Great North Americans (3)
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 is a final selection of the best
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@lindamaire.bsky.social
Documentary filmmaking / books / learning Irish / poetry / cinema / art / cats / music / gardening / border collies / politics / yoga / Punjana tea / corvids / the sea 🇨🇦🇮🇪 “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” — Agnès Varda
@jodywagner.bsky.social
Grampa of 2 - Minnesota Nice - Indian Ed Coord - Mastiff Daddy - Husband - Father of 6 - Eclectic - Coach - ASL Learner - #DadJokes I’ve never been accused of being normal anyway 😂 💙 My religion is kindness. 💙 🫶🏽 Be the reason someone smiles today. 🫶🏽
@dababa2025.bsky.social
I am an engineer(active) and economist who engages in online activism, advocating for freedom, justice, equality, and human and civil rights. Multilingual. 🚫DM 🚫Porn 🚫Solicitations 🚫Webcams 🗳💙 #BLM #LGBT_Ally #ProChoice #NAFO_FELLA
@nortygirl.bsky.social
I proudly support Democratic party and Ukraine 🇺🇦 #BLM and 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ made in 🇺🇸 lives in London dual national 🇺🇲/🇬🇧 : here's to the nights we'll never remember, with the friends we'll never forget ♀️+♀️ east end girl....
@ivanasstaircam.bsky.social
Livid Introvert. Democracy fan. Creative INFJ. Animal Advocate. Forgotten Gen Xer. There is no Planet B. https://ivanasstaircam.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/@ivanasstaircam
@coastalpoet.bsky.social
Coastal poet, shorebird, Evie by the sea. Current thoughts: ‘We are each other's magnitude & bond.’ (Gwendolyn Brooks) | ‘Move intentionally & build things.' jenevievecarlyn.com
@thetrueamerican.bsky.social
RESIST! You cannot love America and support the GOP at the same time. Our predecessors fought wars to save us. This is our fight for future generations of Americans. Very proud to be followed by @morgfair.bsky.social.
@icefloepress.bsky.social
indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
@feed-me-poetry.bsky.social
Grateful educator, fledgling poet, bumbling mother, proud cat lady, and language-obsessed woman running coast to coast with hair on fire.
@jewyorican.bsky.social
✡️🇺🇦🇵🇷🗽 Melittology, gardening (zone 7b) & beekeeping on Staten Island. Happy introvert. Extremely early bird with her own worms 🪱 Mom 🧒🏻👧🏻 ❤️s writing, baking, and dying on hills. Probably outside. Most puns intended. 💙 LET’S GO METS #LGM 🧡
@sagustocox.bsky.social
Poetry evangelist, poet, editor of The Mid-Atlantic Review, Gaithersburg, Md. Book Festival poetry programming lead, swim-ma
@selfcoding.bsky.social
Poetry person. Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis (Penned in the Margins). Screen (Paper Tigers Books). Limit.less_an assembly of the sick (Litmus). ed board [ΦΡΜΚ]. Some of my work here: http://www.greekpoetrynow.com/poet_poems_eng/chiotis_poems.html
@juniperpoetry.bsky.social
An online poetry journal, founded in 2017. Have you read our current issue? Selected poems from Juniper have appeared in the Best Canadian Poetry anthology. juniperpoetry.com
@chiomatic.bsky.social
Just my imagination. Running away with me. Author of lit fic. Foodie. Cat momma. (Not necessarily in that order.) WATER BABY (Quercus) available where books are sold only you have to ask a bookseller cos mid-list titles can't be found on the shelves!😆 🙊
@msstefaniekirby.bsky.social
Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. See more poetry at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
@esloudon.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, former charity consultant. MA for 25 years, now back in UK. A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD (AUC) 2024 SIBF award Best International Fiction. For published poetry see www.elizabethloudon.com. Trustee @waywardprods.bksy.social.
@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
@kimkat369.bsky.social
Novelist. Author and sometimes poet. Transcendence coming April 2026 from Rowan Prose Publishing. Let’s read through the night. I’ll bring the 🔦you bring the 📚 #horror #thriller #paranormal https://www.katrinakimball.com/
@blbalthaser.bsky.social
Assoc prof of multiethnic US lit; au of Dedication (2011), Anti-Imperialist Modernism (2016), Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism & the Cultures of the US Jewish Left (forthcoming). He/him. 🕎🌹😷 Chicago 🐢 https://iusb.academia.edu/BenjaminBalthaser
@mdno.bsky.social
scholar of art/cinema/media https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
@dianetucker.bsky.social
Writer/producer prev seen on NATGEO, HIST, DISC, MBN, HuffPo. Also writing about great works of art and the deeply human stories they tell at TheShyMuseumgoer.com
@cphiliphaines.bsky.social
English Prof at Penn State University. Wrote a book on utopia and politics, A Desire Called America (Fordham UP, 2019). Writing on Marxism, lit theory, speculative fiction (SFF), contemp novels & poetry. Assoc Editor of Utopian Studies. Views my own.
@librarianjones.com
Educator-Librarian-Author-Activist-Grassroots Organizer-Speaker-Bibliophile-Louisianan Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ThatLibrarian
@morganabourggraff.com
American-Luxembourgish author of speculative and historical fiction. Rep by @acochran.bsky.social @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social
@tolcser.bsky.social
Author of MAJESTICA, SONG OF THE CURRENT series. New Orleans based writer, PC gamer, & cat person. Crafter of doll-sized historical fashion. | TOLL-sir | she/her
@lindaksienkiewicz.bsky.social
Author, poet, artist, cynical optimist, corgi aficionado, crazy crafter & klutz with just enough ADHD to keep it spinning. 2nd novel LOVE & OTHER INCURABLE AILMENTS coming fall 2026, Regal House Publishing. MI. https://linktr.ee/Lindaksienkiewicz
@shamana58.bsky.social
Writer, singer, photographer, carbon-based life form. I write poetry, magical reality fiction, and blues songs. Sensitivity consultant. Occasional juggler, and vexillologist, aspiring lamp shade.
@gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social
Journalist. Writer. Reader. Relentless optimist. Former ABC broadcaster | Moderator | Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly | BSF 23 & 24 | Words in Ghost Parachute, X-R-A-Y, Fractured, Splonk, Night Parrot, Jellyfish Review, Ruby…. Gillianoshaughnessy.com
@jandering.bsky.social
No-one. Teacher/Part-time, Passionate #Writer of #Romance/KidLit. Romance Editor. BETA READER. WIFE, Mum, good egg and old bean. Lover of Cats & Dogs. I'm only very slightly bonkers. Views are personal. DM's go unanswered. Just don't even try.
@ceruleanlib.bsky.social
Midwesterner who moved to Boston (via Ankara, Turkey). Career arcs: Librarian, Teacher, Bookseller, Trainer, Software PM, Writer Passions & Positives: Music, Reading, Vizslas, Cooking, Gardening, Film & Theater, plus History & Pre-2015 Politics.
@kmetzpaz.bsky.social
Specializing in bits of randomness. ESOL Teacher👩🏻🏫 / Cetacean Lover🐋 / Reiki Master🪬 / Water Is Life💧/ Classic Literature📚 / Gen X🔑 / Former Greenpeace☮️ / Nature🌳 / 🇺🇦 / Foodie🧀 / SU🍊 / Music🎶 / Vintage🗝️ / Jeep 🐥 / Creator: The Positive Energy Circle (Fb)
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Writer Longlisted for Orwell Prize Shortlisted twice for Bridport Poetry Prize Longlisted for Bridport Novel Prize Looking for help to move things on