiness. https://www.jessicascory.com/
@blantonfish.bsky.social
IT flunky and leather artist. LGBTQ. Proud Kentuckian and bona fide Liberal hillbilly.
@tammyoberhausen.bsky.social
Author of THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOSPELETTES (Fireside Industries) tammyoberhausen.com
@carnegiecenterlex.bsky.social
Empowering people to explore and express their voices since 1992.📚
@octoberpress.bsky.social
@alixeharrow.bsky.social
hugo-award winning and NYT-bestselling author in charlottesville va; agent: kate mckean; she/her
@emhilly.bsky.social
Folklorist & writer | MAKING OUR FUTURE: VISIONARY FOLKLORE & EVERYDAY CULTURE IN APPALACHIA (UNC Press 2022) | @spinstersounds.bsky.social co-owner | @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social podcast |
@mhendrixwrites.bsky.social
Ⓜ️ is for EMpathy ✍️ Author of THE CHAPERONE (Sourcebooks Fire) 📍Jersey Girl ➡️ Kentucky Colonel 📚 booksky https://www.mhendrixwrites.com
@mworthington.bsky.social
I make poems sometimes. Editor at Still: The Journal. The Girl Singer: Poems (UP of KY 2021), words in Oxford American, Shenandoah, Calyx, Zone 3, Salvation South. Reformed college professor. . .
@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
poet & nyeusiphile. collections: Deifying A Total Darkness, To Emit Teal, The Second Stop Is Jupiter, & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife (UPK, Oct 14, 2025)
@tiffanywilliams.bsky.social
Appalachian • Kentuckian • Singer-Songwriter Fiction Writer • Dialect Coach 📍Nashville
@erinkeane.bsky.social
Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
@jenniferburchett.bsky.social
Fiction writer, foodie, artsy-craftsy Bonne Vivante. Lexington, KY Foodie insta/Threads: @eatwellathome
@richardabailey.bsky.social
Historian. Professor. Author, “Race and Redemption in Puritan New England” (OUP, 2011). northern AL in western NY. Fly fisher. Personal account. Thus, opinions = mine. http://richardabailey.com https://linktr.ee/richardabailey
@spencerjenkins.bsky.social
I write gay stuff. Sex. Business. Culture. EIC @ Queer Kentucky. Spencerjenkins.com
@davidleavitt.bsky.social
Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist. Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc. I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek. Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player. Work w/me: [email protected] https://linktr.ee/david_leavitt
@theatlantic.com
Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
@nytimes.com
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
@sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay. Headquartered in Louisville, KY. linktr.ee/sarabandebooks
@crystalwilki.bsky.social
Novelist, Food Advocate, Professor. National Bestselling Author of PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS, PERFECT BLACK, BIRDS OF OPULENCE https://linktr.ee/CrystalWilkinson?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d3c6b47f-690c-483b-9898-8faed08cd35d
@parnassusbooks.bsky.social
An independent bookstore for independent people in Nashville, TN (shop + airport + blog + bunch of shop dogs) Owned by author Ann Patchett📚
@margaretrenkl.bsky.social
Author, most recently, of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Contributing opinion writer for The New York Times (appearing on the first and third Mondays of each month.)
@browneallover.bsky.social
Author of THEY ALL FALL THE SAME (1/7/25 @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social) & HILLBILLY HUSTLE (2020 WVU press) KY Attorney/Pizza Purveyor. Repped by Alice Speilburg. https://bsky.app/profile/alicespeilburg.bsky.social www.wesbrowneauthor.com
@gwenda.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
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official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: [email protected]