My Favorite Writers on Medium

Andrew Gaertner
8 min readMay 5, 2024

A running list to replace my long-gone favorites tab

My Photo. Mama Hen and chicks underneath.

Hello, friends on Medium. I feel like I have not been seeing your stories in my feed. The Algorithm feeds me content that I sometimes appreciate, but I end up missing some of my favorite writers. There used to be a favorites tab, but that went away in a website update.

So I am recreating a favorites tab in this post. I plan for this to be a living document. These 50 authors are a start on the list. Now, when I read an essay that makes me think, I will add the author’s name and a quote so I can find them again later.

I went through to see who I have recently added to my reading list and who regularly responds to my stories. I noticed that recently a few commenters have been leaving generic comments that don’t seem relevant and I think they might be AI bots.

If I forgot to add you to this list and we are “Medium friends,” please know it was not intentional. Drop me a comment and I will add you.

Matthew Maniaci A recent discovery. I appreciate the perspective of someone who shares many of my own identities.

And, while I try to write with some level of understanding, in the end, I am a straight cis white guy with a middle-class life and an upper-middle-class upbringing.

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Andrew Gaertner
Andrew Gaertner

Written by Andrew Gaertner

To live in a world of peace and justice we must imagine it first. For this, we need artists and writers. I write to reach for the edges of what is possible.

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