reader and sometimes writer of (never good) poems
Literature Student @ UNC-CH
Writing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, etc. Contributing Editor, Yale Review. President, National Book Critics Circle. Rep: Duvall Osteen
Writer, Reader, Engineer. Manchester Fiction Prize Winner. Hurston/Wright Award. Analog Emerging Black Writer. TED Speaker. Lecturer @ Princeton University. Social Media is very confusing but figured I'd give this a try...
https://linktr.ee/benstagram81
new dad, memoirist, essayist, occasional journalist, birder, herper, artist's spouse, baker of cinnamon rolls, already in-recovery from whatever this is
Writer with Ecco-HarperCollins. Author of “Guatemalan Rhapsody.” Stories in The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.
‘Thunder From A Clear Blue Sky’ Malarkey Books 2023. Short fiction/flash here and there.
Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof.
www.andrewporterwriter.com
Traveling Tejana and author of All the Agents and Saints, Mexican Enough, Around the Bloc, and Art Above Everything.
ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY, a national bestseller & california book award winner | ✍️ The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Cut, etc | HIV & primary care pharmacist
https://linktr.ee/ruthmadievsky
Investigations editor for MLive. Punk rock crooner. Writer. BEAR COUNTY, MICHIGAN, Northwestern University Press. Book riffage at https://jcounts.substack.com
Recent US Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs 🏳️🌈
2024 Silver Medal Florida Book Awards, Poetry 🥈
Book 2: Bright Life, Animal Heart, winner of the 2023 Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, out now!, conduit.org
Book 1: Flowers as Mind Control, winner of The 2020 John Ciardi Prize,
at uapress.com
author of VELVET (Northwestern University Press, 2024) and LOVE SONG TO THE DEMON-POSSESSED PIGS OF GADARA (University of Iowa Press, 2020)
Writer. www.juliaridleysmith.com
Sex Romp Gone Wrong: Stories (Blair, 2024)
The Sum of Trifles (U of Georgia Press, 2021)
Not here much because I'm trying to write things and live IRL.
Recovering rule-follower, Big D (Democrat) energy, autism dad 🧩, #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦, #LGBTQ+ally 🏳️🌈, happy in Western NC but missing New Mexico, writing short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction.
🚫Crypto 🚫Porn
A curious writer with a love of words.
Small press publisher of poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction chapbooks located in Durham, NC | est. 2006 | https://bullcitypress.com | linktr.ee/bullcitypress | posts by @noahstetzer.bsky.social, @amelialoeffler.bsky.social, & @rosswhite.com
Writer, fiddler, teacher, professor.
www.gregoryspatz.com
www.thejaybirds.com
parent. jock to writer pipeline. author of I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF, A SHARP ENDLESS NEED (May, 2025), PERVERTS (2026)
Former talent agent/manager, cat lover who won’t engage with MAGAts or FAR LEFT extremists. Dreading the next 4 years. Laughter is required. I am a Divine Soul having a challenging human experience. 🥴
House of Myth & Necessity, coming 2026. Bullet Points: A Lyric, River River Books. Work in Plume, Birmingham Poetry Review, Hopkins Review, $ (Poetry is Currency), Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Parhelion, Cagibi. Jenniferasutherland.com
Father of 2, fiancé of THE one. Firm believer that coffee tastes better in the woods.
Sometimes I write, but I never get it right.
Go Gators! 🐊⚡
https://linktr.ee/stephenreese
Nerdish sillery. Signs and portents. Mountain bike trails. Speed crosswording. Moody landscapes. Oddball literary fiction. Warmwave synthpop.
words • words • words
climate & community advocate | poet | founder Queer Poetry Collective | founder Islington Stanza of @poetrysociety.bsky.social
We support the work of people, organizations, and govt in #NC to to advance solutions to poverty and pursue racial equity. More: NCBudget.org
Agent of chaos, professor by day. Author of False Offering. Editor of Honey Literary and Split Lip Magazine. Board VP of Sundress Publications.
notorious D.E.B.
woman of mystery
pain in my own ass
sexy genius / huge nerd in Philly
bangers: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dxxbkz7sbu4hbes5idlvglpv/feed/aaal2brtlqhec
The premier literary website focused on debut and emerging writers. There’s also a podcast sometimes. Founded by Adam Vitcavage.
Author of All Heathens and Leaving Biddle City, both from @sarabandebooks | Assistant Prof at Old Dominion University
Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
Publishing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and works in translation since 1992.
salamandermag.org
EIC: @susurrusmag.bsky.social l Associate Editor: @bullcitypress.com | she/her
michellechampagnewrites.com
Comms director emerita, UF College of Veterinary Medicine. Poet. NC born, Florida grown. Debut full-length: The Grief Committee Minutes, Hoffer Award finalist (Saint Julian Press, '24.) New! Bloodstream, Mercer University Press (2/3/'26). SarahKCarey.com
J.R. (Jim) Miller is an ex-pat writer of fiction & cnf living in the UK.
https://my.linkpod.site/jrm
Writer. Doctor. @nytimes. WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS. PEN/ Bingham Finalist. Find me: www.chayabhuvaneswar.com
Writing a memoir. Notable BAE '16, '21, '22. Longlisted: '24 First Pages Prize. Winner '20 IndianaReview NF Prize. Essays: HungerMountain, @vox.com, @mcsweeneys, Blackbird. Views my own. caitlinmcgill.com. Believes in kindness. Takes social media breaks.
Author of the novel SWAPPING PURPLES FOR YELLOWS and of the collection DUNBAR’S FOLLY AND OTHER STORIES. High school English teacher and Fiction Editor for Orison Books.
MFA poetry, Warren Wilson College. She/Her. Black Lives Matter. Zero tolerance for fascists. https://linktr.ee/hannahsilverstein
Poet, Writer, Educator 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (She/they/Mx). NBCC, Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf available from Jackleg Press. https://wolfs-den.page/
Neurospicy
It’s okay you don’t need to follow me, I’m just here to read poetry
Poet, scholar, environmental humanist • Author of The Milk Hours (Milkweed, 2019), Winter, Glossolalia (Black Spring, 2022), and Extinction Song (Tupelo, 2026) • Following the X-odus.
author | professor | sjsindu.com | to be honest I’m not sure why I’m on social media but this seems like a nice place so hi
Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️🌈
Kentuckian. Poet. Writing from Tennessee by way of North Carolina.
reader, writer, etc | Durham, NC
Santa Fe Writers Project - globally distributed publisher of fiction & CNF since '98. Subrights repped by @susanschulman.bsky.social
Distributed by IPG. Find out more at sfwp.com
Our Sister Who Will Not Die: Stories (Mad Creek Books, 2022) | Asst. Prof @ East Carolina University | Fiction Ed. @ The Boiler |teeth pal | rebeccaibernard.com
Voter. Mother. Planet lover. 🌎 Bikes not guns. Words in @pdxreview @thehkreview @MastersReview & elsewhere She/Her
Former 30-year-old. Used to be in punk bands but super boring now. English PhD student. He/him.
Author of Driving The King and Like Trees Walking. Work in Best American Mystery and Suspense, Salon, and Gravy. NEA Fellow and winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence.
Writer. Teacher. Bibliophile. Cinephile. Occasional DJ. English PhD from Florida State University. BA in English from University of Texas at Austin. Originally from Alameda, CA.
https://linktr.ee/thomasbevilacqua
Aquinnah Wampanoag | NOTHING MORE OF THIS LAND out now!! ⬇️
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothing-More-of-This-Land/Joseph-V-Lee/9781668087251
Poet, educator, neurospicy
Poet: Books: Lady Wing Shot (Blue Lynx Prize, 2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press, 2022)
Loved working with Driftwood so much, I became Managing Poetry Editor in 2023
www.saramoorewagner.com
Child Craft: bellepointpress.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social | Co-editor: @gonelawn.bsky.social |
Writer of essays and short stories, gardener, community organiser. Wife to a wife, dad to a human peach. She/they. Work in Ecotone, Waxwing, New Ohio Review, Four Way Review, Pushcart special mention. Compost is my life!
Writer. Get-er-doner. Dog lover. THE WORK WIFE. APRIL MAY JUNE JULY.
Publisher: @bullcitypress.com. Poet: CHARM OFFENSIVE & three chapbooks from Unicorn Press. Professor: UNC #GoHeels. Views my own. Host: @triviaescapepod.com. Goofus. Durham, NC.
> Site: rosswhite.com
Queer poet, "queer" meaning both "odd" and "gay." Senior studying creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Former Firehouse Subs employee; neither substandard nor exceptional at the art of sandwich-making.
Nonprofit press publishing new and extraordinary voices from the American South. Learn more at hubcity.org/publishing. Shop our catalog at hubcity.org/books.
Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
Texan. Editor in Chief, @thebarbedwire.com. Words in Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Slate, The Daily Beast, Texas Monthly, Texas Observer etc
For Texas tips, email: olivia@thebarbedwire.com
Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Canadian in the South 🍁
Happy to be on your podcast, etc!
www.megireid.com
Writer, reader, office potato. Author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Lambda Award Finalist. NY Times Editors' Choice. Real human. No, really.
richardmirabellawriter.com
Insta: @rpmirabella
Writer, educator. First Aid for Choking Victims (Malarkey books). Writing in Denver Quarterly, Cottonwood, Southeast Review, and others.
Queer travel writer. Author of (Out) On the Road: The Radical Joy of Queer Travel (2026), On Queer Homesteading (2026)
https://www.lindseydanis.com
https://www.queeradventurers.com
Cat Stepdad
Michigander in the South
Michigan Notable Book Author
ENOUGH TO LOSE from Wayne State University Press
Prof. & Coordinator of Creative Writing at Austin Peay State University
Fiction in @salamandermag.bsky.social, @LAReview, and @emersonreview, Madison Review, and The Best American Mystery Stories 2019. Novel-in-progress. Sound Mixer for TV/Film. He/him.
