Cotton Xenomorph Contributor Pack
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@sdobbie.bsky.social
Writer, “Flight Instinct” (ELJ Editions 2022) "Static Disruption" (Alien Buddha Press 2022) Reader at Tiny Molecules and Fractured Lit
@marythor.bsky.social
“Book of Ruth” in Best American Mystery & Suspense, 2024. Writer, creeper, human. She/her. Stories in LA Review, Rock and a Hard Place, Worcester Review, Milwaukee Noir, Tough, and others…rep’d by Lori Galvin at Aevitas Creative
@mprask.bsky.social
Writing in @havehadhavehad @rejectionLit @WestBranchMag @fivesouth and @cottonxenomorph https://linktr.ee/mprask Won't rest till Side 2 of The Wild, the Innocent, and the E St Shuffle is our national anthem.
@jackbedell.bsky.social
Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-19. Books from Mercer University Press. Work included in Best Microfiction and Best Spiritual Lit. EIC: @louisianalit.bsky.social www.jackbbedell.com
@anthonyframe.bsky.social
Poet in Residence at Frame's Pest Control. Toriphile. X-Men fanatic. Editor/Publisher glasspoetry.bsky.social . Book: Main Street Rag. Chapbook: Sibling Rivalry Press. http://www.glass-poetry.com/anthonyframe.html
@sweetmachine.bsky.social
Supernova with human skin. Author of Borrowing Your Body (Riot in Your Throat) & All Sex and No Story (Rabbit Catastrophe). she/her. http://linktr.ee/laurapassin
@adamg.bsky.social
Writer in Delaware. Forthcoming chap: Poems to Stage Dive to (Stanchion, 2026). Full length: Every Living Day (Thirty West, 2023). Work in The Offing, Harvard Advocate, Northwest Review, etc. Probably eating a little treat. 🏳️🌈
@yoadrianididit.bsky.social
Poet / Polski kurczak w amerykańskim stylu. / Chicago. Preorder: HAIR SHIRT https://malarkeybooks.com/store/hairshirt Buy: The Life of the Party is Harder to Find Until You're the Last One Around (Malarkey Books): https://bit.ly/3cTeXxH
@joeyhedger.bsky.social
The existence of a Joey Hedger implies the existence of a Joey Mower and maybe a Joey Weeder too | he/him www.joeyhedger.com
@kebpoet.bsky.social
Queer nonbinary, poet, editor, educator | MFA from Randolph College | Author of “Bloodroom” forthcoming in 2026 from Sundress Publications 🩸 linktr.ee/kayebancroft
@bobsykora.bsky.social
| kansas city | mostly poetry | | UTOPIANS IN LOVE (@gameoverbooks.bsky.social 2025) | | co-host of @thelinebreak.bsky.social | | editor @ garden party collective | https://linktr.ee/bobsykora
@paulwrites7.bsky.social
Twin Cities disabled writer. Debut FRIENDLY FIRE: A FRACTURED MEMOIR (HarperCollins 2024). Also in Roxane Gay's The Audacity, Newsweek, SmokeLong, Wigleaf, San Francisco Chronicle. Read my stories and essays at https://paul-rousseau.com
@barlowadams.bsky.social
Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention.
@karismaprice.bsky.social
I'm Always So Serious (Sarabande Books, 2023) | Poet | Cave Canem | Screenwriting Rep: Laura Cameron @ Transatlantic Agency | she/her
@karaoakleaf.bsky.social
reader of all the things, writer of a few things. assistant professor and wrangler of other bookish things in the dmv. words at karaoakleaf.com
@shortestwitch.bsky.social
Nuisance, writer, publisher - poetry & spec fic - kymdeyn.com - thebraag.co - Everywhere @shortestwitch - she/they with CFS/ME. In books and in bogs.
@isaacpickell.bsky.social
black & jewish poet | adjunct instructor in Detroit | a book @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social | a chap @blacklawrence.bsky.social | a Cave Canem fellow | just very glad to be here. isaacpickell.com
@robhollywood.bsky.social
Author and illustrator. Graphic Memoir HARD BODY out in 2026 (Simon & Schuster). Apologetic Midwesterner. Can speak cat.
@ebschnepp.bsky.social
Poet, cryptid currently residing in Chicago, featured in Poetry Daily, work in Iron Horse, Nat. Brute, South Dakota Review, and more. ebschnepp@weebly.com Chapbook: Blueberries Stain Like Blood Available from Bottlecap Press Features
@jjlofflin.bsky.social
Writer Work in The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf… Links to work on my site: jjlofflin.com
@rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social
Humorist and author from the Midwest. Seen in NYTimes, McSweeneys, Elle,WaPo and other places. writing center person. Here for the jokes and books. rachelmansmckenny.com
@chelseastickle.bsky.social
Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021). https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle
@hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Co-Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
@bettysueblue.bsky.social
Author. Editor. Educator. Anti-fascist. EIC & Publisher of Black Lily Zine. Living w C-PTSD & vocal about ending the stigma surrounding mental illness.
@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
@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
Poet, parent, professor. Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
@jessicapoli.bsky.social
Poet, Author of Red Ocher (University of Arkansas Press), and Managing Editor at Prairie Schooner www.jessicapoli.com
@writesloud.bsky.social
First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion Aug 2025) Writer/Editor/Prof Columnist at WCP hgrieco@washingtoncitypaper.com she/they 🏳️🌈 ❤️ www.hgrieco.com
@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
@coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Writer / Librarian. HWA. Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, etc… Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. Novel: Living in Cemeteries Collection: Haunted Ecologies CoreyFarrenkopf.com
@kcmeadbrewer.com
writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18; rep'd by @ericshowers.bsky.social ⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com ALT pfp: white, blond woman; nervous but anxious ALT banner: a black cat peeks from around a corner
@hcohen.bsky.social
She/her. hot sad jewish lady. writer sometimes, mostly tired. poems, essays, etc. found elsewhere. my author website is hannahcohen.carrd.co
@toddedillard.bsky.social
“Ways We Vanish” from Okay Donkey, “Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance” from Variant, poetry editor of The Boiler, poems in Threepenny, Southern Review, APR, HAD, etc.
@thecorlew.bsky.social
writer | musician | co-host, The Line Break podcast | fiction reader, Cotton Xenomorph | 1/2 Lazy & Entitled | basketball junkie | Chicago Over Everything | exhausted dad | he/him https://shipwreckedsailor.substack.com
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social
Native Hawaiian writer living in Japan https://www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/ Preorder Bitter over Sweet https://tinyurl.com/5hd7u63r Hard Skin http://tinyurl.com/yc53 Kahi&Lua http://tinyurl.com/3ryfzvwh
@ekristinanderson.bsky.social
Poet Laureate of Ferrix. Lego jeweler. Auntie. Author of 9 chapbooks of poetry. On staff @cottonxenomorph. she/her shop: yourweirdauntshop.etsy.com use code BSKY15 for 15% off select items!
@teoshannon.bsky.social
He/Him. Queer, disabled, HIV+, Latine Poet and Linguist. Author of /a chronology of blood/ (U of New Mexico Press, 2025). Co-EIC @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Patterns of Orbit Escaping the Body, & more Every Galaxy Is a Circle forthcoming Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social www.chloenclark.com Cover image: raspberry danishes Profile photo: a river heron
@cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
A literary magazine devoted to new and marginalized voices. We also say NO CREEPS. Proud member of CLMP. EICs Teo Shannon, Chloe Clark, and Hannah Cohen. Status: On hiatus for 2025 website: www.cottonxenomorph.com