Aimee Seiff Christian
Memoirist, essayist, adoptee, bird person, word nerd, queer Gen X grouch. Unapologetically type A. Writing instructor and editor. Disability advocate. Skating fan.⛸️
Words in The Rumpus, NYT, Atticus Review, WaPo, Poets & Writers, etc. Also on Substack!
@ericcolumbus.bsky.social
Obama appointee at DOJ/DHS. Litigator for Speaker Pelosi and Jan. 6 Committee. Counsel for then-Sen. Biden. Yankee Stadium hot dog vendor. Wannabe historian. Dad joker.
@tinhouse.bsky.social
Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry & home to a renowned writers’ workshop.
@lambdaliterary.org
Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review. lambdaliterary.org lambdaliteraryreview.org
@literaryhub.bsky.social
A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism. https://linktr.ee/lithub_
@handle.invalid
Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Read and write in community! Asheville, NC and all over. http://linktr.ee/The_Rumpus2.1
@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
@kenyonreview.bsky.social
In the heart of literature since 1939. journal | workshops | fellowships https://linktr.ee/KenyonReview
@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.
@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).
@opensecretsmag.bsky.social
Open Secrets Magazine is a home for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep “secret.” Personal storytelling summit Open Secrets Live in NYC on May 3 with keynote speaker Jane Pratt. https://opensecretsmagazine.com
@memoiring.bsky.social
By Well+Good cofounder Melisse Gelula MARCH 📖 Woman of Interest by Tracy O’Neill 🔗 Join the Substack + ZOOM with authors!
@degrootfoundation.bsky.social
A private foundation investing in writers and the literary arts, The de Groot Foundation believes non-violence, diversity, inclusivity, compassion, and cooperation make a more beautiful world. degrootfoundation.org
@wendypratt.bsky.social
Author: The Ghost Lake Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk Editor: Spelt Magazine https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
@joeleisenberg.bsky.social
Award-winning writer of The Chronicles of Ara novels. Author and screenwriter. Producer of film and television. WGA member. PEN America member. Words are my weapons and I wear my passion on my sleeve. Lit rep: Scott Kaufman at Buchwald.
@laurafurlan.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English. Author of Indigenous Cities (UNP 2017). President of ASAIL. Adoptee. Native Chicagoan. Queer mommy. She/her.
@jessie-sholl.bsky.social
Developmental editor, writer, part-time faculty at The New School and The Loft Literary Center. Animal enthusiast. E-biker. www.jessie-sholl.com She/her
@peacebird.bsky.social
#Resistance #Blue #BeKind Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🚫DMs 🚫OF 🚫Creeps 🚫Numpties 🚫Crypto 🚫Porno 🚫Religion Adoptee 🥚 Altruistic Living Kidney Donor 🙏🏼 Cancer Warrior 💪🏼 PNW dweller 🌲 RejoinEU 🇪🇺 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 Vegetarian 🌱
@nikchanghoon.bsky.social
Korean adoptee writer. '24 Annie Dillard Prize for CNF winner & Iowa Review Award finalist. '24-25 Bread Loaf, Tin House & Kenyon alum. CNF reader @ Hypertext Review. nikchanghoon.com
@karenpickell.bsky.social
Author of AN ADOPTEE LEXICON. Founder @AdopteeReading.bsky.social Budding genealogist/family historian. #adoptee #AdopteeVoices #cnf #genealogy #FamilyHistory -- karenpickell.com
@thesusanito.bsky.social
Writer, adoptee, author of memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere, National Book Critics Circle finalist. 🥚 website: http://www.thesusanito.com member of the Writers Grotto
@minster12.bsky.social
Adoptee writing from the crossroads of adoption, misogyny, reproductive justice, and mental health. Sneakerella on Disney+ and other things for TV you definitely haven't seen. www.themindystern.com
@adopteekilljoy.bsky.social
Author of Adoption Fantasies & Disrupting Kinship and co-editor of Degrees of Difference; Adoptee; Critical Adoption Studies scholar https://linktr.ee/mckeekim
@gretchensisson.bsky.social
Sociologist at ANSIRH/UCSF; founder of Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund; author of 'RELINQUISHED: The Politics of Adoption & the Privilege of American Motherhood.'
@richardhilldna.bsky.social
Genetic genealogy speaker, adoptee, and author of "Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA"
@katiejaen.bsky.social
Korean adoptee, therapist. Working on online course, “Psychotherapy From An Adoption Lens: A Practical Guide For Therapists.” Interviewed on podcasts: Creating A Family, Adoptees On. Wrote book for adoptive parents in teen years.
@plastrickland.bsky.social
Adoptee-in-reunion, memoir author, wife, parent, grandparent, and pet mom who loves family, exercise, gardens, reading, movies, travel, Mexican food, Diet Dew, wine, drawing, photography, and summertime #adoptee #author #adopteeinreunion #writer
@monicahallauthor.bsky.social
🌸 I am an adoptee, birth mother, speaker, and writer. Author of memoir, *Practically Still a Virgin, shares the story of my adoption, turbulent upbringing in Alaska, assault, resilience, and redemption. https://www.monicahall.com/author
@janinebaer.bsky.social
An #adoptee, I published a 🏳️🌈 feminist newsletter on the politics of adoption & a book on how OBCs were sealed. https://www.xlibris.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/572366-growing-in-the-dark https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/chainoflife/index.htm
@adopteelitfest.bsky.social
The Adoptee Literary Festival brings together writers who self-identify as adopted, fostered, or otherwise displaced to share their stories, make their voices heard, and reshape the narrative of adoption. Join us March 22, 2025. https://adopteelitfest.com
@detroitrudyowens.bsky.social
Author of You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are, an adoptee's memoir on US adoption, adoptee rights, & the public health impacts of adoption. Focus: Adoptee rights, adoption reform, all issues re rights to one's identity/bio-kin connections. All views my own.
@notalegalrecord.net
Bespectacled skeleton with some meat. Librarian; abolitionist adoptee; bicyclist; Southerner in New England; erstwhile philosophy prof, current LIS adjunct prof. Cis. Trans rights are human rights.🏳️⚧️ ✍️ www.notalegalrecord.net
@kassayebm.bsky.social
Ethiopian Adoptee/Activist • Writer/Author 📚 Co-editor, Lions Roaring Far From Home: An Anthology by Ethiopian Adoptees 🤎 Working to reunite Ethiopian families Separated by International Adoption @ethioadopteesearch.bsky.social 📍 Tiohtià:ke/Montréal
@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
@alicestephens.bsky.social
FAMOUS ADOPTED PEOPLE (Unnamed Press, 2018), THE TWAIN (forthcoming from Regal House Publishing 2027), book reviewer, essayist, transracial adoptee, KAD, hapa www.famousadoptedpeople.com
@shannongibney.bsky.social
Author of The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be; We Miss You, GF; Where We Come From (co-author) + others. Printz Honor, Carter G. Woodson + 3 MN Book Awards. Also: Adoptee, Blerd, Mama, Prof, Runner, Traveler, waiting for the world to end in ‘25.
@marilock.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Award winning author. Adoptee. I’VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM 10/14/25
@thegoodadoptee.bsky.social
AKA Suzanne Bachner • she/her • Award-Winning Playwright & Director • Actor-Lover Native New Yorker • OG Domestic Supply • #AdopteeRights #ReproFreedom #ArtAndAdvocacy #EqualityForAll 🩷🦋 Suzanne: linktr.ee/suzannejouve TGA: linktr.ee/thegoodadoptee
@smyercomics.bsky.social
They/them Eisner-Nominated Comic artist, writer, colorist Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Saturday Morning Adventures Sarahmyer.net
@adopteereading.bsky.social
Adoptee Reading is a catalog of books written by adoptees along with other adoption-related books recommended by adoptees. Browse more than 450 titles at https://adopteereading.com/ and check out our shop at https://bookshop.org/shop/adopteereading
@pw.org
Official account of Poets & Writers, the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers since 1970. Sign up for our newsletter: at.pw.org/newsletter
@marlynnofmany.bsky.social
Author of science fiction and fantasy. Exploring the multiverse, with pens, pencils and enthusiasm! She/her. Further shenanigans all over the internet and at MaraLynnJohnstone.com
@saraeasterlyauthor.bsky.social
Adoptee-author of essays & books that include award-winning SEARCHING FOR MOM and ADOPTION UNFILTERED. Founder of Adoptee Voices, as well as the Faith Collective for Truth and Healing in Adoption. saraeasterly.com
@nurse-jen.bsky.social
I've been a nurse for 18 years so you can’t scare me. Gen X - Level I trauma OR - living with MS since 2002 - recovering English major - vegan - bread baker - hiker trash - diver down - proudly bi - go Red Sox!
@luciablackwell.bsky.social
What’s an Arizona-born, Minnesota-raised adoptee doing in the PNW? Writing home. Re-rooting. https://linktr.ee/luciablackwell
@belindanoonan.bsky.social
7 Winter Olympics as figure skating commentator, 3 as a coach, former local newspaper publisher (yes, I was a journo), always a Mum, love the beach. Central Coast NSW Australia. Into history, news, sometimes politics