Tightwires
List to help me keep up with guests and collaborators for Tightwires, a YouTube channel and podcast about navigating life and art outside academic and institutional confines.
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@hhtahir.bsky.social
@farahghafoor.bsky.social
poet and author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) 🌿 | she/her | Tkaronto | farahghafoor.com | farah.substack.com | IG @/shadowpricepoems
@riggstah.bsky.social
they call the wind | samoan-haole from Oʻahu | author of EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD (Ecco, 2025) | 2024 NEA fellow www.mariahrigg.com
@nadiaalexis.bsky.social
📍MS & NYC || Author of BEYOND THE WATERSHED (CavanKerryPress, March 4, 2025). Buy my debut collection of poetry & photography & learn more at NadiaAlexis.com 🇭🇹 Poet. Photographer. Writer. Gratitude devotee. Birder. Nature Lover. She/Her/Hers
@patrycjasara.bsky.social
author of We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, March 2025) 🖤 patrycjasara.com
@andrealrogers.bsky.social
Writer, Reader, Glauchen, globen. Cherokee, mother, teacher, PhD student. Author of Man Made Monsters, The Art Thieves, When We Gather, Chooch Helped, & Mary & the Trail of Tears. Bookshop affiliate link: https://bookshop.org/shop/KogaBooks
@aamnaqureshi.bsky.social
aamnaqureshi.com pakistani-american muslim author of fantasy and romance rep: high line literary collective up next: THE BABY DRAGON CAFE (1/16/25)
@cdeskilson.bsky.social
Poetry Co-Editor @splitlipthemag.bsky.social | SCREAM / QUEEN (2025, @acrebooks.bsky.social)
@diannelyantigua.bsky.social
she. her. little poet. big hair. author of UGLY MUSIC and GOOD MONSTER. host of Bread & Poetry Podcast. https://linktr.ee/diannelyantigua
@taylorbyas.bsky.social
PhD | Corporate Baddie | I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (Soft Skull ‘23, Winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award, 2024 Ohio Book Award) | RESTING BITCH FACE (August 2025) | she/her www.taylorbyas.com
@sabadilla15.bsky.social
Chinese-Iranian Virgo poet ✨ 92NY Discovery Poetry Award winner 💖 www.sabakeramati.com
@sarahali.bsky.social
poet & author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024) • poetry editor of West Branch • more at sarahgali.com 🍃
@karunariazi.bsky.social
Kidlit author. Blasian Muslim magical girl. Always dreaming. Latest: A BIT OF EARTH (Greenwillow 2023). Next: SABRENA SWEPT AWAY (Greenwillow 2025). Hamline MFAC July '21 | Rep: Thao Le No means to donate currently 💔
@jjgavilano.bsky.social
PEN/Heim 2023 recipient | Artists360 recipient | Former Translation Editor at The Arkansas International | Arkansas MFA | Boliviano 🇧🇴
@hhtahir.bsky.social
YA author & English Instructor rep'd by Rachel Ekstrom Courage. Poetry MFA alumna. Founder and host of Tightwires, a YouTube channel & podcast. Former Tin House Editorial Intern. www.hibatahir.com