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Debut Novel SOMEWHERE BETWEEN LIES is out now on Amazon!
www.katehalena.com
ADHD mom against all systems and forms of oppression. Always learning and attempting intersectionality. Sometimes Communist, sometimes Anarchist, always anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and anti-imperialist. Free Congo, Sudan, and Palestine.
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Small press specializing in horror, sci-fi, contemporary fantasy, zines, poetry, and reprints. Voted best small press by our EIC's mom. frombeyondpress.com
Bring Your Own Theatre Productions 🎭
Chicago's longest running 24-hour theatre company.
https://linktr.ee/byotproductions
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
Writing about belonging & diaspora. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024). https://linktr.ee/graceprasad?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=89b54520-7f8d-4182-91dd-cb30d74a6cd7
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
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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
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
Writer. Overthinker. Dogs, Music, Books & Sometimes People. she/her
✍🏼 estrangement, found family, motherhood
MAP OF A HEART about ❤️s (medical & metaphorical)VineLeavesPress '26 Website www.jacquegorelick.com
No, YOU Tell It! storytellers work together to develop true tales on the page, then swap stories to embody their partner’s culture, identity, and life experience on stage.
Visit noyoutellit.com for more info and to listen to our podcast.
Writer. Book Coach. Teacher. Binder. Essays in The Manifest Station, Hippocampus, Brevity Blog, The Independent, Hazlitt, MicroLit Almanac. https://linktr.ee/suerepko
poet & memoirist 🌎🌻✨📚
Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
author of THE PACT (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books) and KNOCK WOOD (Dzanc Books)
https://jennifermilitello.com/
freelance writer, author type, occasional minister, slightly funny human. Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation releases in April! Oakland, CA.
Writer, Writing Coach, Mindfulness Instructor
www.amreklimchak.com
Author of HARD TO LOVE (Bloomsbury) and GILEAD REREAD (Columbia UP, forthcoming). Teaching at Queens College CUNY. Repped by Rob McQuilkin at MMQ&A.
Queer poet kept alive by snacks, rock n roll & sheer force of will▪️Reader for @splitlipthemag.bsky.social▪️Poems in several defunct journals & some that are still kickin'▪️Wabanaki Land (Portland, ME)
Writer. New to this platform. Bylines @ NYT, Washington Post, Time, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Business Insider, Seattle Times, HuffPost, Marie Claire & many others.
Books Essays Palaver 📚 Momma May Be Mad (forthcoming 2025), Necessary Lies, & Remember To Forget Me. PhD
@Fulbright_Eire 🌊 NYer↪️GA but ❤️ ↪️ Luimneach🇮🇪
Writing/Social Impact/Public Health/Resistance from my perch in rocky coastal Maine. #amediting. Just migrated from X
LitFic & essay whisperer
Nonprofit/philanthropic wrangler
MPA. INTJ.FAFO.
Writer. Photographer. Journalist. Covering science, nature, Hawaii, life. Bylines in NatGeo, SmithsonianMag, AudubonMag; prose (CNF and fiction) in Ghost Parachute, Moon City Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, Fictive Dream, and elsewhere.
Child Craft: bellepointpress.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social | Co-editor: @gonelawn.bsky.social |
Writer/Los Angeles
PhD English/CW
NYT Bestselling Author of Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark + Phenomenal / Boone, NC / www.leighannhenion.com
author of WHAT HAPPENED TO PAULA: An Unsolved Death and the Danger of American Girlhood (W.W.Norton); words in New York Times, Washington Post and elsewhere; mother; gardener; teacher; woman
Writer and editor in Doylestown, Pa.
Royal history dork. Corpse flower groupie. A 21-year-old cat's snack bitch. Em-dashes 4 lyfe!
Published by @nytimes @washingtonpost @mentalfloss @penngazette, among many others. Read my work at samanthadrake.com.
Writer, improv teacher/performer, Bachelor(ette) enthusiast.
Creative writer | Improv Teacher/Performer/Facilitator | Playwright | Storyteller | Bachelor(ette) Enthusiast |
Learn more about the first four: https://www.thisiselizabethcutler.com/
Author, auntie, and anti-fascist.
It's time to re-imagine this whole goddamned thing.
Writer on books, culture, my life. Editor, @opensecretsmag.bsky.social
https://opensecretsmagazine.com
Author, How to Write Erotica. Editing anthology about our attachments to our belongings. https://linktr.ee/rkbwriter and rachelkramerbussel.com
Dyslexic Book Critic | Writer | Traveler
She/Her
Lawrence Kansas 🌻
Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship—Top 1% charted podcast | Writing about friendship since 2014 | Quoted in WSJ, WashPost, Guardian, TIME, etc.
https://linktr.ee/ninabadzin
📍Minneapolis
Food and culture writer. Editor and indie lit publisher. Hunger fighter. Have spatula, will travel.
New York Times bestselling author of WOMEN IN WHITE COATS and SISTERS IN SCIENCE. Editor, Everyday Health. Regular contributor, NatGeo. Journalist. Essayist. Feminist. Mom. Lover of cats, books, baking, tea, & thrifting
Writer - HALF-LIFE OF A SECRET from @KentuckyPress. Words in Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Catapult, Guernica, Bitter Southerner, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and others. Professor of the Practice at Tufts University. www.emilystrasser.com
History professor by day, writer by night. Bird watcher in between. Author of the forthcoming Alias Agnes: the Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy (University Press of Kentucky, April 2025).
elizabethdewolfe.com
English teacher, new mom, EIC of Fast Flesh Literary Journal, and author of Suppose Muscle, Suppose Night, Suppose This in August.
Writer. Mother. Co-editor of true, a nonfiction craft magazine. Writing prof at Penn State. Memoir in progress.
Lyrical dispatches from the apocalypse. Words in Orion, Guernica, The Rumpus, LARB, Al Jazeera, memoir THE MOURNER’S BESTIARY (Row House, 2024), and novel ALL THE WATER IN THE WORLD (St. Martin’s, 2025)
Freelance manuscript editor & writer keeping a human touch to help authors tell important stories. Copyediting, copywriting, developmental editing, proofreading, sensitivity reading & more. Current Authors Guild, AAUW, AWP & EFA member. Say NO to Facism. 💙
Writer, runner, stray cat whisperer. Midwestern transplant with Southern roots. Words in The Sun, Ms., BUST, Cleaver, JMWW, Matter News, & more. 2025 Ucross Fellow. Senior editor @muthamagazine, book reviewer @publisherswkly, & CNF reader @mudseasonreview.
Author of Faith Ed, Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance. Independent Journalist, formerly of Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News. @medillschool alumna; @FellowsSpencer; @theopedproject #skatermom of ice dancer. I'm not the NPR Linda
❤️ Essays in NYT Modern Love, Longreads, Slate & more
✏️ Editorial for CNET Voices & The Quality Edit
💻 Career Copywriter, currently at Willow
📖 Writing a memoir on grief, motherhood, Mississippi & mysticism
💌 BLURT Substack
Essay and Writing Studies teacher-scholar. Pie-maker and singer. Want to know what are you making for supper, what you are reading, and how we can make school a meaningful place for all students and teachers.
#Writer #Teacher #Punster #Brooklyn #HudsonValley
Words in New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, USA Today and many more #Littlewhitehouse airbnb.com/h/littlewhitehousegermantown
proud #cat mom
Tired freelancer, misanthrope, talker. Midwesterner stranded on other shores. National bestseller D-DAY GIRLS: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win WWII and FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINA (prh.com/DDayGirls) legally blind ♿️ ✡️
American-Dutch dual citizen writer & educator living in Amsterdam. MFA U of Iowa. @theatlantic.com @Catapult.co @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social etc
Book with Picador (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250117809/allshipsfollowme)
Irish writer in Boston area. Words: New York Times, Boston Globe, Books Ireland, Best American Essays, et al. 5th book, "Trespassers" available now. Free wellness and writing resources + workshop list (and my 5 books!) at https://linktr.ee/ainegreaney
writer, photographer, grief worker.
queer & disabled. art as resistance.
Novelist, journalist, and editor. Next novel: THE RAVEN ENGAGEMENT (2027 @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social). Author of DUST, TRASHLANDS, ROAD OUT OF WINTER, OHIO VIOLENCE. Philip K Dick Award. NEA Grant. HOH https://linktr.ee/alisonstinewrites
writer in "Maine" / Wabanakik | featuring: big hair, rabbit holes, and eels
https://michelechristle.com/
https://hells-bells.ghost.io/
https://elversphere.net/
Bylines: NY Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Independent, WIRED, and Newsweek. End-of-Life doula and therapy animal team with @therapydoggaia
Reader, writer, dreamer. I listen for owls in the night and peer too closely at bees. NOT A THING TO COMFORT YOU (Univ of Iowa Press 2019)
Poet. Author. Editor. Late bloomer, early riser. She/they. STERILE FIELD (Free Lines Press, 2022), JANE ALMOST ALWAYS SMILES (Moonstone Arts Press, 2022). Co-Ed: @reideasjournal. https://www.hefisher.com/
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Poet. Writer. Facilitator. Tantra teacher. Coach. #camelcityunited
Afghan-American Writer | Artist | Fiction & Nonfiction Editor
Editor, Los Angeles Review of Boolks
MacDowell | Hedgebrook | Periplus | Art Omi | VCCA Fellow
rep: AyeshaPandeLiterary
https://linktr.ee/leilanadir
www.leilanadir.com
Theologian - writer - collage artist - part owner of a stray cat sanctuary -
Writer, motorcyclist, gadabout-in-training
Two books forthcoming from Bloomsbury: Writing the Hard Stuff and How Plant a Billion Trees. Writer of 8 (weird) books.Trying to withstand the onslaught of fascism by building community. Prof, Nonfiction Editor at DIAGRAM and UGA Press's Crux Series.
Writer. Editor. Teacher.
Author of If in Some Cataclysm, Tumor, etc.
https://amleahy.com
Seattle-based writing teacher, author of HEART RADICAL: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging, & editor of MIXED ROOTS: Writers on Multiracial Identity & Both/And Belonging (Beacon, 10.13.26).
Bridge builder, non-binary thinker.♥️
➡️ anneliukellor.com
