Author of PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press, 2024) |💙 music, cats, & trees | ✍️Words in Electric Literature, storySouth, more | wesblake.com |📍Kentucky
PINEVILLE TRACE, book club kit, & teaching guide: wesblake.com/pineville-trace-2
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
linktr.ee/cassrmorris
Author, most recently, of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Contributing opinion writer for The New York Times (appearing on the first and third Mondays of each month.)
Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof.
www.andrewporterwriter.com
writer & sex educator | NYU mfa
zoebflavin.substack.com
Nature, books, dogs. Writer of mystery & southern gothic | Editor @brownhoundpress.bsky.social.
Lexington, KY.
joshboldt.com
Award-winning writer and naturalist living in East Tennessee.
Newsletter: https://substack.com/@charlesdoddwhite
Writes sometimes. Has always lived by the sea.
Send interview pitches for X-R-A-Y to Rebecca at: rebecca@xraylitmag.com
FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming COYOTELAND
Writer & Writing Teacher
Without You Here, Winner Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction, 2025
What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better, story collection
https://linktr.ee/jodyhobbshesler
www.jodyhobbshesler.com
She/her
poet, person
erinhooverpoet.com
San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
#Author. Words in Invisible City, Storm Cellar, elsewhere. Controlled Conversations, a novel, finalist for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award. In love with a painter. Father of strange children. He/him. Next novel seeking literary representation.
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and the national bestseller ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Magazine, Time, Esquire, Washington Post &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung • loyaltybookstores.com/nicolechung
Writer / Editor - I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES: SHORT STORIES, Autumn House, 2025- HOMING - essay collection, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2024 - Co-editor FLASH FICTION AMERICA, W. W. Norton, 2023 - Sr Editor SLQ
writer | editor | social worker
runs on anxiety and wide-eyed optimism
managing director @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
debut novel HOW WE SEE THE GRAY (May 2026)
editor of THE ROCKFORD ANTHOLOGY
(she/they)
https://linktr.ee/rachelleon
New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts (plus others) who often talks books on the Today Show. Next up? American Dionysus. 🍎 I walk a lot.
Lover of Human Story. ❤️ Literary fiction writer represented by Kat Foxx at The Rights Factory. IG: heatherhigdonwrites
Writer / pαnawάhpskewi from the Penobscot Indian Nation / NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ and FIRE EXIT: A NOVEL (Tin House 2024)
Founder & Director of Talty Literary
morgantalty.com
Writer. Revenant. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) Colombo/New York. https://vajra.me
Novel: Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (Bloomsbury). Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, Good Morning America Buzz Pick. Stories in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, One Story, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, etc. rchetypes.com
Author THE MORTALITY SHOT (hybrid collection), coach, editor, artist, certified yoga teacher, theater maker, now working on researched memoir about liberation at 57 of being a fashionably late-diagnosed #Autistic: TheUnadaptedOnes.com
Writer, occasional podcaster, recovering academic, childless cat lady (she/her)
memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
Writer. Mom. Portlander. Traveler. Cat/dog lady. Author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Torch, and Brave Enough. Also: Dear Sugar.
American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. Scold-proof.
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
www.marksarvas.com
NO ONE GETS TO FALL APART: A MEMOIR (Harper, Oct 2024)
Ⓜ️ is for EMpathy
✍️ Author of THE CHAPERONE (Sourcebooks Fire)
📍Jersey Girl ➡️ Kentucky Colonel
📚 booksky
https://www.mhendrixwrites.com
Third-culture kid from Brazil 🇧🇷
✍️ latest writing in JMWW, Bellevue Literary Review, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, @rfpress.bsky.social & others
📖 read CNF for @triquarterlymag.bsky.social
✨ linktr.ee/kristiferguson ✨
writer | reader | artist | educator
The Trouble With Language (TRNSFR, 2020) | The Opposite of Entropy (Proper Tales Press, 2018)
Author of CAN’T SHAKE THE DUST and ALLIGATOR ZOO-PARK MAGIC
Director/Mindbuck Book Publicity, occasional prof, freelancer @NYT, Salon, WaPo, others. They/them.
a messy bitch who lives for commas | Boricua | she/her | AFAB | ACAB | stegner, center for fiction, NEA, periplus | stories in NER, Witness, Epiphany, Story | http://vidajames.com 🏴
book dad. metal and hockey.
lit agent at Janklow & Nesbit.
www.chadluibl.com
Marketing Professor, Comic Book Editor, Wrestling Fan.
The Loneliest Band in France (Texas Review Press, 2020) ¶ Colorado Book Award, American Library in Paris Coups de Cœur, Clay Reynolds Prize ¶ www.dylanfisher.net ¶ he/him ¶ T1D ¶📍PDX
Writer, teacher. Out now: APPLESEED, a novel (2021, @marinerbooks). REFUSE TO BE DONE, a guide to novel revision (2022, @soho_press). He/him.
Author of CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL forthcoming @torbooks in 2024 (available for pre-order)
& MOTHER/LAND (Black Lawrence Press)
Rep: Sarah Bowlin (Aevitas)
Work in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast +
I write things and take photos of stuff.
https://www.rmcgillphotos.com/
Writer, Dad, Music Nerd. Stories in Lightspeed, Simultaneous Times Podcast, Underland Arcana, Even Cozier Cosmic, Silly Goose Press, Bulb Culture Collective, and more!
Debut collection, THE WORLD OUTSIDE, out now from Underland Press.
eladhaber.com
Disabled writer. Debut novel ALL OUR TOMORROWS out Feb 2025 with CLASH Books. 🖤
Also in X-R-A-Y, The Pinch, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, HAD, Hobart, etc.
https://linktree.com/amykatherrrine
Writer. TEETH KICKER (HarperCollins in 2026), MAN IN A GREY SUIT (Penguin 2012), www.glennorgias.com
Writer of the weird and experimental flash. Words @FracturedLit, @Xraylitmag, @NecessaryFic, @TBQuarterly, and elsewhere.
Debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, out now @MoonCityPress.
Read more at http://avitusbcarle.com
Author of THE INSATIABLES from @ChiReviewPress, Managing Editor at @pitheadchapel, future ghost
www.BrittanyTerwilliger.com
Child Craft: bellepointpress.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social | Co-editor: @gonelawn.bsky.social |
fiction @ places
elated Pushcart, BotN, BSF nominee
2025 fellow @smokelong.bsky.social
organizer @saloneurope.bsky.social
reader @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
katherineplumhoff.com
valencia, es
Novelist, Food Advocate, Professor. National Bestselling Author of PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS, PERFECT BLACK, BIRDS OF OPULENCE
https://linktr.ee/CrystalWilkinson?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d3c6b47f-690c-483b-9898-8faed08cd35d
Author of this book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/crawl-stories-max-delsohn/22144102
Author of the novels Hotel Cuba, Nirvana Is Here, and Faith for Beginners, and the story collection The View from Stalin's Head. www.aaronhamburger.com
Writer. Founder & director at Pine State Publicity. Mom to P & E. 🐝
http://pinestatepublicity.com
Pinestatepublicity.substack.com
Lit Agent Rosecliff Literary, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter
I get mad about books a lot. Reskeeting cheese news and good birds. From MA but ♥️ NY and 🇵🇹. writer/editor she/her https://linktr.ee/oonapatrick
Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
Novelist. WGA Screenwriter. TV Creator/EP. Guggenheim & 2xNEA fellow. Reassuring Dad. Kid of immigrants 🇺🇦 🇬🇷. Known Professor of Cinema. Reps: CAA & Literate Mgmt.
Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of @pvww.bsky.social. Rep'ed by @peter23.bsky.social. Novel in progress. Adventurer. Bagpiper.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
https://www.joybaglio.com/
Poet and Professor at Louisiana State University. Most recent book is Circle Back (Milkweed Editions, 2024).
Writer of fiction & sometimes non-. Work in Electric Lit, Wigleaf, The Forge -> Best Microfiction 2023, Rejection Letters, Catapult, BLR, cream city review, and more. Cupboard full of beans (I make a lot of soup).
Bestselling Author/Editor/Teacher/Oldster Memoir: And You May Find Yourself… Anthologies: Goodbye to All That and Never Can Say Goodbye Newsletters: @oldstermag.bsky.social, @memoirland.bsky.social, Adventures in *Journalism* http://saribotton.com
Founder and CEO, Bookshop.org; co-Creator and Publisher, Literary Hub; co-founder and Chairman, Electric Literature
Novelist, memoirist, co-founder of The Los Angeles Review of Books
Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
SEX WITH A BRAIN INJURY
& LET ME EXPLAIN YOU
yeah, I could eat
✨ http://annieliontas.com
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
Author. The Missing Girl, The Hiding Place, Our Dark Secret
@MantleBooks @panmacmillan
Agent @davidhheadley.bsky.social
'Maybe America isn't ready for a superstar in a wheelchair.' - Ian MacKaye
New book! Out with Harvill in 2026. THERE IS NO MEANT TO BE.
Debut novel THE COWARD w. @canongate.co.uk
jarredmcginnis.com
Author/Mom/Wonder Woman/Queen of the North
She/her/hers
My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. 🏳️🌈🦌🐊🦀
https://www.hilary-bell.com/
NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Absolution. Repped by Joe Veltre at Gersh. PNW. he/him
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Writer. Stories in Swamp Pink, Moon City Review, Pithead Chapel, Split Lip, Passages North, X R A Y, & others.
nathan-willis.com
Shearing Fellow, Black Mountain Institute, 2024-25. Author of RETURNING TO MY FATHER'S KITCHEN: ESSAYS (forthcoming from Northwestern University Press) and LOVE AND OTHER RITUALS: STORIES. Work in Colorado Review, The Hopkins Review, Bennington Review, etc
Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere
Best of the Net 2024 finalist
Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner
Cork via New York
Writer, retired teacher, sometime sage. 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship. Stories in Kenyon, Witness, Zyz, AQR. 3 collections from small presses. “The Divide” forthcoming from Cornerstone Press, 2026. MFA from Montana, long time ago.
evanmorganwilliams.com
writer / video producer / fat tail sheep
giulia-ak.com
Writing, reading, running.
Poetry PhD: vital instability in the 2nd generation Romantics.
Am actually writing.
Interested in the amplification of working class voices, northern voices, & kind & talented voices.
Writing, I swear.
Meliorist, still.
Writer in Passages North, Bennington Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, NYT... Queer & chronically ill. (they/them) lizbergstrom.com
PFP: Author w/ long purple hair & light skin smiling & wearing a teal jacket. Header: Cemetery by ocean
LITTLE WILD coming June 2026 (Mantle, UK; Holt, US; Fazi Editore, IT)
Rep'd by Cathryn Summerhayes, Curtis Brown. Will work for croissants.
Author & Filmmaker
arjoyan.com
Maudlin House🧿Deadlands🧿Silk & Sinew🧿Pleiades🧿JMWW🧿Ghoulish Tales🧿River Styx🧿Gone Lawn🧿Shotgun Honey🧿Roi Fainéant🧿Cold Signal🧿Hooghly Review🧿Apocalypse Confidential🧿Cleaver🧿Door Is A Jar🧿Hobart🧿Monstrous Angels🧿BULL
Appalachian, prison reform advocate, mother, author of The Stone Catchers: A Novel (UP Kentucky, 2024) and Jaws of Life: Stories (West Virginia UP, 2018). Words in STORY, North American Review, Florida Review, others.
www.lauraleighmorris.com
Writer | Producer | Artist Facilitator | Kitchen Raver | Arts & Dementia: Resonate Arts | Winner: Sean Ó Faoláin Prize & Aurora Prize | Stories: Irish Times, Desperate Literature, Southword, Miro, Chroma Editions…
www.shelleyhastings.co.uk
debut novel RAVISHING 💄💉 ✨ out now from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic | disabled & chronically ill | philly-based | surya means sun ☀️ | eshani.surya@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/eshanisurya
SPOILT CREATURES (2024) @tinderpress • Observer 10 Best New Novelists • 🏳️🌈 • Rep'd by 📚 @ce_seymour 🎥 @emilyhaywardw
Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk
#WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/
