Linda D. Addison is an award-winning author
of How
To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend (Necon eBooks) and the
first African-American to receive the HWA Bram Stoker Award. Catch her
work in The
Four Elements poetry collection with Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob
and Marge Simon (Bad Moon Books, 2012) and Dark Duet with Stephen
M. Wilson (Necon Ebooks, 2012). See lindaaddisonpoet.com
for the latest information.
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Mary Alexandra Agner writes of dead women,
telescopes, and secrets in poetry, prose, and Ada. Her book of poems in
the voices of female scientists, equations, and planetary bodies came into
the world as 2011 left it. She can be found online at pantoum.org
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Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of Letters
from the Emily Dickinson Room (White Pine Press Poetry Prize), winner
of
ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year in Poetry and a finalist
for the Washington State Book Award. She is also the author of Small
Knots (2004), and the chapbook Geography, winner of
the Floating Bridge Chapbook Award. She lives in the Northwest where she
is the editor of Seattle’s literary journal, Crab Creek Review, and
the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press. Visit her at
agodon.com
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Raewyn Alexander, as a child, climbed
trees and dreamed of being a writer. Her 11th book was just published, A
Bee Lover’s Poetry Companion from Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop,
and she now plants trees to cover carbon costs. A writing and visual
art exhibition, I
Guess I Just Don’t Know, with the title from a Lou Reed song, opened
in 2011 at Satellite Gallery, Auckland. In 2012, she plans a Poetic
Tour of America, to be documented in film.
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Kev Minh Allen was born in the Gia Ðịnh district of Sài Gòn on December 5, 1973, adopted at 9 months and flown to the U.S. in August 1974. He grew up in a suburb of Rochester, NY; at 27, he moved to Seattle, where he is currently enjoying the view. He has written and published poetry, book reviews, news articles and information panels for a museum exhibit. His work can be found online in Tiếng Magazine, Asian American Movement Magazine, The Fighting 44s, PoetrySuperHighway, and in print as well, such as The Northwest Asian Weekly, The International Examiner, and HazMat.
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Celia Lisset Alvarez is a writer and educator from Miami,
Florida. Her first collection of poetry, Shapeshifting (Spire Press, 2006),
was the winner of the 2005 Spire Press Poetry Prize. She has a second collection,
The Stones (Finishing Line Press, 2006), and has been published in numerous
journals and anthologies. She teaches at St. Thomas University in Miami
Gardens.
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Lana Hechtman Ayers is a poet and writer, originally from
New York, who makes her home in the Pacific Northwest. She is author of
five poetry collections, the most recent of which, A
New Red (Pecan Grove
Press, 2010) is a contemporary re-imagining of the Red Riding Hood fairy
tale. Lana is currently at work on several speculative fiction novels.
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Wendy Babiak (Conspiracy
of Leaves, Plain View Press) has
been scribbling against the status quo for over twenty years. She finds
writing in the voices of pop culture personae to be a good way to let off
steam. Her poems have appeared most recently in –esque,
Poems Against War, Poets for Living Waters, No Tell Motel, and Beltway
Poetry Quarterly. She
can be found at wbabiak.wordpress.com
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Ashley M. Baldon is a writer, fitness instructor,
and professional Polynesian dancer living in Southern California. She has
been published in The Fib Review, On a Narrow Windowsill, and,
most recently, Scent of
Rain.
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Lisa Bao is Chinese-Canadian with a mostly American upbringing. She officially studies linguistics and computer science, and unofficially creative writing among numerous other liberal-arts digressions, at Swarthmore College. Her work has previously been published in Strange Horizons.
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Chris Benjamin is author of Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada, winner of the Best Atlantic-Published Book Award and finalist for the Richardson Non-Fiction Prize, and the novel, Drive-by Saviours. Chris’ creative work has been published by VoicePrint Canada, Descant, Arts East, Third Person Press, Nashwaak Review, Pottersfield Press, Fierce Ink Press, Rattling Books, The Society and The Coast. Visit chrisbenjaminwriting.com.
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F.J. Bergmann dreams of a future in which
bios will need to be neither provided nor updated due to the perfection
of long-distance mind-melding. See fibitz.com for
more ideation. She is the editor of Star*Line and the poetry editor of
Mobius: The Journal of Social
Change.
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Kristin Berkey-Abbott earned a Ph.D. in British Literature from the University of South Carolina. Her chapbooks are Whistling Past the Graveyard (Pudding House Publications, 2004) and I Stand Here Shredding Documents (Finishing Line Press, 2011). She teaches at the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale and serves as Chair of the General Education department. Her website, which links to her blogs, is kristinberkey-abbott.com
Robert Borski lives in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. His first
collection of poetry, Blood Wallah, is now available from Dark Regions
Press.
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Sery Bounphasaysonh was born in Laos but has lived most of his life in the United States. He is new to publishing, but not new to writing, which he has been working on sporadically for well over a decade. He is a member of monthly writing workshop group that he originated in 2004. He currently lives and works in Massachusetts where he runs a small but growing family business.
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David Bowles was born in 1970 in Upper
Marlboro, MD, but has lived the majority of his life in South Carolina
and the Río Grande Valley of south Texas. He has been a teacher, administrator
and university professor. A writer of adult and YA speculative fiction,
his books include The
Blue-Spangled Blue (2009), The Seed: Stories
from the River’s Edge (2011) and Mexican
Bestiary (2012). He also edited Along the River:
An Anthology of Voices from the Río Grande Valley and Donna
Hooks Fletcher: Life and Writings. He has served as editor of
several publications, including the magazine
Flashquake. His book review column “Top Shelf” can be found weekly
in The
Monitor, a south Texas newspaper.
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Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart’s Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press) and co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press). The child of Chinese immigrants, she is a Kundiman and Lambda Fellow and a member of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation and Macondo writing communities. chinginchen.com
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Tom Clark is a senior lecturer in the School
of Communication and the Arts at Victoria University (Melbourne). His
research, teaching, and writing straddle political rhetoric and poetic
traditions, with an abiding interest in the poetics of cliché. In 2004
he published OI, a collection of dialect poems, with Cordite On
Demand.
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Wei-Ming Dariotis is a San Franciscan born in Australia. She is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, with an emphasis on Asian Americans of Mixed Heritage and Asian American Literature, Arts, and Culture, at San Francisco State University. Her poetry has been published in Mixed Up, Too Mixed Up, 580 Split, and Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves: A Contemporary Anthology of Asian American Women’s Poetry. She serves on the Editorial Board of Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies, and is Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature.
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Toby Davidson lives in Sydney where
he co–founded the Citizens of Language readings and began to perform
at festivals and with bands and is a lecturer and researcher
in Australian literature at Macquarie University, editing Francis
Webb Collected Poems (UWA Publishing, 2011)
and completing a critical study, Born of Fire,
Possessed by Darkness: Mysticism and Australian Poetry (Cambria
Press, 2012). He is the recipient
of the 2007 Verandah Penguin Literary Award. He is ‘married’ to the
Macquarie University Research Centre in Astronomy, Astrophysics and
Astrophotonics through his wife Amanda. physics.mq.edu.au/astronomy
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Oliver de la Paz is the author of three collections
of poetry, Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby (SIU Press 2001, 2007),
and Requiem for the Orchard (U. of Akron Press 2010), winner of the
Akron Prize for poetry chosen by Martìn Espada. He is the co-editor
with Stacey Lynn Brown of A Face to Meet the Faces:
An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (U. of Akron Press 2012). He teaches at
Western Washington University.
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Joe Dolce was born in Painesville,
Ohio, USA, in 1947. He moved to Australia in 1979, becoming a citizen
in 2004. He is a recipient of the Advance Australia Award. He has had
poetry published or forthcoming in Meanjin,
Quadrant, Cordite, and
Island. He was the winner of the 25th Launceston
Poetry Cup at the Tasmania Poetry Festival in 2010, and won the Toolangi
CJ Dennis Bush Poetry Contest in 2009. As a musician, he wrote, produced
and performed “Shaddap You Face,” which holds the five-times-platinum
record for the most successful song in Australian music history. See joedolce.net
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Carol Dorf's poems appear in Antiphon, Qarrtsiluni, Spillway, OVS, Canary, Sin Fronteras, In Posse Review, Poemeleon, Fringe, Moira, Unlikely Stories, The Prose Poem Project, and The Mom Egg. They have been anthologized in Not A Muse, Best of Indie New England, Boomer Girls, and elsewhere. She is an alumna of Clarion West, poetry editor of Talking Writing, and teaches math at Berkeley High School.
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Peg Duthie is the author of Measured Extravagance (Upper Rubber Boot, 2012). She shares an old house in Tennessee with a motorcycle mechanic, and there's more about her at NashPanache.com.
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Born in Chicago, raised in Paris, and currently living
in California, A. B. S. Dudevant is working on a degree in Cross-cultural
Studies with an emphasis on Gender Roles in the Mythologies of Megalithic
Cultures (and is an Ancient Aliens Theory enthusiast!). Dudevant has
had poetry published or forthcoming in Abyss & Apex, Astropoetica,
microcosms, and Star*Line, and a story forthcoming in the anthology Bride
of the Golem: An Anthology of Humorous Jewish Horror.
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Berit Ellingsen is a Korean-Norwegian writer whose stories have appeared in Unstuck, SmokeLong Quarterly, Metazen, and other journals. Her short story collection, Beneath the Liquid Skin (firthFORTH Books), was published in 2012. She has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the British Science Fiction Award. Berit's novel, Une Ville Vide (Publie.net), will be out in the summer of 2013. Find out more at beritellingsen.com.
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Phillip A. Ellis is a freelance critic, poet and scholar.
His chapbooks, The Flayed Man and Symptoms
Positive and Negative, are
available. He is working on a collection for Diminuendo Press. Another has been accepted by Hippocampus Press. He is the editor
of Melaleuca. More at phillipaellis.com.
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Martin Elster, author of There’s
a Dog in the Heavens! is also a composer and serves as percussionist for the Hartford Symphony
Orchestra. His poems have appeared in journals including The
Flea, The Chimaera (Pushcart nomination), Scarlet
Literary Magazine, Verse Wisconsin, Victorian Violet Press, and in the anthologies Taking
Turns: Sonnets from Eratosphere, The 2012 Rhysling Anthology, New Sun
Rising (forthcoming),
and Poe Little Thing.
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Kendall Evans has had stories and poems
in Amazing Stories, Fantastic, Weird Tales, Asimov’s Science Fiction,
Dreams and Nightmares, Nebula Awards Showcase 2008, Mythic Delirium,
Strange Horizons, Space and Time, and many others. He is the author of the sf poetry chapbook Poetry Red-Shifted in the Eye of a Dragon. He has
also received two Rhysling Awards in the long-poem category for
collaborations with David C. Kopaska-Merkel, “The Tin Men,” and with
Samantha Henderson, “In the Astronaut Asylum.”
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Michael Fantina has had scores of poems
published over the past few decades in North America, the UK and Australia.
He has appeared in The
Lyric, Candelabrum Poetry Magazine, The New Formalist, The
Pennwood Review, Romantics Quarterly, and numerous
other magazines. His fourth chapbook of verse, Ghosts
of the Sand, will appear next year from Rainfall Books in England. Fantina has also
had fantasy/horror fiction published in North America, the UK and Japan.
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Catherine Fitchett is a Christchurch poet who works in accounts. She has previously had work published in Takahe, the Press (Christchurch), online at Blackmail Press and in various anthologies. Her blog, Still
Standing On Her Head, can be found at poetrychook.blogspot.com
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Michael R. Fosburg lives and writes in Florida.
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Melissa Frederick is the author of
the poetry chapbook She (Finishing Line Press, 2008).
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Mid-American
Review, DIAGRAM, Mythic Delirium, Astropoetica, Star*Line, Strange
Horizons, and the 2011 Rhysling Anthology.
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Janis Freegard was born in England, but has lived in New Zealand most of her life. Her poetry collection, Kingdom
Animalia: the Escapades of Linnaeus, was published by Auckland University Press in 2011. She is also a co-author of AUP
New Poets 3 and is widely published in journals and anthologies, including Voyagers:
Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand. Janis also writes fiction and is a past winner of the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award. She lives in Wellington with an historian and a cat and blogs at janisfreegard.wordpress.com
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Nina Freeman writes poetry about space, sierpinski triangles,
parties and growing up on the beach. She recently edited the 52nd issue
of Aphros, Pace Universities Literary Magazine. Currently, she lives
in Brooklyn and is pursuing an MA in Digital Humanities at CUNY Grad
Center.
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Peter Friend has sold fiction to numerous magazines and anthologies around the world. In real life, he’s a computer analyst, but hopes to one day become a full-time living art treasure.
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Joshua Gage is an ornery curmudgeon
from Cleveland, His first full-length collection, breaths,
is available from VanZeno Press. Intrinsic Night, a collaborative
project he wrote with J. E. Stanley, was published by Sam’s
Dot Publishing. He has an MFA
in Creative Writing from Naropa University and a penchant
for Pendleton shirts, rye whiskey and any poem strong enough to yank
the breath out of his lungs. He stomps around Cleveland in a purple
bathrobe where he hosts the monthly Deep Cleveland Poetry hour and
enjoys the beer at Brew Kettle. Hooks & Books—an
exploration of literature and yarn; Cleveland
Poetics Blog
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Jeannine Hall Gailey is the author
of two books, Becoming
the Villainess (Steel Toe Books, 2006) and She
Returns to the Floating World (Kitsune Books, 2011.) Her work
has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac,
Verse Daily, and in
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared
in journals like The Iowa Review, Mythic Delirium, and Prairie
Schooner. She volunteers as an editorial consultant for Crab
Creek Review and currently teaches at the MFA program at National
University. See webbish6.com
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John Garrison’s work has appeared in Asimov’s
Science Fiction, RevolutionSF, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, and Leading
Edge. He has also served on the editorial staff of Strange
Horizons, a weekly professional speculative fiction magazine, and the
staff of the Speculative Literature Foundation, a grantmaking organization
supporting emerging and established writers and small presses working
in the genre.
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Laurice Gilbert has been re-arranging words since 1994, after attending art school in a misguided and unsuccessful attempt to ward off a mid-life crisis. She’s earned money from at least six poems and several competitions, and has managed her emotional life without illegal self-medication, despite a brief stint as a life model. Early retirement from a lucrative health care career enabled her to rise from apathetic committee member of the New Zealand Poetry Society to low-paid National Coordinator in charge of everything. Election to President occurred when no-one else wanted the job. Widely published, she’s currently working on her first collection. See poetrysociety.org.nz/aboutlaurice
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LeRoy Gorman lives in Napanee, Ontario.
His poetry, much of it visual, mostly minimalist and haiku or haiku
in intent, has appeared in various presentations worldwide. As well
as writing, he edits Haiku Canada Review and
publishes poetry leaflets and postcards under his pawEpress imprint.
His most recent book, fast enough to leave this
world, is a collection
of tanka published by Inkling Press.
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Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas is a six-time
Pushcart nominee and Best of the Net nominee. She has authored eight
chapbooks, with her latest collection of poems, Epistemology
of an Odd Girl, newly released from March Street Press. She is the recent
winner of the Red Ochre Press Chapbook competition. According to family
lore, she is a direct descendent of Robert Louis Stevenson. clgrellaspoetry.com
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J.A. Grier is a speculative fiction
writer, poet, planetary scientist, and astronomy educator. Dr. Grier’s
poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Space
and Time, Star*line, Niteblade, Prospective, and an anthology
of the Maryland Writer’s Association, Life In
Me Like Grass On Fire. Other credits include the textbook The
Inner Planets, published by Greenwood
Press, and a host of tweets, occasionally profound but usually otherwise
under @grierja on Twitter. Works in progress include a collection of
creepy childhood horror poems and a space opera novel trilogy. Dr.
Grier contemplates various astronomy facts and speculative fictions
at onewritersmind.blogspot.com
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Albert W. Grohmann works as a bookseller,
and lives in Westfield, New Jersey. His work has previously appeared
in Scifaikuest.
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Larry Hammer lives in southern Arizona,
where the days are sunny but the nights are dark. His favorite fruit
is the prickly pear, and his poems have appeared in Ideomancer,
Goblin Fruit, and Abyss & Apex, among other markets.
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J.A. Harmon is a freelance writer, poet,
and novelist. His first novel is due to be released by Dreamspinner
Press in early 2013. He has had several essays and articles published
in such small press newspapers as The CommunityLetter. He is a member of the Third
Friday Literary Group and a contributor to their upcoming international
publication Third Friday. Years spent living, working, and attending
law school in historic New Orleans, Louisiana greatly influence his writing.
Harmon is currently an attorney in Louisville, Kentucky. He also works
as a search engine optimization/internet marketing consultant on special
projects, and as a copy editor.
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Howard V. Hendrix is the author of
six novels from major publishers, which together have been published
in seven languages. He is also the author of three short fiction
collections (most recently Human in the Circuit from Wildside
Press, 2011) and three nonfiction books (most recently Visions
of Mars: Essays in the Fiction and Science of the Red Planet from
McFarland, 2011). He has won numerous awards, including the 2010
Dwarf Stars Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association for his
poem “Bumbershoot.”
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Ada Hoffmann finds writing much more
satisfying than actually talking to people. Her story “Centipede Girl”
was reprinted in Imaginarium
2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing.
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YiWei Huang got his Ph.D in mathematics in Singapore, 2011. He
has recently worked at the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology as research staff in the computer science. He has written
tanka in English and Chinese. His tanka are published in Atlas
Poetica and various anthologies by Poets on Site. He gave a talk in
Pasadena on Chinese Poetry and translations during the WilsonFest
Conference 2012, his first visit to the US. Kath Abela Wilson and her husband, Rick Wilson met Yiwei on their fourth visit to China for
mathematics conferences.
He was assigned to be their guide in Nanjing and Yellow Mountain. They
have since collaborated poetically, writing an article for Atlas
Poetica 12, Summer 2012, on Tanka Poets on Site. Yiwei translated many
poems by California poets on the art of Tong Zhang, a Chinese artist
Kathabela met in China, and introduced to local California poets in
2011.
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Michael Janairo says he is “A writer of Irish and Filipino descent. I work as the arts and
entertainment editor of a daily newspaper in upstate New York, and have had longer pieces of nonfiction and fiction published in literary magazines such as the Abiko Quarterly, Maganda Magazine, Walang Hiya, and Kartika Review.”
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M. Kei lives on the Eastern Shore
of the Chesapeake Bay (USA), apprenticed aboard a skipjack, a sail-powered
oyster dredge, and now serves with a fully rigged ship. His publications
include over 1400 tanka poems in six languages and ten countries. He
is editor-in-chief of the anthology series Take Five: Best Contemporary
Tanka,
and the author of Slow Motion: The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack, a
log in verse form, and the award-winning gay Age of Sail adventure
books, Pirates
of the Narrow Seas. He has edited and authored several
other books of poetry and a major journal, Atlas Poetica: A Journal
of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka. He is the compiler of
the Bibliography of English-Language Tanka, which documents
over one thousand publications since 1899. Kujakupoet.blogspot.com
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Julie Bloss Kelsey enjoys haiku and
short-form poetry. Her speculative poems have been published in microcosms, Scifaikuest and Alien
Skin. She won the 2011 Dwarf Stars Award for her poem
“Comet.” Visit
Julie at Stars
in my Sugar Bowl
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Deborah P. Kolodji, a native
Californian, is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the
Southern California Haiku Study Group. She is also a member and former
president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, for which she
helped create the Dwarf Stars Award and co-created Eye to the
Telescope. Her work has appeared
in Strange
Horizons, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Eclectica, Gin Bender Poetry Review,
Scrivener’s Pen, Kaleidowhirl, Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Goblin
Fruit, Scifaikuest, The Heron’s Nest, Abyss & Apex, The Magazine
of Speculative Poetry, and many other places. More
at dkolodji.livejournal.com and
kolodji.com
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David Kopaska-Merkel describes rocks
(and the holes in them) for the State of Alabama. He lives with an
artist in an urban farmhouse with a yellow “tin” roof. He collects
wormholes & the like. Born in Virginia, he has lived in
the home of the crookneck as long as anywhere. He has published
1200+ poems, short stories, reviews, and essays and won
the Rhysling award in 2006 for a collaboration with Kendall Evans.
He has edited Dreams
and Nightmares magazine since 1986, and has published a few
Rhysling winners. dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/ features
a daily poem. @DavidKM on twitter.
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Michael Kriesel is a poet and reviewer whose work
has appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Antioch Review,
Crab Creek Review, Rattle, Nimrod,
North American Review, Rosebud, and the Progressive. He
won the 2011 Wisconsin People & Ideas
Poetry Contest, the 2009 Wisconsin Fellowship Of Poets Muse Prize, and
the 2004 Lorine Niedecker Poetry Prize. Books include Chasing Saturday Night: Poems About
Rural Wisconsin (Marsh
River Editions) and Moths Mail the House (Sunnyoutside). He
has a B.S. in Literature from the University of the State of New York,
and was a print and broadcast journalist in the U.S. Navy.
He’s currently a janitor at the rural elementary school he once attended.
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Geoffrey A. Landis is a scientist,
a science-fiction writer, and a poet. As a scientist, he works on Mars
missions and inventing new technology for space. As a science fiction
writer, he’s won the Hugo and Nebula awards. As a science-fictional
poet, he’s won the Rhysling award twice, the Dwarf Star award once,
and is the author of one poetry collection, Iron
Angels. More about his poetry can be found at geoffreylandis.com/poetry.html
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Dennis M Lane was born in England,
has lived in seven countries across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific,
and finally settled in South Africa. He writes poetry, short stories,
and longer forms. His first poetry collection, 8 Million
Stories, was published
in 2010; he is completing his first novel, Talatu, a YA SF, which draws on elements of his
experience in Nigeria. Outside of his writing Dennis paints, narrates
for Librivox and StarShipSofa, cooks, plays the harmonica and spends
far too much time watching football.
dennislanebooks.com
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David Glen Larson, after studying
film and philosophy at the University of Southern California, spent
more than a decade as a film and television writer before rediscovering
his love of speculative prose and poetry. More of his work can be found
in issue #2 of Inkscrawl, and in upcoming editions
of Star*Line,
Scifaikuest, Beyond Centauri, Ideomancer, and many others.
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Robert Laughlin lives in Chico, California.
He has published 100 short stories, 200 poems, and one novel, Vow
of Silence; about
half of his published work is SF. pw.org/content/robert_laughlin
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Sandra Lindow lives on a hilltop in
Menomonie, Wisconsin where she teaches, writes, edits and competes
with bunnies and deer for sustenance, vegetable and perennial. She
has seven books of poetry. Her critical book, Dancing the Tao:
Le Guin and Moral Development will
be published late in summer 2012 in print and
online.
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Darrell Lindsey is a freelance writer and Pushcart Prize-nominated
poet from Nacogdoches, the oldest town in Texas. His haiku and tanka
have won awards in the United States, Japan, Croatia, Bulgaria, and
Canada.
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Kenji Liu is a 1.5-generation immigrant from New Jersey. His poetry chapbook You Left Without Your Shoes was nominated for a 2009 California Book Award. A Pushcart Prize nominee and first runner-up finalist for the Poets & Writers 2013 California Writers Exchange Award, his writing has appeared in numerous journals, including RHINO, Generations, Kweli Journal, Doveglion Press, Best American Poetry’s blog, Kartika Review, Lantern Review, and others. Kenji is currently at work completing a full-length poetry manuscript, Map of an Onion. kenjiliu.com
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Charles “Danny” Lovecraft started writing
in 1975. He runs P’rea Press (preapress.com).
P’rea publishes international weird and fantastic poetry and non-fiction.
Charles is a student of the Weird Tales, Cosmic universities
of thought, under the “three musketeers of Weird Tales”: professors
H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. He also researches
Australian fantasy and supernatural poetry. Charles is a resident of
Sydney.
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Barbara Lucas is a member of the Horror
Writers Association and the Science Fiction Poetry Association; Division
Head for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts;
and President of the Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal Chapter of
the Romance Writers of America. She has had recent work appear in Paper
Crow and the anthology In the Garden of the Crow.
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Chris Lynch was born with twelve fingers in the jungles
of PNG. He has also lived in Australia, the USA, China, and Japan.
Prone to crazy ideas, he has run off and joined the army, walked the
length of Japan, eloped, started Tangled Bank Press, and eaten goat
testicles. Thankfully, not all at once. He blogs at chrislynch.com.au/
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Elissa Malcohn edited the “Interplay”
section of Star*Line 34.4. Her poetry has appeared in Asimov’s,
Dreams and Nightmares, Mythic Delirium, The Open Laboratory 2010, and elsewhere.
She spent January 2011 writing and posting one science article-inspired
poem per day, each poem in a different form. For more info and free downloads
of her Deviations series, go to home.earthlink.net/~emalcohn/.
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Hailing from the notorious green lands of Lahore, Pakistan,
Usman T. Malik currently lives in Florida with a reluctant
wife and a veggie-hating son. He is a hospitalist haunting the sanitized,
monster-free halls of Leesburg Regional Medical Center. Although Usman
has written poetry and prose for a long time (and is a Nobel Prize winner
in an alternate universe), this is his first published poem, with more
poetry forthcoming in the pages of Space and Time and a demon
story in The Crimson Pact: Volume 4 out next month. If you’d like to
boo at him, please visit desiwriterslounge.net and say hello at the
forums. You’ll find him carefully peeling off his toenails with clumsy
fingers and doing absolutely nothing else.
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Emily
Manger is a performance poet from Melbourne, Australia. She
haunts the spoken word scene, and her work occasionally appears in
various local publications. In her spare time, Emily works on her thesis
for a PhD in psychology.
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John C. Mannone has been nominated
three times for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry and once for the Rhysling
Poetry Award. His recent work appears (or is forthcoming) in The
Pedestal, The Medulla Review, Rose & Thorn Journal, Hinchas de
Poesía, Magnapoets, Earthspeak, Liquid Imagination, Radius, SciFaikuest,
Star*Line, and Black Gate Magazine.
He is the poetry editor for Silver Blade and an assistant
poetry editor for Abyss & Apex. He teaches college physics
in east Tennessee and serves as a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador.
Visit The Art of Poetry: http://jcmannone.wordpress.com
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Cy Mathews is a Dunedin-based writer. As well
as reviewing for Takahe and Landfall
Online, he is currently writing
a PhD thesis on the New York School poet Kenneth Koch. Other of his
poems have been published in Oban 06, Blackmail Press and Deep South.
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Alan Meyrowitz received his Doctorate in Computer Science
from the George Washington University in 1980, and retired from the federal
government in 2005 after a career in research. His poetry is forthcoming
or has appeared in California Quarterly, Diverse
Voices Quarterly, Eclectica, Folly, Forge, Front Range Review, Griffin,
Lucid Rhythms, River Oak Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and Shroud.
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P. Andrew Miller’s poetry
has appeared in a variety of magazines and journals, including Star*Line,
The MacGuffin, Inscape, and The Journal of
Kentucky Studies. His lyric
comic, The Legacy of the Turquoise Knight, a hybrid comic book
and poetry chapbook, was published by Finishing Line Press. He is Coordinator
of Creative Writing at Northern Kentucky University.
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David Wong Hsien Ming was born in Singapore and discovered
poetry as a child at a Sunday lunch. A final-year Philosophy Major at
the University of Melbourne, he has also studied creative writing in
Melbourne and at Rutgers University New Brunswick under Yerra Sugarman
(The Bag of Broken Glass and Forms of Gone). His poetry has appeared
in Ceriph and has recently earned an Honorable Mention in Singapore’s
Golden Point Award 2011.
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Patricia Monaghan is the author of four
books of poetry including Seasons of the Witch, winner of the
Friends of Literature Award for poetry, and more than a dozen nonfiction
books including The Encyclopedia of Goddesses and
Heroines and The
Encyclopedia of Celtic Myth and Spirit. A winner of the Pushcart Prize
and the Paul Gruchow Award in Nature-Writing, she is professor of interdisciplinary
studies at DePaul University in Chicago and a Founding Fellow of the
Black Earth Institute, a progressive think-tank for artists who connect
spirituality with social justice and environmentalism.
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Natasha Kochicheril Moni’s poetry was
nominated for Best of the Net 2011, Best of the Web 2010, and was a finalist
in Best of the Net 2009. Natasha’s work has been published in journals
including Rattle, Fourteen Hills, Verse, Indiana
Review, and The Pedestal
Magazine and acknowledged as a semifinalist in Black Lawrence Press and
Crab Orchard Review first book competitions.
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Jaime Lee Moyer has had poetry published
in Goblin Fruit, Mythic Delirium, Dreams and Nightmares, Lone Star
Stories, Paper Crow, Flashquake, Star*Line, Strange Horizons, and
other fine venues. In her spare moments she is poetry editor for Ideomancer
Speculative Fiction, a job she loves, and served as the editor
for the 2010 Rhysling Anthology. A three-book series is forthcoming
from Tor Books, beginning with Delia’s Shadow, which won the
2009 Columbus Literary Award. Her short stories appear in Lone
Star Stories, Triangulations: End of the Rainbow, and Daily
Science Fiction. She writes a lot. She reads as much as she can.
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Kristine Ong Muslim has poetry and
prose appearing in hundreds of publications, including Aberrant
Dreams, Abyss & Apex, Expanded Horizons, Polluto, Space and Time,
Star*Line, and Tales of the Talisman. She has been nominated
five times for the Pushcart Prize and four times for the Science Fiction
Poetry Association’s Rhysling Award. Her publication credits are listed
at kristinemuslim.weebly.com
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Naia lives in Southern California and
writes short-form and freestyle poetry, with an emphasis on haiku,
haibun, cinquain, and haiga. Her website: naia.ws
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Roger E. Naylor is a California nomad whose writing
has appeared in Artifact, Poet’s Espresso, and
Scifaikuest, to name
a few, as well as among his many, many self-published chapbooks.
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Tom T. Nguyen is a Vietnamese-born boy, writer, educator, and entrepreneur. He graduated from UCLA in 2010 with a degree in History and Civic Engagement. Tom co-founded the LA Street Dance Collective in 2006, and presided over the organization until 2010. In 2009, he was awarded a Certificate of Leadership by UCLA’s Division of Student and Campus Life, and the Center for Student Programming. He is featured to
give performances and workshops in the Southern California area. Currently, Tom is the founder of Do The Knowledge, an extracurricular learning center for students age 10–17, dedicated to creating transformative experiences through workshops, classes, and camp programs.
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Stephen Oliver is a New Zealand / Australian
author of 16 titles of poetry. His creative non-fiction has appeared
in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature. His
recent full collection of poems, HARMONIC, is available
from SPD. His latest
title is a chapbook is titled APOCRYPHA and published by Cold
Hub Press
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Anchalee Panigabutra-Roberts ~ อัญชลี ปาณิกบุตร-โรเบิร์ตส์ (Joy ~ จอย) has her roots in Thailand. The U.S., mostly the Midwest, ended up being her home, after she came to the U.S. as an exchange student in 1984, with a three-year stint in Canada (2002–2005). It is still a mystery why she is drawn to this vast heartland with the extreme heat of the summer and the deep freeze of the winter. Perhaps it has to do with the beauty of the four seasons, the open space, and the fabulous sky. At this moment, she is a librarian at a university in the Midwest, but who knows what she will become. One thing she knows for certain is that she is very passionate about social justice and human rights. She believes that peace is easier than wars, and love is easier than hatred. Poetry and dance, especially Thai dance, have been her main creative forms. She lives with her husband and her daughter.
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Jeffrey Park is a writer, educator and poodle whisperer. His poetry has appeared most recently in Imaginarium, Right Hand Pointing, Crack the Spine, The Speculative Edge, and various anthologies, and his poem “Hard To Reach” has been nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. A native of Baltimore, Jeffrey now lives in Munich, Germany. Links to all of his published work can be found at scribbles-and-dribbles.com.
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Juan Manuel Perez, a Mexican-American
poet, is the author of Another Menudo Sunday (2007), O’
Dark Heaven: A Response To Suzette Haden Elgin’s Definition Of Horror (2009), WUI:
Written Under The Influence Of Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. (2011), and
six poetry chapbooks. Juan is also the 2011–2012 Poet Laureate for
the San Antonio Poets Association. His poetry has appeared in numerous
publications nationally and internationally.
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Evan J. Peterson writes poetry, supernatural
fiction, and criticism. He’s the author of the forthcoming Skin
Job (2012, Minor
Arcana Press), and the poetry zines Secular Exorcisms, and Hello
Kitty Chainsaw. Other
recent work may be found in Weird Tales, SmallDoggies, Aim for
the Head: An Anthology of Zombie Poetry, and excerpted in the New
York Times. He absolutely adores John
Carpenter’s The Thing. For more, check out evanjpeterson.com
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Fred Phillips (b. 1937) began writing
poetry during his senior year of high school. His work has appeared
in The Cimmerian, Studies in the Fantastic, Weird
Fiction Review, and
numerous amateur journals. His poetry collection From
the Cauldron is available from Hippocampus Press. He was the first Poet Laureate
of the Eastern Kingdom of the Society for Creative Anachronism. A reader
and collector of speculative fiction since the age of sixteen, he is
also a founder of a book-collecting association, the Ancient and Honorable
Order of the Drowned Rat.
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Kenneth Pobo won the 2011 qarrtsiluni poetry
chapbook contest for Ice And Gaywings, published in November
2011. Forthcoming is Save My Place from Finishing Line Press.
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Alicia Ponder has been writing poetry
all her life. She is an author, editor and a regular blogger with the
Tuesday Poem group at anafflictionofpoetry.blogspot.com
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Ken Poyner lives in the lower-right-hand
corner of Virginia with his world-class power-lifter wife and several
rescue cats. His work has been rumbling about for the last forty years,
in places like Menacing
Hedge, Silver Blade, Subliminal Interiors, GW Review, The Medulla
Review, Metazen, and perhaps sixty or seventy other places. He likes
to be working, usually in the wrong genre.
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Wilum Pugmire is an obsessed Lovecraftian
who has been penning weird fiction and verse for many decades. These
past few years have seen him become entranced with the prose poem, and
his best experiment in that form is his book-long sequence, SOME
UNKNOWN GULF OF NIGHT. His
newest book from Hippocampus Press, UNCOMMON PLACES, is audaciously
poetic. He is presently studying Shakespeare’s sonnets, which will serve
as plot foundation in his newest novelette.
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Jacie Ragan’s poems have won The
Lyric Memorial Prize, Byline’s Annual
Poetry Award, Gaslight’s Leap of Lunacy Contest, and the 2011
Margaret Reid Poetry Prize. She bakes bread every day, sometimes in a
wood cookstove and more often in a bread machine, and finds herself obsessed
with Rumi, shadows, Scrabble, and iambic pentameter.’
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David
P Reiter, publisher at IP, Australia’s most innovative independent
publishing house, is the author of more than 20 titles of poetry, fiction,
script and film. “Don’t Shoot the Robot” is from his latest work, My
Planets: a fictive memoir, which creates perspectives on different
planets about the subjects of adoption and redefinition of identity,
with elements of astronomy and mythology to explore the notion of different
realities. My Planets is available as a physical book, an
enhanced eBook and soon a film. ipoz.biz/Titles/Planets.htm
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Terrie Leigh Relf (AKA The Boortean Ambassador to Haura) recently resigned her mission at Sam's Dot Publishing, and was shortly invited aboard Alban Lake Publishing. She is a lifetime member of the SFPA, an active member of HWA, and is fast at work on her new novel, Walks-with-Two-Spirits.
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In a matriarchal society, Mark Rich would be Mark Kikuchi.
He has published poems in magazines ranging from Poem and Manhattan
Review to Amazing Stories and Asimov's SF, and was a founding editor
with Roger Dutcher of The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. His books
include fiction and nonfiction titles, the most
recent being C.M. Kornbluth: The Life and Works of a Science Fiction
Visionary (McFarland, 2010).
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Helen Rickerby lives in a cliff-top tower in Wellington,
New Zealand. Her latest book is Heading North, a poetry sequence published
last year in a hand-bound edition by Kilmog Press. She’s a co-managing
editor of JAAM literary magazine, and runs Seraph
Press, a boutique
poetry publisher. She enjoys her day job as a web editor, but wishes
for more hours in every day. See wingedink.blogspot.com
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Lisa Marie Rollins is a Black/Pinay poet, playwright and author of the award winning play Ungrateful Daughter: One Black Girl’s Story of Being Adopted by a White Family … that Aren’t Celebrities. The play is a comedic look at her experience of being adopted by a white family in the 1970s and explores her relationship to her Filipino and Black ancestry. She has a buncha degrees, and was the 2010–2011 Poet in Residence for June Jordan’s Poetry for the People at University of California at Berkeley. She is an alumnus in Poetry from the VONA (Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation) Writing Workshop. Her work has been most recently published in the new anthology Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out (Innana Press, 2011) and River, Blood Corn: A Literary Journal (2012) and her chapbook Splice (2012). She likes spiders and trees. @thirdrootprod lisamarierollins.com
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Susan Rooke lives in Austin, Texas. Her poems have appeared
recently or are forthcoming in San Pedro River
Review, Stone Telling, The Orange Room Review, Exit 13 Magazine, and Mobius:
The Journal of Social Change. She edits the Austin Poetry Society’s monthly MuseLetter, and has just completed her first novel, a fantasy.
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Lee Ann Roripaugh: Her most recent volume of poetry, Dandarians, is
forthcoming from Milkweed Press in 2014. She is the author of three
other volumes: On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (Southern Illinois
University Press, 2009), Year of the Snake (Southern Illinois Press,
2004), and Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin, 1999). She is currently a
Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where she
serves as Director of Creative Writing and Editor-in-Chief of South
Dakota Review.
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Sandi Sartorelli is also known as Abra
Cadabra. She has had poetry published in Valley
Micropress, Eye to the Telescope, and Blackmail
Press. She lives in the Hutt Valley and is a
student of the Whitireia Creative Writing Programme. On Sundays she bakes
scones.
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Lawrence Schimel writes in both English
and Spanish and has published over 100 books in many genres, including
short story collections
The Drag-Queen of Elfland (Circlet) and Two
Boys in Love (Seventh Window),
children’s books Let’s Go See Papa! (Groundwood) and Little
Pirate Goes to Bed (InnovativeKids), poetry chapbook Fairy
Tales for Writers and
the forthcoming anthology Flamboyant: A Celebration
of Jewish Gay Poetry (both A Midsummer Night’s Press). He
won the Rhysling Award for his poem “How
to Make a Human” and has also won the Lambda Literary Award twice
(for PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About
Gender and Sexuality [Cleis] and for First
Person Queer [Arsenal
Pulp]) and the Spectrum Award (for The Future is
Queer [Arsenal Pulp]),
among other prizes. He lives in Madrid, Spain, where he works as a Spanish-to-English
translator.
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Ann K. Schwader’s most recent collection
of speculative poems is Twisted in Dream (Hippocampus Press 2011). She
is also the author of five other collections: Werewoman,
The Worms Remember, Architectures of Night, In the Yaddith Time, and Wild
Hunt of the Stars (Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2010), a Bram Stoker Award Finalist. She won a
Rhysling Award (short form) in 2010 for “To Theia.” Ann lives & writes
in suburban Colorado. She is a member of HWA, SFWA, SFPA, and HSA (Haiku
Society of America). home.earthlink.net/~schwader
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John W. Sexton lives in the
Republic of Ireland. His fifth poetry collection, The
Offspring of the Moon, is due from Salmon Poetry early in 2013.
His poem “The Green Owl” was awarded the Listowel Poetry Prize 2007 for
best single poem, and in that same year he was awarded a Patrick and
Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. He has been a nominee for both
the Hennessy Literary Award and the Rhysling.
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Marge Simon’s is a past president of the SFPA and a past editor of Star*Line. A former 1995 Best Long Poem Rhysling winner, she won the Bram Stoker Award™ for Superior achievement in poetry, 2008, the Strange Horizons Readers Award, 2010, and the SFPA Dwarf Stars Award for short poetry, 2012. She does other stuff too, like write & publish short fictions and artify for various genre publications and herself, for sanity's sake. More at margesimon.com
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David Sklar’s past works include poetry
in such publications as Wormwood Review, Paterson Literary Review, and Bull
Spec, and fiction
in such places as Strange Horizons and Cabinet
des Fees. davidwriting.com
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J.E. Stanley is a member of The Deep
Cleveland Tribe of Poetry and the Cleveland Speculators. He continues
to assert that, winged or not, Man was always intended to fly; the
moon and stars were just put there as incentives. His most recent collections
are Intrinsic Night, co-authored with Joshua Gage, and Dark
Intervals.
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J. J. Steinfeld is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, and playwright who lives on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published fourteen books, including Should the Word Hell Be Capitalized? (Stories, Gaspereau Press), Would You Hide Me? (Stories, Gaspereau Press), An Affection for Precipices (Poetry, Serengeti Press), Misshapenness (Poetry, Ekstasis Editions), and A Glass Shard and Memory (Stories, Recliner Books). His short stories and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals internationally, and his plays have been performed in Canada and the United States.
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Grant Stone’s fiction has appeared
in Strange
Horizons, Semaphore, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and
Shimmer, and has twice won the Sir Julius Vogel Award. When
not writing, Grant has been known to work behind the scenes on the
StarShipSofa podcast or his occasional fanzine b0t (b0tzine.com).
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Robert Subiaga is a Nevada writer, and teacher. “And the smartest human being who has ever lived. Next to, of course, whoever can prove why.”
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Alan Summers is the founder of With
Words, a UK-based provider of quality literature, education and
literacy projects, often based around the Japanese genres. He enjoys
creating activities on and off the internet, and you catch up with
him at area17.blogspot.com.
Alan is also the judge of The With Words International Online Haiku
Competition.
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Nancy Ellis Taylor is an L.A.-based writer who gives readings locally several times a year. She is active with the L.A. Flood Project (a locative narrative collective), the Southland Poets of the Fantastic (science fiction, horror, and fantasy), and Poets on Site (group giving poetry performances focusing on art in galleries and museums.) Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, on and off the Web. And she is a loyal member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.
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Don Thackrey lives in Dexter, Michigan, where he is retired
from the University of Michigan. He enjoys studying and writing formal
verse.
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Richard L. Tierney (b. 1936) is an American writer, poet and scholar of H. P. Lovecraft.
He is the coauthor (with David C. Smith) of six Red Sonja novels. Among
Tierney’s numerous other works is Scroll of Thoth:
Simon Magus and the Great Old Ones (Chaosium, 1997), which collects all twelve of his Simon
Magus stories. His poetry collections include Collected
Poems: Nightmares and Visions (Arkham House, 1981), The
Blob That Gobbled Abdul and Other Poems and Songs (Sidecar Preservation Society, 2000), and Savage
Menace and Other Poems of Horror (P’rea Press, 2010).
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Rod Usher is an Australian writer
living in Spain. His poems have been published in Island, Meanjin,
Quadrant, Going Down Swinging, et al. He is a former literary
editor of The
Age and senior
writer for TIME magazine in Europe. His third novel is Poor
Man’s Wealth (HarperCollins, 2011).
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Juanita Sayaovong Vang was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. She enjoyed
spending her time as an event coordinator and community activist, but
her passion was in writing poetry. She started in 2001 and has not
stopped since. Juanita composes mostly in free form about everyday
events and experiences. Her slice-of-life approach to writing has a
conceptualist quality with a touch of surrealism that appeals to a
wide audience. She is also inspired by the performance aspect of hip
hop, slam poetry, and spoken word. She has performed her poetry in
several events in Milwaukee and Tulsa, OK, where she now resides.
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Mary Victoria was born in 1973 in Turners Falls, Massachusetts.
Despite this she managed to live most of her life in other places,
including Cyprus, Canada, Sierra Leone, France and the UK. She studied
art and film and worked as an animator before turning to full time
writing. She now lives in Wellington, New Zealand with her husband
and daughter. See maryvictoria.net
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Deborah Walker grew up in the most
English town in the country, but she soon high-tailed it down to London,
where she now lives with her partner, Chris, and her two young children.
Her poems have appeared in Dreams & Nightmares, Star*Line and Enchanted
Conversation. Find Deborah in the British Museum trawling
the past for future inspiration or on deborahwalkersbibliography.blogspot.com/
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Megan Webster, a multiple transplant
of Welsh origin, was raised in the town of Caerfyrddin (Merlin’s Fort)
under the magic eye of Merlin’s Hill. Her poems have appeared in numerous
literary publications, including an island of egrets. Her
third chapbook, Bipolar Express, won a San Diego Book Award.
She teaches at Grossmont Community College and does freelance editing
and translating. She recently completed the translation of Décimas
a Dios, a volume of poetry by the late Mexican author Guadalupe
Amor. Reach her at mweb5089@aol.com
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Related to the Marx Brothers through his mother, Richard
Marx Weinraub was a Professor
of English at the University of Puerto Rico. A
book of his poetry, Wonder Bread Hill, was published
in 2002 by the University of Puerto Rico Press. His poetry has appeared
in journals including The Paris Review, Asheville
Poetry Review, South Carolina Review, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review,
Green Mountains Review, North American Review, Measure, The Evansville
Review, Slate, and River Styx. A poem from his chapbook Heavenly
Bodies (Poets Wear Prada Press, 2008) was nominated for a Pushcart
Prize.
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Michael Dylan Welch is passionate about
poetry, especially haiku, which he has been writing since 1976 and
teaching since about 1990. He has won first place in numerous poetry
contests, and has had his haiku, senryu, tanka, and longer poetry published
in more than a dozen languages in hundreds of journals and anthologies,
including two Norton anthologies.
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Neil Weston lives in the UK. His speculative poems can be found at
Phantom Kangaroo and upcoming at Futuredaze (an anthology of YA
science fiction), Tales of the Talisman, Scifaikuest, Space and Time
Magazine, Hungur Magazine, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change.
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Les Wicks grew up in western Sydney. He’s been a rail-worker & union
advocate. Over 35 years Wicks has performed at festivals, schools,
prison etc. Published in well over 200 different magazines, anthologies & newspapers
across 14 countries in 9 languages. Conducts workshops around Australia & runs
Meuse Press which focuses on poetry outreach projects like poetry on
buses & poetry published on the surface of a river. His 8th book
of poetry is the Ambrosiacs (Island, 2009). See leswicks.tripod.com/lw.htm
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Kath Abela Wilson travels the world with her Caltech mathematics
professor husband, Rick Wilson. On her fourth visit to China for
mathematics conferences, they met mathematician and poet Yiwei Huang.
He was assigned to be their guide in Nanjing and Yellow Mountain. They
have since collaborated poetically, writing an article for Atlas
Poetica 12, Summer 2012, on Tanka Poets on Site. Yiwei translated many
poems by California poets on the art of Tong Zhang, a Chinese artist
Kathabela met in China, and introduced to local California poets in
2011. Kath Abela Wilson is the
creator and leader of Poets on Site, a Southern CA poetry performance
group. She has edited and produced 30 anthologies by this group. Poets
on Site won a MUSE award from the American Association of Museums for
an audio tour created for Pacific Asia Museum in 2010. They have since
published a volume and another tour in honor of the Museum’s 40th
anniversary.
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Stephen M. Wilson is Poetry Editor
for Abyss & Apex
Magazine of Speculative Fiction and editor of @microcosms. He
was co-editor of the Dwarf Stars anthology for three years
and will once again be co-editing it in 2013. Wilson has had poetry
nominated for the Rhysling Award each year for the past seven years
and has received two Honorable mentions for his work in Ellen Datlow’s
“Year’s Best” anthologies. His own writing has appeared
in a variety of publications including ChiZine,
Dark Wisdom, Star*Line, Paper Crow, Space & Time,
The Huffington Post, Tea for Trolls, Bondage—Tales of Obsession,
The Vault of Punk Horror, The Best Werewolf Tales Vol.1, and The
Queer Collection. His first book, Dark Duet, a collaboration
with Linda D. Addison, is forthcoming from Necon Ebooks. More at speceditor666.livejournal.com
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Jane Yolen, a Grand Master of SFPA
and the World Fantasy Association, is also called “The Hans Christian
Andersen of America,” due in part to her many original fairy tales
and her over-300 published books. She says she’s actually the Hans
Jewish Andersen of America and she’s still writing. Six colleges and
universities have given her honorary doctorates, and her Skylark Award
from NESFA set her good coat on fire.
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