We still need joy.
author “Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privilege: Essays on Hawai’i” 🌴 “Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning” 👩🎤 “Baby’s on Fire”🔥 Italian 🇮🇹 Invisible Disability 🌻Editor at Forest Avenue Press
Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Switch hitting witch. Cubs poet. Books at TAMU Press & Sundress Publications. Writing: Ecotone Magazine, Blackbird, Fansided. Former Poetry Ed at River Styx. George Mason MFA.
jmww (https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/), a weekly journal of writing publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews. Our stories have appeared in Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, BIFFY, and Best of Net.
• Poet/Writer of All the Lands We Inherit https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/all-the-lands-we-inherit/
• Continuing Lecturer at UC Irvine
• Born on the bayou 🐊 Living in the (coastal) desert 🌴
• Also at darbyprice.com 📚
She/her. Poet, mother, queer, witch, cactus. Latina. Assistant poetry editor for Split Lip Magazine. Warren Wilson MFA alum. 🍉🍉🍉
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Fractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance. Open year-round and is available to all writers. https://fracturedlit.com/ Posts by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
Indigenous (Ojibwe) book content creator.
Acquisitions Editor @Boozhoo Books with Bindery Books, publishing stories that haunt and heal
https://linktr.ee/Fromthemixedupdesk
Now I get up around whenever. https://www.stephengrahamjones.com
Cherokee writer and journalist, check out my substack: https://gohini.substack.com/
Author of BY THE FIRE WE CARRY out now https://www.harpercollins.com/products/by-the-fire-we-carry-rebecca-nagle?variant=41322925359138
Writer. Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians. Born and raised in Chicago.
Sacred Smokes, Sacred City, Sacred Folks. Never Whistle at Night.
The El has arrived. Available everywhere.
Books and more here: theodorevanalst.com
SFFH writer. L’nu’skw (Mi'kmaw). She/her. Bi cis anarchafeminist (as in left, NOT liberal). Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
Books:
🩸Carnalis (03-2026)
🌿 Green Fuse Burning
💀 Elegies of Rotting Stars
📧 Rep by Jo Ramsay
writer, author of THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET, winner of the National Poetry Series⋆｡°✩
⊹₊⟡⋆BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD, ed. Darcie Little Badger, Kinsale Drake, Stacie Denetsosie forthcoming Nov. 2025 ⋆｡°✩
writerman, lapsed actor, pretentious dumb phone acolyte. words in lots of places. baltimore based.
children's-YA author, Heartdrum imprint curator, little free library steward, dog mom
Writer. Prof. Ghost Kat. 📚WhiteHorse TheHauntingofRoom904. NYT editors & GMA buzz pick. IndieNext. Target & BOTM. Indigenous. https://tinyurl.com/Erika-T-Wurth https://www.threads.com/@erikatwurth?igshid=NTc4M
Writer of speculative fictions. NYTimes Bestseller. Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte winner.
Novels: SIXTH WORLD series, BETWEEN EARTH & SKY trilogy, Lucasfilm.
Comics/games: Marvel
TV: A Murder at the End of the World, Echo, Netflix Series Animation.
Nerdy Native Lumbee | Mama | Writer | Speaker
🪶Decolonize Your Bookshelf
🌻Owner of small #bookstore specializing in diverse and inclusive reads 👇🏽👇🏽
https://linktr.ee/paperbacksandfrybread
San Francisco. Novel BIG CHIEF (Simon & Schuster) available now wherever books are sold! Anishinaabe (LDF). Repped by Michelle Brower at Trellis Literary.
Hi! I’m the bestselling author of Elatsoe & A Snake Falls to Earth & Sheine Lende. I <3 lifting heavy weights, playing video games, & writing stories. Sry I don’t check DMs. She/her. Lipan Apache.
Mohawk from Six Nations. Writer and Editor. Pro wrestling and makeup enthusiast. Horror and nail polish fanatic. She/her. Lit agent: Ron Eckel Speaking agent: rob AT transatlanticagency.com. AND THEN SHE FELL. A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND.
Latest novel MOON OF THE TURNING LEAVES is available via Random House in Canada and William Morrow in the USA
ndn writer/talker/streamer. host of NATIVERSE
read and write comics/horror. i love stories.
master of legal studies indigenous ppls law. ADHD.
https://link.space/@whatupkevin
Best selling author of the Flowers of Prophecy series, Asiri and the Amaru
Rep: Lauren Spieller at Folio Literary Management
Member of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe.
IF THE DEAD BELONG HERE—Viking Books (US) & Titan Books (UK).
carsonfaust.com
I write books and tell stories and help people reclaim family medicines. :)
www.richardvsncamp.com
Chickasaw | Author | Mother | MBA USC
Debut: THE TRUTH ACCORDING TO EMBER
From Berkley, Penguin Random House
August 6, 2024
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-truth-according-to-ember-danica-nava/1144331852
• Algonquin Anishnaabe storyteller & artist
(Crow Winter, 2019)
• Video Game nerd and LOTR enthusiast
• Space fan 🪐
• 🖤🩶🤍💜🌈
Author of Rez Ball 📚🏀🛹🦇🌈 💍
Medicine Wheels drops 6.2.26 (Available for preorder now)
semi retired emo
Most mid skater on my rez
https://linktr.ee/Byrongraves
Award-winning Indigenous writer and artist from Northern Saskatchewan, Canada
Black Walnut Books is an Indigenous and queer owned bookstore in Glens Falls, NY that focuses on Indigenous, queer and BIPOC authors. blackwalnutbookshop.com
Writer of horror and fantasy.
Mother of 6.
Representation: Laura Cameron and Amanda Orozco, Transatlantic Literary Agency
"Gripping and poignant." -Kirkus Reviews
Taínofuturist nerd 🐚🪶🛖🤖; Award Winning Author of SORDIDEZ; ✍🏼 Science Fiction, CliFi, Fantasy, Horror 📚; SFWA; Cloud Anthropologist; RPG Connossieur 🎮; Cuir Boricua migrant in Europe | He/Him/Él 🏳️🌈🇵🇷👊🏼
www.egconde.com
Unapologetically "Ambiguously Brown"
33 | they/them | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💕💍
writing my debut fantasy novel 📚
MCAD comic art alum ‘18
-uses degree to just doodle ocs ☠️
Freedom for all 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🇮🇷🇺🇦
Illustrator, Concept Artist, and Author. 2-Spirit queer Ojibwe Native American. Working on Cut Flowers, a rock & roll horror-comedy graphic novel. Teacher with SmArt School. Rep'd by Jacqui Lipton at Tobias Literary Agency
www.cutflowerscomic.com
Author, photographer, Mohawk from Tyendinaga, snake enthusiast.
author AFTER THE FALL + lots of anthos - rep Writer's House • bead & fiber artist • history nerd • Chickasaw citizen/Choctaw in Arkansas
she/her
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
katehart.net
https://linktr.ee/katehartbooks
Indigenous writer, tea enthusiast, and cat person. She/they. Find my latest work in Never Whistle At Night (2023). 🏳️🌈 🪴
@indigenousbookshelf on ig
Bindery: 2spiritbookshelf.binderybooks.com
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe writer, musician, intellectual
www.leannesimpson.ca
2-time Governor General’s Literary Award winner, podcaster, public speaker, Editorial Director at Tundra Books.
ᏥᏣᎳᎩ. Cherokee Nation citizen. Writer/scholar. Tulsa Artist Fellow. Author of Native Appropriations blog/substack(soon), NOTABLE NATIVE PEOPLE, co-creator All My Relations podcast. I also make baskets that glow.
Award-losing national bestselling Métis author of "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada", from manitow-sâkahikan/Lac Ste. Anne in so-called Canada. Trying to debunk myths. She/her/wiya
https://linktr.ee/apihtawikosisan
Mescalero Apache Educator/Poet
Na. Am. 2SLGBTQI
Lives in Denver, CO
https://linktr.ee/crisostoapache
Award-winning SFFH author/poet, Chippewa/RR Métis, Your Sarcastic Auntie, former PE, cancer🎗️/band 🎺/proud 🏳️⚧️ mom, Husker 🏈 fan, ♈️/♑️/♒️, maybe a 🧙🏼♀️? BQ=GENOCIDE. She/her
Rep: Wayne Arthurson; @therightsfactory.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/marsheilarockwell
Chesley Award winner. Pencil artist of nature, magic and lore. If I'm not in the studio I might be wandering in the woods.
🪶| Demi | she/her
ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᎧᏂᎯᏍᏗᎢ ᏕᎦᏕᎶᏆᎠ
https://amandamakepeace.com/more
Cherokee Nation citizen, bi, Two-Spirit, multiply-disabled journalist, organizer, & Founding Executive Director of Crushing Colonialism. Learn more about me at JDeerinwater.com
I am opposed to the Trump culture and politics he is creating in America! Trying to find like minded progressive , positive groups of people on one platform!
Poet. Essayist. Educator. "Places I've Taken My Body" & "The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded" Co-author "In the Field Between Us" w Susannah Nevison. Editor in Chief @ Image Journal. http://mollymccullybrown.com
poet. new chapbook, Love That For Us, out march 6. abolish the police & free palestine
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https://www.chenchenwrites.com
Poet who/which/that writes about art. All opinions expressed are your own.
www.sommerbrowning.com
Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Used and new books, comics, and other wonders. Owned by author Gayle Brandeis and her husband Michael Brandeis in Highland Park, IL.
Novelist (RELENTLESS MELT out now from Melville House) // collagist // inveterate notetaker // gracefully aging zinester // to be found in the Greater Boston/Chicago metro region
I’m just here so I won’t get fined — Marshawn Lynch
U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Writer, mama, American dreamer in despair. Fighting the good fight with words in The NYT, The Guardian, WaPo, Huff Post, Salon, Vogue, etc.
Drove The World's Longest Road. Resides in Spain. Huge crush on FDR. Votes BLUE 💙
Born + raised in L.A
I report on the publishing industry through my paid newsletter, The Bottom Line, and educate writers on the business of authorship in THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press).
Author of NBCC finalist HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Nonfiction ghost story forthcoming with Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster). Freelance editor based in Portugal.
Author of KNOCKED DOWN: A HIGH RISK MEMOIR. Health, Lifestyle, and Travel Journalist. Words in Wash Po, AARP, Oprah Daily, BBC. One half of witchesofpitches.com
Writer and former wildland firefighter. My memoir, HOTSHOT, debuts on August 12th. they/them
Critically acclaimed writer. Books include Twentynine Palms (praised by Hunter S. Thompson as "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer") and Blood Brothers (starred Kirkus, Newsweek excerpt, praised by Doug Brinkley, Thomas Powers).
Weather, climate, writing, #scicomm, teaching, LIW, history, sports, wagering, equity. Author of WILDER WEATHER, published by SDHS Press. Nebraska/Midwest/Michigan. She/her. #binders #amwriting
Author: UNITED STATES OF REJECTION: A STORY OF LOVE, HATE & HOPE (UGA Press, May 1, 2026): https://www.ugapress.org/9780820377230/united-states-of-rejection/
writer—mostly flash. mother. owner of too many notebooks.
Flash reader at Hippocampus Literary Magazine
Author, I Can’t Remember if I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy. Backbeat/Bloomsbury. Words in NYT, WaPo, Salon, +others. Pushcart nominee. Best American Essays HM. Detroiter, rocker, mom, widow.
Story collector & teller. Trail runner. Dilly's best friend. Ran the Oregon PCT to celebrate my brave mom. Wrote a (bestselling) book about it. TO THE GORGE, out now: www.emilyhalnon.com/book
Substack-ing at: https://emilyhalnon.substack.com/
Storyteller. Ceramicist. Lawyer.
Award Winning Author: A Good Country (PRH)
Words at NYT, LATimes, WaPo, Time, LitHub, The Moth, Joe’s Pub/Srsly Entertaining
linktr.ee/sofiaalikhan
Author/Essayist/Teacher
www.katewalter.com
No DMs
Writer of creative nonfiction, memoir, and short stories.
Primary care doctor, professor of medicine, critical medical humanities, flute player, writer (bylines include NEJM, Slate, NYT, Atlantic).
www.annareisman.com
Author of Bellwether: A Telephone Operator, a Landmark Court Case, and the Women Whose Voices Connected a Nation (Union Square 2027). History and culture writer. Words in The Atlantic, NPR, Salon, Washington Post. she/her
UK based. Disney/fairy tale adaptation/deep stories/literature/libraries/culture. she/her
same handle on the hellbirb; not sure how much I'll be here
Insta: @michelle_anya; www.michelleanjirbag.com
Writer. Cat lady. Refugee from Xtwitter.
Writing about meaning in nature, integrating science, spirit, mythology. Birder, artist, musician, PhD geologist. Tetrachromat wannabe. Pubs, art, and bio at NaturalPresenceArts.com.
Journalist. Filmmaker. Dawn Enthusiast.
annaleah.com
Writer, editor, New Yorker, https://sofia-perez.com // Words in BBC Travel, CNTraveler, Forbes, LitHub, Saveur, Travel+Leisure // ‘24 Sustainability Award (for Spain reporting), ‘23 ASJA Writing Awards Finalist // Beats: food/drink, travel, art, eco-issues
TEDx Speaker. Author, WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED. NYU writing prof. Contrib. Editor, Writer’s Digest. Freelance Writing Direct podcast host. Award-winning journalist with bylines in The New York Times, Washington Post, Slate + https://EstelleSErasmus.com
Writer, editor, content marketer.
Former Brooklynite now living in Upstate NY.
#woolfer
Award-eligible writer. Recent escapee from that incel-sodden catastrophe cluster that is X. Words in Stonecoast Review, Wooden Boat, Belladonna Comedy, Medium, others. Rock n roll singer.
Fiction & CNF writer. Dressing the Saints Short Story Collection, Black Lawrence Press, 2024. Latina. She/her
Essayist. Memoirist. Creative writing professor. Wife. Mom. Native New Yorker. She/her. Award-winning publications include NY Times, WashPo, The Cut, McSweeney’s, AARP, and anthologies.
- Food & travel writer Travel+Leisure, NatGeo, HuffPost, AAA, Fodor’s.
- Keynote professional speaker. 3 TED talks.
- Founder of nonprofit ‘Go Eat Give’.
- Author of ‘Beato Goes To’ children’s books.
- Columnist Georgia Trend & Khabar.
- 120 countries
Author of blended holiday picture books, upmarket fiction and paranormal romance. And a frequent contributor to AARP, where I write about the humorous side of life.
Author of MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS (coming March 4, 2025) | Best American Essays 2024 | Pushcart Prize | Words in The Sun, Virgina Quarterly Review, LA Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe + more
www.nicolegraevlipson.com
Writer. Chronic Lyme survivor. Member of the Zipper club since 2019. Words at Good Housekeeping, The Sun magazine, Brevity Blog and more.
mashawmcguinnis.com
Sociologist and Makai Livingstone-GBV-Survivor, who coined the term, "Access Intimacy Abuse" to capture vile violations from which I may never recover, so contributions welcome here: https://ko-fi.com/equitableforall
https://linktr.ee/KrystalKavitaJagoo
I👻IWriter. Book maven. Unlikable female protagonist. Aspiring time traveler. Words @electriclit, @crimereads, @Kveller, @mental_floss, etc. @litmaven on Threads.
Writer, Author of Craft & Conscience and Poignant Song, OG New Yorker, Mama, Committed to Joy & Justice
They would not listen, they did not know how. There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was) ™
https://thompsonk.substack.com/about Born&raised2x2 #religioustrauma @LAReviewOfBooks @GuernicaMag @BOMB Founding editor #VoicesOnAddiction @TheRumpus.net
