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My new account is hawksquill@sunny.garden

Thoughts from between worlds, blending warmth, reason, and distance.

🦢➕🖤 · writer, librarian, diarist · public library director · 👫 to @funkyplaid · loves pens, games, indieweb, karaoke · opinions & ink choices mine · she/her

Environmental #journalist & #clifi author of DEPART, DEPART!, REAL SUGAR IS HARD TO FIND, & SEEDS FOR THE SWARM. Forthcoming: THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE (‘23, Levine Querido).


#Jewish, #anarchist, #trans, #houston, #gulfcoast, they/them, #freepalestine #landback


Rep: Rebecca Podos @ Rees Literary
Twitter: @sim_kern, tiktok: simkern

ALT Avatar: white freckled mid-30s person w/short brown hair resting their forehead on their hand 
ALT Banner: Kern's 3 book covers

Editor. Instructional designer. Champion of conscious language wherever words happen. Member of ACES, EFA, Northwest Editors Guild, and BAEF. #StetWalk-er

Poet, roguelike developer, pixel artist (ish), composer. Chapbooks: Late Summer Flowers (Anstruther Press), Orbits (Model Press). Editor/publisher, null pointer press. he/him

Writes drabble-fic and #scifi, has opinions which you may ask about. More #worldbuilding than #writing, though. Commentary upon #gundam and #TerraIgnota

Avatar by @cryptovexillologist

Apex Magazine is a lit zine focusing on strange, surreal, shocking, and beautiful science fiction, fantasy, & horror.

Author, engineer, photographer, sceptic. I talk about writing, science and myths & legends.
Writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy every day for over 1,000 days.

Creative Writer📜 | Game Developer 🎮 | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ she/her | Fascinated by mythology and folklore | World-building enthusiast | Author of World Without Love and Chronicles of the Realms 📚

#WritingCommunity #GameDev #VideoGames #LGBTQIA #SapphicBooks

Science Fiction and Fantasy author @ https://www.skaeth.com
Reviews on Bookwyrm at skaeth@books.theunseen.city and skaeth@bookwyrm.social (while I decide on an instance) and on IndieStoryGeek.com at https://indiestorygeek.com/user/SKaeth

reader, writer, dreamer, worldbuilder
Co-founder of IndieStoryGeek.com
Host of WriteHive's Word Nerd Cafe podcast and Co-founder of WriteHive's Mentorship program (mentorship for traditional, small press, and self-publishing paths)

She/Her, dysgu Cymraeg

Troutian idea pulp. All stories my own or found in the back of a cave. Free if you can get them home.

Can run backwards // Software Engineer // Linguist // Rick Bass Montana Fiction Prize Winner // Debut collection SOMETIMES CREEK (Cornerstone Press) 2023 American Book Fest Best Book Winner and Chicago Writers Assn Book of the Year finalist

THESE ARE MY PEOPLE (Cornerstone Press) out 12/2025 — order now at stevefoxwrites.com

I write poems that pay deep attention to the ordinary.

I'm here to connect with a #community of other people who are tagged #author and #writer. I write #nonfiction books on topics from #tech to #tarot, now focused on #fiction and writing #novels. Love #ScienceFiction #MagicalRealism #Horror. Based in #Mississippi. Looking for #MississippiWriters! Work in #ObsidianMD #Ulysses and #Tana for #PKM

Biomedical informatician, Professor @ Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science, FACMI, ripe mango addict. Author: Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions. Rep: Mollie Glick, CAA.
Location: Tongva Land

#Teacher: #Maths, #Music and #SocialStudies.

#Nerd: #BoardGames, #Tech and well made stuff. Some current favourites are Hansa Teutonica, Cleanshot X and loopwheeled sweatshirts.

#Music - #Bass (’61 P-bass) in a band called Klondike. Aspiring rig builder, under the name Erlend Mekker Nice.

#Blog - Trying to collect my weird thoughts on my varied interest over at https://www.havn.blog (🇳🇴🇬🇧).

#Dog - Vincent. Eurasier and good boy.

#Oslo, #Norway

Barista by evening, #author & #editor by night. Not a morning person. USAF vet, former SpEd paraprofessional, security guard. Member ALLi & SFWA. AA #Journalism, AAS #EmergencyManagement, BA #History. I enjoy #comics, #writing, #StarTrek, #gaming, #RPGs, and taking pictures of my #pets. (He/Him)

surreal fantasy • sci fi realism • horror

rogue astrophysicist ⭐️ plant whisperer 🌿 fire nation 🔥 mixed race diaspora ✨ they/them

2021 rejections: 13/100