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Children's Book Author and Playwright #SCBWI #KidLit
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Librarian. Duck. 📚🦆 Meaningless bound form. Mostly posts about Taiwanese/American stuff? And doggos, of course. Always. he/伊/鴨
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swimming in the rain
Cantonese diaspora queer cisfemme on Ohlone land, cocreating qtbipoc healing spaces & magic
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@schmindigo on twitter; more woo than snarky these days, so
An inclusive community of writers providing cross-pollination, and insider expertise as well as classes and membership.
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📚 "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History" out now!
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Anguish flâneur, game designer, professional writer. Bylines: NYTimes Mag, Salon, LARB, Rumpus, GQ, more.
Games: markwallace.itch.io
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Once wrote a book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262513227/the-second-life-herald/
writer, poet, digital marketer, mama, daughter, partner, friend, forever student, and life-long writer with many projects-in-the-works...
Fiction [Stealing the Fire]. Critic [BBC_Culture LitHub. Community [@bookcritics.bsky.social SFGrotto BayBookFest Litcampwriters .
Errant lover of Swift, children, constellations #ENCHANTMENT #HEIDEGGER'S GLASSES Starred Reviews Publishers Weekly, SFGrotto#Pushcart2023 www.thaisafrank.com.
Author of LOVE/AGGRESSION | Fiction Editor at New Session
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Author of WHAT MAKES A HERO? and THE LIFE HEROIC. Contributing writer, Boston Globe Ideas. Words in Scientific American, Psychology Today, Atlas Obscura, NYT, etc. Book-in-progress: THE ART OF PACING.
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Author, journalist, editor, photographer, traveler, and tequila demigoddess.
poet | mentor | undercover historian (through poetry)| Anandibai Joshee: A Life in Poems (HarperCollins India, 2023)| Geography of Tongues, (TGIPC, 2014).
Author: IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD, AFTERWORD, THE TRANSLATOR, THE PAINTING; HOW TO WRITE STUNNING SENTENCES; Lover of lemons, dogs, snails.
Instructor: Stanford Continuing Studies
website: ninaschuyler.com
Stunning Sentences: ninaschuyler.substack.com
Writer, editor, focused on longevity right now.
Author: Book Club Fiction: MERCY & GRACE📚NO ORDINARY THURSDAY📚THE AWAKENING OF MEENA RAWAT📚THE RUMMY CLUB/ Non-Fiction: LAW: WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT & HOW TO GET IN📚Writing Instructor💻/SFGrotto#/ Pushcart nom. 2019/ website: https://anoopjudge.com
Author of Unforgetting http://bit.ly/2W1XFc3, called a "groundbreaking" memoir by the NY Times. Creative Writing Professor @UNLV. He/him. rlovatoauthor@gmail
he/him 🏳️🌈🇵🇭| Writers Grotto member | Babylon Salon cohost | Actors Equity Assoc | rep by Talcott Notch Literary | KARAOKE QUEEN ‘24 and ALL THE RIGHT NOTES ‘23 from Forever/GCP/Hachette
Filmmaker, dad, hubsy wubsy
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Writer. Formerly Outside magazine & Sunset. Bylines also in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. Researcher at The Atavist. Member of The Writers Grotto in San Francisco.
Freelance climate journalist / Managing Editor at DeSmog / 2022 Kiplinger Fellow and Brown Handler Resident / she, her, hers
Author, Focal Point (2021)
freelance med/sci writer, poet
essays & poems in NYT, The Atlantic, etc.
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Screenwriter, Script Consultant, Filmmaker, Adjunct Professor
Brazilian & American, came of age in West Africa, lives in Berkeley.
Writer. Founder of Melanin in YA (@melanininya.bsky.social), your source for all things Black in traditional young adult publishing.
All things TV, movies, books, sci-fi, theatre, & theology.
Los Angeles / Austin
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@foliojr Latest title: #THERISEOFISSAIGWE
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Author, screenwriter, born and raised Aries from New York.
Books: Forthcoming: What Lies Beneath the Flowers and many more!
Rep: 3Arts entertainment
Writer of words. Teller of tales. Chaotic neutral. Bestselling Author. God is good. NUBIA: TOO REAL out NOW! #PublishingPaidMe
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THE DIVIDING SKY (YA dystopian romance from PRH) out October 8th, 2024! www.thedividingsky.com
Someone once told me ‘the grass is much greener on the other side.’
Opinions are mine I Dancer | Poetess | Revolution | Agent - Serendipity Lit
Author of many genres and books!
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Out now: 💖 Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love
Coming soon: 🏕️ Hallie’s Rules (summer 2026)
author of YOU TRULY ASSUMED || storytelling main character || PhD-ing || 1913🔺|| she/her || Rep: Beth Phelan
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USA Today Bestseller
THIS IS MY AMERICA, INVISIBLE SON, THE COLOR OF A LIE
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Academic Scholar, Geek and Writer. Author of The Effigies Series, The Bones of Ruin trilogy and the upcoming thriller, The Queen’s Spade.
A masterpiece after a wreckage. Author: TRUTH IS 🎙️ (out September 23!) + ALL THE FIGHTING PARTS 💙 (Morris Finalist + Walter Honor!)
bi // a FL nigga 🐊//gemini // she/her // southerner // trans lives matter always // National bestselling author of THE POISONS WE DRINK & the author of THE BEAST YOU MADE OF ME
🇹🇹 author of WHERE THE RHYTHM TAKES YOU and IT WAITS IN THE FOREST | Agent: Wendi Gu | https://linktr.ee/sarahdassauthor
New York Times-bestselling author of monstrous stories. I, MEDUSA: Fall 2025
author of YA books THIS NIGHT IS OURS & WHEN THE STARS LEAD TO YOU
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Writes books, bakes cupcakes, makes pottery, entertains two orange cats. Award-winning author, keynote speaker, unconventional educator. Passionate about literacy, community, diversity, conversation, and social justice. She/Her.
Homeless novelist. Author of: THE HEX GIRLS: A ROGUE THORN 🐾 (Aug 26 2025) and THE SHADOW SISTER 🦋 (out now!). Here for books, equality, and Taylor Swift. @LilyMeade on most other platforms.
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I write Black kids & DC Comics (Static: UAN) & Star Wars (Sanctuary: A Bad Batch Novel - 08.05.2025). Big Dad Energy. #GirlDad
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Award-winning author of RUNNING WITH LIONS, RIGHT WHERE I LEFT YOU + more
Award-winning author of THE BLOOD TRIALS. Next up: LOVE SPELLS TROUBLE (YA; July 2025) and OUR VICIOUS OATHS (Adult; Oct 2025). She/Her.
Locus, BSFA, Ignyte Finalist. Award winner. Chef. Librarian. Author of 7+ books. Next: Until the Clock Strikes Midnight, 2/3/2026. Bostonian in Germany.
BCMorrow on IG/Threads. Adult/YA Author. Bestseller. Social Justice in Literature Award winner. Locus, Ignyte, and Audie finalist. Christ follower. Planet of the Apes stan.
THE BODY coming from Nightfire (Tor), 2026.
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#1 NYT, #1 Indie, Intl. Bestselling Author of The Legendborn Cycle. 📚 ALA CSK & Ignyte Award Winner. Story Warrior. Black Bene Gesserit. Fandom-raised.
B-more's own. Actress & Author of The Forge & Fracture Saga. Head full of trivia, heart full of swordfights
Dragon, Lodestar, & Lambda Award Finalist. Bestselling author of SO LET THEM BURN (2024), THIS ENDS IN EMBERS (2025), AN ARCANE INHERITANCE (2025), WICKED ENDEAVORS (2026), & HEIR UNDYING (2027) | she/her 🇯🇲
NY Times bestselling author and cookie enthusiast. Coach at The Novelry.
USA TODAY Bestseller • 2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner & Fellow • THE MACABRE, EPIDEMIOLOGY OF WITCHCRAFT (@harpervoyagerus, 2025 & 2026) • WME Repped Screenwriter • Film/TV: Mary Pender, WME #scriptsky, 🍉
Bestselling Award-Winning Adult and YA Romance Author.
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New Yorker, Editor, Writer, host/creator Minorities in Publishing podcast. Books: FORGIVE ME NOT (2023), EVERYDAY PEOPLE (2018).
www.jennifernbaker.com
Woodson Endowed Chair in History @Howard.edu • National Book Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author. MacArthur Fellow. #BeAntiracist. 🐍🦁🌱
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writer
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YA Author of LOVE IN 280 CHARACTERS OR LESS & LOVE REQUIRES CHOCOLATE. Editor at midnight & indigo. Has a PhD but doesn’t talk about that anymore 😅 Very Virginian. Real Down to Mars Girl 🪐
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afrodominican 🇩🇴 🏳️⚧️ award winning horror author. I write a lot.
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New York Times Bestselling author of A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN + more. Just another new social media profile hahahahaa :') 🇬🇭
He/him | Blerd, Author... Blerduthor? | Author of Forever for the Culture (Beacon) and Sundiata (Feiwal & Friends/Macmillan) | stevenunderwoodjr(at)blaqueword(dot)com
YA and MG author
📚 There's No Way I'd Die First (out now)
📚Who's All Going (to Die) Fall 2025
Rep: Danielle Burby - MWLA
Author of The Gilded Ones. Mother to Thugnificent.
PREORDER DEADLY EVER AFTER (PRH, 11/4/25)
YA fantasy author
Rep: Jamie Vankirk
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Writer. Bookstore owner. Midwest Princess.
BLACK GIRL POWER out now! 💕
BREE BOYD IS A LEGEND out 3.4.25 ✨
Award-Winning Author of "The Empire Wars"
Film/TV Agents: CAA
Future Filmmaker
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2000s kid
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NYT and Indie bestselling author of THE DAVENPORTS and THE DAVENPORTS: MORE THIS 💛💜
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📖 A CARIBBEAN HEIRESS IN PARIS
YA Author: PROMPOSAL, THE BOYFRIEND LAUNCHER (Little,Brown, February 24, 2026)
Author, Broadway lover, world traveler. I love my geriatric chihuahua.
Bemused from Disney Books - 1.7.25
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Writer of cool things! SUSIE KING TAYLOR @Simonkids 9/26/23, GOOD AS GOLD @DisneyBooks 6/23, KNEEL ‘21, WHATEVER HAPPENS JULIE & THE PHANTOMS ‘21 Rep @literarycarrie
(Foe-yin-SEE); 🇳🇬; She/Her; Editor (MCPG); opinions my own; PW Star Watch Honoree; if you aren’t actively fighting against oppression…why?
Award-Winning. Angsty Black Girls. Fantasy Romance.
🖤BLOOD MOON (preorder today!)
🖤The Dark Place
🖤The Undead Truth of Us
🖤WCS Dancer
Just happy to be here! Senior Editor at Scholastic.
Senior Editor of commercial and literary young adult and children’s books for all ages! she/her
weslieturner.com
Work: Vice President at Fuse Literary.
Hobby: 한국어를 공부하고 있어.
Loves: 스트레이 키즈, Manhwas, Great Danes, SFF Books & Movies, and Anime.
(acct for work & play)
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Aspiring novelist
Loves: cats, music, and writing
Dislikes: racoons and clowns
NAACP Image Award Nominated MG and YA Author of THE FORGOTTEN GIRL, THE GIRL IN THE LAKE, and RHYTHM & MUSE. Jesus Lover. Mommy 💙💙. Black American Southern girlie. Millennial BeyHiver.
#1 NYT bestseller & National Book Award finalist.
Everything, Everything, The Sun is also a Star, Instructions for Dancing & One of Our Kind
Co-publisher: Joy Revolution Books
Rep: Jodi Reamer (Writers House)
👑 Author 📚 THE SUMMER I ATE THE RICH (2025 Fierce Reads) / ONE OF THE GOOD ONES / DEAR HAITI, LOVE ALAINE ⚡️Rep: New Leaf Literary 👩🏾🎓 PhD Howard University ✊🏾🇭🇹
Literary Agent. Author of WHERE SHADOWS MEET, a vampire romantasy out 4.1.25 in the US & UK. I really love books 🥰
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Writer and filmmaker. Author of four books, including THE FORGOTTEN SUMMER OF SENECA (out now) and IN BETWEEN DAYS (May 12, 2026). She/her.
https://www.booksaremagic.net/item/k9JCycuDevqU8Ufpha6EHQ
I’m also on Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, the site formerly known as Twitter, and a blog powered by Blogger! All through one brand called KlicKNet.
#1 NYT Bestselling author - The Hate U Give, Concrete Rose, etc. On the Come Up streaming on Paramount+ . Nic Blake and The Remarkables out now!
Your Source for all things Black in Traditional Young Adult (YA) Publishing
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She/her. UNDER THE NEON LIGHTS (PenguinTeen, 6/3). Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellow. Tin house YA '21. Educator. Rep: Jodi Reamer. IG: arriwrites. Pronounced Ar-ee-el.
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