Austin Kleon
I'm a writer who draws. Author of "Newspaper Blackout." I'm working on a new book called "Steal Like An Artist."
Austin, TX
Ned Hepburn
Editor-at-large at Death & Taxes magazine and freelancer for Interview Magazine and Vice Magazine. Ask me about my Grandkids.
New York, NY
Bart Schaneman
I write books, essays and poems. I contribute to publications in Asia and the U.S. My travelogue "Trans-Siberian" is out now via Microcosm Distribution.
David Jones
Author of two novels, a novelette and an anthology of short stories and poetry. Actor and filmmaker. Creator of worlds. Prolific eater of foods.
Liverpool, UK
Meta is Murder - Mills Baker
Concerns art, literature, philosophy, love, culture, and turtles. Tumblr Tuesday called it "intelligent, insightful, and beautiful."
San Francisco, CA
Jonathan Stutzman
writer, poet, amateur rememberer; a creator of past worlds on napkins, with pockets full of sand, stardust, and bits of childhood plastic.
Philadelphia, Pa
Dan Chaon
Photos, Weird stuff, flotsam related to my books and in particular my new story collection, STAY AWAKE.
Cleveland
Molly McAleer
Baddest bitch in Los Angeles and I have been for a minute now. I will either ruin your life or make it a lot better. My dog Wagandstuff says "hey."
Los Angeles, CA
Glory Szabo
Your likes and reblogs determine what will be included in the novel I am currently working on.
London, United Kingdom
Rainbow Rowell
Author of ELEANOR & PARK, ATTACHMENTS and FANGIRL. Excitable.
Omaha, Nebraska
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
A compendium of the outer spatters of the emotional palette, written by John Koenig.
St. Paul, MN
Bill Cheng
Bill Cheng is the author of Southern Cross the Dog, publishing May 2013 by Ecco / HarperCollins.
Brooklyn, NY
COLE STRYKER
Writer, media strategist, author of "Epic Win," a book about 4chan, and "Hacking the Future," a book about the value of anonymity on the Internet.
New York, NY
The Atavist
Original nonfiction stories for tablets and phones, and a software platform to tell your own.
Brooklyn
John Darnielle
Columnist for Decibel; author of the 30 Short Poems About My Favorite Black Metal Band and of 33 & 1/3: Master of Reality. Finishing a novel.
Durham, North Carolina
Elizabeth Wilcox
I'm a poet getting my PhD at the University of Southern California. I read whatever I can get my hands on.
Los Angeles, CA
Edan Lepucki
I'm the author of the novella If You're Not Yet Like Me, and a staff writer for The Millions. I prefer to do all my reading in the bath.
Los Angeles, California
VelvetBlory
A Blory is a blog/story hybrid; we post one daily. The best ones go in our quarterly mag. We scour tumblr for the best writing and give feedback.
London, UK
Tao Lin
Tao Lin (b. 1983) is the author of 7 books of fiction/poetry. His 3rd novel TAIPEI will be published by Vintage in June 2013.
Manhattan, NY
Leigh Stein
Leigh Stein is the author of the novel THE FALLBACK PLAN, and a book of poems, DISPATCH FROM THE FUTURE.
Brooklyn, NY
Adam Gnade
Adam Gnade's latest book, The Heat and the Hot Earth, was released in December. He lives on a farm in the rural Midwest.
Leavenworth, Kansas
Julie Klausner
I'm what Grammy Hall would call "A Real Jew."
New York, NY
Matthew Harris
A cloud in trousers, as Mayakovsky sez. Also, I write about pop music and queer politics when I should be working on my novel.
Toronto, Canada
John Green
I write books (Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars) and make videos with my brother Hank (vlogbrothers, crashcourse).
Indianapolis, IN
Musings of an Inappropriate Woman: Rachel Hills
Ladymag hag and academic writing on gender, creativity and the politics of everyday life.
London, United Kingdom
Bruce Sterling
Visionary in Residence
Austin, Torino, Beograd
Emma Straub
Author of the short story collection 'Other People We Married' and the novel 'Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures.' Likes cats, cheese, shiny things.
Brooklyn, New York
Donald Food
Graduate student in poetry, working hard to make that "feel like" an " actual thing."
Philadelphia, PA
The Tangential
The Tangential is a pop culture and creative writing blog. Our subject matter ranges from banging Winnie the Pooh characters to critiquing Atlantic articles.
Britt
Growing up has meant learning that people want others to shut up and stay in their place. I write to challenge that notion.
Chicago, IL
On the Borderland
Terror of the mundane, nostalgic dread creeping up on a Sunday afternoon, oddments and oddities, all courtesy of a life lived elsewhere.
Tokyo, Japan
Ransom Riggs
Filmmaker, photographer, abandoned-things explorer, int'l bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
Los Angeles
Tess Lynch
A writer from NY living in LA. Sometimes appears in commercials and other times appears in pajamas.
Los Angeles, CA
Matthew Allard
Author. Freelance copywriter. Book lover. Internet geek.
Los Angeles, CA
Jami Attenberg
My fourth book 'The Middlesteins' comes out in October. In the meantime I'm taking pics of delicious food and dogs in costumes.
Brooklyn, NY
raynor "[redacted]" ganan
i'm a wackademic living in boston. i write about all manner of curiosities—even the x-rated ones.
a himalayan library castle
Miles Klee
Fictionist. Author of stories, essays, satire and a novel, "Ivyland" (OR Books 2012).
New York, NY
Simen Edvardsen
This is an edited stream of consciousness.
Norway
Todd Frankenfield
Writes poetry, prose and short stories. Currently working on a novel and a cup of coffee. Raised by talking wolves.
Pennsylvania
The Near-Sighted Monkey and Lynda Barry
If the thing we call the Arts has a biological function, what is it? The Near-Sighted Monkey and Lynda Barry post clues.
Southern Wisconsin
Rosecrans Baldwin
Author of "Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" and "You Lost Me There."
Alex Balk
The Internet version of Alex Balk
New York, NY
Bennett Madison
I write books for teenagers and whoever else feels like reading them. My next book is September Girls, out in May.
Brooklyn, New York
Nick Miller
I wrote a novel called "Isn't It Pretty To Think So?"
Los Angeles, CA
JEN SNOW
Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not Going To Talk About.
New York, NY
Alexander Chee
Not probably where you left me. Novelist, short story writer, essayist, travel writer, generally itinerant but usually in NYC.
New York, NY
Scott Heim
riotous obsessions, random ghosts, floodgates, tiny blue lights, needy snuggling, indrid cold, flimsily structured songcraft, end credits
Boston, MA
Dean Van Nguyen
Dublin-based writer specialising in media, lifestyle and pop. Runs One More Robot magazine. As seen in The Deli, Wax Poetics, AU, Evening Herald, PopMatters and others.
Shane Burcaw
A sarcastic 19-year-old with SMA explores the humor in the disease that is slowly destroying his body, and reveals a lot more about his life along the way.
Natasha Vargas-Cooper
Journalist.
Los Angeles
Molly Young
Writer for GQ, ELLE, New York Magazine.
New York, NY
Anthony Luebbert
I have an MFA in fiction from Florida, but, oh, my tumblr is full of memoir, mine and sometimes yours.
Iowa
Yeah Write!
Yeah Write is a creative writing community that posts daily writing prompts, answers your writing advice questions, publishes a lit mag, & more!
New York, NY
dick from africa
My father and mother were Dutch Calvinist missionaries who had been commanded by God to bring the one true savior, the Christ, to the San of the Kalahari.
owsome
Chels blogs about science, art, baseball, and her adventures in journalism. She's pretty awesome. Or, you know, owsome.
Long Island, NY
Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow
Musing, Reflections, and Reactions of a working writer. "Never hope or dream more than you work."
New York City
brian braiker
writer, reporter, editor, musician. made of shame and whiskey.
Brooklyn, NY
Barry Lyga
I write stuff. Lots of stuff. Some of it doesn't suck.
New York
Matthew Gallaway
Author of The Metropolis Case: A Novel (Crown/Random House 2011). I'm into cats, ferns, and books about memory slash fractured souls. (Oh and cupcakes of almost any variety.)
New York, NY
Liz Moore
Author of the novels HEFT and THE WORDS OF EVERY SONG.
Philadelphia, PA
Brian Stelter
"The greatest inspiration is the deadline." A Tumblr blog by Brian Stelter, a media reporter for The New York Times.
New York, NY
Nick Turse
Journalist, historian, and the author of Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
United States
Richard Rushfield
Author, rambler, pop culturist, remorseless critic of books, movies, tv shows and supermarket candy selections.
Los Angeles, CA
Christopher Dickey
Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Editor for Newsweek Magazine and The Daily Beast. Author of six books, working on a seventh.
Paris, France / New York, NY
Mike Barthel
Pop culture, politics, and humor from a music critic turned cultural commentator.
Seattle, WA
Roxane Gay
I write fiction, essays, and criticism for Salon, The Rumpus, Best American Short Stories 2012, NOON and so on. I want a tiny baby elephant.
The Midwest
Elliott Holt
Writer. Pushcart Prize winner. My first novel, YOU ARE ONE OF THEM, will be published by The Penguin Press in June 2013.
Luke Neff
I teach, which means I show interesting things to students then ask questions like Ira Glass. Sometimes I turn these things into writing prompts.
Portland, Oregon
Daniel Kolitz
Music criticism, fiction, and public nervous breakdowns by someone who rarely takes his headphones off.
Newark, DE
Laura Hurwitz
I am a writer/middle school English teacher with an inabilty to compartmentalize and internet access.
New Haven, CT
Andrew Romano
Newsweek politics writer by day, Tumblr design/music/food nerd... also by day.
Brooklyn, NY