Angela Pelster-Wiebe's Starter Pack
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@apdoubleyou.bsky.social
@jamellebouie.net
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
@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
@drjennings.bsky.social
I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
@rokwon.bsky.social
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • ✍🏻 NYT, New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Guardian 🌈 she/her www.ro-kwon.com/exhibit
@nplusonemag.com
n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
@joriegraham.bsky.social
Resilience requires Imagination. Resistance requires Imagination. Recent book“To 2040”,’23(Laurel Prize for Ecological Writing) Carcanet (UK) Copper Canyon (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).“[To]The Last [Be] Human”,’22.
@kerryhowley.bsky.social
Feature Writer at New York Magazine, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, New Englander in Los Feliz
@esmewang.com
📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise 🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller 🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com 🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her 🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
@kristenmiller.bsky.social
Sarabande Books Director & EIC Poet, translator, chaos virgo linktr.ee/kristenreneemiller
@melissafebos.bsky.social
Author of five books—next up The Dry Season 6/3/25 Thoughts my own and not representing any institution. https://linktr.ee/melissafebos melissafebos.com https://www.prairielights.com/pre-order-dry-season-june-2025-prairie-lights-0
@emilyraboteau.bsky.social
Author of THE PROFESSOR’S DAUGHTER, SEARCHING FOR ZION, and LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL. Professor at CUNY.
@rachelyoder.bsky.social
the original Nightbitch, novelist, screenwriting prof at UIowa, WGA West, "Every ending is a beginning, motherf**ker." -Lidia Yuknavitch
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: [email protected]
@jennitaur.bsky.social
@mensah.bsky.social
editor in chief, soft skull press. profile “in process”. what have i done www.regulargenius.co
@mychaldenzelsmith.bsky.social
Books: Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching/Stakes is High/one in progress about Virginia. Smoking cigars, drinking coffee, playing chess. I dunno man, what even matters now?
@sarahviren.bsky.social
Contributor @NYTMag. Creative writing prof. Author of MINE and TO NAME THE BIGGER LIE. Queer. Mom. Runner. Weirdo. Views are views.
@walterspot.bsky.social
Until the trees and seas just up and fly away. Writer. Reader. Observer. Professor. The Met. Creative Capital. She/her.
@mkdordiggsy.bsky.social
Another dude with fancy notions. Poet, essayist, lit critic. Teach at Augsburg U & MN Prisons 📚: MY WEIGHT IN WATER (Spiegel & Grau, 2026), WORLDLY THINGS (Milkweed Ed., 2021). Lit agent: Nordlyset; booking agent: Blue Flower Arts. Saint Paul MN
@clmerrill.bsky.social
Poet, writer, translator, and director of the International Writing Program. My views, not those of the University of Iowa.
@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.
@miekeeerkens.bsky.social
American-Dutch dual citizen writer & educator living in Amsterdam. MFA U of Iowa. @theatlantic @Catapult.co @lareviewofbooks etc Book with Picador (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250117809/allshipsfollowme)
@emilystrasser.bsky.social
Writer - HALF-LIFE OF A SECRET from @KentuckyPress. Words in Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Catapult, Guernica, Bitter Southerner, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and others. Professor of the Practice at Tufts University. www.emilystrasser.com
@artcoulson.com
Writer of children's fiction, graphic novels, plays and one failed TV pilot. Pie, never cake. Repped by @jacquilipton.bsky.social at @thetobiasagency.bsky.social. The Reluctant Storyteller (2021). Chasing Bigfoot (2022). All the Stars in the Sky (Oct 2025)
@katrinavanden.bsky.social
Writer with two books of poetry from Milkweed and essays in Orion and elsewhere. Former tenured prof turned full-time parent/writer; active member of the sandwich generation.
@russellv.bsky.social
Prof by light, creator by dark. Exploring the world by the utterance. Lover of rhythm, melody, sentences without verbs. Skeptic of #bsky. But fine. Find me russellv.com and/or https://barenchi.com
@michaeldowns.bsky.social
Writer. A few books, plenty of journalism, and a sword-and-sorcery comics tale from Heroic Signatures! http://michael-downs.net "It is not time that is lacking, only focus." – Zagajewski
@jenbowen.bsky.social
Easily lost, MN. Writer, editor, instructor. THE BOOK OF KIN (Milkweed Editions, 2025). Mom to good humans. Road tripper.
@elizabethcarls.bsky.social
Poet and essayist (works in River Teeth, Great River Review) Asst. editor of CNF for Water~Stone Review. Lover of hard winters, big lakes, and long walks. Most recent pub, an essay in Under the Sun https://underthesunonline.com/wordpress/2024/316-2/
@elisabeth-dahl.bsky.social
Writer, editor, bookseller, reader. Reader, thrifter, walker, maker. Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy. www.elisabethdahl.com Baltimore she/her
@apdoubleyou.bsky.social
Writer (forthcoming book—The Evolution of Fire: Mediations on Crises, Milkweed, 2026), teacher, gardener till the end o’ time