Great North Americans
Thanks to Trump, tensions are running high between the USA and Canada. But some of the best people I follow are North American. Writers, creators, poets, journalists, politicians, campaigners. Here are a few of the best
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@claremarchant.bsky.social
USA Today Bestseller dual timeline historical fiction author. Rep’d by Ella Kahn at DKW Lit Agency. Pub’d by Boldwood Books. RNA SoA
@drlornagibb.bsky.social
Writer, Fiction & Non-fiction. Associate Professor Stirling. Rep'd by Peter Straus at RCW. New book out 2025 Rare Tongues - Secret Stories of Hidden Languages (Atlantic & Princeton). Also biographer and novelist. Once a phonologist..
@ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Mostly bookish. NBCC Board Member/VP Membership and Tech. Books newsletter: Reading Indie on Substack. Co-host of One Bright Book podcast. #KateBriggs24 #AContinuation25 she/her You'll find me on my ebike.
@jenniferbain.bsky.social
Canadian travel writer, Canada editor for National Parks Traveler, Lowell Thomas award-winning travel writer, journalist, 3 x guidebook author and 2 x cookbook author. Home base: YYZ. Fogo Island cottager.
@trishaleighpoetry.bsky.social
Awarded Poet and Artist. Gothic, romantic, nature, confessional Poet. Favorites-Plath, Poe, Sam Hurley, Laurie Lee, Woolf, Keats, Yeats, and more. Find me at https://linktr.ee/trishaleighpoetry 🚫DMs
@richellecflores.bsky.social
Writer | Artist | Menace Current projects: Between the Trees (southern gothic), Just a Girl (90’s neo-noir), In Fields of Red and Green (dark fantasy)
@rwilliamparmenter.com
Indie-author | Poet | Artist | Dad | Atheist | Humanist | I say ‘awesome’ a lot | he/him ; 💛🩵🩷💜💙🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://lnk.bio/rwilliamparmenter
@madelynfpoetry.bsky.social
Books👇🏾♡ 📚THE SYLVIA PLATH IN ME 📚THOUGHTS IN WATER FEELINGS ON SAND Poetry shop ⬇️ madelynfischerpoetry.org
@stumcpherson.bsky.social
Prize Winning Poet | END CEREMONIES via BrokenSleepBooks| Graphic Artist at TRIED / FAILED www.stumcpherson.com www.triedfailed.com
@clarissaclemens.bsky.social
#poetry is my native language(also kind of a #politicsjunkie) and ⛳️🏌🏻♀️ Cali born&raised 😎 #Author page: https://www.amazon.com/Clarissa-O.-Clemens/e/B008MFS5J8 👉🏼 NEW 📖 RELEASE 👈🏼 https://a.co/d/0z81rTP 🔞👇🏼 https://clarissaclemens.wordpress.com/
@wanderwriteher.bsky.social
Sometimes I’m political; sometimes I’m poetic; sometimes I’m silly/sarcastic; all the time, I’m passionate. Feminist | Empowering Women, BIPOC + LGBTQIA+ | 🐶🐱💙 I write poetic witchy, feminist fairytales for adults. https://linktr.ee/digitalmedleysllc
@captainlibrary.bsky.social
Librarian Speaker Writer. LJ Mover&Shaker. Fmr @librarycongress Teacher in Residence. ALA Emerg Ldr. '19 Caldecott Comm. Podcaster. @Maslonline Past President.
@scotttrudell.bsky.social
my jams are poetry, drama, music, media studies, trans studies, and performance studies
@carladellagatta.bsky.social
Dramaturg | Arts Advocate | Writer | Theatre Historian 💃🏻 Associate Professor | Author: Latinx Shakespeares Co-Editor: Shakespeare & Latinidad https://www.latinxshakespeares.org/ https://www.carladellagatta.com/
@bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social
'Our Big Day' LGBTQ+ award-winning picturebook published 2022. Currently subbing agents w/ a gay novel for adults. Husband, dog lover, cat misser, biscuit eater, previously @gutterbookshop ... he/him. www.bobjohnstonbooks.com
@dailyclassicalmusicpost.com
La Patria es Primero 🇲🇽 Slava Ukraini / Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 musicologist➡️social scientist trans parent 🏳️⚧️ DV survivor 🎗️💜 ND ♾️ aka Canyonsfan ✡️ 🇬🇧 Author, https://dailyclassicalmusicpost.com/ Managing Editor, @absjournal.bsky.social Est. el 5 de set. de 2023
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social
Writer & musician | WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press)| THE ART OF GLASS HOUSES (Alien Buddha Press) | Nominations: Pushcart, BotN, Orison Best Spiritual Literature | Contributing editor: The Winged Moon Magazine linktr.ee/vikki_c._author
@bookfrolic.bsky.social
Book reviewer; working on my own mystery book. Love books, mystery shows, #WxmAFC #Taskmaster #BBCGhosts #TedLasso #OffMenu. Usually found snacking. Day job: freelance marketing for authors. 💻: www.bookfrolic.com
@dapowell.bsky.social
Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈 http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
@albthere.bsky.social
🇲🇽🇺🇸- Free 🇵🇸 - 🇺🇦🌻-🌈Ally - 🌵Indigenous roots- Anti-fascist - Gulf of Mexico - Stop Climate Change - Gun Control Now- Empathy≠weakness - Union💪🏽-🕉️🌹💙🌶️✌🏽☮️🌎 “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself” —Rumi
@msardy.bsky.social
GenX. She/Her Outspoken, sometimes to a fault. Compassionate. Never met an IPA I didn't like. Photography. Traveller. Writing. Use ALT TEXT please! Check out my starter packs! 🇨🇦🇩🇰🇭🇺 (Canadian Settler, Danish, Hungarian)
@dawnruhnaybrown.bsky.social
I am- Mom of 2 people and 3 cats, 🏳️🌈 , AuDHD, Hermit, Funny(?) I do- Writer, Professional reviewer, T-shirts, & have a “real” job 😆 I love- food, ☕️,🍫, animals, nature, rocks, music & 🤬 Visit my website to buy my book or tees- https://dawnruhnaybrownllc.com
@janerosenzweig.bsky.social
Writing Center Director I write about writing in the age of AI and teach a class called "To What Problem is ChatGPT the Solution?" Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
@kelioconnor.bsky.social
Ineffectual intellectual. Professional ne’er-do-well. Author (Rehoming Breanna Huxley, coming 2025). Never AI.
@jendiagammon.bsky.social
Nebula & BSFA Finalist Author. “Jen-DEE-a”. Science writer. Artist. Explorer. Out now: ATACAMA; DOOMFLOWER; THE INN AT THE AMETHYST LANTERN Producer/EIC: @starsandsabers.bsky.social Also J. Dianne Dotson. https://jendiagammon.com 📍Los Angeles
@ludibriumventis.bsky.social
Plaything of the winds. Professional cat herder, part-time writer, dancer, time traveler extraordinaire. Moss gardener, fencer, needleworker, crocheter, and user of the serial comma.
@billadler.bsky.social
I'm an American writer living in Japan. I publish short stories on Substack at billadler.substack.com. I'm a pilot, ramen lover, watch collector, coffee drinker, voracious reader, bicycler, and cat person.
@11tulips.bsky.social
Democrat. Jezebel. Oxford commie. Politics, common sense, appreciator of outliers. Ph.D., Nordic stuff. Espoused. The gods are indifferent. Think for yourself.
@curtisperry.bsky.social
Meh. Old professor of old books at UIUC. Woke discontent provider. Anti-Zionist secular Jew. Amateur of music and fervent acoustic guitar enjoyer. <Honk> …and one duck egg he/him/his
@robinbrooks.bsky.social
Writer from Nova Scotia. Stories about regret, redemption, & how it's never too late to make peace with your ghosts. www.robinbrooksauthor.com Rep: Jessica Berg @roseclifflit.bsky.social
@bkadams.bsky.social
I am an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University who works on book history, premodern critical race studies and early modern English drama. I spend a lot of time with Barnabe, an adorable dog. These posts are my opinion.
@dianahenderson.bsky.social
Still the theater & words Prof. at MIT who now will be trying to reconnect w/ friends who left the other places….
@houseofbast777.bsky.social
House of Bast: Prowling the internet & beyond to bring you treasures from around the world 🌎 Tarot Runes Cats TNRM Photography Art Books Rocks Beads Music SCIENCE NO magats www.naturalmagickcoop.com http://www.madamepurrla.com
@wendylacapra.bsky.social
Dragonblade, Entangled & Indie Author. Lover of words, books, history, nature, and romance. I write spicy Historical Romance because choosing love & intimacy on your own terms, then & now, is a revolutionary act. She/Her wendylacapra.com
@drvandermast.bsky.social
Writer of this and that. Reader of the other. Not a doctor, and my name isn't Vandermast. https://tinyurl.com/jasonmillshq
@fedupwithpolitics.bsky.social
🚫DM’s🚫MAGA🚫CRYPTO🌈 Husband & father. Liberal. Atheist. We must resist or watch democracy die. #Resist #VoteBlue #BlueResisters
@ianwrites.bsky.social
Writer of poetry and books for children of all ages. 12x12 and CANSCAIP member. Atheist. Vegan. POC. Trail runner. Leftist. He/Him. 🇨🇦
@genl.bsky.social
Canadian| Disabled| Mom| Writer| Supporter of writers| Community Lead & Proofreader at Cold Open Stories| Reader and Ass't Editor @wishbonewords.bsky.social| Copyeditor| Published 20+ short stories https://linktr.ee/gen_writes https://ko-fi.com/genwrites
@twistedhausreads.bsky.social
Reading Rainbow alumni: Writer, editor, publisher, book reviewer, & aspiring author. Loud, neurospicy, progressive in Indianapolis, Indiana. Fueled by: books, plants, yarn, coffee, art. 🏳️🌈 DMs open if you're local! Socials: linktr.ee/twistedhausreads
@bigjosh84.bsky.social
Poet. Bard. Pragmatist. Spiritual Nomad. A soul untamed and a heavy heart, making sense of the madness. Searching for truth, peace, and answers until all humankind is free. .
@nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social
Poet: OXBLOOD (Able Muse Press), International Book Award Board Member at PoetryByTheSeaConference.org Associate Poetry Editor at AbleMuse.com (she/her) nicolecarusogarcia.com
@lanceparkin.bsky.social
lanceparkin.org, [email protected] he/him en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Parkin born 327.78ppm
@judahmahay.com
Alaskan SFF author who revels in subverting genre into the literary. English Professor by day. Hockey player by night. SFWA Member ✨ Vegan 🌱 Rep’ed by Lukas Ortiz https://linktr.ee/judahmahay https://www.judahmahay.com
@joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social
phd candidate at university of toronto's cinema studies institute | contract instructor for bishop's university | living in montréal marx, labour, cinema, aesthetics
@understatesmen.bsky.social
Author of The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge (Saga Press). Kāi Tahu/Kāti Huirapa. Rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social. She/her/ia. Header by @layahimalaya.bsky.social Sign up for my newsletter at: https://the-trying-times.ghost.io/
@ellenychang.bsky.social
Freelance journalist writing about stocks, personal finance, banking, tech and energy. Formerly at TheStreet. Proud Purdue grad and lover of rescue animals and random acts of kindness. Houstonian.
@jaimeechoi.bsky.social
Writer & civil rights activist & sympathetic villain & gardener & yes, I want to see your dog
@daniripleywrites.bsky.social
Horror and science fiction writer. Voracious reader. Author of climate apocalypse novel North Woods and science fiction short story collection, Strange Worlds. Images/text copyright Dani Ripley unless noted. DMs closed. https://linktr.ee/daniripleywrites
@fierybri.bsky.social
Mother of cats. Complete book nerd. Lover of travel. House/Hearth/Hedge Witch in the making. Red Letter Christian. Owner of small businesses. Just a person trying to find the best in this world and spread as much beauty as I can in my world.
@echoendlessmind.bsky.social
#IndieAuthor | #Poet | #Writer | #BookSky | #PoetrySky | #Feminist | 🐱🐶 Word Weaver | My words are my art. ✍️ Author: Storm of Enchanted Dreams & Wicked Dreams Goodnight Please comment publicly if you want to DM. https://linktr.ee/digitalmedleysllc
@aspenbrave.bsky.social
#BraveWrite|#Author|#Poet|#Screenwriter|#vss365|#tanka|#haiku|#PoetsOfBlueSky| Images: Mine-Stock-Pinterest|🚫DM|©️ AKA: @Write2Fite on Twitter
@danvera.com
Washington, DC —poet| poetry foundation bit.ly/40tituc , editor, literary historian, 📚: Speaking Wiri Wiri (Red Hen) & co-editor, Imaniman: Poets at the (Gloria) Anzaldúan Borderlands (Aunt Lute). Quilt & watercolor. danvera.com
@susielindau.bsky.social
Screenwriter, blogger, and Gothic thriller writer. Artist and Wild Side podcast host. Directionally challenged adventurer. I'm here for the #writingcommunity! No random DMs, please. https://susielindau.com/ For inquiries: [email protected]
@sherryjones.bsky.social
Author, JOSEPHINE BAKER’S LAST DANCE and other biofictions. Next: transgender musician Billy Tipton. Ardent feminist. Proud liberal. Mouthy broad. Parisienne. Goddess is love!
@skylaranthony.bsky.social
writer "elves in space.” dad, husband, feminist, and aging neurospicy emo kid. cool silhouette & nom de plume. #RevPit longlist 2024. he/him. https://skylaranthony.my.canva.site/
@alethearlyons.bsky.social
SFF Writer | Author of the dark fantasy Seer of York series published by @BrigidsGatePress.bsky.social | Cyberfae Legend of the Bard coming June 2026 from @NorthodoxPress.bsky.social | Ze/She | Trans Rights are Human Rights | BLM linktr.ee/alethearlyons
@auramartin.bsky.social
Writer of Centos | Full-length BUTTERFLIES OVER FLAME at ELJ Editions | Published at Emerge Literary Journal, Kissing Dynamite, perhappened, and more | https://auramartin.weebly.com/
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
Writer in Residence at U of Tennessee - author of The Fire Eater, Bad Mexican, Bad American, The Parachutist, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man.
@arjoonlal.bsky.social
Writer. Social worker. Mother. Poetry and prose have appeared in numerous publications and two anthologies. charmainearjoonlal.wordpress.com.
@mikesarzo.bsky.social
Gen X MarchForOurLives.bsky.social supporter. Anti-CONALD AF! Sic semper GQP. Writer. Proudly woke. 🚫 MAGAs, 🚫 porn, 🚫 DMs My debut book The First 50 Years is available now: https://a.co/d/8bs0qjl
@vwalker-author.bsky.social
the fragile humans we are - out now! | Poet ✍🏻 indie author 📚 Romance lover ❤️🩹 https://linktr.ee/vwalkerauthor
@leeheffer.bsky.social
Submissions - 3 Novels Published - Write to Finish WIP - 2 Writer's Coach Developmental Editor. Collaboration with Artist Sally Kirk - Fragile Narratives
@josephpgillis.bsky.social
I mask. Never trump Him his - ally to all margins. Calumny is the noise of madmen Author: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Joseph_Gillis/works Free Plays▶️: https://ericheismanandtheformation.bandcamp.com/ Author: https://a.co/d/8yFLYb5
@older.bsky.social
nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own
@seanjbates.bsky.social
writer/poet/educator UMassAmherst MFA alum three poems a week: https://substack.com/@seanjbates poems in: Stone Canoe Rising Phoenix Review "What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump", Curbstone Books. https://tinyurl.com/44yksnmp
@annalarssonstudio.bsky.social
Artist & writer | Art, creativity, meditation | Created the #ArtYear challenge 🎨 Mission: to spread joy through art & support each other 🌱 | Former architect | Swe born, US based | Fave pigment: PB28 | Fun fact: Loves pygmy owls 🦉
@shanders.bsky.social
THE GREAT WHEREVER (forthcoming from Holt, summer ‘26); COMPANY, 2024 winner of the L.A.Times Book Prizes Award for First Fiction: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/company. Mom, twin mom, lawyer, Silver Springer. She/her
@nsborwein.bsky.social
Horror scholar, poet, PhD, HWA, Co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social, EIC Katabatic Circus, Global Indigenous Horror (@upmississippi.bsky.social, 2025). Words in Utopia Science Fiction, Space & Time, Lovecraftiana, and more
@katherinettyson.bsky.social
Nature | Academia | Disability | Politics | LGBTQ+ | BookTok | Writer | Anime | Gamer | Fandoms | Photography ☕️📚🇨🇦🇬🇧🔸🏴🏳️🌈🐈⬛🍵 Day job policymaking on climate change/adaptation gap Research public goods provision IR | IPE | IL Oxford | UBC | Columbia | Waseda
@jens246.bsky.social
Classroom teacher, writer, poet. Committed to public schools, all students, all books.
@ggglimpopo.bsky.social
Bangs on about 17th century French nuns and noble rot. Inordinately fond of other people’s books. Reads. Writes. Cooks. Brazen reposter.
@melissawiebe.bsky.social
#Leguminati. Xennial. Proud Canadian and British Columbian and Lower Mainlander. Canucks, Seahawks, Mariners fan. Lover of good books, good coffee, good discussion, travel and history. Breast cancer survivor. ASD. Christian. Vlogger. she/her.
@nicoledakeauthor.bsky.social
Blogger, author, life coach, social justice activist. 🌈🏳️⚧️💙🧘💚💜 Death to the Patriarchy. 🚫DM's 🚫Maga #spirituality #mentalhealth #domesticviolence #PTSD #selfimprovement #voteblue #lgbtq My books: https://smart.bio/millenialmomblog_official
@clairecameron.bsky.social
Author of How to Survive a Bear Attack — out now in Canada @knopfca and U.S. in September 2025 | I write about wild things, I run & I read https://www.claire-cameron.com
@wesblake.bsky.social
Writer | PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press, 2024) |💙 music, cats, & trees | ✍️Words in Electric Literature, storySouth, more | wesblake.com | linktr.ee/wesblake |📍Kentucky PINEVILLE TRACE, book club kit, & teaching guide: wesblake.com/pineville-trace-2
@brigidsgatepress.bsky.social
Micro Indie Mom & Pop Press. www.brigidsgatepress.com
@evalynlee.bsky.social
Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
@roguestrands.bsky.social
Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
@ewenglass.bsky.social
Screenwriter | Lecturer | Poemer (BOTN & Pushcart Nom. Debut chapbook ‘The Art of Washing What You Can’t Touch’ from Alien Buddha) www.ewenglass.com
@margo-writing.bsky.social
Scribbler, history lover, fan of old Hollywood. RNA member. 📚💃🍰 🎬 #writingcommunity #historicalfiction
@kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social
Poet, scientist, artist. Lifelong Science Fiction fan. SFPA. My debut pamphlet ‘Messages from the Road’ is available from Palewell Press. https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/lost-wellbeing/mftr/
@stevietrujillo.bsky.social
Writer, mama, American dreamer in despair. Fighting the good fight with words in The NYT, The Guardian, WaPo, Huff Post, Salon, etc. Drove The World's Longest Road. Resides in Spain. Huge crush on FDR. Votes BLUE 💙 Born + raised in L.A
@lizschmidtnsb.bsky.social
(She/her). Personal Trainer, Fitness Instructor, Seller of Vintage Things. Former Corporate Project Manager. 💙 Also, I want nothing to do with anyone who ever voted for Donald Trump. The end. linktr.ee/lizschmidtnsb
@jordanagreene.bsky.social
Pen name for tree-hugging, happily married chocolate/peanut butter & cat lover #dystopian #romance 💗HEAs #scifi #fantasy #climatewarming #BLM #writingcommunity First dystopian novel, Spirit Mate, available on KU. No DMs please.
@blueteamradio.bsky.social
Your source of Progressive News and Information: We tell you what is happening in the US Government, and more importantly, how it is impacting normal people. We keep punditry to a minimum. We value People over Corporations. We've been here before.
@jamespenha.bsky.social
Poet. Editor of @NewVerseNews.bsky.social at http://newversenews.blogspot.com and https://thenewversenews.substack.com . Expat New Yorker living in Bali. he/him 🌈 💙 Not obsessed with having record number of followers. https://jamespenha.com
@ljgtx.bsky.social
Writer, artist, bookish type, proud libtard childless cat lady. Editor of grit-lit bimonthly RealSouthWestMag. Mild-mannered graphic designer by day. No DMs, y’all, seriously.
@samschuelstein.bsky.social
NIDA T32 Predoctoral Fellow & PhD student at UF 🐊 | IPV-TBI multimorbidity intervention/recovery research for ♀️⚧️🏳️🌈 | co-founder @sciforgood.bsky.social ☀️| SoCal gal | Milspouse | Mama | (she/her) Signal: SamyJGold.88
@theauthorguy.bsky.social
Satire is my business. NY Times bestselling author of 19 novels, including Lamb, Fool, Noir, Razzmatazz, and coming May 2025, Anima Rising.
@heatherrosebpn.bsky.social
I love 🐈, 🐕, and 📚 and believe in science and the magic of puns. Word Nerd 🤓 🇨🇦👩🏫 #OntEd 🚫 DMs 🚫💰requests 🚫 disinformation ✅ support 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇱🇵🇦🕊️💉😷 ✊🏾🦸♀️♻️ 🌎 and restoring democracy ✅ 🇺🇸 Resistance #BuyCanadian #ElbowsUp #PartOwnerOfCanada
@miriamgershow.bsky.social
Writer w FOMO. SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES (Propeller). THE LOCAL NEWS (Spiegel & Grau). Next: CLOSER (Regal House June 3 2025). www.miriamgershow.com 📚💙 Wrangling “100 Notable Small Press Books 2025” into existence. #100smallpress
@buckwilde1.bsky.social
Old as Dirt / Novelist / Journalist / Thinker-Too-Mucher / Being normal has never been a goal of mine/ Left of Center/ She/Her American History 2027 is available on Amazon and Itchio https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCBMCS4 https://kdlang1999.itch.io/
@leerandall.bsky.social
Thwarted Madcap Heiress. Free-range book festival programmer, editor, writer, interviewer, reviewer, prize judge.
@mistressprime.bsky.social
Witch & High Priestess ✨️ Wife 💍, Cat Mom 😸 WordPress 💻, Cybersecurity 🔐, OSINT 🔎 VoiceOver 🎙, Musicophile 🎶 Pagan Podcaster 🌟 Orange County, CA 🍊 #witchsky linktr.ee/mistressprime
@patriciadebney.com
Writer/Survivor/Activist. Award-winning four poetry collections, novel. Next: memoir re Child Sexual Abuse LEAVING LOCUST AVENUE. Extracts in blog. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 https://patriciadebney.com/ #CSA #ChildSexualAbuse #EDS #MCAS #writer #memoir
@dxmxus.bsky.social
22 | English BA | Aspiring writer and literary agent | Fantasy & classic literature