writer. mostly here for @marchxness.bsky.social!
Professional nerd. Hobbyist nerd. Biological nerd?
he/him
I think I wrote a book? It was sort of an accident, but it's in my linktree: linktr.ee/joe.auerbach
writer, teacher, rock/roller | author of TOMBOYLAND and HEMLOCK, out now from Little, Brown | asst. prof at UNC | she/they
www.melissafaliveno.com
Author of Shadows Of The Seen (2025 Pierian Springs) and 20 books of fiction and poetry through other various publishers. Host of podcast, the 2 deans: Dating, Dread, and Disasters Lives at www.timothygager.com
former bama higher ed / current mn hunger relief comms / former egan’s dj / current cool dad / former bad poet-athlete / current bad poet-athlete
Reader, writer, (THE TELLING, CURRENCY, essays etc in The Rumpus, The Guardian, Salon, HuffPost, Brevity Blog, novel COIN OF THE REALM forthcoming from TriQuarterly Books), Chicago, bikes > cars
Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
📚 Bookseller: @roscoebooks.bsky.social
🛠️ Daily Editor: @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
✍️ Marketing and communications: @storystudiochicago.bsky.social
📝 Book Reviewer: open.substack.com/pub/thenewdorkreviewofbooks
Chicagoan. Marquette alum. Runner
A consortium of libraries, museums, and other institutions with archives that collaborate to preserve and share the history and culture of the Chicago region.
work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1 // website jamestaddadcox.com // editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // DENMARK: Variations now available https://www.hempressbooks.com/shop/p/denmark-variations
detective investigating life | Lost/Found editor at Split/Lip Press | abigailwashere.com/links
Stage, songs, walks, and stuff.
Writer, teacher. Out now: APPLESEED, a novel (2021, @marinerbooks). REFUSE TO BE DONE, a guide to novel revision (2022, @soho_press). He/him.
Author: A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
Author of COST OF LIVING (Holt), now in paperback. New book forthcoming. I also make pots and ride horses. Artist in Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma. she/her www.emilymaloney.net
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
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 +
Writer, artist, professor. Graphic memoir THE KEEPER (Avery/Penguin), editor of FIELD GUIDE TO GRAPHIC LITERATURE (Rose Metal Press). Comics in WaPo, Believer, Rumpus.
Illustrated newsletter - The Habit of Art: https://kelceyervick.substack.com
Author, dad, professor, doodler, loafer
https://www.fulmerford.com
Teacher, writer, scholar, music fan, Mama-of-Cece. Professor at DePaul University.
culture obsessed journalist :: publicist at Riot Act Media :: live music producer
humanity is not an algorithm /// art is labor /// trans lives matter
Host of Sound Off (((on music challenging the status quo))) 🎧 www.katyhenriksen.com
Photographer & writer & avid rock climber based in Chicago. Latest work: Leaf Town Forever. You can pre-order it here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917371/leaf-town-forever/
Author. HOW TO WALK ON WATER AND OTHER STORIES. Writer of short stories/essays/interviews/book reviews. Currently at work on a novel and several scripts. Chicagoan.
www.rachelswearingen.com
Informed observer, essayist, activist, former editor & reporter, pro-Democracy
Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
writer/instructor/friend
https://longdaypress.square.site/product/i-will-teach-you-retribution-by-timothy-moore/65?cs=true&cst=custom
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
Jimmie Rodgers enthusiast, occasional writer
Trans, neurodivergent writer and artist from the Midwest, US / Wahzhazhe land. [they/he]
writer. performer. kvetch.
📍Chicago
🏳️🌈
arts & culture journalist/writer, second funniest person you know, was once called "garbage propaganda" on twitter and stands by it | All opinions are my own
https://52badessays.substack.com/
https://rubyprosenthal.com/
Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
writer. professor. waitress. sour girl.
katprow.com
Critic. Essayist. Style maven. Chronic Migraineur and Patient Advocate. Lover of reality TV and vintage dresses. WIP FUNERAL IN MY BRAIN: A BIOGRAPHY OF MIGRAINE (St Martin’s). Crime fiction correspondent @washingtonpost
a middle-aged librarian living on the flatlands of central Illinois
magnificent weirdo, guardian of the corn trophy, teller of stories
“music critic” at thebestthing.blog
not a professional account by any means, it gets weird in here
Award-winning journalist for The Associated Press.
Stretch-4 putting in work on the offensive and defensive glass.
Aspiring to play lead and rhythm guitar.
My posts disappear.
Magician. Marketing Director of khōréō. MacDowell Fellow. Stories & Essays: mlkrishnan.com
NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” 33 1/3 book on Duran Duran’s ‘Rio.’ Other books: Lady Gaga, Harry Styles, Pink, Christmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
Author | Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State (2024)
Assoc Prof of English in Tucson | Surveillance | C20/21 Caribbean and British Lit | GWS
rock scrambler | hawk enthusiast | she/her
Copy editor ordinaire, he/him, hockey official, hobby medievalist, sometime writer of words in a sequence, New Yorker in Maryland, sublime dot idealist at the gee mail.
Where have all the smart strangers gone? | writer, thinker, coffee drinker. she/her. (formerly bravenewlady of Twitter, formerly managing editor of Prairie Schooner, still a displaced southerner)
Reader of books, Rider of bikes, Geek, Vegan
Finder of joy
1312
Writerly dude in Chicago. 🏳️🌈♏️
https://www.michaelvankerckhove.com/
https://letterboxd.com/MichaelAVK/
https://www.instagram.com/mvankerckhove/
indie rock, taxes - and lunch.
Sober bi writer in Western NY
Sarabande Books managing editor
Former academic librarian
Collage, zines
Books: "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" (Autofocus), "I Am Not Famous Anymore: Poems after Shia LaBeouf" (Mason Jar Press)
www.erindorney.com
Theatrical designer / director / storyteller. Astrophysics enthusiast. Recovering Artistic Director. I want to design all the plays. (Except Mamet & LaBute.) he/him
also: @andrewh@mastodon.social | was hungerf9 @ bird site.
https://andrewhungerford.com
girl on girl (@rejectionlit.bsky.social) //
until it feels right (@autofocusbooks.bsky.social) //
cnf (@farewelltransmiss.bsky.social) // getting dumber as I get older
https://linktr.ee/emilylauracosta
Digital & narrative trainings @NewMediaMentors.
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
Library worker & writer. Floridian in upstate NY. Codex. Work out recently from Bloodletter, Cosmic Daffodil, Pink Hydra, Ancillary Review of Books, Mythic Circle, Malarkey & more.
find all the details here: deeholloway.carrd.co
Wisconsin-based writer, reader, nature nerd, DJ, roller derby-er (Hammer Abby), and musician (Damsel Trash, LINE & Little Red Wolf). 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ grist-from-the-mills.ghost.io
Bean (n): An edible, kidney-shaped seed borne in the long pods of a leguminous plant. Dad to two smol humans. Nonpracticing architect, sometimes poet, children's & board game librarian. he/they
she/they | memory worker | essayist, poet, performer | author of Hall of Waters | animist, polytheist
He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
poet and high school English teacher living with her husband and dogs in Kansas
melissafitejohnson.com
Ugh, fine.
Writer in Texas.
I curse on the internet now.
#HouSky
www.jennystaffjohnson.com
a dimension 20 enthusiast in wyoming. I write for a living, and in my free time, and frequently in my dreams. personal account; opinions my own.
Words: Electric Lit, Potomac Review, Porter House, LA Review, No Contact, Essay Daily, Broadkill Review, The Rumpus; Band: Dadafacer w/ husband & dog; City: Denver
https://www.katecarmodywriter.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7iWXk5aVFEPUC6UiVek77m?s
Writer & author of This Is One Way to Dance (UGA Press), an NPR best book of the year & How to Make Your Mother Cry (WVUP), long-listed for the 2024/2025 Story Prize. Mostly here for March Xness!
Writer, editor, communicator, terrier squire | Work in Redivider, Proximity, Entropy, Electric Literature, A HARP IN THE STARS | she/her
Memoirist experimenting with the truth. Author of TEEN QUEEN TRAINING (Autofocus 2026), A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN (Autofocus 2023) and CURING SEASON: ARTIFACTS (WVU Press 2022). Director of @splitlippress.com. More: linktr.ee/suburbanprairie
Poet, essayist, translator, etm.
Writing memoir, poetry, essays, performance stuff (etc.) in Chicago
newsletter.aaronjacobwolfson.com
liberal/progressive, union forever, writing (poetry, essays), reading, music, sports (Nottingham Forest, cycling, biathlon, and, um, Mets)
Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @Salon.com | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
Reader. Writer. Teacher. Human. Memphis & GCSU Alumna. Chapbooks: Green Light: The Gatsby Cycle & ghosts passing through
Writer, rider 🚲. Music essays at KORD, PopMatters. I have a Substack about mixtapes. Formerly @FreeTransform on the bird app. 🏳️🌈
Writer // IG: HowIFeelAboutBooks // www.allisonrennerwrites.com
Artist & author; government auditor (really); reluctant rural hermit; really into travel, vultures, diagrams, kdramas, fiber, photography, and my doggo.
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.
Lapsed music writer, practicing technical editor
✍️ FLOOD Magazine, PopMatters, Spectrum Culture, Post-Trash, the Toast, March Xness, and elsewhere
📍 Bucks County, PA
🧚♀️ she/her
Vintage Dealer // Triple Libra // Horror Fan // Old Pueblo Dweller
https://badchollavintage.etsy.com
MARCH SADNESS 90s EDITION is happening NOW over @marchxness
HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY available now from Split/Lip Press!
Illustrator at Little Thoughts Press, Kidlit Author/Illustrator & Museum Exhibit Designer, Winner of #50PreciousWords, #SCBWIDrawThis & 2 #PBParty HM's.
#SCBWI #RISD
https://linktr.ee/kimwnolan
He/Him, grew up small town, grown up big city. Educated in theology and politics, which explains why he's really quiet in person. Checks most of the boxes for a progressive with far left sympathies.
Striving to be kind. Mostly succeeding.
Author of Brazos (Belle Point Press, 2024) // women's basketball & motorsports writer // Texan living in Iowa // juscarts.com
Houston-raised enchilada-lover | Mother of 3 | Pushcart nominee | SFWA | HWA | Odyssey '21 | Codexian | Occasional lawyer | lindseygodfreyeccles.com
Author, artist.
•The Next-Earth After Aliens available on Substack weekly-ish, free & paid options. https://thenextearthafteraliens.substack.com
•Dark Jewel vampire hunter mysteries available online.
•Other goodness in development (always!).
Author of 8 novels including A DANGEROUS FICTION,
SUSPICION, and HINDSIGHT; co-author of two works of nonfiction. Editor, writing teacher, former literary agent, anti-Nazi.
Writer - Master Naturalist - Hiker - Fungi Lover & Forager - Citizen Scientist - Native Plant Proponent - Support All Marginalized Communities - Support Democracy🦉🦇🌻🐬🐛🚴♂️🏕️🌿🍄🟫🏐🐙🍄🟫🦎🐍🦅🪲🐝🦑🪱🐋🦫🌲🌳🌎 ⛰️🧹
Writer, photographer, nonprofit volunteer, owner of a lively and loving Boston Terrier.
A red-haired mucker. He/His. Member, MWA & James River Writers. Author of Turnpike Confidential, now available for preorder at B&N, Amazon, and bookshop.org.
Writer, teacher, walker of many trails. Novels published with @unvpress.bsky.social. Novella published with @miamioh-press.bsky.social. #authorsguild #AWP26 https://lawrencecoates.com/
Author of The Dravenridge Covenant, Writer of dark fiction😱Happily married😁Fur-baby mom🐶 Lover of anything horror👻
Website: terriharrington.com
Author of the Uncovered Darkness Mental Health Horror Book Series. Telling stories of life thru fiction. Indie Author. New Orleans. Saints
Author of TEARDOWN🌈📚 (NineStar), EXPIRATION DAY (YA/SF, Tor), also writes short SFF, long SFF/HF/Crime/contemporary.
Software engineer (retired).
Politics Green #FBPE
bit.ly/TeardownBook
https://williamcampbellpowell.com
He/him
Proud Nana to Riley and Reese, animal lover, senior, liberal, atheist, healthy vegan, music lover, book lover, nature lover and best life navigator (Squirrel!)
Kindness Matters
I write poetry, prose, screen(and radio)play // PhD on surrealist women’s fiction // Novel: The Cinema Beneath the Lake// Poetry: Eye Movement (Steel Incisors) Oneiroscope (Kingston University Press) Refrains (Steel Incisors)
Living my best life with the love and heartbreak.(No DM’s)
fiction writer. maker of weird things. currently into insect collecting, but not killing, just finding dead insects.
they/she.
https://alisonfraser.space
Poet, professor, literary translator, new media artist, and writer of speculative fiction. M.F.A., Ph.D., HWA #horror #scifi #fantasy #booksky
Web: https://francescolevato.com/
Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
Writer. Essays in The Believer, Threepenny Review, Lithub, Catapult, NYTimes, Bright Wall / Dark Room, and more. dorothybendel.com
Old fashioned storyteller, bestselling #author 30+ books, keynote speaker, television, film, radio. #MoneyLaundering #Fraud #FinancialCrime. #Fiction
Linkedin.com/in/authorjeffreyrobinson
https://linktr.ee/jeffreyrobinson
WEBSITE: jeffreyrobinson.com
Debut novel WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE published Nov. 12, 2024 by Two Dollar Radio.
https://twodollarradio.com/collections/forthcoming/products/what-we-tried-to-bury