A literary starter pack, sort of
These are some people who have contributed to Identity Theory in some way, either as interviewees, writers, or editors. That is it. That is all it is.
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@identitytheory.bsky.social
@britomatic.bsky.social
trash bird/word nerd. Microhap out now w/Maverick Duck Press 💿 work in X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House, Identity Theory, Daily Drunk etc. she/her/dr. https://linktr.ee/britomatic 📍London
@miriamjayaratna.bsky.social
Clinical psychologist and writer of humorous things Work in The New Yorker, NYT, McSweeney’s, Reductress, The Boston Globe, VQR, et al
@catholicked.bsky.social
sometimes I write things. i was a very nauseous and competitive child. mostly facetious. they/she. https://alisonfraser.space
@mariaaarobinson.bsky.social
Writer of fiction & sometimes non-. Work in Electric Lit, Wigleaf, The Forge -> Best Microfiction 2023, Rejection Letters, Catapult, BLR, cream city review, and more. Cupboard full of beans (I make a lot of soup).
@maryjulia.bsky.social
Writer with work in Best Small Fictions, word west revue, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, HAD, Identity Theory & elsewhere
@lorimbarrett.bsky.social
she/her Writer/Tutor Work in Citron Review/JMWW/Laurel Review/Peatsmoke/Identity Theory/Maudlin House Wondering if my dog is depressed
@trix6911.bsky.social
Writer, mentor, dog lover, mother, sister, grandmother, aunt, traveler. Titles: HUMMINGBIRD HOUSE, FRIDAY NIGHT AT SILVER STAR, THE SECRET OF CARTWHEELS, IN THE RIVER SWEET, WORSHIP OF THE COMMON HEART, OTHER HEARTBREAKS. APPLE & PALM forthcoming.
@hollywilson.bsky.social
Writer. Kittentits: a novel, Gillian Flynn Books/Zando. Rep'd by Kent Wolf.
@melostrom.bsky.social
Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com
@misternagel.bsky.social
Bullshit essayist. Author of Duplex and Culdesac from Autofocus Books. Father of Costcocore. Dallas kid. www.michaelscottnagel.com
@alexgurtis.bsky.social
He/Him | Orlando, FL Chapbook “When the Ocean Comes to Me” (Bottlecap Press 2024) | assistant editor at Burrow Press | words in West Trade Review, the Shore, HAD, Identity Theory, Rejection Letters, Door is a Jar, etc.
@nathanael73.bsky.social
Irish-Australian poet. TERMINALS, SEPARATION BLUES: POEMS 1994-2024, DUBLIN WANDERING, LANDMARKS & 13 other books. Best of the Net nominee. Creative writing professor. Poetry editor for Antipodes. Husband, father, immigrant, runner, music-lover. 🇦🇺 🇮🇪
@thejayestofzees.bsky.social
Queer, nonbinary writer based in rural Michigan. Debut chapbook BLISS ROAD forthcoming May ‘25 with Seven Kitchens Press. joshuazeitler.com for recent & not-so-recent publications.
@madeleinepoet.bsky.social
Poet residing in FL and VA. Dedicated sewist. Avid Janeite. Pushcart & BotN nominee. Words in Gone Lawn, Reverie, Identity Theory, One Art, San Antonio Review, etc. Against Mar a Lago Mussolini, Cape Town Hitler, & Vlad the Defenestrator. For Ukraine.
@alexagshapiro.bsky.social
@m-e-arthur.bsky.social
writer & phd student 🌻 prose editor @ Quarterly West new work Alaska Quarterly Review, The Journal, Puerto del Sol, Identity Theory, Cream City Review, etc. meaganarthur.com
@lottekestner.bsky.social
Singer/songwriter in Lotte Kestner, Trespassers William, Ormonde. Poet, reader,mama
@tsvoboda.bsky.social
Writer of fiction, memoir, biography, translation and poetry. Husband calls me Spitfire. Oy!
@dianeshipley.bsky.social
PhD student and CNF writer (bylines inc The Guardian, Washington Post, Longreads & more). Writing a book. Loves a good dachshund photo. Covid isn’t over. Black lives matter. Trans women are women. https://open.substack.com/pub/loweryourexpectations
@beegillen.bsky.social
Stories in Florida review, wigleaf, maudlin house, taco bell quarterly, had, xray & others. Pushcart & BSF nom. STATIC (vine leaves press '24). bgillen.com.
@christianbauman.bsky.social
Writing from and around the edges of things. Novels: The Ice Beneath You, Voodoo Lounge, In Hoboken. Former lives: NPR/ATC commentaries; guitar slinger; soldier. New Hope, PA & West Cape May, NJ baumansbrain.com
@abbiedollwrites.bsky.social
writer who writes things. yeehaw! Fiction Editor for Identity Theory Words in places like | Door is A Jar | 3:AM Magazine | The Pinch | etc. proudly queer & neurodivergent.
@giano.bsky.social
Bigfoot raconteur. Chicago by way of Montana. Novel: AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY (@doubledaybooks.bsky.social, July '25).
@eliakarra.bsky.social
Author. Filmmaker. Pool boy at the vampire mansion. Associate editor at Identity Theory. Everywhere: eliakarra https://eliakarra.com https://linktr.ee/eliakarra
@janecopland.bsky.social
London, Oxford. Rugby, running, swimming. Writer repped by Sara Langham at David Higham Associates. Kiwi by birth, English by choice. In: The Independent, Brick Lane Bookshop, Witness Magazine, Newsroom, Hayden's Ferry+more. https://janecopland.com/
@newburywrites.bsky.social
WIP - How Far, How Long, How Wide: A Homecoming Memoir in Essays 🗺️ Best of Net 2X & Pushcart Nominee Website: newburywrites.com
@iwantanewhead.bsky.social
R. Gatwood (iwantanewhead.wordpress.com) is the emergent consciousness of a spectacularly inefficient library shelving system.
@noranadj.bsky.social
Poet, Fiction Writer Placed @reflexfiction + elsewhere, @Wigleaf Top50... Poetry: Winner@anthro_poetry Finalist @Mslexia
@adriennemarie.bsky.social
Writer, editor (ReservoirRoad.bsky.social, novels, collections), apparent dog person, fickle, autistic, sometimes very ill, always trying my best
@margosteines.bsky.social
in the 90s i had a livejournal where i reviewed various brands of heroin, now i fold tiny laundry. oh yeah and i wrote a book. everything is here: https://linktr.ee/margosteines
@beekaekae.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, workshop leader. Hand holder Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others. Pushcart nominee. www.bethkanter.com Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
@anitabrie.bsky.social
I write, I read, I try to be kind. Words shared from such places as Tiny House magazine, The Deadlands, 101 Words, Tiny Molecules, Red Fez, Identity Theory, and Gargoyle. Pushcart fiction nominee; Best Small Fictions nominee.
@esloudon.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, former charity consultant. MA for 25 years, now back in UK. A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD (AUC) 2024 SIBF award Best International Fiction. For published poetry see www.elizabethloudon.com. Trustee @waywardprods.bksy.social.
@adamshaw502.bsky.social
writer, dad, wannabe hockey player | assistant cnf editor for identity theory | mfa director at concordia st. paul www.theshawspot.com
@bradley-david.com
Writer. Sr Ed @ jmww journal. In HAD, Denver Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Exacting Clam, DIAGRAM ❤️ husband, dog, birds, rocks, gardens, California bradley-david.com
@katywrites.bsky.social
Writer. Fiction editor at Identity Theory. Anchored (Feb. 2025, Belle Point Press). Traveling Alone (Oct. 2025, Cowboy Jamboree Press). https://www.katygoforth.com/ https://bellepointpress.com/products/anchored
@robinzlotnick.bsky.social
writer, worrier https://robinzlotnick.com/ https://a-sentence.beehiiv.com/
@shipraagarwal.bsky.social
(she/her) 🌈 Doctor-turned-Writer from India | MFA Fiction ASU '27 | Tin House Summer Scholar '24 | Kenyon Review WW '23 | Stories in: Witness Magazine, The Rumpus | Nominated for: PEN/Dau, Pushcart | Working on a novel-in-stories www.shipraagarwal.com
@ampydoo.bsky.social
Cartoonist, writer, prof, dept chair. Judger National Book Award in Fiction '21, PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction '24. New book of stories just out: BINGO BANGO BOINGO, on Dzanc Books. http://bit.ly/4brGB4A www.ampydoocartoons.com www.alanmichaelparker.com
@srilatha91.bsky.social
Writer, long distance mom,distracted wife, doglover. Pushcart nom 2025. BFFA long listed. Recipes http://rasaala.com https://linktr.ee/srilatha.rajagopal
@josephlezza.com
Writer. Worrier. Full-time coffee chugger. Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist. “I’m Never Fine,” a memoir, OUT NOW from Vine Leaves Press 🇮🇹 🔗: https://linktr.ee/josephlezza
@nancystone.bsky.social
Writer: Kid Lit (PB, MG, YA) and Literary Fiction, etc. for adults Rep'd by Ammi-Joan Paquette at Aevitas Creative Asst. Editor @identitytheory.bsky.social nancystonewrites.com
@seanthomasd.bsky.social
Poet. Recent books with BOA Editions, Jacar Press. I work as a Medtech and caregiver, and teach part-time in the Western Connecticut State U MFA Program. Disability rights advocate, father, husband, obsessive Cleveland Cavs fan.
@mmkaufman.bsky.social
Meet me at the car wash. Writer. Managing editor at Rejection Letters.
@shelbyhinte.bsky.social
Author of HOWLING WOMEN (2025) | Editor at Write or Die Magazine | she/her
@amykdebellis.bsky.social
Disabled writer. Debut novel ALL OUR TOMORROWS out Feb 2025 with CLASH Books. 🖤 Also in X-R-A-Y, The Pinch, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, HAD, Hobart, etc. Rep: Aurora Fernandez at Trident https://linktr.ee/amykatherrrine
@susanrukeyser.bsky.social
New novel out now: The Worst Kind of Girl 🌈🌵(Braddock Avenue Books) susanrukeyser.com
@lowermelody.bsky.social
submerging poet, dad, editor ~ place, bodies, belonging, the end of the world ~ edits for @LibreLit.bsky.social @DivinationsMag.bsky.social reads for @VariantLit.bsky.social @CosmicDaffodil.bsky.social ~ he/him ~ 🪐💀🏳️🌈🍃 https://www.dwbakerpoetry.com
@feed-me-poetry.bsky.social
Grateful educator, fledgling poet, bumbling mother, proud cat lady, and language-obsessed woman running coast to coast with hair on fire.
@aubrirose.bsky.social
all voice, no plot. co-eic & chaos creator for @icebreakerslit.bsky.social
@carolynparkhurst.bsky.social
I'm the NYT bestselling author of the novels The Dogs of Babel, Lost and Found, The Nobodies Album and Harmony. Humor in the New Yorker and the Rumpus, essays in Washingtonian and WSJ. She/her, bisexual, married, mom.
@madelineanthes.bsky.social
Writer, reader, cake eater. Clevelander on the East coast. Assistant Editor of Lost Balloon. BEAUTIFUL, VIOLENT THINGS out with word west. She/her. Madelineanthes.com
@ellecantwell.bsky.social
writer, theatre director, educator Associate Poetry Editor at Identity Theory Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize Pushcart Prize nominated
@jillianluft.bsky.social
Writer. SCUMBAG SUMMER (2024, House of Vlad Press). Founder of @sweettrashpress.bsky.social
@chiaradilello.bsky.social
For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. A poet is Atlantic and lion in one. (Woolf)
@hollypelesky.bsky.social
feral woman • writer • librarian • bi af • on a constant quest for comfortable silence
@laeastra.com
レイ🌌 agender artist & writer in tokyo🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 narrator, singer, voice actor. vegan🌱 jp-en game localization🎮 laeastra.com
@cshrumly.bsky.social
Kansas writer. UMKC MFA. Author of Oakaville (Alien Buddha Press 2025) and Green Acre (Choeofpleirn Press 2024). 2x Pushcart nominee. Fiction editor at Identity Theory. http://codyshrum.com
@drsaephd.bsky.social
Poet. Professor. Milwaukee. Coffee. Dogs. Most recent collection: A Bright Wound, Cornerstone Press.
@taylorfthiel.bsky.social
POET | she/her Bone Valley Hymnal 2025 ELJ Editions EIC of BRAWL Asst. Poetry Editor of phoebe GMU MFA Poetry taylorfranson-thiel.com
@kimmannix.bsky.social
Listener. Watcher. Writer of poems & dark fiction. Entertainment & Lifestyle Writer Likes: pie & science Dislikes: laugh tracks & bigots We are in a climate crisis and an empathy deficit. Just be a good f*%$ing human. 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸❤️☮️🐈⬛️🌎 #Treaty6 #YEG #ShPk
@jackiedwrites.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS out now! Words in The Offing Mag, The Normal School, Foglifter, and more. Tin House ‘21. They/she.📍NJ.
@kiptain.bsky.social
Poet, writer, photographer. MFA U. of Alaska Fairbanks. Author of A MOB OF KANGAROOS (Ridge Books). Wigleaf Top 50 2024. Best Microfiction 2024.
@jamesgwriter.bsky.social
WRITER. The Wooden Hill (short stories) The Lightning (novel), coming 2026! Work Broadcast BBC Radio 4 Nom 4 x Pushcart Prize S-list Best in Rural Writing L-list Irish SS of the Year Husband. Dad. Tay drinker. N Ireland. https://ko-fi.com/jamesgwriter
@jessicawhippl17.bsky.social
Author of ENOUGH IS… Tilbury House '23, illus. Nicole Wong | I THINK I THINK A LOT Free Spirit Publishing '23, illus. Josée Bisaillon | Repped by Emily Keyes | website: authorjessicawhipple.com | also poetry | https://linktr.ee/JessicaWhippl17
@justinaoba.bsky.social
hi poetry editor: identitytheory.com hybrid editor: bleatingthingmagazine.com a guy at: syzygyworkshop.org/slow-orbit extimateothers.com
@adrianf.bsky.social
Pushcart Nominated Poet. Editor. Reader. Gamer. Former chef. Occasional pebble. Lives in a shell. MFA in Poetry (Randolph). Gay af. words -> http://adriandallas.com
@ediemeade.bsky.social
Got moss? Writer, musician, shuffling in with assorted grocery bags. | Work in Invisible City, Atlas & Alice, The Normal School, Litro, Heavy Feather Review | Novels incoming soon 🤞
@monalisavitti.bsky.social
aka cristina politano // essay and fiction writer // interviews for minor lits
@dianegotauthor.bsky.social
Editor-Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness (ELJ-Editions Oct 2023). Words in 2023 Best Microfiction, River Teeth, SmokeLong, The Rumpus, 100 Word Stories, Huff Post, Bending Genres and other lovely places. Prose/CNF Editor-Emerge Literary Journal.
@mwadzeckkraus.bsky.social
NY-based Journalist & Essayist Writing: culture, repro rights, parenting, mental health, working on a memoir. I do not have an inside voice. Always running late bc I stopped to pet a dog. May have some crossed wires. https://linktr.ee/mollywadzeck
@terrilinndavis.bsky.social
Virgo (Scorpio rising) | co-EIC @icebreakers_lit | poems & reviews @TBQuarterly @flypaperlit @Dailydrunkmag @Fivesouthlit | @kenyonreview ww '22 | host @TooLitToQuitPod
@lisaalletson.bsky.social
Canadian writer. Lake lover. Words in Atticus Review, Bending Genres, Cincinnati Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, New Ohio Review, Pithead Chapel. Wigleaf Top 50 LL. Nominated for Pushcart (x2), Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, BOTN.
@lescribbler.bsky.social
Winner @fracturedlit Anthology II Long List Wigleaf Top 50 Words: @xraylitmag @jmwwjournal @bendinggenres @essayingdaily @reckonreview @antiheroinchic @pitheadchapel @storySouth + LeScribbler.com
@vicnogaywrites.bsky.social
reader, writer, specter micro editor @identitytheory.bsky.social prose reader @thedodgemag.bsky.social Naming a Dying Thing (Yellow Arrow, Oct 2025) under fire, under water (tiny wren, 2022) ohio forever she/her vicnogay.com
@gaylebrandeis.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, gentle rabble rouser. Co-proprietor of Secret World Books in Highland Park, IL.
@natallman.bsky.social
Poetry Ambassador for Miami 🌴 Author of FERSACE ⚜️ Poetry & Interviews Editor for The Blue Mountain Review & South Florida Poetry Journal ☀️ Editor of Redacted Books 🖤 Website: nicoletallman.com 🌈
@mehpoeting.bsky.social
Boston based educator, editor, poet, & prose dabbler 🧐| Author of 6 poetry collections 📚| Holder of 3 graduate degrees worth of debt (MFA, MATS, PhD)🎓| Installer of rage in racists ✊🏾 https://www.mehpoeting.com
@nomad-sw18.bsky.social
Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Climate change l Contrib ed @nnffr.bsky.social SL Bridport, Bath, Oxford & WestWord Prizes. BSF BMF & Pushcart noms. Published stories: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12OLycEkDPIHts-GvyZpoSmdbYLBzyTYTfSjfGQmsECs/edit?u
@megpokrass.bsky.social
Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland
@jenwithwords.bsky.social
Writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Currently missing the ocean. 🇨🇦 Debut chapbook SHIFTINGS & OTHER COORDINATES OF DISORDER (Pinhole Poetry, 2024). Website: http://opencorners.ca/about YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@jenwithwords
@stephanieaustin.bsky.social
Formerly @lucysky on Twitter IG: @stephanie.d.austin and @mugshot_writers2 SOMETHING I MIGHT SAY, essays, out now with WTAW Press BURN, a novel, coming ‘26 from Cowboy Jamboree Substack: https://stephanieaustin.substack.com/ stephanieaustin.net
@wordperv.bsky.social
Poet. Feminist. Dog mom. Books: Her Dark Everything (Riot in Your Throat), Her Whole Bright Life (Write Bloody), Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat), Beautiful & Full of Monsters (VA Press). she/her www.courtneyleblanc.com
@mooninabucket.bsky.social
Winner of Southeast Review’s 2023 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest. Lapsed scholar/ Pun Perpetrator/ Montana Expat. Words in HAD, Wigleaf, Stanchion, Five South, etc. Debut poetry chap - Bottlecap Press https://inabucketthemoon.wordpress.com
@rinapalumbo.bsky.social
Ph.D. (JHU - history); Italian-Canadian expat. Writer, Editor, avid reader. Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al. https://rinapalumbowriter.com/ EIC Third Street Review https://third-street-review.org/
@janezwart.bsky.social
Here for poems & other beauties. Writing in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Poetry Review (UK), & elsewhere. Co-editor for book reviews at Plume. First collection of poems forthcoming with Orison Books in fall 2025.
@mordecaimartin.net
He/him. Writer. איבערטייטשער. Fifth generation New Yorker. Mad man and Psychiatric Survivor. Hairy AND over-share-y. MFA from Randolph College
@bethanyjarmul.bsky.social
Appalachian poet/writer, TAKE ME HOME (@BellePointPress), LIGHTNING IS A MOTHER (ELJ, 2025), Best Small Fictions 2024, Best Spiritual Literature 2023, Nominations: Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, 100+ pubs.
@chelseastickle.bsky.social
Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021). https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle
@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