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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
The premiere yearly tournament of music and memory. 2026's tournament is Sad Songs of the 90s. Lottery for next year's tourney spots coming soon!
Selection committee: @meganc.bsky.social & @angermonsoon.bsky.social
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Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/
ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
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
📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe
Practice #Czech by chatting to virtual humans.
The 2026 AATSEEL Conference will be held in New Orleans, LA from February 19-22, 2026!
Distributing indie books and advocating for small presses since 1985. Your next favorite book is from an independent publisher ❤️ 📖 cbsd.com
📧 Newsletter: https://bit.ly/cbsdmail
A foreign-language bookstore in Kensington Maryland with a focus on Central Europe: Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, German, and other languages. Jayhawk. Hockey fan. St. Pauli FC
Author of MOSES AND THE DOCTOR (USA Today bestseller) and OUR TEAM (on Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, Bob Feller) lukeepplin.com Contact: lepplin@gmail.com
Publishing incomparable storytellers and award-winning Adult fiction and nonfiction since 1866 📚
https://henryholt.com/
Creative Director, ESPN Visual Storytelling
labor journalist & author. big on metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my reporting: @inthesetimes.com + more
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
rep: The Shipman Agency
Petite Bretonne en Grande-Bretagne 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Clanker hater and lazy Luddite.
Siamo tutti antifascisti.
Publisher of European fiction and poetry. Please buy our books in independent bookshops or postage-free, world-wide online at
www.JantarPublishing.com
Associate Editor at RogerEbert • Contributor: The New York Times • Screen Daily • Reverse Shot • Letterboxd
The Whiting Foundation provides support for writers, editors, educators, and the librarians and archivists who preserve our shared cultural heritage. www.whiting.org
Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Writer. Teacher. Student. My collection of poetry, subhuman., is out now from Wayfarer Books. Words in/soon in Poetry Mag, The Offing, The Poetry Lighthouse, and more. kashawntaylor.com
She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. I ignore unsolicited advice. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Est. 2015 in Pennsylvania | Escape the Mundane Poetry, novels, stories, & hand-made chapbooks
thirtywestph.com | asterismbooks.com/publisher/thirty-west
Press & online rag dedicated to grit lit & rural writing with rough edges. Survival is triumph enough. We dig Folk & Old Country music: @npcountrycovers.bsky.social. EIC: @vanwinkle.bsky.social
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
Books and such
https://malarkeybooks.com/
Nonprofit literary press & writers residency. Also Best of the Net, Poets in Pajamas, and more. www.sundresspublications.com
Lover of lovely things, problematic takes, and my rescue dog. Hater of Illinois Nazis.
Writer. Published in Your Impossible Voice, The Dodge, Minor Literature[s], Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere.
Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
she/her
editor @asymptote @fullstop, translator @ALTA, critic @NBCC, etc.
香港文學
linktr.ee/mcshkdk
Author of Ca’Venezia and other books
https://linktr.ee/reshoemaker
Writer, translator, and dabbler in film.
Tin House Fiction 2025.
Writing in The Polis Project, The Cult Collective, Brownies Zine, etc
A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.
Patreon: patreon.com/ifbookspod
Merch: ifbookspod.dashery.com
I have friends everywhere
movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
member @transjournalists.org
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
tips: Lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Chinese to English Game Localization
Book Translator
English Editor, Copy Editor, Writer
he Russian and East European Studies department at Penn is a tight-knit community dedicated to advancing knowledge of a vast and unique region of the world. Our faculty’s interests and expertise span many centuries, countries, languages, and disciplines.
Feral book girl. Author. Crafts & trinket goblin. ✩ Get in loser, we're going to go kill Bunny ✩ 🦋
𝔏𝔬𝔫𝔡𝔬𝔫 📍
🇬🇧/🇯🇵
Translator ES>EN, PT>EN, EUS>EN
Writer
Freelance Linguist
Tenor in @chapschoir
linktr.ee/jontranslates
Home of world literature across languages. Book Club @hatchards piccadilly, BookBlast Diary reviews, interviews by publishing insider Georgia & friends; podcasts; lit executor Estate Lesley Blanch 🔗linktr.ee/bookblast
Instagram @bookblastofficial
Central Asia news editor | Cricket | Author of 'Getting Out', about the Ukrainian cricket team 🇺🇦🏏 | Norfolk and Caucasus too.
🌏 jonathancampion.com
🏏 jonathancampion.com/cricket
📷 lifeincentralasia.picfair.com
📲 youtube.com/@20SecondTravels
Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
GO BLUE!!! Artist. Spoonie. Ret. college music teacher and jazzer (trumpet). S FL, USA, ally to LGBT, especially T! 71yrs, married 49, sober 19 (AA). Suicide prevention, former animal rehabber. INMJA he/him/not yours
Scouser living in Ayrshire. Mum of two amazing young people. Language geek. ADHD. Trying to stay awake, remember my name and make a move just to stay in the game.
Unreliable narrator
📍Edinburgh/ Glasgow
🎓 Creative Writing PhD Candidate, University of Strathclyde
🏴 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 🇸🇬
poet situation / post-soviet / cities as fathers
beautiful, powerful, dangerous, cold
author of PATH OF TOTALITY (2022) and DEAD HORSE (2015). RISK TOLERANCE forthcoming from autofocus books. reviews ed. at zona motel. poet, translator, parent in nc.
niinapollari.com
https://substack.com/@niinapollari
The light steals in
I steal that light
Writer. https://sueburke.site/
she/her
Translator GER-EN-FR, programmer @writerscentre.bsky.social , Borges disciple and ex-academic by day — sewist, knitter, gardener by night
https://rebeccadewaldtranslation.wordpress.com/
Also kalewatercottage.co.uk
French-to-English trans-lator 🏳️⚧️. Canadian. Dog dad. Book nerd.
Poet, writer, translator (UY poetry), comics. Pitt Poetry Series, Fieldmouse Press, etc. Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series, UW Press. Emerita CW Prof, UW-Madison, Rep Gail Hochman. Graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, WaPo 10 Best Graphic Novel 2024
Littérature comparée, traduction, poésie, chats, cuisine, université française. Féministe féliniste. Troll pédagogique de luxe. Membre honoraire du lobby. Je sers la science et c'est ma joie. « I identify as tired ».
アレン・ジョセリン
I write. I ramble. I translate. And interpret.
筆者／翻訳・通訳家／取り留めの無い人
(she/they)
brainvsbook.com
kaikatsu.ca
Translator and textbook writer. Post on climate, energy, health, Spain, Brexit and other stuff.
Produce VoiceMap audio tours of Andalucía: https://voicemap.me/publisher/ben-barclay#tours
https://andalucia-bound.com
@andalucia-bound.bsky.social
Game Localization Director & JPN-ENG Specialist!
Subs/Dubs for Sentai, Manga for 7 Seas. Prev. SEGA, Funimation.
She/her. Opinions are mine! I ♥ translation theory.
https://katrina-l-translation.online/
ローカライズ専門家! ( ｀・∀・´)ﾉﾖﾛｼｸ
Bookworm. Linguist. Japanese-English Translator. Former manga/anime translator. DFTBA 💖💜💙 日本語OK!
https://j-entranslations.com
#AmReading: ツナグ, The Kaiju Preservation Society
Neuroscientist turned science fiction, fantasy, romance #writer. Stories in Analog, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Utopia SF. Latest novel: THE MISFIT & THE BEAST, YA romance about first love & high school theater. Based in Edinburgh. verabrook.com. she/her
Author, translator, vocal and pissed off SEND mum
Paris<>London
She/her
Writer (SFWA), translator, humanist, general odd duck • 🇨🇦n in 🇨🇴 • avoids pronouns, they/them if key 🌈🌌
Publisher (Utz Publishing) and translator, mostly of children’s fantasy. Tiptoeing around explicit words and vague feelings. Often wears socks with Moomins on them. Heartbroken.
הוצאת ספרים עוץ: utz.co.il
Scholar, editor, translator in Germany. #ScandinavianStudies, #LitWiss & #EnvHum. Researcher of North Sea coastal & petro-cultures. Likes to be beside the seaside.
Classics professor, writer, and translator (of Horace and Ovid, with Catullus in-progress). she/her stephaniemccarter.com
Artist, printmaker, sculptor, translator of various subjects.
Foxes, owls, stones and bones
I have an online store for some of my limited edition linocuts
https://www.maria-strutz.co.uk/
Critic, scholar, translator and poet in Paris. Recent reviews in the TLS and The Friday Poem. Most recent books from CUP & Palgrave. Poems in various places. Weekly substack on poetry & translation https://vamoul.substack.com/ https://www.victoriamoul.com
JP-EN LN/manga/game translator, writer, youtuber, crocheter, metalhead, and cat lady in PDX.
Weakest Tamer, Princess of Convenient Plot Devices, RekiAku, Re: Zero SS
she/her
hashtagprobablyautistic
🖤🩶🤍💜🩷💜💙
https://www.patreon.com/c/sarahktranslate
Cultural history of modern Europe. Associate Professor, @uvahumanities.bsky.social.
Books: “Un boem la Bucureşti”; "The Making of Mămăligă"; "Networks, Narratives and Nations" &c.
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/d/r/a.j.drace-francis/a.j.drace-francis.html
Monty the Springer Spaniel/Hilversum/Speech-to-text interpreter/Captioner/Fergus the late Corgi/Lego/Blues Brothers/Monty Python/Bonzo Dog Band/Kilts/Steampunk/Daleks/🖖🏻
Lekker stukje kaas van Pronk, mmm
A book prize celebrating writing by women translated into English. Winner announced 27th November 2025. From SCAPVC at the University of Warwick. Posts by Holly Langstaff.
Proofreader & copyeditor of fiction & non-fiction, with background as a translator into English from French & German • CIEP Professional member • She/her • https://linktr.ee/nicolabigwood • Learning Italian, Welsh, Irish, Gaelic… slowly! 📍Scotland 🏴
#EinfacheSprache #LeichteSprache für Gedenkstätten, Politik, Museen, Gesundheit
#Translator FR/EN > DE (wine, tourism, NS)
3. Gen. NS-Widerstand
Arbeitet an Buch zu Augsburg in NS-Zeit
www.cotelangues.com
Translator & roommate of 2 cats. Mastering the art of tsundoku.
She/her
Revolutionszeichen Runkelrübe
Spanish translator. Book in one hand, drink in the other. She/her.
http://www.lindseyfordtranslation.com/
Professor of translation studies at the University of Geneva and academic translator. Recent books: Professional Translators in 19th-c France and Translating Science in the 18th & 19th c. Now working on an industry guide for aspiring book translators.
Turkish poetry translator
Poetry/writing/& zine-ing
Cymraes (west-Welsh) She/Her
Caroline Stockford
https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/human-rights/wtwt/
Poetry translations: https://estoniacordfrock.wordpress.com/
German to English translator and general book botherer (she/her)
Translator (German/French to English), word-tamer, songwriter, atheist, podcaster and popular man about town.
www.ianwinick.com
Co-host of:
Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast
https://linktr.ee/eatthepudding
Gracelessly aging* writer, copy editor and translator. Curator of #SaveOurSubs. Based on the Continong.
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* No "e" after the "g", eh. Glad we've got that cleared up.
Ex-Londoner in Berlin. Translates and edits (art & culture, history, botany). Eats, cooks and spends most of her free time looking for a flat with a decent-sized kitchen and room for some books. Loves cats and museums. #dementia care
🌟non-profit helping readers of all age discover diverse, translated and global children's books and YA
🌟anti-racism through reading
🌟year round, and especially September #WorldKidLitMonth
poet, human, dog lover
academic & literary editing/translation, and writing (ENG/GER)
MSt & DPhil (University of Oxford)
Instagram: schicketanz_books
http://patreon.com/whatisaletter
Books, languages, translation, Latin America. Migrationshintergrund. 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇦🇷
Literature in Translation, Poetry, Photography, Kayaking, Forest Meandering, Adventures with Charlie.
Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada
Scottish poet | NOR-ENG Translator | Work in The Poetry Review / Modern Poetry in Translation / Magma / Gutter / The Scotsman | Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award 2019 | Grierson Verse Prize 2023 / Wigtown Poetry Prize Runner-Up 2023
Traductrice (jeux/livres) 🎮 Cat lady 🐈⬛ Grosse féministe chantre de l'écriture inclusive ✊ Bipan 🏳️🌈 AuD(H)D
PP : photo de moi par @oniromanie.bsky.social | Bannière : logo par @nepsie.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/esperluverte
Midwife of texts for academics and the arts | KSWTranslations.com from Finnish, German and Polish, editing in English | runs ridgewritingretreats.com | chair of nordicedit.fi | devourer of books | she/ona/sie/hän
I help academics write (writing retreat facilitator & AcWri trainer) & publish their work (authors' editor, academic translator). 🎓(Psycho-)linguistics 🏠Donostia-San Sebastián 🌴 https://linktr.ee/linguaverse.
Co-founder of WRAP: @wrap-net.bsky.social.
Auch @annabarna13@mastodon.social Was mit Sprachen 🇩🇪🇪🇸🇬🇧 🇨🇵 & CT Loves and tweets languages, opera, travel & Fußball ... #xl8 #btsv #Barcelona 🏳️🌈
Lined up words for 40+ years (editor, translator, writer). Swiss/UK citizen originally from Yorkshire. Retired, living in rural SE France since 2007.
Language(s), books, cats, food, gardening, France, bees in my bonnet. Food bank volunteer
Joel is a Beijing-based translator. zhwj on Douban and Tumblr · @jdmartinsen@mastodon.social · he/him · joelmartinsen.com
I write. I might write what I think, or transfer to my language what other people wrote in theirs. Nomad. Love books, photography and movies, not necessarily in this order.
The Czech-English translator – not the Carshalton ironmonger's. Latest translations include books on Cz Legions in Siberia and Cz astronomers worldwide. Getting down to the nuts and bolts of translation theory. Thingy/doodah.
Literary translator (DE-EN). Cambridge, UK
THE LACK OF LIGHT by Nino Haratischwili out Sept 9 (US) / Oct 23 (UK)
Translator with the EU (into 🇬🇧 from 🇸🇰🇨🇿🇵🇱🇭🇺🇪🇪🇫🇷🇺🇦, learning 🇬🇷). Runner, climber, cyclist, cross-country skier. Ex-hack. Lancastrian, Notlobber in Brussels/London. MCIL, FRGS, BWFC.
Das Netzwerk wortstarker Frauen. Hier posten stellvertretend 5 Textinen aus dem www.texttreff.de
Im TT-Bluesky-Team: @smartezeitungah.bsky.social, @erdhaftig.bsky.social, @textzicke.bsky.social und @rba-schreibt.bsky.social
Literaturübersetzer Norwegisch/Dänisch/Schwedisch/Katalanisch-Deutsch. U. a. Leif Høghaug, Ida Marie Hede, Adrià Pujol Cruells, Prudenci Bertrana.
https://literaturuebersetzungen-friedrich.de/
British Library German collections curator. Tiny translation sideline. Reader, bellringer, Wagner & Archers fan. Comprehensive educated & proud. Views my own.
