Staff Picks and Favourite Authors
Authors who wrote one (or many!) of our Staff's Picks!
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@shelflifebooks.bsky.social
@jennitaur.bsky.social
@razovsky.bsky.social
Writer, editor, publisher, writing instructor. 2023 Trillium Book Award winner. 2019 Harbourfront Festival Prize winner. Author of The Book of Grief and Hamburgers — and 21 other books of poetry, fiction, memoir, and essay.
@ivancoyote.bsky.social
Writer, storyteller, performer. Author of Care Of, Tomboy Survival Guide, Rebent Sinner and 10 other books. Kindling chopper, berry picker, snow shoveler, Yukoner. I like to build things. PLAYLIST is the name of my new show. www.ivancoyote.com
@michelletea.bsky.social
DOPAMINE Books: OUT NOW Days Running by Shawn Stewart Ruff NEXT UP WITCH Anthology Dopaminebooks.org Me: Modern Magic Knocking Myself Up Against Memoir Modern Tarot Black Wave Valencia + more
@razorfemme.bsky.social
Writer, performer, facilitator, somatic coach & dreamer. Author of FIERCE FEMMES & NOTORIOUS LIARS, I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE, FROM THE STARS IN THE SKY TO THE FISH IN THE SEA, and FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH BEING HUMAN. https://linktr.ee/kaichengthom
@sarahroseetter.bsky.social
a little sweet, a little spicy. wrote the book of x, ripe (scribner, july 2023)
@emializh.bsky.social
author of girlfriends / editing at littlepuss press + joyland magazine / nyc via mi
@antonhur.com
Translator, novelist, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia). 2025 International Booker Prize judge and Bread Loaf translation faculty. Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him. 🔗: antonhur.com
@wordsandguitar.bsky.social
Mohawk from Six Nations. Writer and Editor. Pro wrestling and makeup enthusiast. Horror and nail polish fanatic. She/her. Lit agent: Ron Eckel Speaking agent: rob AT transatlanticagency.com. AND THEN SHE FELL. A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND.
@zoewhittall.bsky.social
TV writer/novelist. My latest books: No Credit River, Wild Failure, & The Fake. The Best Kind of People was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Canadian Screen Award winner. Available to staff on your TV show. https://linktr.ee/Zoewhittall
@thellpsx.bsky.social
writer,The Future Is Disabled,Care Work,Bodymap,Dirty River co-ed w/@ejeris of Beyond Survival. transformative & disability justice structural engineer,1/3rd of http://cripsforesimsforgaza.org. older cousin w great tits & opinions,they/we brownstargirl.org
@hangsawoman.bsky.social
Confrontational and yet quite friendly author. Books: TELL ME I'M WORTHLESS (out now) and BRAINWYRMS (coming October 10th)
@daviddemchuk.com
Fine writing for foul minds. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. #NSFW. https://linktr.ee/ddemchuk
@waub.bsky.social
Latest novel MOON OF THE TURNING LEAVES is available via Random House in Canada and William Morrow in the USA
@floralashes.bsky.social
Transfeminine jurist and bioethicist | Ass. prof at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law | Clerked at Supreme Court of Canada | www.florenceashley.com | they/them/that bitch
@darc.bsky.social
formerly 333333333433333 the pink purple avi that said “ok” literally show me a healthy person
@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
@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
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@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
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
@raxkingisdead.bsky.social
Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and the forthcoming SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social
Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project. #DisabilityJustice feed I created: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:65kss3ewg5ida5mjyuk73v5r/feed/aaaba7ikg4sho More about me https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
@rokwon.bsky.social
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • ✍🏻 NYT, New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Guardian 🌈 she/her www.ro-kwon.com/exhibit
@scumbelievable.bsky.social
Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness. Best-selling author of MANHUNT and CUCKOO, out now from Tor Nightfire, and BLACK FLAME, coming 2025
@emilymandel.bsky.social
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
@kristenarnett.bsky.social
writer, librarian, huuuuge lesbian. dad. floridian. New York Times Bestselling author. Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Absolution. Repped by Joe Veltre at Gersh. Gigs: The Tuesday Agency. he/him
@shelflifebooks.bsky.social
Independent bookstore in Calgary [Moh’kinstsis]. Open 7 days a week. Free local delivery. Dog friendliest. Find good books here. www.shelflifebooks.ca