I occasionally take pictures, sometimes of cats or moss, and I spend a lot of time professionally thinking about what things mean.

Writer, birder, teacher, generalist. Author of THE VERB 'TO BIRD', ALONG THOSE LINES, THE AMAZING Q, etc. Tar Heel Born and Honorary Substitute Legionnaire. he/him. guitar/keyboards/vocals.

Executive editor, Library Journal. Writer, artist, baker, correspondent, owner of too many animals and fountain pens, aging hipster. Opinions here are my own.

Reader, sometimes writer, museum person, free-form radio dj

West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, DC, Virginia, Ohio, Texas, Ireland, California - I’ve lived everywhere and enjoyed them all. Northern Virginia is home.

Writer, Documentary Filmmaker, Inveterate Recommender New Book: BREAK THE FRAME: CONVERSATIONS WITH WOMEN FILMMAKERS https://tinyurl.com/yc5r894h www.breaktheframebook.com www.kevinsmokler.com

Writer, teacher, gentle rabble rouser. Co-proprietor of Secret World Books in Highland Park, IL.

Recovering news producer. 📺 Dog mom. 🐕‍🦺 Reunited adoptee. 💕 Mini driver. 🚘 D.C. native, but now Cleveland is home.🏡 #Resist

Movie lover, reader, terrible guitar player, Illinoisan/Virginian

Big fan of liberal politics, clean code, Victorian literature, and the Oxford comma. She/her. My political opinions are mine alone and do not reflect the views of my employer.

Instigator, Author, Changemaker, Avid Reader, Coffee Afficinado

Writer. Editor of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (2019) and WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (May 2025). www.michelefilgate.com

Book reader, cat wrangler, doomscroller. Tar Heel.

Arts writer in Kansas. Co-founder of the SHOUT, Wichita's dedicated arts & culture news source: shoutwichita.com CV: National Critics Institute fellow & Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing grantee, journalist-in-residence @ Wichita Art Museum, typo queen