Publishing People
Folks who work in book publishing (big 5, indie, nonprofit, and university) plus the freelancers who support them! My realm is the South/indie/nonprofit so please let me know who I should add. (See your name on here and want me to remove? Just let me know!)
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@megireid.bsky.social
@exhaustdata.bsky.social
Bookstore proprietor and I also do marketing for Deep Vellum / Dalkey Archive / Open Letter
@buzzpoole.bsky.social
Sandorf Passage co-founder and publisher sandorfpassage.org Author of Workingman’s Dead, part of the 33 1/3 series Writer, editor, aspiring full-time putterer
@upbookish.bsky.social
Director of Wayne State University Press. All opinions mine.
@baindex.org
Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair, Conference Director and Fellow | CIEP APM | See also cryptic crosswords, Cymraeg, #IndexSky | Stockport, UK Society of Indexers 👉 @indexers.bsky.social www.indexers.org.uk
@mickodopolous.bsky.social
Bookish armchair radical. "Well, that's just, like, my opinion, man. . . ." I acquire phenomenal books for @ugapress in my spare time.
@dawnd.bsky.social
Editorial Director at @uncpress.bsky.social • acquiring books in history, Black studies, girlhood studies, carceral studies • H-Net's #FeedingTheElephant • real housewife of the other Orange County
@chadwpost.bsky.social
“Most Insufferable Man in Publishing.” Loves baseball, hates most pitchers. Sucks at email. Is usually editing or writing for Substack or podcasting.
@lizziedavis.bsky.social
Editor and rights manager at Transit Books. Translator from Spanish and Italian (next up: Daniela Tarazona, Pilar Fraile, Begoña Gómez Urzaiz).
@mtaeckens.bsky.social
Co-founder, Broadside PR > michael at broadsidepr dot com Lit Agent, Massie & McQuilkin > michael at mmqlit dot com https://michaeltaeckenspr.com/about-me/
@suzig.bsky.social
Co-Publisher, Noemi Press. Here to talk books, editing, & whatever I just watched. Poet, Reality TV fan & cat owner. Brown & queer & tired
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social
Biracial Asian writer. 💃 phd. 📕: Dear Twin, Unwieldy Creatures, Straight White Men Can’t Dance (forthcoming from Bloomsbury). Shirley Jackson finalist. Features & Reviews ed: Anomaly. EIC: just femme & dandy. sensitivity reader. http://www.addietsai.com
@angelabaggetta.bsky.social
Book publicist for authors, thinkers, and doers. Baker and dog aficionado. Opinions mine, all mine.
@pamelabobowicz.bsky.social
Children’s book editor, writer, adoptee, wandering somewhere in the city
@sarahrusso.bsky.social
Founder of @pageonem.bsky.social, literary publicity and marketing for authors and experts. www.page1m.com
@katyhersh.bsky.social
Work at Publishers Lunch. Writing at NYTBR, Washington Post, LitHub, Slate, Longreads, etc. KatyHershberger.com
@deniseoswald.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief, Pantheon Books. Is this place a toxic snake pit yet? Asking for a friend . . .
@ezrakupor.bsky.social
associate editor @harperbooks + @harperperennial • mayor of yaptown • views very much my own • he/him 🫠 ezrakupor.com 🙂↕️ https://galleybrag.substack.com 🙂↔️
@kathy-daneman.bsky.social
Book publicist of the independent variety at Kathy Daneman PR. She/her. kathydanemanpr.com
@margotatwell.bsky.social
Writer, editor,publisher, creative funding expert in Brooklyn. Editor of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE. Previously @feministpress & @kickstarter. She/her 🌈📚 https://margotatwell.com/
@caseyplett.com
I wrote On Community, A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, A Safe Girl to Love, and co-edited Meanwhile, Elsewhere. I'm the Publisher at LittlePuss Press and teach at Ohio University. https://linktr.ee/caseyplett Athens, OH / Windsor, ON
@clarehooper.bsky.social
Director of of Journals Publishing at Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social. Cat servant to 3, I like books, running, and big cups of tea (all views are my own).
@katearden.bsky.social
she/her 🌞 Managing Editor at Hub City Press fiction in Carve, Ninth Letter, BULL, The Boiler, Reckon, etc etc read me at kateamcmullen.com or whatimcooking.substack.com
@rosswhite.com
Publisher: @bullcitypress.com. Poet: CHARM OFFENSIVE & three chapbooks from Unicorn Press. Professor: UNC #GoHeels. Host: @triviaescapepod.com. Goofus. Durham, NC. > Site: rosswhite.com
@tweedediting.bsky.social
Academic editor and PhD ▪️ Teaching book editing at Portland State University ▪️ Chicago and Claremont trained ▪️ she/her ▪️ same handle elsewhere https://www.tweedediting.com
@brianbhalley.bsky.social
Executive Editor at University of Massachusetts Press, based at UMass Boston. Views here don’t reflect them. Feminist, progressive, 🏳️🌈, into books, dogs, ocean, print culture, lit studies, environmental studies/climate justice, and more.
@cameronludwick.bsky.social
Professional enthusiast. Associate Director for Books Marketing and Sales @DukePress and Publicity, Communications, Marketing for authors. Coauthor, @MyOldKyRoadtrip
@rafertess.bsky.social
University press publicist (Mad Creek Books), pottery class enthusiast. Columbus, Ohio.
@nicksturm.bsky.social
post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Lecturer in English @ Georgia State | co-director of NNYSS | editor of books w/ Fonograf & City Lights | book on New York School poets with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
@meganposco.bsky.social
nonfic book publicist repping academics, journalists, and incarcerated writers • poscopublicity.com
@jpinckney.bsky.social
Book worker at University of Texas Press | Formerly a bookseller, at Paris Review | Occasionally writing about books at LARB, Full Stop, The Millions, elsewhere | joelpinckney@gmail.com
@alexgupta.bsky.social
assistant editor at Columbia UP | probably knitting | they/she | opinions are my own
@caelyncobb.bsky.social
she/her | editor for global history & politics at Columbia UP 📚 writer and nerdy feminist 🤓 extremely online 📱 https://linktr.ee/caelyncobb
@rcolesworthy.bsky.social
Acquisitions editor (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
@andcleverness.bsky.social
acquiring editor for environmental studies, food studies, and regional books at the University of Pittsburgh Press career in publishing resource doc: tinyurl.com/2jmmharu bluesky list of university and indie presses: tinyurl.com/3y829vxv
@lesleyrains.bsky.social
Publicity Manager, @upittpress.bsky.social; board member, Autumn House Press; former bookseller, “such an Aires”
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Independent journalist. Send tips via Signal: 202-510-1268. Join my newsletter 👇👇👇 kenklippenstein.substack.com
@emaisner.bsky.social
Politics SotoZenBuddhism Food Writing Art IyengarYoga | Orange County NC Dem precinct chair | Exec Editor Emerita @UNC_Press & love my authors. [above: Sphinx (1964) by Saori Akutagawa Madokoro]
@lucaschurch.bsky.social
Executive editor @uncpress.bsky.social. I acquire books in: Lit studies, social sciences, trade, CNF, App Studies, music. Writer. Recovering Appalachian. Book @Press53. He/Him.
@sonyabonczek.bsky.social
Director of Publicity at UNC Press 📚 Currently reading: Custom Made Woman by Alice Gerrard (forthcoming December) and Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
@kristenmiller.bsky.social
Sarabande Books Director & EIC Poet, translator, chaos virgo linktr.ee/kristenreneemiller
@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
@kristentwardow.bsky.social
Former historian, library ghost, and wolf wrangler. Current marketing person @northwesternup. Eternal nerd. Talk poetry and justice to me. she/her
@frecklywench.bsky.social
lit agent at Aevitas 🏳️🌈🤓📚// writer, book gal, scone-lover // chapbook THE THEME PARK OF WOMEN’S BODIES from @bullcitypress.com // she/her // opinions mine // https://maggiecooper.carrd.co/
@aberzanskis.bsky.social
Book worker, University of Oklahoma Press. Personal account. andrewb@ou.edu
@derekkrissoff.bsky.social
Publishing worker in Pittsburgh. Editor-at-large with @oupress.bsky.social and @ksupress.bsky.social. Email me at dkrissoff at gmail dot com. More at derekkrissoff.com and derekkrissoff.substack.com.
@atrubek.bsky.social
founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
@megireid.bsky.social
Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social Canadian in the South 🍁