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Midwest Writers

A friendly group of authors sharing stories and creativity.

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@profitableauthor.bsky.social

Sharon Woodhouse, former indie book publisher, owner of Conspire Creative (conspirecreative.com/subscribe), and author of "The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books" (profitableauthorbook.com).

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@bonniejo.bsky.social

Writer, berry picker, donkey wrassler, lover of freedom. Author of six books of fiction, including THE WATERS (2024).

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@rboomhower.bsky.social

Biographer. Editor. Ex-reporter. I write a lot about journalists. Writing bio of groundbreaking Black newsman Wallace Terry, author of "Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans" for @unmpress.bsky.social.

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@buckweaver.bsky.social

Curling, cats, and crimes. And occasional baseball. (Also, baseball crimes.) Living in Chicago with @pulhitzherprize.bsky.social. Never quite sure which century I’m in. https://jacobpomrenke.com

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@realarnieb.bsky.social

🟦 Narrative nonfiction author. Writing teacher & coach. Speaker, talking head, raconteur. Voracious & ferocious reader. Movie maven. Runner. Long-suffering White Sox fan. Proud Jew. Proud Zionist. A Brothers Marxist. https://www.linktr.ee/arniebernstein ✡

@runswstilettos.bsky.social

Writer, artist, former prosecuting attorney…and author of the FINNIGAN THE CIRCUS CAT children's books. It's never too late to make mid-course corrections! No DMs and no AI! www.marytwagner.com

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@mfraterrigo.bsky.social

Writer | Editor | Founder Lafayette Writers' Studio University of Nebraska Press Indiana Review The Millions https://linktr.ee/lafwritersstudio/

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@jamesklise.bsky.social

reader/h.s. educator/writer I’ll Take Everything You Have, The Art of Secrets (Algonquin/Hachette), rep Jennifer Laughran at ABLA. Teaches at StoryStudio in Chicago

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@swiegenstein.bsky.social

Ozarks native, author of novels and short stories. PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, 2021. #Missouri #Ozarks #writing

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@carolfishersaller.bsky.social

Children's book author. contributing editor, Chicago Manual of Style. NEW on April 15, 2025: THE TIME-JINX TWINS! Ages 8-12.

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@sbpaul.bsky.social

Career journalist now writing literary biography. Transplanted New Englander in the deep Midwest. Book hound, jazz hound, music lover, traveler, food-wine explorer, poem-flinger, social introvert more or less. President, Biographers International Org.

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@susanbk.bsky.social

Author of BERNARDINE'S SHANGHAI SALON (Post Hill Press, 2023), WHEN FRIENDS COME FROM AFAR (University of Illinois Press, 2024), GOOD CHINESE WIFE (Sourcebooks, 2014) and co-editor of HONG KONG NOIR (Akashic Books, 2018). Book reviewer, too!

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