Southern Writers/Artsy People
People making art and poetry and stuff in the Southeast US. Stop telling us to secede.
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@thedaybooks.bsky.social
@jnflowers.bsky.social
Alabama poet 🟡 she/her 🟡 MFA: UTK 🟡 Chapbook: Horizon (Flower Press, 2021) jn-flowers.com
@jtuman.bsky.social
English professor at XULA in New Orleans | contributing editor at Xavier Review | Ripoff Records recording artist | author of the novel “Stereo Killer” | gerbil dad
@willdonnelly.bsky.social
Writer/Founder of the Avid Writers' Collective/No Fun at All. Iowa MFA, Houston PhD. Words in Barrelhouse, Zone 3, Hobart, Sequestrum, etc. he/him Athens, Georgia, USA
@bham-poetry-review.bsky.social
Volume 52 Out Now! | Est. 1987 | Publishing Award Winning Poetry, Reviews, Essays, & Interviews | Open for Poetry Submissions | https://linktr.ee/birminghampoetryreview?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a6e4b253-f548-4727-91da-c69865518234
@connellschool.bsky.social
English Teacher, Founder of The Connell School of Writing, YAWP! Writing Program™️, Birmingham AL
@adamclay.bsky.social
Poet and Professor at Louisiana State University. Most recent book is Circle Back (Milkweed Editions, 2024).
@librelit.bsky.social
A southern literature & arts mag bent on brain pain, taking the narrative back, jiggling it open, extracting the oyster from its background of compressed pain to reexamine what it means to scavenge for agency in liminal states of illness. Librelit.com
@katywalls.bsky.social
❤️travel, books, writing, & cats Don't💔prejudice, racism, & animal cruelty. Travel site, AmericanRoads.net & books site KatyWalls.com. Blue dot in FL. From New Orleans. 😼owner, Travel Writer, Publisher, Author & member of IFWTWA and SistersinCrime 🚫DMs
@willingham.bsky.social
Author of Adjustments: a novel (https://a.co/d/e5TsIC2). Sr. Editor @tspoetry.bsky.social. Maker of açaí bowls and tacos. Sometimes reader of Keats, always upside down.
@drantjegamble.bsky.social
Art Historian: Italian, Sculptural, & Exhibition Modernisms (Fascism & Cold War in 🇮🇹&🇺🇸) // Assoc Prof in KY // Working Class Academic // President of the Italian Art Society // she/her drantjegamble.com
@leeches.bsky.social
Writer, weird stuff enthusiast. Nonbinary (they/them). I love zines and bad-bad art. If it is not bad enough, I will not love it.
@mcmanlypants.bsky.social
I write queer horror & sci fi. Gay, Appalachian native, infosec professional, 2020 Manly Wade Wellman winner, co-host of Arcane Carolinas. He/him. michaelgwilliamsbooks.com #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #SFWA #HWA #LGBTQ
@flowerteeth.bsky.social
@lisakwongwriter.bsky.social
Author of Becoming AppalAsian (Glass Lyre Press, 2022), Affrilachian Poet https://linktr.ee/lisakwongwriter
@bruceholsinger.bsky.social
THE GIFTED SCHOOL and THE DISPLACEMENTS (from Riverhead Books). English prof at University of Virginia.
@warsh.bsky.social
new orleans writer | one of teen people magazine’s 20 teens who will change the world | in principio erat verbum | bradleywarshauer.com
@andrewhemmert.bsky.social
Florida poet living in Denver. No Longer at This Address forthcoming in Fall 2025 from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Pre-orders are live via the link below! https://andrewhemmertpoetry.com/no-longer-at-this-address/
@dallas-taylor.bsky.social
Florida Man in the Pacific Northwest. I write fantasy novels and bad jokes, design and build wood furniture, and have forgotten more cocktail recipes than most people ever know. He/him dallas-taylor.com dtfabs.com
@luaz.bsky.social
I write poems and I garden. Already in recovery from whatever this is. https://kylahoubolt.us My most recent collection here: https://cccpchapbooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-ghost-of-it-by-kyla-houbolt
@dcazdn.bsky.social
New Poetry Book: DM for signed copies-- https://www.davidcazden.net/books/ https://linktr.ee/davidcazden New Republic, Passages North, Rattle, McNeese Review, etc. Former poetry editor, Miller's Pond.
@mariamartin.bsky.social
I'm a poet and I write and illustrate picture books. Poems in New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Pleiades. http://www.mariasprogress.com My name is Maria, but it is pronounced Mariah which was the first trick my parents played on me.
@poemsandcake.bsky.social
Order Mother Body (2021): http://tinyurl.com/y2dds3lk PhD African American Poetics and Fat Studies No one is free until we are all free. (she/her)
@josephdante.bsky.social
Writer and instructor living in FL. 🐈⬛ ✍️ 📚 🎮 🏳️🌈 http://josephdante.com
@scbrock.bsky.social
Poet // MFA student at LSU // co-editor of The Shore Poetry // nonfiction editor for New Delta Review
@maudiemichelle.com
Poet. Artist. Educator. Mother. Positive Existentialist. Based in Shreveport, Louisiana. EIC of @audilocus.bsky.social http://www.maudiemichelle.com/
@sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay. Headquartered in Louisville, KY. linktr.ee/sarabandebooks
@kristenmiller.bsky.social
Sarabande Books Director & EIC Poet, translator, chaos virgo linktr.ee/kristenreneemiller
@erinkeane.bsky.social
Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
@gabriellebates.bsky.social
author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023) ♥️ originally from Bham, AL // now in Seattle // cohost of the podcast The Poet Salon
@gwenda.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
@hannahvwarren.bsky.social
poet & translator / fulbright scholar / monster from MS / PhD & naturalist / slaughterhouse for old wives’ tales (2024) / poetry reader at the rumpus
@conyerclayton.bsky.social
Poet/Writer/Editor from KY living in Canada | Latest 📚 But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. | Senior Editor @augursociety.bsky.social | Fiction & Essays in The Ex-Puritan, This Magazine, and more | conyerclayton.com | they/them
@indyfromspace.bsky.social
Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her
@ginphillips.bsky.social
Writer. Fierce Kingdom, The Well and the Mine, Family Law, others.
@dorseycraft.bsky.social
Poet. A Brief History of Accidental Inventions (TRP, 2026). Plunder (Bauhan, 2020). Poems in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Narrative, Pleiades, Ploughshares. Agni Assistant Poetry Editor. Lecturer at UNF. Dreamboat Poetry Series Co-organizer.
@saycarey1.bsky.social
Veterinary comms/UF, poet. Writes to live, lives to write. NC native, Florida grown. Debut full-length: The Grief Committee Minutes, Saint Julian Press (9-14-2024). Bloodstream, Mercer University Press (2026). Some call me Say. SarahKCarey.com
@iambicellen.bsky.social
Poet cat lady surviving capitalism so far as a scholarly publishing data nerd. queer she/her 🍉 I need alt text; please provide it
@emiliemenzel.bsky.social
Poet & Librarian of hybridities ∙ Author of The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (Hub City Press, 2024)
@emmabolden.bsky.social
Just trying to put words together. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull 22), House Is an Enigma (Bull City Press), medi(t)ations (Noctuary Press, 16), Maleficae (Gen Pop Books, 13).
@wordgarbler.bsky.social
I make podcasts (on MST3K and “great books” and a weird game show) and make music and garble words (as poems, as crosswords) and generally try to be helpy. Pronouns: 🤷 || megaphonic.fm chrispiuma.com
@heatherchristle.bsky.social
It’s a two-book year! IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf coming in April. PAPER CROWN: Poems coming in August. https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle
@ashleyrattner.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Early American literature. Utopia, print culture, and communitarian reform. Birmingham, Alabama. C19 Podcast.
@hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Co-Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
poet & nyeusiphile. collections: Deifying A Total Darkness, To Emit Teal, The Second Stop Is Jupiter, & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife (UPK, Oct 14, 2025)
@rayehendrix.bsky.social
Poet ★ Author of What Good Is Heaven (Texas Review Press, 2024) & two poetry chapbooks ★ American Lit & Disability Studies PhD ★ capricorn ★ insufferable Auburn fan ★ Lefty Teacher in Tennessee ★ linktr.ee/raye.hendrix
@ctsalazar.bsky.social
Nonbinary. Latinx. Mississippi. Author of Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking (Acre Books 2022). Director of University Archives. Organize Mississippi. https://forms.gle/PGtesyZR2wCaxtV58
@delicatezine.bsky.social
A Southern-based hand-assembled poetry zine printing small poems by poets of many sizes. Editor/founder Dusti RW Levy. Read us at https://linktr.ee/DelicateEmissions May subs open! https://forms.gle/CwE71WThEeP1yRpa6
@dusti.bsky.social
Dusti RW Levy. National Dramaturgy Fellow. Disabled GenX agender Queer Southern poet, essayist, playwright, & actor telling stories about love, longing, grief, & ghosts. Asst ed at Thirteen Bridges Review; Ed. at Delicate Emissions. They/Them.
@maeganpoland.bsky.social
Writer. Creative writing professor. Sleep-deprived toddler mom. www.maeganpoland.com https://linktr.ee/maeganpoland
@chantalalive.bsky.social
Check your vernacular & then I’ll get back to ya. Essayist poet philosopher & writer of the 2022 debut novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS. She/her https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676226/none-but-the-righteous-by-chantal-james/
@sundresserin.bsky.social
Poet. Educator. Person most likely to be stealing your magnolia flowers.
@sundresspub.bsky.social
Nonprofit literary press & writers residency. Also Best of the Net, Poets in Pajamas, and more. www.sundresspublications.com
@thankyoubooks.bsky.social
Birmingham, AL’s independent bookstore Find your book. Find your people. 🩵 lnk.bio/thankyou_bham
@hmcotton.bsky.social
Poet. Teacher. Naturalist. Four-leaf clover finder. Editor at Birmingham Poetry Review and NELLE. In love with the Alabama outdoors. MFA student at Warren Wilson. TheCahabaProject.substack.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
@thedaybooks.bsky.social
Mom, poet, + artist in Alabama FT Instructor of English + Gender Studies Adjunct Former k12 + YA librarian, archivist PhD student in Comms/Book History (Posts don’t reflect my institution *at all* apparently) 🔗https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks