Writer; Lecturer at University of Stuttgart, Germany; PhD American Studies
Democratic socialist since 1954.
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Writer, editor, journalist. Book and nature lover. Author, CLUTTER: AN UNTIDY HISTORY. Words in WaPo, TLS, NYT, LARB, CHE, EdSurge, etc. She/her.
Newsletter: https://jenniferhoward.substack.com/
Author of Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press) and The Wallflower Avant-Garde; Associate Professor of English, Univ of South Carolina
Penn State Astronomer (he/him), personal account. “We went and made everything a computer without ever bothering to fix computers.”
novelist, historian, amateur hoofer
www.dianejosefowicz.com | pre-orders are open for THE GREAT HOUSES OF PILL HILL coming in May 2026 from @sohopress
Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
"Leftist pseudo-intellectual", The Critic
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Teaching research writing @PWRStanford, writing about interwar expatriate infrastructure (& passports & steamships & newspapers), book reviews editor @JMPS, MSA board member, SFUSD parent
Prof. Emeritus of English UMD & Past President, Keats-Shelley Assoc.; Co-Gen Ed. Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Romanticism, Textual Scholarship, DH, Media. "Rise like lions after slumber."
criticism & theory - comparative literature, art, performance, politics, and culture 🌿
assoc. prof. @ Skidmore College
author: “Baroque Modernity” (JHUP 2021)
www.josephcermatori.com
I write about #cleanenergy by day, everything else on evenings & weekends. Semicolon lover; will fight for the Oxford comma. A real Flower Child, my name for the generation some call Jones. More at flowerchild.substack.com.
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Venezuelanist art historian, now studying the discourse on space & place, networks, bodies, & ‘the sacred.’ Interested in links betw prehistory, history, & consciousness. Thinking hard abt the ethics of AI.
Knitter, spinner.
I miss Caracas, though.
Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time. www.stevenstrogatz.com
Retired lover of books, music, movies, philosophy, history, economics and dogs. Chicago Cubs/Tottenham Hotspur fan.
early modernist and book historian, curious about shorthand, epigraphy, catalogs and other media. also sociology of cold war translations, history of media studies, … and Uwe Johnson.
Teach and research at The Media School, Bournemouth University in the UK.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-wallis-8161976/
Academic profile: https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/rwallis
American in Paris, formerly a Swede in New York.
I write for The Guardian, Washington Post & Dagens Nyheter.
New book on soft power Wildfire/Hachette 2026.
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Associate Professor in World Literatures at Durham University. Marxist literary criticism & environmental humanities, new peasantries, agroecology, post-capitalist futures. Views mine.
Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
Freelance man of Arts and Letters ✍🏻 Suffolk and London
Weekly on Substack, and the LRB, TLS, The Art Newspaper.
CREATION. ART SINCE THE BEGINNING, 2021, Sunday Times Art Book of the Year
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, 5th May 2026
"Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings."
Southern (American) writer academic gay guy living in Cornwall (for now). Immigrant. Recovering publisher. NCSSM87. I write books and essays and things. Horror-adjacent. Neurodivergent. Had a very excellent cat until recently. Hello. 🏳️🌈🇭🇰
Books and creativity. You matter.
Avid reader, book blogger, former Latin teacher/classicist, fountain pen addict. Blogging about literature and life at www.thebookbindersdaughter.com
literature prof at U of Arizona. books: HUMAN PROGRAMMING (on metaphors for ideology), CHARACTER NETWORKS (on social networks in recent US fiction and history, out October 2026). he, suh-LISK-er, views mine, sporadically present here.
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✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
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associate professor of English at Hartwick College | criticism: C20-21 lit. & culture | poetry: The Rocking Chair (2015), The Shape of Things (2017), & 2013–2017: Sonnets (2024) | https://bradleyjfest.com
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Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
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Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
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Canadian in the South 🍁
Happy to be on your podcast, etc!
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Books, etc.
“Sometimes, I, too, sought expression. I know now that my gods grant me no more than allusion or mention”: Borges
senior editor at the new republic
Writer. O. Henry Prize (via n+1): http://bit.ly/InversionOfMarcia Contributing ed @ BOMB. Rome Prize for Literature, Yale YP Vol 84. http://tbolt.com.
Fiction in n+1: https://nplusonemag.com/issue-27/fiction-drama/inversion-of-marcia/
essayist + critic + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites) ⎔ Critic in Residence at IDM-NYU ⎔ THESE NEW FRAGILITIES coming in 2028 from Seven Stories Press
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author of First Love and Negative Space
Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, Modernism/modernity. Modernism and media, especially the BBC; women's writing in war and crisis. Fuck ICE and all its works. Eat the rich. Protect your neighbors. 🍉
Half old lady, half baby. Fiction editor at TriQuarterly; stories in STORY, Santa Monica Review, and more. repped by @frecklywench.bsky.social www.emirengoff.com
Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology
Author of THE LONG HALLWAY (University of Wisconsin Press) / NYFA & MacDowell Fellow in Nonfiction / NBCC member / 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
http://richardscottlarson.com
Let's see: the Spanish Civil War, modernism, naps, visual culture, pedagogy, Yiddish, penguins, I-95, writing, & how to avoid just leaving my clothes on the floor instead of the laundry or closet. Senior lecturer at Johns Hopkins University.
Writer of all shapes and sizes at The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Frieze, the Village Voice, New Republic, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Organizing at Freelance Solidarity Project. he/him and very gay 🇵🇸 danielfelsenthal.com
Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first.
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Author of some books & more, professor, translator, artist+ 🏳️🌈 🖤💚❤️ 🏳️⚧️ (Avatar: c/o I.D. Mag/photo © Mario Sorrenti)
Writer, editor, founder Engine Books. Zero-trick pony, the kind that bites. Writing in Washington Post, Salon, SyFy Wire, Gay Mag, etc. She/her.
Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
www.cherylpappas.net
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; resigned full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Author of 3 books, including the novel NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN. Work in The Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Salon, etc. Runs the indie press 7.13 Books.
Teaching lit at ASU, just wrote this: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983373
Affiliate of the international avant-garde
Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
Books, and pets.
www.scottcheshire.com
Ukraine, Estonia and e-Residency, books, classical music (mostly Mahler). Writing at @PuncturedLines @apofenie @LAReviewofBooks @On_The_Seawall @Statorec
Poetry Ed of Shenandoah. Author of Mycocosmic, Poetry’s Possible Worlds, Unbecoming, The State She’s In, & Radioland—poetry, fantasy fiction, CNF, scholarship. She/they. linktr.ee/lesleymwheeler
academic and aspiring person who likes winter.
contemporary lit, digital stuff.
i’ve written about sci fi, national security and fiction, the humanities, bunkers, and chatbots. now writing about novels and how long they are.
https://lindsaythomas.net
Author, THE BOX, DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL
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www.mandysuzannewong.com
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Author of LAKE OF URINE and THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Executive editor at www.exactingclam.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/books/review-lake-of-urine-guillermo-stitch.html
I'm an author of fiction and creative nonfiction who is based in Vermont.
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Prof in English of the Long Nineteenth Century, Cape Breton University
Associate Professor of American Studies
Pynchon | Film & TV | Metal & Experimental Music | Genre & Franchise Culture | Political Violence | Star Wars
he/him
Views my own
Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Lecturer in English @ Georgia State | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Managing Editor, Australia Institute Press
Research Manager, The Australia Institute
Austlit editing and publishing aficionado
Opinions own
Fiction writer. THE GUNMAN & THE CARNIVAL (stories) Baobab Press, find it on Bookshop, and Indiebound. Novels: The Martyrs, The Lovers; China Blue; Sorrow; and Isabel Out of the Rain.
catherinegammon.com
Senior Lecturer in Publishing at University of Derby, UK | Editorial theory & practice, book history, educational publishing | Proud mum | Lover of semicolons | Views my own.
Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, A Fire of Stalks and Feathers, coming soon I hope
https://linktr.ee/rachel.malik99
ARC DECRA Fellow: literary studies | digital humanities | surveillance | President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/ | current project: surveilit.com | everything else: tynedaile.com
Writer & translator in Berlin
Poet and cultural critic. I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World, The People’s Project.
he/him. teaching C21 literature at ENU. co-ed of Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (EUP, 2023). Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism (EUP, 2024).
London -> NYC -> Paris. PhD gone public. Writing the history of American women in Paris. Previously: HOTBED (NYC bohemian feminists) THE EXTRA WOMAN (30s spinster glamour) & FIREBRANDS (25 women writers you should know)
www.joannascutts.com
Biodigital novelist, mover of heavy objects, volunteer firefighter (retired), national treasure.
"Sundman figures it out!" : https://johnsundman.substack.com/
JohnSundman.com
Poet, 7 books including To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021) and Data Mind (Curbstone/Northwestern 2024). Co-ed. Hanging Loose Press and Rutgers professor, joannafuhrman.com
"Don't leave the arena to the fools." - Toni Cade Bambara
Poet, writer, librarian, etc.
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
Wrote a book about G.K. Chesterton and literary modernism. Now working in uni admin, but still doing research - see pinned thread for info on my current project, 'Inscribing Pandemonium'. Also posting about music, culture, politics, random nonsense.
Author, THE SHITBIRD (Stanchion Books, 2026), I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU (Malarkey Books, 2024) and HOW I’M SPENDING MY AFTERLIFE. Hat enthusiast. Former Florida man. My Erdos number is four. SF, CA (for now). I block for genAI slop.
Historian of modern Europe. DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Mostly history, literature, & arts here; desperately trying not to post political content yet here we are now.
Writer of literary fiction & poetry.
Work in JMWW, Soundings Review, Hot Metal Bridge.
LitWit • Baroque music & early keyboards • Hockey • Enterprise tech marketing
"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
~Howard Nemerov
#ClassicalMusic #Baroque #SciComm
Writer, school nurse. Stories in SmokeLong Quarterly, Necessary Fiction, Cincinnati Review+. Pushcart, Best Small Fictions & BotN noms. Senior Flash Fiction Editor @JMWW. Fan of due process. Sucker for a good barn.
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assistant prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
French Literature professor. He, his, him.
(If you google me I’m going to find out through academiadotedu)
https://lyon.academia.edu/JamesMartell
Literature in Translation, Poetry, Photography, Kayaking, Forest Meandering, Adventures with Charlie.
Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada
Editor, writer. Views mine. I know who needs to hear this. Kansas City, Missouri
Poet, novelist, Reviewer, published in over one hundred and fifty journals magazines, including Wild Court, The York Literary Review, Aesthetica Magazine . Husband, father, hankering after peace in a protected planet www.abookatberntime.uk
Writer, Reviewer, Publisher and co-editor at Orbis Tertius Press. Esoteric scholar/heretic. Author of 6 books, most recently Aurora (2023)
fiction/essays • O.Henry Prize Stories • novel in progress • Notable BAE • WTAW Press board • laurenalwan.com
Reviews literature, poetry, and comics in translation by indie publishers. https://www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/tag/i-arrogantly-recommend/
