I write Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate & culture. Former L.A. Times climate columnist and Desert Sun energy reporter. Also hosted Boiling Point and The Hatch podcasts.
Find me at Dodger Stadium, Disneyland or hiking in the mountains.
A nonprofit local news startup from Forbes and L.A. Times veterans.
Creative Director at @theverge.com, writer/drawer of books incl SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS
The duke of dark corners / Texas writer for the New Yorker / Co-host of Bad Therapist podcast badtherapistpod.bsky.social
Contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, Emerson Fellow at New America, host of the Origin Stories podcast. Red Sox fan. Please God don't ask me about the "progress" on my "book"
15,000 creative writers since 2002. NYC and Online classes. Write with us.
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Author of the novel A Burning, nominated for the National Book Award, the NBCC John Leonard Prize, and the ALA Carnegie Medal
Alter ego of Peter Ginna. Editor, writer, & occasional blogger on books & publishing. Former editor & publisher at several houses. Author of WHAT EDITORS DO: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing. Website: peterginna.com
Editor of Lit Hub, writer, not-so-secretly Canadian.
Editing, Writing, Teaching, Muttering, not in that order. LA and CT currently but Iowa originally. USC; Avidly; #hairstudies; with intense eagerness.
Writer, fire guy (aka pyromantic), exploration historian, urban farmer. Recent books include "Pyrocene Park" and "Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico."
Website: www.stephenpyne.com
Climate and environment editor at New York Times Opinion
I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
Community college professor, occasional poet, author of "Some Final Beauty and other Stories" (Univ. of Nevada Press)
https://unpress.nevada.edu/9781647791971/some-final-beauty-and-other-stories/
Se llama el Golfo de México.
Indie press publishing books on California culture, nature, Indigenous perspectives, and social justice | Publisher of News from Native California
Dad Lander. Former Councilmember Lander. Former Comptroller Lander. Running for Congress because we need to fight, not fold. 🥊
landerfornyc.com
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This year I started growing a home garden bc I’d rather be bloomscrolling than doomscrolling. Hope I can edit my posts here.
SoCal SGV Tovangaar LA Co; Zone10b SunsetZone21
Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust) / Ed-at-large, Pen and Anvil Press, MA / Afterbody, Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/afterbodybluediode
Retired book editor, terminal bookworm, first-time author of THE INSIDER: MALCOLM COWLEY AND THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. I like movies too.
writer, editor, audio / work @brooklynmuseum.org, @literaryhub.bsky.social, @orionmagazine.bsky.social
www.corinnesegal.com
Californian | Pakistani | Leo
Literature, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies @UC Santa Cruz
Editor, Zócalo Public Square (@zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social)
• Author of Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico
• Senior editor at the Food & Environment Reporting Network
• Contributing writer at Mother Jones
tedgenoways.com
Journalist, editor, teacher, organizer. I write about art and comics. Short, with tall energy.
jilliansteinhauer.com
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Publicity Director, Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sometimes football, always cats.
Writer, Photographer, Librarian, Red Panda Enthusiast
https://adalenakavanagh.com/
The Chills at Will Literary Podcast is a discussion of the visceral beauty of literature, w/ Pete. Ep 275 up now on all platforms!-join the Patreon!
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Writer & Librettist & Eater
https://monique-truong.com/
Critic, professor, author of HOW IT FEELS TO BE ALIVE: ENCOUNTERS WITH ART AND OUR SELVES, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux April 2026 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374613327/howitfeelstobealive/
https://www.nytimes.com/by/megan-o-grady,
Author of The End of the World Book (finalist for the PEN USA Fiction Award & Edmund White Debut Fiction Award) and The Disintegrations (winner of the Publishing Triangle Ferro-Grumley Award.)
Teaching Faculty at Antioch MFA Program Los Angeles.
Shreve Williams PR founder; book biz vet, mother runner, third gen D.C. native
Author of 14 books: "The Phelan Feud: The Bitter Struggle for Control of a Great Canadian Food Empire," "The Sweetness in the Lime," "Alexa: Changing the Face of Canadian Politics," "Bitcoin Widow," etc. Inglis Professor, University of King's College MFA.
Part of the team at International Literary Properties. Grady’s dad.
I write books about troublesome women. Developmental editor/teacher/book coach/ghostwriter at Circe Consulting. Faculty at UNR-Tahoe’s low res MFA. Find out more at circeconsulting.net
Author of SPILT MILK (McSweeneys). Sunday Times Short Story Award winner. Fellowships: The Center for Fiction, MacDowell, Bread Loaf. Creative Writing Director at Drew University.
writer (THE CHURCHGOER, FIRE SEASON, a few secret TV things you'll never see), game-maker (NATURE KIN), stirrer-upper of interesting business, a lover of oaks. (https://patrickcoleman.org/)
Author, musician, president JSPR Inc., etc on Insta I'm Helter Skelley
Traveler. WWOOFer. Writer. Potter. Teacher.
Writer, teacher, actor, warbler, editor of #Snapshots: An Album of Essay and Image forthcoming from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social, lover of dogs, birds, photos, dinner on a sheetpan, jigsaw puzzles, and the emdash—
Bylines in The Daily Beast, The Week, McSweeney’s, The NY Daily News, Salon, LA Review of Books, US News, the Washington Post, The Awl, The Morning News, Marie Claire, MORE, Chicago Tribune, others.
substack.com/@peterbirkenhead
movie programming & consulting
80% unrepentant lurker, 20% movie-related promotional binges
NYFF selection committee (main slate)
100% Bay Area
+ #DCstatehood
The Hottest MFA since 2008.
palmdesertmfa.ucr.edu
Founding host, NPR's Embedded. Former host, All Things Considered. Former NPR Middle East correspondent. Teacher/trainer, Uncuffed. Dodger fan with the zeal of a convert.
http://www.npr.org/people/131876588/kelly-mcevers
Husband. Dad. Teacher. Wordsmith. Handyman.
Nonfiction writer; B&N Discover Great New Writers Pick; New book: Together in Manzanar: The True story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp; Work in NYT, WashPo, WSJ + more; www.tracyslater.com
Professor, sociologist, author of The Culture of Fear & other books, former college president, magician member of the Magic Castle. barryglassner.com
Writer and Graphic Novelist. Author of HONORIA: A FORTUITOUS FRIENDSHIP, Fantagraphics Press
Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo192110828.html
Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
annaeclark.com
Poet, memoirist, professor, hifi journalist
Talk Show Host, Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. Occasional host of the National Press Club Update-1 podcast. Social & Political Commentator. Writer. Human Rights Advocate. Love the arts, politics, dogs, and life! #RVA 🏳️🌈
Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
https://rebeccamakkai.com
Keep honking, I'm mentally floating around Lake Union in a hot tub boat while reminding coworkers to only use the word "synergy" if they're talking about Jem and the Holograms.
Director, Oregon State University Press. Prefer gray skies but happy to be here.
Writer, editor, focusing on California and the American West.
Poet, editor, teacher. Directs MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreats and Workshops. Author of Hyena, Simon Says, Blue Structure, and a new manuscript, The Odyssey of Yes and No. Founder and former director of Paris Press.
VP, editorial director @ William Morrow / HarperCollins
Journalist, documentarian, communications person, Indijewness.
Shamus-winning author of the Henry Malone novels. Appalachian to the bitterest of ends. Rep: @michellerichterbks.bsky.social Insta @jamesdfhannah. He/him jamesdfhannah.com
Newspaper columnist at Metro Silicon Valley for 20 years. Author at History Press. Sober vagabond. More words at Alta Journal, Hidden Compass, Atlas Obscura, IEEE Computer Graphics, AAWW & more.
https://www.garysingh.info
Writer and editor, ATL-NYC-LA. Currently editorial director, Zócalo Public Square.
Author most recently of SHIRLEY: A NOVEL. Assoc. Professor @Lichtenstein Center @StonybrookUniversity. Co-director, BookEnds novel revision fellowship. She/Her. Daily swimmer. Alarmingly fast reader.
Author of THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS & FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE @doubledaybooks. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist. Descended from shamans and ghost whisperers
Essayist | poet | memoirist | unrepentant bookaholic | mother of two young-adult humans and two cats
Literary agent @ Fischbach Creative; former publisher at Coffee House Press (25 year tenure); board member, MN Prison Writing Workshop, etc. Mr. Nobody from Nowhere.
Senior Essays Editor: @therumpus.net / Associate Writing Professor / Program Director: MA in Writing / Books-in-progress: 1) CNF: A history of Jerusalem's City of David 2) Flash Fiction: Bill Murrays / Robbie & James Talk Music: https://bit.ly/RandJTM
Poet. Editor in chief at Two Lines Press.
Gavin J. Grant. He/him. Born: 323ppm. Peely-wally vegan Scottish immigrant. Equality? I like it. BLM. Antifascist. Trans rights=human rights. Long covid 12/21, meh. Tired. Wears masks, asks you to, too. smallbeerpress.com (closed) & LCRW. bookmoonbooks.com
A virtual book club devoted to literature from and about the Golden State.
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Author of 4 books, including Oh You Robot Saints!(Carnegie Mellon UP). Board member, National Book Critics Circle. Cofounder/Editor of Memorious.org (2004-2023.)
Director of track16.com. Bike rider. And sometimes I make films based on bangers like Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno.”
Author of three books of fiction and editor of Story (@storymag.bsky.social)
Formerly GuerillaMemoir over there
Writer, editor at Brevity, literal fire-eater
Give yourself permission.
linktr.ee/guerillamemoir
chef, food writer & culinary consultant. fmr test kitchen director & writer @latimesfood & contributor @SplendidTable. i like to play w/ my food. 🏳️🌈, she/her, and 🏳️⚧️ ally
Publishing extraordinary literary and visual works by groundbreaking writers, artists, musicians, and thinkers from around the world. Founded in 2019 by Michael Zilkha. zebooks.com
Semiotext(e) publishes works of theory, fiction, madness, economics, satire, sexuality, science fiction, activism and confession.
https://www.semiotexte.com
Desperately trying to remain amused in the face of reality.
poet / professor / director @nyucwp
Author of the novel BUCKEYE (coming 9.2.25 from Random House), the story collections THE DREAM LIFE OF ASTRONAUTS and SEND ME, and several novels for young readers. Editor of ONE STORY. Outsider art collector, pinball enthusiast.
I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
architecture critic of the dallas morning news. author of “the man in the glass house.” www.marklamster.com
Third most talented artist in a family of three. Jesse the Wonder Dog's Dad. Look for his new novel, THE AMATEUR, on August 4. www.ChrisBohjalian.com .
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Books + Entertainment Editor (TV, Music, more) at 11 Southern California News Group outlets
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Book publicist and co-founder of Shreve Williams Public Relations; dog lover; Anguilla visitor
Writer, psychiatric nurse. My house is haunted.
Contributing Editor at Hawthorne Books, an imprint of the Catapult Group, Avid knitter. Painter. Animal Lover.
Skating to where the AI puck is going: LocAlmanac.com. Strategy/product consulting, mentoring and investing. This gun for hire. Recovering journalist: ex-WaPo, AP, ChiTrib, SF Examiner. Tramps like us. #Natitude
The print magazine of psychedelic art and literature. Elastic No. 1: The Dying Issue is available now at elasticmag.com.
Founding editor of elasticmag.bsky.social, the new print magazine of psychedelic art & literature. Formerly editorial director of Bold Type Books, EIC of Guernica mag. Writer. Sleeping in my tent in your backyard.
