#SWPACASalon26: June 25-27, 2026
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Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point
SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.
Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Hey, don't ask me my opinion -- I'm nobody. Just pretend I'm not here.
Writer/Prof/Other. They/Them. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/jbattis
Jenaer, Exil-Kölner, Tolkienist von Herzen. Threema: 7HKZ2WBW. he/him
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Skills: book design, toad wrangling, Zen DNA sequencing, essay writing, jelly doughnut stuffing, being retired. Enjoys: books, film, travel, good food, music of many but not all genres, day drinking wit, tai chi. Not a fan of: broccoli, cold weather, Nazis
· Tolkien
· Cartography
· Early music
· Recorders (flauta dulce, flûte à bec, Blockflöte)
· Middle Ages
· Barranco, Lima, Perú
U.S. Senator, former teacher. Wife, mom (Amelia, Alex, Bailey, CFPB), grandmother, and Okie. She/her. Official campaign account.
Lauren. Xennial. Pittsburgh. #AuDHD INFP. Intersectional feminist. Progressive. Bilingual 🇺🇸/🇫🇷 Linguaphile. French Teacher & translator. Writer. #hockeymom #BlueCrew #Whovian #HorizonZeroDawn #clairobscurexpedition33 #PS5 #letsgopens
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A unique voice known for inventive, thought-provoking narrative, philosophical depth, and fun!
Be excellent to each other.
Philosopher of the Evolution of Consciousness | The First and Last Inkling | Official account for the Barfield Literary Estate | https://www.owenbarfield.org/
Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Doctor of art history, Illustration Tutor at Falmouth University, author of https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/illustrating-the-lord-of-the-rings-in-the-soviet-bloc-9781350442085/ adventures in '80s fandom and the visual Legendarium
Indie #Tolkien scholar | Founder GermanTolkSoc #TolkienFolk | Travelling Tolkienist | Crowdfund me via Steady https://steady.page/thetolkienist 🧙♂️🧝✨ he/him
Author of Weird Fiction
Editor/Publisher at Myth Ink Books
Blogger at Our Strange Meanderings
Myth Ink Books: https://mythinkbooks.com/
Blog: https://ourstrangemeanderings.blog/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OurStrangeMeanderings
Budget-cutted classics Prof.
Mom of two jolly sprites/📚Teaching English to reluctant teenagers/ taking her sweet time writing her PhD on J.R.R Tolkien 🎓/ fantasy literature 🧙🏼♂️/ Middle Ages literature and history🛡️/Buffy, Star Wars, Dr Who,Star Trek, Dark Crystal.
I contain multitudes. Green chile aficionado living in ABQ, NM🌶🥑Award-winning cookbook author. Progressive. Total nerd. DM with caution. 20 post min. for FB.
astridwinegar.com
Etsy.com/shop/ElegantSufficiencies
facebook.com/astridtuttlewinegar
Director of Development at Imperial War Museums. Tolkien Scholar and author Live in Balham London 🏳️🌈
He/him. Co-author of Why We Love Middle-earth. Co-founder and resident word nerd on The Prancing Pony Podcast. Aiya Eärendil elenion ancalima.
English professor/democracy enthusiast--18/19th century, popular culture, critical theory, writing & rhetoric. Sometime podcaster & substacker at #AmericanId, former photojournalist & actor, Idaho expat.
#Politics #Romanticism #PopCulture #Tolkien #Buffy+
independent scholar, medievalist, and award-winning author ... sometimes a part-time adjunct for fun
Always heard a different drum.
Happy to talk about Tolkien on podcasts.
'Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many.'
Finalist for The Tolkien Society's Best Book Award 2024
@KentStateUPress
F/T working & commuting, parent, & Tolkien fan; not here often so may splurge RTs. May contain nuts. He/Him. Tree Hugger
Academic librarian, Open Educational Resources program manager, into facilitating and participating in professional development, spunky cats, sweet pooches, democracy, joy
The young person's guide to conquering (and saving) the world.✨
Sign up for our politics newsletter: http://tnvge.co/PZWnEym
I blog about Tolkien from Indonesia. Love folklore, books, movies. East Javanese living in East Borneo. She/Her. Banner by Amar Alfikar. I want Free Palestine and transphobes getting shat on by vengeful pigeons.
My blog: https://putri2wotan.wordpress.com/
Tolkien scholar, PhD student, assistant pig keeper with dreams of being a knight
🧙♂️ Graduate in Art History, #Tolkien fan, explorer of new places and gamer. #LOTRO. Organiser of #TolkienTrewsday. Fan of #TROP #TheRingsOfPower 💍 Runs "The Gathering Hall" community RPG space 🎲
📗✍️ https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/
We're a queer-led podcast covering all things Tolkien. Join a small group of fans and scholars as we discuss Middle-earth from an intersectional perspective.
www.queerlodgings.com
A scholarly project focused on Tolkien from a corpus linguistic and digital humanities perspective. Posts by James Tauber (@jtauber.com)
https://digitaltolkien.com/
Geek, Producer of Queer Lodgings: A Tolkien Podcast (queerlodgings.com), Steward of Mythopoeic Conferences at the Mythopoeic Society, Sci-Fi, Collector of DC Comics, Amateur Mixologist, Foodie, Disney Parks Nerd, Progressive. All views my own.
Trumpeter, musician, runner, cat servant. Fine Arts librarian at the University of Oklahoma to support these habits.
Has-been fantasy writer trying to finish that one book. Fond of gardens, birds, dragonflies, very amateur astronomy, books, and cats. She/her
👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXJSF/Jewish-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy
Philosopher, snark-master, food provocateur, dilettante, Tolkien researcher, someone who "thinks otherwise."
AKA BR McCoy. Padparadscha from the LJ days. Writes SF/F; yells about space and linguistics. Cusses. Neuroqueer, so pick a pronoun!
The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Gen-X spinster, currently dogless in PDX. Nerderies include: cheese, cooking, sci-fi, fantasy, books, cello, chorus. Probably leftish? Definitely antifa. Was Princess Ardala on the bird app. She/her.
Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Web, Python, ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Literary Studies, Data Visualization, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Tolkien, Space.
PhD candidate @dhssfau.bsky.social
Tolkienist & avid reader
Dane, Scout, physicist, father of 4
(he/him)
Author, QUEERING FAITH IN FANTASY LITERATURE (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). Editor & nonfiction writer: fantasy, queerness, theology. 2024 Le Guin Fellow. Secretary of Govanhill Voices. Creative nonfiction at https://buttondown.com/taylordriggers-mcdowall
Quesomanced packrat at large in the digital network.
Whimsical, eclectic, inquisitive, fæst on ferhþe.
Wrongful conviction is injustice for all.
Слава Украини!
All lives don't matter unless Black, Brown, Indigenous, & LGBTQ lives matter, too.
Prof in English of the Long Nineteenth Century, Cape Breton University
22nd Tolkien Seminar of the German Tolkien Society e.V. in Augsburg, 16-18 October 2026. Posts by @evelynkoch.bsky.social
Public Librarian. Book nerd. Desert dweller.
Archivist and all around pop culture nerd. Plus I like to write about archives and archivists in pop culture! I'm a real catch! I can probably talk about other things. Maybe.
https://www.pop-archives.com/
Ah, this is nice. I was Ginger on Making Light, and still am. Veterinarian, invertebrate punster, openly sarcastic, happily married lesbian mom and grandma, ruled by cats. I speak a few languages, but am hard-of-hearing in all of them. Fully vaccinated.
Retired software engineer, hard lefty (trending anarchosyndicalist), interested in (inter alia) art, visual mathematics esp. geometry, photography, theoretical biology, complex adaptive systems, SFF.
Physically disabled, mildly neurodivergent (ADD + OCD)
NYT-bestselling, Hugo Award winning monster and myth maker. Most recently, VERGIL! A Mythological Musical (Audible) , Beowulf: A New Translation, The Mere Wife, & many other items in the wondertale category & beyond. https://linktr.ee/mariadahvanaheadley
She/her. Iowa City. Keynote speaker. Author. Professor. Librarian. Workplace Well-being. Mindfulness Student. Dog Mom.
Personal account, obviously.
https://librarianbyday.net/
I get to play with space vehicles every day.
Nerd: Tabletop Games, Computer Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Cooking, Cocktails
Professional: Tech Leader, Software Development & Architecture
Amateur: History, Science, Politics
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Retired SF and fantasy editor, winner of three Hugos and a World Fantasy Award. Amateur musician, bibliophile, genealogist, layabout.
He, his. Anti-trans dingbats, get lost.
Signal: pnh.09
Editor, writer, teacher, moderator, pottery maker, keeper of hamsters, skiffy trufan, high lyric baritone, old lady, neener neener. Also, @tnh@wandering.shop.
Dual US/UK techie living in the Netherlands. Tech writer and contagious documentarian by day, bookbinder by night.
My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me.
(She/her)
Brooklynite, early blogger, general-purpose nerd, ttRPG noodle-arounder, once and future cartoonist, typeface addict, doggerelist, one-time Hugo finalist, occasional crank. He/him.
Left foot.
Right foot.
If not there yet, repeat.
(my algorithmic motto)
I write things (sporadically https://www.patreon.com/Pecunium) I make things (yarn, woven goods, minor woodworking). I take photographs (and teach photography).
I'm moderately polymathic (though maths are not my thing)
Welcome to my place
Editor, knitter, quilter, reader. Do your fellow humans often disappoint you? Making things helps. In Canberra, Australia, mostly. She/her.
Queer, data scientist, recovering astronomer, general geek. She/her.
Married, SF fan, cat lover, canine compatible, serial crafter, oft-time repeater of others' bon mots & borrowed wisdom.
It's okay - you don't have to follow me. I'm unlikely to follow back. Don't worry about unfollowing, either: not everyone's cup of tea
Illustrator, coder, reader, bon-vivant. Please don't ask about HAL 9000...I don't like to talk about it.
Portfolio: https://www.dlbowman76.com (available for commissions)
Physicist at large. Speaker. Writer. Mono-instrumentalist.
orcid.org/0000-0003-4608-8397
Avatar: Bill Heterodyne, smiling & tipping his boater, by Phil Foglio.
Banner: Me, infinitely reflected in mirrors.
In occupied Minneapolis, MN. Polymath, web pioneer, former 📺 critic, ⚾️ fan, SF fan, fanfic & fanvid fan, disabled, grey-ace. Masked & vaxxed. Widow. 💔 Tired. (She/her)
Contact, wishlist, v-nmo: https://linktr.ee/LaurelKrahn
Sportstalk: wintwins.bsky.social
Hugo- and Nebula-winning writer of THE KUIPER BELT JOB, the ARABELLA OF MARS trilogy, and over 60 science fiction and fantasy stories. He/him.
Writer. 🍀🌻 Being a redhead doesn't determine who is right; only who wins. Yet to be alone in the bathroom. I love my rugby son, his gf, our dogs & one damn feisty cat.
The only living Björn Friðgeir in the world.
Nerd. Programmer. Afper. Icelandic.
Solidly middle-aged.
May tweet about football with #boltinn #djöflarnir or #EuroVikes so please block those hashtags if that's not for you.
Writer, potter, clerk. Canuck. She/her. Cis but knows trans women are women.
Where there is tea, there is hope.
Techie, bad musician, SF fan (either Science Fiction or San Francisco.)
NorCal
He/They/Thou/Yo/Oook/Whatever
Not actually a crypto-owning selfie-taking copyright monkey.
Often found reading. She/her. Oregon now, previously New York. NESFA, OSFCI, mostly no longer active con/club fan. Silver pendant by Arlin Robins features a cat salient with S-shaped tail perched atop a book. I don't auto-follow back.
Living in a 1930s house in California, so there's a significant risk of old-house stories. Otherwise, expect some combination of cooking, computers, biochemistry, skiing, and hiking.
Troy Lissoway. Graphic Designer. Ape seeking understanding. Albertan. He/Him. Product of Canada*
(*At least 98 per cent of the total direct costs of producing the item were incurred in Canada)
Post-employed/Self-employed. Generation Jones. TTRPG author, maker, rocketeer, tech geek, political volunteer.
@StefanEJones@dice.camp
#MakeGoodTrouble
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Disabled IT professional and history/textiles nerd.
Inspiring slogan on colourful background. An average guy who complains constantly about politics. Not a journal. Probably part of a whale. I eschew stichomythia in favour of a serendipity of sorts. Mostly organized water. Made in Turkey/Hindiden Üretilmiş.
Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.
Nontheist Quaker. PsyD: CBT/PTSD. SJCleric. She/they
I write #hopepunk fantasy: Rien’s Rebellion 1st book free @ czedwards.net
https://linktr.ee/czedwards
discord: czedwards or https://czedwards.dreamwidth.org/
Tumblr: https://galantier.blog/
south minneapolis - another disabled artist -
so many beads. and pliers. so many pliers.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/LionessElise
Br Guy CONSOLMAGNO, Specola director
Kind of tired of making profiles.
Me: she/they, old, sometime writer: babushka to a promising goblin. If we'd done as I said we'd not be in such a fucking mess.
Avatar alt text: white babushka in a purple babushka. Banner: cement ship, Aptos
Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat.
https://buttondown.email/matociquala
THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
Reader, grumbler, baker, eater of cheese, cruncher of crackers.
Actively working to make the world suck less and that's challenging.
Also, your beloved revolutionary sweetheart.
He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; posts personal. Will block rude people and bigots.
http://fromtheheartofeurope.eu
Queer. Disabled. Jewish. I believe in the liberation of all people and I’m scared.
Once on Usenet, currently in Boston.
Classicist, writer, that sort of stuff. Currently teaching Latin to the youth. Yes, my dog's name is Adverb.
Sometime spec-fic writer. Not supposed to have opinions in public for job reasons, will generally not post about the News. He/him.
She/her. A geeky librarian, full of tea and anxiety. Co-host of No Story Is Sacred. Viable Paradise staff. https://linktr.ee/pippin_m
Books, origami, interpreting, circus, baking, and whatever new hyperfocus grabs my attention this week
she/her
Science fiction writer, poet, essayist. Minnesota nerd par excellence. Tisanes, leaves, Moomins, snow. She/her. Repped by Kurestin Armada.
www.marissalingen.com
tinyletter.com/MarissaLingen
Retired SFF editor and horsewoman. Lives in Arizona. Anti-Fascist since 1951.
Internet loudmouth - not clearing my throat, just tweeting in Dutch sometimes. Full time nerd, part time weeb. He/him
SF&F fan, fencer, dog lover, cook, long Covid sufferer
