Stephany Wilkes
Author of Raw Material, sheep shearer, textiles researcher, Camp Kaos
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
@therickwilson.bsky.social
Lincoln Project and Resolute Square founder. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated pilot. Beechcraft driver. TheRickWilson.Substack.com
@brittanyapp.bsky.social
professional photog / sheep-shearer / director / shepherdess / poet www.appsphotography.com www.wherethereoncewaswater.com
@antonhur.com
Translator, novelist, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia). 2025 International Booker Prize judge and Bread Loaf translation faculty. Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him. 🔗: antonhur.com
@storystudiochicago.bsky.social
We are a literary arts nonprofit focused on building a writing community. Classes and events online and in person. Come write with us! https://www.storystudiochicago.org
@jamiattenberg.bsky.social
Living in NOLA with a small pup. Author of 10 books. The latest: 1000 WORDS and A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. Come write with me: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com
@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.
@bcdreyer.social
America's Copy Editor® author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his • abstruse in the sense of recondite • 🏳️🌈 benjamindreyer.com
@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.
@danchaon.bsky.social
Novelist and short story writer. New novel, ONE OF US, due out Sept. 23, 2025 Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
@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
@sequoian.bsky.social
Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editors’ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawai’i http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek 💫 and wristwatch ⌚️ obsessed.
@ingridrojasc.bsky.social
Author of THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS & FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE @doubledaybooks. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist. Descended from shamans and ghost whisperers
@porochista.bsky.social
author | 5th book: Tehrangeles @pantheonbooks (2024) | contrib editor @evergreenreview | Iranian | she/her | agent Susan Golomb | IG pchza | www.porochistakhakpour | porochista@gmail.com
@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social
writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her https://www.emmacopleyeisenberg.com
@ruthjoffre.bsky.social
Author of Night Beast | Instructor at Hugo House, Corporeal Writing, and StoryStudio | Editor at Reckoning | Contributing Editor at Copper Nickel | Queer | Bolivian American | Birder | www.ruthjoffre.org
@amybrady.bsky.social
Wrote a book called, ICE: FROM MIXED DRINKS TO SKATING RINKS—A COOL HISTORY OF A HOT COMMODITY | Environmental historian & journalist | Substack: “The Garden Plot” https://gardenplot.substack.com/archive
@bethnguyen.bsky.social
Books: Owner of a Lonely Heart (Scribner); Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (Viking/Penguin); two novels. Guggenheim fellow. CW prof at UW-Madison
@kathleenmrooney.bsky.social
Poet / novelist / essayist in Chicago Professor at DePaul University & Editor at Rose Metal Press Writings at https://kathleenrooney.com/ Typewritings at http://poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com
@anandalima.bsky.social
Author of CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL forthcoming @torbooks in 2024 (available for pre-order) & MOTHER/LAND (Black Lawrence Press) Rep: Sarah Bowlin (Aevitas) Work in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast +
@gaylebrandeis.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, gentle rabble rouser. Co-proprietor of Secret World Books in Highland Park, IL.
@elizabethniarchosneukirch.com
🇬🇷 Fiction writer & nonprofit PR consultant 📝 Modern life + Greek myths, folk stories and women’s oral histories Tin House Summer Workshop '23 Rep: Emily Forland (Brandt & Hochman) 📷: Diane Alexander White
@ancaszilagyi.bsky.social
Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. Repped by Howland Literary. ancawrites.com.
@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
@aowensgrimm.bsky.social
They/them. Ghost nerd. Writer. Haunted Memoir. Fat and Queer. Recent pubs in It Came From the Closet, Zócalo Public Square, and NAFFA.
@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
@mbwwelch.bsky.social
EIC at @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. Words in Electric Lit, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, North American Review, & more.
@gregzimmerman.bsky.social
📚 Bookseller: @roscoebooks.bsky.social 🛠️ Daily Editor: @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social ✍️ Marketing and communications: @storystudiochicago.bsky.social 📝 Book Reviewer: open.substack.com/pub/thenewdorkreviewofbooks Chicagoan. Marquette alum. Runner
@stevetrumpeter.bsky.social
Fiction writer, painter, musician. Recent short stories in Southern Review, Chicago Tribune, Tahoma Literary Review, etc. http://stevetrumpeter.com
@jesskeller42.bsky.social
Reader, writer, dog lover, traveler. Formerly always in motion, I'm learning how to stand still and I love it.
@danfinnen.bsky.social
Co-Owner of Polymyth Productions, producer/host of the Chicago Writers Podcast, analogue film photographer, producer/host of Super Gear Land, flailing writer, and Frenchie dad. Find me at http://danfinnen.com/
@nicolechung.bsky.social
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW. the dog is Peggy and she loves you already. linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
@finejuli.bsky.social
Wrote MADDALENA AND THE DARK (Flatiron), THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE and WHAT SHOULD BE WILD (Harper). The witch from next door.
@czaerra.bsky.social
(they/them) author of Pisces Urges (Sampaguita Press, 2023), tito of Luya, poet laureate of my parents’ backyard, very from Chicago
@cynthiapelayo.bsky.social
Bram Stoker Award & Int’l Latino Book Award winning author| VANISHING DAUGHTERS, Thomas & Mercer| GHOSTS OF WHERE WE ARE FROM, Atria/Primero Sueño| LOTERÍA & CHICAGO SAGA, Hachette| School of the Art Institute MFAW, PhD English candidate | Rep-Lane Heymont
@thefrontlist.org
Culture journalist @Esquire and elsewhere. Author of A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS (One Signal, Dec 2025). Newsletter: https://linktr.ee/adamm0rgan Tips: adam@thefrontlist.org
@garthgreenwell.bsky.social
What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | Eeyore at the gay club | Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
@lillydancyger.bsky.social
author of Negative Space and First Love, editor at Barrelhouse Books
@jencoffeen.bsky.social
Events Director (StoryStudio Chicago) Writer (Pushcart Nominated flash fiction/ short stories, romance novels with Wild Rose Press), Co-host of the Creepy History Podcast. https://creepyhistory.buzzsprout.com/ @storystudiochicago.bsky.social
@michaelzapata.bsky.social
Author of the novel THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU. Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago & Northwestern University. Descended from Andean farmers, poets, and union organizers. michaelzapata.com