former Mother Jones, Arkansas Times || "As for the scoffers, He scoffs at them"
deputy managing editor at Mother Jones. pitch me: smurguia@motherjones.com
Since 1850. “America’s most interesting magazine” —New York Times
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pragmatic optimist and well-known email author
views are mine alone
cohen489.substack.com
americandemands.com
BOOK RECS THAT PAY ME + LOCAL STORES: https://bookshop.org/shop/cohen489
Former journo.
Extraordinary house sitter.
Lover of dogs. Durmer.
Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
Opinions my own, find me at https://jordansmithcarroll.com/
Film critic: @portlandmercury.com, other stuff; Werner Herzog blog: wernerherzblog.substack.com; lb: https://boxd.it/9sMh; member: @portlandcritics.bsky.social and @cascadiacritics.bsky.social
Journalist, Essayist, Author, Pen-and-Paper Enthusiast, Wanderer
Latest book: "A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler"
Southland
Mayor of that one gym mirror on FourSquare
six-time divorcee of @thomcb88.bsky.social
not associated with Vienna Beef
Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
Author of HAUNTED SPACE: PARADISE FOR EXTINCTION and THE SURGE, science fiction role-playing game writer/developer, creator of the HARD VACUUM series, soccer dad, Army veteran and former journalist.
❤️🔥 Do good, feel good
🌈 He/Him
🤘 jackms.com
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, novel: https://shorturl.at/7A4bA
BOXCUTTERS, short stories: https://malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcutters
(IBR's "TOP BOOKS WE READ IN 2025")
Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
Assoc prof of multiethnic US lit; au of Dedication (2011), Anti-Imperialist Modernism (2016), Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism & the Cultures of the US Jewish Left (2025). He/him. 🕎🌹😷🇵🇸Chicago 🐢
https://iusb.academia.edu/BenjaminBalthaser
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.
amateur: baker, water sports enthusiast
professional: gay
📍Chicago, IL. Healthcare Architect.
poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
Writer. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Haymarket Books Writing Freedom Fellow | Hedgebrook writer-in-residence | Tin House "Debut Author Over 40” | Lambda Literary “Emerging Queer Voice” | Nicole Shawan Junior is a creative force.
www.NicoleShawanJunior.com
Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026), Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026), One Way to Listen (Gold Line Press, 2023)
Film critic at TIME. I never travel far without a little Big Star. https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/
Literary critic & book reviewer. http://christophirmscher.com.
I lift the weight. I walk in the nature. I think the science
Grinding levels in the gym bro class tree 🏋🏻♂️
JRPGs • Gym • Anime • NYC📍
Support the gainz, bro: https://throne.com/br3l00m
📍Seattle. Transportation. Cities. Coffee. Other stuff? 🏳️🌈
Singer/songwriter, corporate ops, contributor to McSweeneys. Also @trumpsties. (he/him)
he/him horny for tacos, Julianne Moore movies, mustaches and probably you.
PDX is 🏠
fuck ICE 🧊 🚫
free Palestine 🇵🇸
& trans rights are human rights,bitch 🏳️⚧️
🎥 🍿: https://boxd.it/2sQ11
We are the oldest awards-bestowing film critics organization on the planet.
LGBTQ rights lawyer and artist.
Owner of E. Lesh Gallery in Provincetown, MA.
NYC🗽<—> Ptown🦞
Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Untitled gay cultural history (2026). Freelance: T, New York, etc. A long time ago: EW, Grantland, younger.
LIVE on Twitch & TikTok every Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 7 pm EST! 😚🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/JoeOrgana
Book critic & teacher. Board member and fiction chair @bookcritics.bsky.social.
📍Elk Grove, CA.
Writer, critic, National Book Critics Circle board member
She/Her
Formerly: Alfred A. Knopf, Atlas & Co, Penguin Random House Digital, Times-Picayune, Guernica, Brooklyn Book Festival
Chapel Hill, NC
Board member, @bookcritics.bsky.social; words NYT, Atlantic, Poetry, The Nation, Words Without Borders, etc.; associate director of editorial at UIC.
PA ➡️ DC ➡️ LA
💍 to @willfeliciano 👬🏳️🌈
things just keep getting worse so why can’t i?
he/him/his | toronto | 🍁🍿🥃🌍🎞️🎲🏖️💥
Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature since 1974.
bookcritics.org
Opened at gunpoint in a Lady Footlocker. Trombonist, composer, bandleader (The Great Long Meadow Fire, True East, Store Hours). Bluesky’s resident Fun Tsar. Brooklyn, NY. he/him.
https://linktr.ee/Danlehner
staff writer @slate.com | amateur @ life
📍 philly cream cheese; ny bagel
enthusiast • story teller + slinger
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
author | 5th book: Tehrangeles @pantheonbooks (2024) | contrib editor @evergreenreview | Iranian | she/her | agent Susan Golomb | IG pchza | www.porochistakhakpour | porochista@gmail.com
author of A MILKY WAY HOME | lambda fellow ‘24 | audio in color r3 grantee. queer taiwanese. they/any/他
hsinjuchen.com
Writer. Iowa Writers' Workshop. Tin House. Kimbilio. Work in One Story, Catapult, Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, MQR, elsewhere.
On social media hiatus! For contact info check my website torreypeters.com
forever a lake effect kid ✨
San Francisco based LGBTQ+ journal and press—we publish powerful, intersectional writing that queers our perspectives. 🌈 🌉
https://linktr.ee/foglifter
Mostly a beach bum 🤣/happy husband/42 yr career w/ some Emmys and a Peabody
Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
Journalist and cofounder @autonomynews.co. Seen in: Jezebel, The New Republic, The Guardian, Slate, The Nation, Democracy Docket. WGAE Council. From PA, now in BK
http://linktr.ee/susanrinkunas
Email: susanrinkunaswrites @gmail
Signal: susanrinkunas.73
Comedian and gay guy, likes movies
NYC
https://www.instagram.com/tylerhmead/profilecard/?igsh=dGl6ajdvY21yemFx
In which I reveal myself to be a London-based artist, mainly of the male nude, and other famous events. No AI here. In fact there’s barely regular I.
He/him
Tip me: ko-fi.com/peacockpete
Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Freelance writer @ The Star, GQ, Defector, The Baffler, Gawker, Esquire, Hazlitt. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda. coreyatad@gmail.com / www.coreyatad.com
Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
New York Times bestselling author of four books. ZEAL is my latest.
Literary agent at Georges Borchardt, wide range of non fiction. Former Little, Brown, Macmillan, S&S. Agent contact: pronoy@gbagency.com. Interested in experts, reporters, and compelling work writ large. Feel free to query me at the email above.
https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Prof and researcher. Race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social
Preorder my latest: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-second-sight-sarah-j-jackson
Opinions definitely my own
words // American Literary Review, Barrelhouse, Lost Balloon, Necessary Fiction, NPR, The Rumpus, X-R-A-Y
He/him
Attorney & Chief Program Officer (Legal, Policy, Organizing) at @ACLU of Virginia. Poet—NECK OF THE WOODS, Alice James Books. Teaching Law & Lit—UVA Law. Legal aid alum. Former bartender. she/her.
Words here = mine alone.
Meta refugee; oldster; dog dad; iced coffee drinker, art lover.
I have friends everywhere
movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
member @transjournalists.org
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
tips: Lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
Polygon Entertainment Editor. Former editor at Verge, The Dissolve, The A.V. Club. Next Picture Show podcaster. My wheelhouse is full of weird stuff. She/her.
Letterboxd.com/tasharobinson
Goodreads.com/user/show/10244904-tasha-robinson
Nextpictureshow.net
Sci-fi-obsessed husband and uncle who lives in Chicago 🏳️🌈👯♂️
Literature, film, and music snob (er…fan). World’s slowest short story & screenplay writer. Actor. Goth. Roommate to two cats. Interested in history, folk horror, and kindness.
And her little dog too. Don't call me spunky.
collage artist.
nyc. tx.
Message me for print inquiries.
Human citizen of the Bay Area, Earth. Anti-nazi, pro humanity.
Editor. Observer. Loafer.
📍Brooklyn/FIP
Bloomberg Cities, Matthew Shepard Foundation
Formerly The Advocate 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Entertainment Weekly 🎬 Oprah, etc.
http://instagram.com/bontonjon
visual artist - i paint! i sew! i’m new here!
Senior Associate Editor @gameinformer.com | Business Inquiries: marcus@gameinformer.com | I livestream! https://www.twitch.tv/marcusstreamsgames | He/Him
non-binary word person. author of The New Masculinity (2023) and Post-Man (2025), translator of Made-Up (2021). alexmanley.com
Another mentally unstable gay in Chicago's Bordeaux region
Opera
Drag
Anime
Dismantling the capitalist military-industrial complex
Writing about culture, health, tech, bats, & anything else people will answer my questions about. Working alongside @madysen.bsky.social to report on the experiences of children of disabled parents. she/her
lindsaylwallace at gmail dot com & Signal llw.56
Chicago 📍ㅣ Writerㅣdebut book: “FIELD GUIDE TO FALLING ILL” forthcoming from Yale University Press, 2026
www.jonathangleason.com
#1 Best smelling author of the LESSER KNOWN MONSTERS series. A queer, AuDHD chaos goblin that’s all out of spoons and now only has knives. They/them(bo). 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ rep: @inthesestones.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/rorymichaelson
Sexy & stylish: I want that in my home! Spotting interior trends & design icons in the most xxx places.
New to BSky, so please like, follow, comment, reskeet, etc - thanks!!
Writing Instructor and Coach
Writing is joy! I write fiction and memoir and teach writing and storytelling in Chapel Hill, NC.
writingisjoy.substack.com; writingisjoy.com
Video games, books, politics, horror. Talk to me about nerdy stuff
Corey || 33 || Chicago
spent a summer with Laurie Metcalf’s dog. gay, actor, marketing professional, does other things too
📍Chicago | 👬 married to my husban—…my husb—… well, a gay guy!
Tastefully NSFW at times
Writer | Baltimore | they/them
2024 Lambda Literary Fellow
shelbyswitzer.com
Prose-fessional | RAPscallion | Welfarian | Words: n+1, HuffPost, Taco Bell Quarterly, EARMILK, etc.
https://www.garkmavigan.com/
Man-shaped to-do list 📋
Philly 🥨
he/him
