Memoirists and Nonfiction Authors
Writers of memoir, narrative nonfiction, and longer-form criticism I especially enjoy following
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@maudnewton.bsky.social
@aditaferrer.bsky.social
Writer of books, professor of History (once NYU, now Princeton), orphan & always daughter, winner of Pulitzer, descended from Encarnación Carabalí who crossed the Atlantic in chains, mother of daughters, here to resist urge to bury my head in the sand.
@jaquiradiaz.bsky.social
Author of Ordinary Girls, Whiting Award winner. THIS IS THE ONLY KINGDOM (a novel) dropping October 2025. Boricua en la luna.
@chengela.bsky.social
Reporter/editor, currently at Vox, and author of Ace. Interested in policy, philosophy, and science. I one-box in Newcomb’s paradox. angelachen.org
@kkdumez.bsky.social
Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Next up: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
@rebeccadonner.bsky.social
Author of ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS • 2023/24 Harvard Radcliffe Institute • 2023 Oxford Visiting Scholar • 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
@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
@rosieschaap.bsky.social
Author, teacher, maker of excellent soups, proud chairperson of the Glenarm Wildlife Group. 🐿️ My new book is THE SLOW ROAD NORTH: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country rosieschaap.net
@latriagraham.bsky.social
✍🏽: Afar Magazine's Unpacked column, Garden+Gun's This Land column. Words in OutsideMagazine, Smithsonian &others
@amandastern.bsky.social
Native New Yorker. Author of 13 books. Everything I own is stained. The How to Live newsletter delivers weekly psychological gems for anyone suffering from the chronic condition of being human. Join 14K+ readers. 👇 www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
New here. Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire. UBC Professor of Climate Justice. 🔗 naomiklein.org 📬 news.naomiklein.org/newsletter
@kiese.bsky.social
@imaniperry.bsky.social
Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less.
@crystalwilki.bsky.social
Novelist, Food Advocate, Professor. National Bestselling Author of PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS, PERFECT BLACK, BIRDS OF OPULENCE https://linktr.ee/CrystalWilkinson?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d3c6b47f-690c-483b-9898-8faed08cd35d
@meghanor.bsky.social
Writer and poet | Editor of The Yale Review | Professor of Creative Writing at Yale | playing with a Substack about writing Most recent book: THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: REIMAGINING CHRONIC ILLNESS, which was a finalist for the nonfiction National Book Award.
@pagankennedy.bsky.social
Author of "The Secret History of the Rape Kit" and 11 other books. Contributor to NY Times, Atlantic, New Yorker, etc. Former "zine queen" of the 1990s.
@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social
writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her https://www.emmacopleyeisenberg.com
@otroedgargomez.bsky.social
🇳🇮🇵🇷 Author of ALLIGATOR TEARS (‘25) and HIGH-RISK HOMOSEXUAL (‘22) / Lambda Literary Award. American Book Award.
@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
@thefrankiedlc.news
writing at the intersection of sports & gender / co-author of HAIL MARY: The Rise & Fall of the National Women’s Football League / they/them 🏳️⚧️🌈
@proffrancesca.bsky.social
Chaired Professor of Hebrew Bible & Ancient Religion. Geeky. Greeky. Atheist. Author. Sideline in TV, radio, etc. GOD: AN ANATOMY winner of PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022. Work profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/1365-francesca-stavrakopoulou
@swordsjew.bsky.social
journalist, author, sword collector, schmoe. newsletter: buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich buy my new book!! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/ contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
@lidiamiles.bsky.social
Writer. Aquanaut. Motherloverother. Being with other beings human and beyond.
@lacymjohnson.bsky.social
Writer of books & things | Contributing Editor @ Orion Magazine | Curator & Founder @ Houston Flood Museum | Professor @ Rice U | Guggenheim Fellow 2020 | Community storyteller @ Houston, Texas, Baby.
@tkiramadden.bsky.social
author: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls & forthcoming Whidbey • hapa kanaka ‘ōiwi dyke • soup enthusiast & magician • land back • aloha 'āina • she/her
@pamelacolloff.bsky.social
@propublica.org reporter + @nytimes.com Magazine staff writer. Texas-based criminal justice reporter, storyteller, curious person. At work on a book for Knopf.
@lillydancyger.bsky.social
author of Negative Space and First Love, editor at Barrelhouse Books
@edyong209.bsky.social
Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him 📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm Edyong.me
@alex-mar.bsky.social
Just got here... Debut novel coming in early 2027. Nonfiction: SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN (NYT Editors' Choice), WITCHES OF AMERICA (NYT Notable Book), longform journalism, doc AMERICAN MYSTIC (Kino Lorber).
@suburbanprairie.bsky.social
Memoirist experimenting with the truth. Author of TEEN QUEEN TRAINING (Autofocus 2026), A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN (Autofocus 2023) and CURING SEASON: ARTIFACTS (WVU Press 2022). Director of @splitlippress.com. More: linktr.ee/suburbanprairie
@clairecameron.bsky.social
Author of How to Survive Bear Attack, out now — Recently in The Globe & Mail, Outside Magazine, and The New York Times. I write about wild things, I run, I read. 🍁 https://www.claire-cameron.com
@n8vwordsmith.bsky.social
She/They, Jamestown S'Klallam Spirit of Feathers and Pride Rep'd by @canonizer Author of THINNING BLOOD (W.W. Norton) with words in The Atlantic, Craft Literary, and more. www.leahmyers.com
@abbottkahler.bsky.social
Time traveler, purveyor of weird and wicked history, NYT bestselling author. New nonfiction: EDEN UNDONE: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II. https://www.abbottkahler.com/
@hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
feelings, now more than ever! wrote some stuff in some places
@carlzimmer.com
NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.31 web:carlzimmer.com AIR-BORNE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE LIFE WE BREATHE https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724793/air-borne-by-carl-zimmer/ [This account includes a tweet archive]
@kerriarsenault.bsky.social
Critic, Author of Mill Town, & uniting scholarship w/storytelling at @storytellingstudio.bsky.social & ensemble @nsota.bsky.social ✍️ for WaPo, NYRB, NYT, Globe. In France & Maine. Writing a biography about ordinary men https://www.kerri-arsenault.com
@sarahweinman.com
Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Author, SCOUNDREL and THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN. Next nonfiction book (November 2025): WITHOUT CONSENT http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
@korystamper.bsky.social
I write dictionaries and books about 'em. Fiber crafter, keyboard breaker, garden futzer, niila myaamia. Opinions, baked goods mine. www.korystamper.com
@summerbrennan.bsky.social
Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time. Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
@andreapitzer.bsky.social
Books! Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, and a Nabokov bio. Former painter, translator, karateka, and record store clerk. Subscribe to my newsletter and podcast: www.andreapitzer.com
@connieschultz.bsky.social
Columnist, novelist, j-prof. NYT bestselling novel, The Daughters of Erietown. Children’s book, Lola and the Troll. On Substack at Hopefully Yours. I love Sherrod Brown. https://connieschultz.substack.com/
@smashfizzle.bsky.social
Author of the bestselling memoir, Somebody’s Daughter. Podcast host. I deserve it all. https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
@colindickey.com
Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. He/him.
@rahawahaile.bsky.social
Eritrean American writer from Miami. Books, housing, immigration, climate. In Open Country forthcoming. Oakland, CA | she/her https://www.rahawahaile.com/
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@emilyraboteau.bsky.social
Author of THE PROFESSOR’S DAUGHTER, SEARCHING FOR ZION, and LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL. Professor at CUNY.
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@sarahsmarsh.bsky.social
Journalist, Heartland author, prairie defender, fifth-generation Kansas farm girl.
@elongreen.bsky.social
Edgar Award-winning author, LAST CALL (2021) and THE MAN NOBODY KILLED (out now) http://www.elongreen.com
@kissane.bsky.social
Making and mending networks and knowledge. Co-founded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense. Working/thinking at wrecka.ge, launching unbreaking.org
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
@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
@lailalalami.com
Author of five books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
@blklibrarygirl.bsky.social
Newest: Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (June 24). Substack: honoreejeffers
@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
@theferocity.bsky.social
Poet and cultural critic. Also, I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. saeedjones.substack.com
@jeannakadlec.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 queer ex-evangelical witchy author // HERETIC: A MEMOIR (2022, Harper) // astrology for writers (jeannakadlec.substack.com) // Co-host at the Call Your Coven podcast // NYC, she/her // get in touch jeannakadlec.com
@ingridrojasc.bsky.social
Author of THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS & FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE @doubledaybooks. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist. Descended from shamans and ghost whisperers
@maudnewton.bsky.social
Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her. https://linktr.ee/maudnewton