Anne Carly Abad received the Poet of the Year Award in the 2017 Nick Joaquin Literary Awards. She has also received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Rhysling Award. Her work has appeared in Apex, Mythic Delirium, and Strange Horizons, to name a few. She continues to write in between managing her business and taking care of her three-year-old.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2021
Rasha Abdulhadi is a queer Palestinian Southerner disabled by Long Covid. Their work has been featured in Kweli, Mizna, ROOM, FIYAH, Strange Horizons, the Poem-a-Day series, and is anthologized in Snaring New Suns, Unfettered Hexes, and Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler. A writer, editor, fiber artist, and cultural organizer, Rasha is the author of Shell Houses and who is owed springtime.
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Diane Ackerman (1948– ) is the author of two dozen highly-acclaimed works of poetry and nonfiction, including New York Times bestsellers The Zookeeper's Wife, A Natural History of the Senses, The Human Age, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist One Hundred Names for Love.
Rhysling Anthology 2004
Duane Ackerson
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1978, first place in 1979, 1980, 1993, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2010
Angela Acosta is a bilingual Mexican American poet and writer. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish from The Ohio State University and her creative and academic work center on imagining possible worlds and preserving the cultural legacies of women writers. She is a 2022 Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers Finalist, 2022 Somos en Escrito Extra-Fiction Contest Honorable Mention, and Best of the Net nominee. Her speculative poems have appeared in Shoreline of Infinity, Apparition Lit, Radon Journal, and Space & Time. She is author of the Elgin nominated speculative poetry collection Summoning Space Travelers (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022) and forthcoming chapbook Fourth Generation Chicana Unicorn (Dancing Girl Press, 2023).
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Danny Adams
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2007
Diana Adams
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Linda D. Addison is a five-time recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award®, including for How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, recipient of HWA Lifetime Achievement Award, HWA Mentor of the Year and SFPA Grand Master. Her site: LindaAddisonWriter.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2002, 2006, 2013, 2018, 2021, third place in 2022, 2023
Mary Alexander 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.
Rhysling Anthology 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015
Kythryne Aisling
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Amirah al Wassif
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Layla Al-Bedawi
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Mike Allen is the editor of Mythic Delirium and a past president of SFPA.
Rhysling Anthology 1998, 2001, 2002, second place in 2003, + first place in 2003, third place in 2004, third place in 2005, first place in 2006, first place in 2007, 2008, 2009, second place in 2010, 2012, 2013, second place in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2022
Camille Alexa (A. Camille Renwick)
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Francis W. Alexander is the author of When the Mushrooms Come, a collection of drabbles, and I Reckon, a collection of haiku and haibun. He is the editor of the soon-to-be-released Drabbun anthology (Hiraeth Publishing). His poems have appeared in numerous publications including Scifaikuest, Illumen, Tales from the Moonlit Path, Space & Time, and Failed Haiku.
Rhysling Anthology 2009, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Saira Ali
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Carmen Lucia Alvarado
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Chris Ambrose
Rhysling Anthology 2006
John Amen
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Erik Amundsen
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2012
Madhur Anand's debut book of prose This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (2020) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her debut collection of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, named one of 10 all-time "trailblazing" poetry collections by the CBC, and received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Her second collection of poems Parasitic Oscillations (2022) was published to international acclaim, named a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, and a "top pick" for Spring poetry by the CBC. She is a professor of ecology and sustainability at the University of Guelph, where she was appointed the inaugural Director of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research.
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Anastasia Andersen received her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico. Her work has appeared in various publications and journals including Dreams and Nightmares, Star*Line, Puerto del Sol, Poet Lore, and Southwestern American Literature. Her work has also been included in two Rhysling Anthologies and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Rhysling Anthology 1995, 2003
Colleen Anderson lives in Vancouver, BC and has a BFA in writing. Her works have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Aurora, Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Awards in poetry, and longlisted for the Stoker Award in fiction. She has edited three anthologies and guest edited Eye to the Telescope.She has served on both Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award juries, and received BC Arts Council and Canada Council grants for her writing. Her works have seen print in numerous venues, including Polu Texni, HWA Poetry Showcases, Shadow Atlas and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. Her poetry collection I Dreamed a World is being published by LVP Publications.
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, first place in 2023
E. Kristin Anderson is the author of seven chapbooks including A Guide for the Practical Abductee (Red Bird Chapbooks 2014) Pray, Pray, Pray: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night (Porkbelly Press, 2015), 17 Days (ELJ Publications) Acoustic Battery Life (ELJ 2016), Fire in the Sky (Grey Book Press 2016), and She Witnesses (dancing girl press, 2016). Her nonfiction anthology, Dear Teen Me, based on the popular website of the same name, was published in 2012 by Zest Books (distributed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and her memoir in verse, The Summer of Unraveling, is forthcoming from ELJ. She has worked at The New Yorker magazine, has a B.A. in Classics from Connecticut College and was a poetry editor for Found Poetry Review and also edits at Nonbinary Review and Lucky Bastard Press. She has published poetry in many magazines worldwide, including Juked, Hotel Amerika, [PANK], Asimov’s Science Fiction, Cicada, Alyss, and The Quotable. She lives in Austin, TX, and blogs at EKristinAnderson.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Erland Anderson
Rhysling Anthology 1983
Jack Anderson
Rhysling Anthology 1979
Leslie J. Anderson
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Ryu Ando is a poet. He spends his time in Los Angeles and Saitama, Japan. His works have appeared in Strange Horizons, Abyss & Apex, The Deadlands, and many more.
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2018, 2023
Elizabeth (Betsy) Aoki is a poet, short story writer and game producer. She has received fellowships and residencies from the City of Seattle, Artist Trust Foundation, Hedgebrook and Clarion West Writers Workshop. She has a short story in Upper Rubber Boot Books’ anthology Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up to No Good. Her poem "Walking Here is to be swallowed by the sky" was a Finalist for the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize judged by Naomi Shihab Nye. You can find her tweeting at twitter.com/baoki or contact her at betsyaoki.com
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Jim Applegate
Rhysling Anthology 2003
Arachelle (she/her) is an aspiring author and poet from Oklahoma. She is a Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche) Nation citizen with Otoe-Missouria, Pawnee, and white ancestry. Like many of her ancestors, she was born in Oklahoma and is determined not to leave. She recently obtained a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Marion Arenas
Rhysling Anthology 1998
Ivan Argüelles
Rhysling Anthology 1987
Megan Arkenberg lives and writes in California. Her work has recently appeared in Asimov's, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 5, and has tried for best short story of 2012 in the Asimov's Readers' Award. Megan procrastinates by editing the fantasy
e-zine Mirror Dance.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 2012, third place in 2013, 2013, 2014, second place in 2015
Louis Armand
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Rae Armantrout
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Michael A. Arnzen is a professor of English at Seton Hill University, home of the MFA in Writing Popular Fiction. He has won four Bram Stoker Awards for his horror writing, and has published several poetry collections, including Freakcidents, Rigormarole, and The Gorelets Omnibus. He's been an SFPA member for thirty years and continues to publish work in journals and anthologies, and most recently co-edited the Poetry Showcase anthology (vol. 5) for the Horror Writers Association. He often also tweets poems—follow him at @MikeArnzen on twitter, or see what else he's up to now at gorelets.com. He’s also the author of SFPA’s T-shirt tagline, In Space No One Can Hear You Rhyme.
Rhysling Anthology 1995, 2000, 2006
Rhysling Anthology 1978
Hope Athearn
Rhysling Anthology 1985
Margaret Atwood
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2008
Elspeth Aubrey
Rhysling Anthology 1989
Daniel Ausema poems have appeared in Strange Horizons, The Pedestal and Mythic Delirium, among many other publications, and been nominated for a Rhysling Award. He is a member of the SFPA. Daniel lives in Colorado, at the foot of the Rockies
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2022
Davian Aw is a Rhysling Award nominee whose poetry has appeared in Star*Line, Mythic Delirium, Abyss & Apex, Not One of Us and Strange Horizons, among others. He lives in Singapore with his family and a niggling sense of doom named Phil.
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2021
Lana Hechtman Ayers
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2010, 2018
Blythe Ayne
Rhysling Anthology second place in 1997
Helen Bach
Rhysling Anthology 1995
Eugen Bacon is African Australian—her books Ivory’s Story, Danged Black Thing and Saving Shadows are finalists in the BSFA Awards. Eugen was announced in the honor list of the 2022 Otherwise Fellowships. She has won, been longlisted or commended in international awards, including the Foreword Indies Awards, Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, HWA Diversity Grant, Otherwise, Rhysling, Australian Shadows, Ditmar Awards and Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans. Website: eugenbacon.com / Twitter: @EugenBacon.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Sara Backer’s Elgin-nominated first book of poetry, Such Luck (Flowstone Press, 2019) follows two poetry chapbooks: Scavenger Hunt (dancing girl press)and Bicycle Lotus (Left Fork) which won the Turtle Island Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Abyss & Apex, Asimov’s, Bracken, Crannóg, Dreams and Nightmares, ETTT, Liminality, The Pedestal, Polu Texni, Silver Blade, Space & Time, Star*Line, and Strange Horizons. She has also placed non-genre poems in over 100 journals, which include Slant, Tar River Poetry, Cut Bank, Poetry, and Kenyon Review. Her honors include a prize in the 2019 Plough Poetry Prize Competition and nine Pushcart nominations. A former world wanderer, she is now settled in her native New England.
Rhysling Anthology 1996, 2017, 2020, 2021
Kathy Bailey
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Alison Bainbridge is a poet, author and PhD Candidate living in Newcastle, UK. Her poetry has been published in Glitchwords, Wormwood Press Magazine, The Minison Project, Brave Voices Magazine and Off Menu Press, while her short stories have appeared in Daughters of Darkness (2019) ed. Blair Daniels, Mirror Dance Fantasy, and Revenant Journal.
Rhysling Anthology 2021, 2022
Alexandria Baisden
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Stacey Balkun
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Abbi Ball
Rhysling Anthology 2003
Lee Ballentine was the editor of Ur-Vox.
Rhysling Anthology 1993, 1996, 2000, 2006
Lauren Banka
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Ashley Bao
Rhysling Anthology 2021
David Barber lives in Norfolk, England, a county considered to be a generation behind the times. This is a good thing. His work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, New Myths and Asimov’s. (He framed the cheque.) His ambition is to write.
Rhysling Anthology 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022
Tara Barnett
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Simon Barraclough is the author and editor of several books, including Sunspots (Penned in the Margins, 2015), Laboratorio (Sidekick Books, 2015), Neptune Blue (Salt Publishing, 2011), and Bonjour Tetris (Penned in the Margins, 2010).
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2016
Elizabeth Barrette
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013
Greg Beatty was born and raised in Ohio. He has a B.A. from the University
of Washington and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, both in
English. He lives in Bellingham, Wash., and is
married to Kathy Pitcher. He attended Clarion West, an intensive six-week
workshop for writers preparing for professional careers in science
fiction and fantasy, in 2000.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 2005, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011
Penny-Anne Beaudoin
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Sabina C. Becker
Rhysling Anthology 2001
L. X. Beckett
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Tristan Beiter is a queer poet and speculative fiction nerd originally from Central Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in such venues as Liminality, Twisted Moon, Fantasy Magazine, and Abyss & Apex. When not reading or writing, he can be found doing needlecrafts, crafting absurdities with his boyfriend, or shouting about literary theory. Find him on Twitter at @TristanBeiter.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Elizabeth Belile
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Dana Bell
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Helena Bell
Rhysling Anthology 2006
M. Shayne Bell
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Since before she can remember, R. Jean Bell has devoured any available reading material. In recent years, books--averaging one a day--have proven the most effective relief from chronic pain. All that reading led to writing both fiction and poetry. Connect with her at rjeanbell.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Molly Bendall
Rhysling Anthology 1995
Gregory Benford
Rhysling Anthology 1988, 2007
Elizabeth Bennefeld
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Aaron Bensen
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Ariana Benson was born in Norfolk, Virginia. Her debut collection, Black Pastoral, won the 2022 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and is forthcoming from University of Georgia Press in September 2023. Benson has also received the Furious Flower Poetry Prize and the Graybeal Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, the Kenyon Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. Through her writing, she strives to fashion vignettes of Blackness that speak to its infinite depth and richness.
Rhysling Anthology 2023
F. J. Bergmann edits poetry for Mobius: The Journal of Social Change and imagines tragedies on or near exoplanets. She has competed at National Poetry Slam as a member of the Madison, Wisconsin, Urban Spoken Word team. Her work appears irregularly in Abyss & Apex, Analog, Asimov's SF, and elsewhere in the alphabet. Out of the Black Forest won the 2013 Elgin Chapbook Award; A Catalogue of the Further Suns won the 2017 Gold Line Press poetry chapbook contest and the 2018 SFPA Elgin Chapbook Award. fjbergmann.com
Rhysling Anthology first place in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, first place in 2015, second place in 2016 + second place in 2016, 2017, third place in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Paula Berman
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Ruth Berman’s work has appeared in many sf/fantasy, general, and literary magazines and anthologies. Her novel, Bradamant’s Quest, was published by FTL Publications of Minnesota. She was one of the contributors to Lady Poetesses from Hell (Bag Person Press Collective, Minneapolis). Her translation of two fairy tales by 18th-century writer Louise Cavelier Levesque, “The Prince of the Aquamarines” & “The Invisible Prince,” was published by Aqueduct Press of Seattle. She is a past winner of the Dwarf Stars award.
Rhysling Anthology 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, third place in 2000, first place in 2003, 2005, 2008, 2014, second place in 2015, 2016, 2021, 2023
Lore Bernier is a professional weirdo living in a 1970s & ’80s re-enactment community in strange, and sunny South Florida. Xe collects experiences, seashells, and butterfly plants. An artist, writer, artisan, and fencing enthusiast, xer on-line portfolio can be found at loralyearts.tumblr.com. Lore Bernier on Goodreads.
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Normand R. Bernier
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Anthony Bernstein
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Matt Betts, Lima, Ohio native, is a former radio personality, anchor and reporter. His first book, the steampunk adventure Odd Men Out, was released in 2013, and his scifi/urban fantasy novel Indelible Ink is out now. He’s done more; just ask him. Seriously, ask him. Please, please ask him.
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2015, 2017
Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in New American Legends, Toho Journal, and Chiron Review, among others.
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2019
Edith Hope Bishop
Rhysling Anthology 2017
K. J. Bishop
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Michael Bishop (1945– ) a writer of science fiction and fantasy, has won two Nebula Awards. He taught English at the University of Georgia before becoming a full-time writer.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1979, 1985
Terry Bisson (1942– ) is an award-winning science fiction writer, mainly known for his short stories, who lives in California. He published his first novel in 1981, and has been a working science fiction writer ever since.
Rhysling Anthology second place in 1995
Jenny Blackford lives in Newcastle, Australia. Her poetry has appeared in Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Polu Texni and multiple Rhysling anthologies, as well as Australian and international literary journals such as Going Down Swinging and The Pedestal Magazine. Pitt Street Poetry published her third poetry book, The Alpaca Cantos, in March 2020, just in time for lockdown.
Rhysling Anthology 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
Leigh Blackmore
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Clara Blackwood
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Lisa Creech Bledsoe is a hiker, beekeeper, and writer living in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Her poetry has appeared in more than 70 print and online journals and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She has two full-length books of poetry, Appalachian Ground (2019) and Wolf Laundry (2020). She posts photos, poems, and essays at AppalachianGround.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Tippi N. Blevins
Rhysling Anthology 2002
Peri Fae Blomquist lives in Boston with her partner and two outrageous felines. She spends her weekdays blending in to the average human lifestyle, and her weekends attempting various projects she has not thought through all the way. She would stop writing and get a social life, but then the stories would keep her up at night.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Andrea Blythe bides her time waiting for the apocalypse by writing speculative poetry and fiction. She is the author of Your Molten Heart / A Seed to Hatch (2018), a collection of erasure poems created from the pages of Trader Joe’s Fearless Flyers, and coauthor of Every Girl Becomes the Wolf (Finishing Line Press, 2018), a collaborative chapbook written with Laura Madeline Wiseman. She is a cohost of the New Books in Poetry podcast and is a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association and the Horror Writers Association. Learn more at andreablythe.com
Rhysling Anthology 2013, 2019, 2021
Leah Bobet
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2008
Emma Bolden
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Adam Bolivar specializes in writing metered and rhymed ballads, a traditional poetic form that taps into haunted undercurrents of folklore to produce spectral effects seldom found in other forms of writing. He is also a marionettist, and performs original plays written in ballad form. Bolivar's poetry has appeared on the pages of such publications as Spectral Realms and Black Wings of Cthulhu VI. His collection of weird balladry and Jack tales, The Lay of Old Hex, is forthcoming from Hippocampus Press in 2018. http://adambolivar.com
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2017, 2018
John Borneman
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Robert Borski did not begin to write poetry until he was well into the middle of his sixth decade—hence his frequent description of himself as a late-blooming child prodigy—but since then has had well over 300 poems published in such venues as Asimov's, Dreams & Nightmares, Strange Horizons and Star*Line, as well as a first collection of verse, Blood Wallah and Other Poems (Dark Regions Press). He continues to live in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where he works on behalf of the state university system.
Rhysling Anthology 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021
Bruce Boston’s poems have appeared in Asimov’s SF, Analog, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, Daily Science Fiction, Pedestal, Strange Horizons, the Nebula Awards Showcase and Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. His poetry has received the Bram Stoker Award, the Asimov’s Readers Award, and the Rhysling and Grand Master Awards of the SFPA. His 40th poetry collection, Artifacts, is available at Amazon and other online booksellers. His fiction has received a Pushcart Prize and twice been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (novel, short story). bruceboston.com
Rhysling Anthology 1980, 1983, 1984, first place in 1985, 1986, 1987, first place in 1988, first place in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, first place in 1994, first place in 1996, first place in 1999, 2000, first place in 2001 + third place in 2001, second place in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, second place in 2011, 2012, 2013, third place in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Rich Boucher
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Karen Bovenmyer earned an MFA in Creative Writing: Popular Fiction from the University of Southern Maine. She teaches and mentors students at Iowa State University.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018, 2021
Ash Bowen
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Harold Bowes
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Steve Bowkett
Rhysling Anthology 1987
Rhian Bowley
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Judith Boyer
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Rhysling Anthology 1991, 1994
A queer Latina living in Iowa, Lisa M. Bradley writes everything from haiku to novels, usually with a speculative slant. Most recently her work has appeared in LeVar Burton Reads, Lightspeed, Mermaids Monthly, and Fantasy Magazine. Her first collection is The Haunted Girl; her debut novel is Exile. She also coedited with R.B. Lemberg the Ursula Le Guin tribute anthology, Climbing Lightly Through Forests. On Twitter, she’s @cafenowhere. Learn more at www.lisambradley.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2022
Greg Braquet
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Anne J. Braude
Rhysling Anthology 1985
G. Sutton Breiding
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1990, 1993, 1994, 2010, 2012, 2015
Lida Broadhurst
Rhysling Anthology 1999, 2007
Catherine Brogdon grew up under the scrub oaks of California’s Sierra Nevada foothills. A late bloomer who couldn’t read until the fifth grade, her first passions were drawing and building elaborate worlds in her imagination. Her love of fantasy, horror, and self-examination produced a writer of horror stories taking place in California’s Central Valley, poems on the shadow self, high fantasy epics, and the lore to go with it. She currently works in a place that thankfully doesn’t interfere with her daydreams.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Paul Brookes
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Angela Brown
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Josh Brown is a writer of fiction, non-fiction, comics, and poetry. A veteran of the publishing industry, he has worked for and with several award-winning publishers and best-selling authors. An active member of SFPA, his work can be found in numerous anthologies as well as in Star*Line, Scifaikuest, Mithila Review, Fantasy Scroll Magazine, and more. His essay, “Poems and Songs of The Hobbit” was featured in Critical Insights: The Hobbit (Salem Press, 2016). He served as editor for issue 20 of Eye to the Telescope, the official online journal of the SFPA. He currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two sons.
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Rachel Manija Brown
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2010, 2011
Warren Brown is a dual Canadian/American citizen and currently lives and writes fiction and poetry in Tulsa OK, with his wife Lana Brown, also a writer. He has published fiction in OMNI, F&SF, Amazing and other magazines, and poetry in This Land, Nimrod, Dear Leader Tales, Speculative North, etc. His novel, What Happened in Fool the Eye is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords websites. He is a member of SFWA and SFPA. warrenbrown.synthasite.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Edward Bryant
Rhysling Anthology 1979
Shelley Bryant
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2011, 2014
Cathy Buburuz
Rhysling Anthology 1992
Rebecca Buchanan is the editor of the Pagan literary ezine Eternal Haunted Summer, and a regular contributor to evOke: witchcraft*paganism*lifestyle. Her work has appeared in Abyss & Apex, Cliterature, Corvid Queen, Eye to the Telescope, Mirror Dance, Silver Blade, and Star*Line, among other venues.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2019, 2020, second place in 2023
David R. Bunch
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Rachel Bundock
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Susan Burch is an award-winning haiku and tanka author. Most recently she won a Touchstone Award for her haiku, and was Runner-Up in the British Haiku Society's Annual Contest in the tanka division. She is currently the Vice President of the Tanka Society of America and enjoys adding science fiction themes to her poetry. You can find her work in Star*Line, Scifaikuest, Ribbons, Gusts, Femku, and Humankind, among others. She resides in Hagerstown, Maryland, and enjoys cola slurpees, puzzles, and birdwatching.
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017, 2018
Erik Burdett
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Chris Burdette
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Jennifer Bushroe once swore on a statue of Peter Pan that she’d never grow up. She fulfills this oath daily by dancing like nobody’s watching, eating dessert before dinner, and writing speculative fiction and poetry. You can find Jennifer on Twitter, and her work in On Spec, Space & Time, Polu Texni, DreamForge Magazine, and more.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Jack Butler
Rhysling Anthology 1988
Christine Butterworth-McDermott
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Cecilia Caballero is a creative nonfiction writer, poet, speaker, teaching artist, lecturer of Ethnic Studies, and lover of all things spooky. She is co-editor of The Chicana Motherwork Anthology and she is an alum of workshops and fellowships with Tin House, Macondo, and the Women’s National Book Association. Her creative work has been published in Dryland, Epiphany, Raising Mothers, The Acentos Review, and elsewhere, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart and a Rhysling. Cecilia is currently working on a memoir and a speculative book of poetry about the intersections of racial justice, psychology, medicine, quantum physics, and healing beyond Western paradigms. Twitter: @la_sangre_llama.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Robert Payne Cabeen
Rhysling Anthology 2015
David Calder
Rhysling Anthology 1980
Diane Callahan strives to capture her sliver of the universe through writing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. As a developmental editor and ghostplotter, she spends her days shaping stories. Her YouTube channel, Quotidian Writer, provides practical tips for aspiring authors. You can read her work in Short Édition, Translunar Travelers Lounge, Riddled with Arrows, Rust+Moth, and The Sunlight Press, among others.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Tyree Campbell.
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2003, 2018, 2019
Anton Cancre
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Michael Canfield
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Sarah Cannavo is a writer haunting southern New Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in JOURN-E, Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Haven Spec, The Vampiricon, and parABnormal, among others. Her poetry was nominated for the 2022 Dwarf Stars Awards. Her story “Unreality” and novella “Wolf of the Pines” are available on Amazon. She’s been rumored to post on her site The Moody Muse at moodilymusing.blogspot.com, and occasionally been sighted Tweeting @moodilymusing. If you listen closely on moonless nights, you may be able to hear her screaming “DAENERYS DESERVED BETTER” into the darkness.
Rhysling Anthology 2020, 2021, 2023
Shari Caplan
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Michael Carlson
Rhysling Anthology 1979
Michael Carman
Rhysling Anthology 2002
Kristi Carter
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Francis Cartier
Rhysling Anthology 2003
Benjamin Cartwright
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Rosalind Casey
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2011
Chris Castro-Rappi
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Dennis Caswell
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Anna Cates is a graduate of Indiana State University (M.A. English and Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction/English) and National University (M.F.A. Creative Writing). She teaches college writing and literature and graduate education as an online instructor. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Dwarf Stars, Elgin, and Rhysling awards. She is author of the following collections: The Meaning of Life and The Frog King (Cyberwit Press), The Darkroom (Prolific Press), The Golem & the Nazi (Red Moon Press), The Journey (Resource Publications), and Love in the Time of Covid (Wipf & Stock). She presently resides in Wilmington, Ohio with her two cats, Freddie and Fifi.
Rhysling Anthology 2021, 2022
Alan Catlin
Rhysling Anthology 1990, 1993, 1995
Nebula Award-nominated Beth Cato is the author of the Clockwork Dagger duology and the Blood of Earth trilogy from Harper Voyager. She’s a Hanford, California native transplanted to the Arizona desert, where she lives with her husband, son, and requisite cats. Follow her at BethCato.com and on Twitter at @BethCato.
Rhysling Anthology 2015, 2016, third place in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Siv Cedering
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1985
Christopher M. Cevasco
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Priya Chand is a California transplant living in the Midwest. Dragonslayer is her first published poem. Find more of her work at priyachandwrites.wordpress.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2022, honorable mention in 2023
Vajra Chandrasekera
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Fred Chappell
Rhysling Anthology 1996
Maya Chhabra
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Kenneth B. Chiacchia
Rhysling Anthology 2007
M.C. Childs seeks universes in which (a) his SF poems have been published, (b) people regularly make an effort to be kind, and (c) blueberry pie is available. He currently serves as Interim Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico and his award-winning urban design books include The Zeon Files: the art and design of historic Route 66 signs, Urban Composition, and Squares: a public place design guide.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
May Chong is a Malaysian poet and writer. Her speculative works have appeared in various regional and international venues, including Strange Horizons, LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, Apparition Lit, and Multiverse. She can be found tweeting about feminism, nature and other random oddments at @maysays.
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2021
Mary E. Choo
Rhysling Anthology 1989, 1993, 2006
David Chorlton is.
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Joe R. (Randell) Christopher has had one book of poems professionally published: The Varieties of Poetic Genres: Ars Poetica (Mellen Poetry Press, 2012). A chapbook of his Tolkien-related verse—Musings beneath A Tree of Amalion—was published by the New England Tolkien Society (2nd edition, 1993). He edited The Casebook of Gregory Hood, by Anthony Boucher and Denis Greene (Crippen and Landru, 2009); and edited one issue of Niekas, Ed Meskys’ fanzine, on Dark Fantasy (1998). He has written, edited, or compiled six other books. Note: someone, under the name of Joe R. Christopher, self-published (Amazon Digital Services) a SF novel titled Alice in 2002; it is NOT by this Joe R. Christopher.
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Richard Chwedyk
Rhysling Anthology 2004
Gwendolyn Clare
Rhysling Anthology 2014
G. O. Clark is the author of twelve collections of poetry and two short-story collections. His work has appeared in many publications, including Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog, Space & Time, Daily SF, Strange Horizons, Spectral Realms, Talebones, Tales of the Talisman, Mythic Delirium, and more. His work has been included in a number of anthologies, including The Best Of The Horror Zine: The Early Years, A Sea of Alone: poems for Alfred Hitchcock, Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia, and numerous Rhysling Anthologies.
Rhysling Anthology 1999, third place in 2000, second place in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, second place in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021
Jennifer Clark
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Cassandra Rose Clarke’s work has placed in the Rhysling Awards and been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, the Pushcart Prize, and YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults. She grew up in south Texas and currently lives in Houston, where she writes and serves as the associate director for Writespace, a literary arts nonprofit. She holds an M.A. in creative writing from The University of Texas at Austin, and in 2010 she attended the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop in Seattle. Her latest novel is Halo: Battle Born, out now from Scholastic.
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2018, 2019
Sara Cleto haunts the borders between folklore and literature in her poetry, fiction, and scholarship. She completed her PhD in English and Folklore at the Ohio State University in 2018, and she is a co-founder of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic where she teaches courses on fairy tales, creative writing, mythic adaptation, and more. Her poetry and fiction can be found in Uncanny Magazine, Faerie Magazine, Liminality, Mythic Delirium, Goblin Fruit, and others.
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Carolyn Clink is a Canadian poet. She won the very first Aurora Award for Best Poem/Song (2011). She won the Aurora Award again, in the same category, in 2022. Her poetry has appeared in Analog, Weird Tales, On Spec, and Polar Starlight.
Rhysling Anthology 2013, 2014, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023
David Livingstone Clink’s latest poetry collection is The Role of Lightning in Evolution (Chizine Publications, 2016). His poem, “A sea monster tells his story” won the Aurora Award for Best Poem/Song in 2013. David’s next poetry collection will be The Black Ship (CZP).
Rhysling Anthology 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, third place in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
William Clunie is a writer, artist, and translator living in Berlin, Germany.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Frank Coffman is a retired professor of college English, Creative Writing, and Journalism. He has published poetry, fiction, and scholarly research across a variety of speculative genres including weird, horror, fantasy, science fiction, and adventure. A member of HWA and SFPA, his poetry publications thus fare are: This Ae Nighte, Every Nighte and Alle: 33 Poems of the Weird, Horrific, and Supernatural (2018), The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems (2019), Khayyám's Rubáiyát: A New Version in English Verse (2019), Black Flames & Gleaming Shadows (2020), and Eclipse of the Moon (2021). His first fiction collection, Three Against the Dark: Collected Dr. Venn Occult Detective Mysteries was just published (March 2022). He created and monitors the Weird Poets Society Facebook Group and is Editor & Publisher of Mind's Eye Publications.
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Marcia Cohee
Rhysling Anthology 1988
Mary Anne Cohen
Rhysling Anthology 1995
Gerald L. Coleman is a Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, and Science Fiction & Fantasy Author. He did his undergraduate work in philosophy, english, and religious studies, followed by a Master's degree in Theology. He is the author of the Epic Fantasy novel saga The Three Gifts, which currently includes When Night Falls (Book One), A Plague of Shadows (Book Two), and the upcoming When Chaos Reigns (Book Three), which is scheduled for release in 2021. His most recent poetry appears in Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, Drawn To Marvel: Poems From The Comic Books, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Vol. 18, Black Bone Anthology, the 10th Anniversary Issue of Diode Poetry Journal, About Place Journal, and Star*Line 43.4. His speculative fiction short stories appear in the Science Fiction, Cyberfunk anthology The City, the Rococoa Anthology by Roaring Lion, the Urban Fantasy anthology Terminus, the 2019 JordanCon anthology You Want Stories?, Dark Universe: Bright Empire, and Cyberfunk! by MVMedia. He has been a Guest Author at DragonCon, Boskone, Blacktasticon, JordanCon, Atlanta Science Fiction & Fantasy Expo, The Outer Dark Symposium, World Horror Con, Imaginarium, and Multiverse. He is a Scholastic National Writing Juror and a co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets. He recently released a collection of poetry entitled Nappy Metaphysic. You can find him at Geraldlcoleman.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Donyae Coles
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Michael R. Collings is the 2016 HWA GrandMaster Award Recipient and a Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Corona Obscura (2016), Writing Darkness (2012) and A Verse to Horrors (2012).
Rhysling Anthology 1986, 1994
Christopher Collingwood
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Billy Collins (1941– ) was appointed United States Poet Laureate 2001–2003. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar; he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library “Literary Lion.” His last three collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. He has published twelve collections of poetry, most recently The Rain in Portugal, a New York Times bestseller.
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Logan Thrasher Collins is a futurist, synthetic biologist, and author. He is also a student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. When he was 16, Logan invented a new type of antimicrobial peptide for treating antibiotic resistant infections and he is now investigating nanotechnology-based methods for mapping the brain. His poetry and short fiction have been published in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Abyss & Apex, Altered Reality Magazine, Aphelion and 365tomorrows, and his synthetic biology research has been published in ACS Biochemistry.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
S. R. Compton
Rhysling Anthology 1987, 1988
C. A. Conrad
Rhysling Anthology 2003
William Cook
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Michael Coolen
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Holly Cooley
Rhysling Anthology 2008
C.S.E. Cooney
Rhysling Anthology 2009, 2010, first place in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016
Constance Cooper
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2008
H. J. Cording
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Adam Cornford
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1983, 1984
Sharon Cote, a linguist and a late-in-the-making poet, has long loved studying both language, including metaphor, and speculative fiction. Several years ago, her poetic impulses demanded she pay them more attention, and a growing number of her poems have now escaped into the world, including publications in Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge (artist’s choice winner), Star*Line, Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, Deep Water Literary Journal, Strange Poetry, Avocet, and several anthologies. She lives in Virginia with her husband and a rather strange dog.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
PS Cottier lives in Canberra, and her most recent speculative collection is Monstrous, Interactive Press, 2020. She edited The Stars Like Sand: Australian Speculative Poetry with Tim Jones. PS Cottier wrote a PhD on images of animals in the works of Charles Dickens at the Australian National University, and collects gnomes.
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Scott J. Couturier is a poet & prose writer of the Weird, liminal, & darkly fantastic. His work has appeared in numerous venues, including The Audient Void, Spectral Realms, The Dark Corner Zine, Space & Time Magazine, & Weirdbook. Currently he works as a copy & content editor for Mission Point Press, living an obscure reverie in the wilds of northern Michigan with his partner/live-in editor & two cats.
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022
Harris Coverley is a member of the Weird Poets Society, and has had verse accepted for Star*Line, Spectral Realms, Jitter, Scifaikuest, and Utopia Science Fiction, amongst many others. His haiku sequence "The Planets? Sweet..." (Star*Line, 42.4, Autumn 2019) was nominated for the 2020 Rhysling Award, Short Poems category. He lives in Manchester, England.
Rhysling Anthology 2020
David E. Cowen is the Bram Stoker-nominated author of four volumes of poetry, Bleeding Saffron (Weasel, 2018), The Seven Yards of Sorrow (Weasel, 2016), The Madness of Empty Spaces (Weasel, 2014) and Sixth & Adams (PW Press, 2001). His work has been seen in poetry journals, fiction anthologies and non-fiction magazines and anthologies in several countries. He was the editor of Volumes III and IV of the HWA Poetry Showcase.
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2019
Cardinal Cox
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Jeff Crandall is a Washington State poet, glass artist and a founding editor of Floating Bridge Press. His work has appeared previously in Beloit Poetry Journal, Bloom, North American Review, JAMA and Seattle Review, among others. His book of poems, The Grief Pool, was published by Firestorm Press.
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2020
Tim Craven
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Henry Crawford
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Oscar L. Crawford
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Jennifer Crow’s work has appeared in a number of print and electronic venues, including Uncanny, Strange Horizons, and Asimov's Science Fiction. She also reads poetry submissions for the latest incarnation of Amazing Stories. You can find her on Twitter @writerjencrow.
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2021, first place in 2023
Jane Crowley
Rhysling Anthology 2014
M. J. Cuniff
Rhysling Anthology 2022
James Cushing
Rhysling Anthology 2021
cythera
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Jennifer D’Aubergny
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Amsterdam-based duo d’Ores & Deja write and produce digital media collaboratively. Their photo series Random Urban Theatre made it to runner-up at ND Magazine’s ND Awards 2020. Their work has appeared in The London Reader, Antiphon, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Otoliths, Nine Muses Poetry and in the Pact Press Anthology: Changing Tides.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
William J. Daciuk
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1993
Koji A. Dae
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Madalena Daleziou
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Tony Daniel
Rhysling Anthology 1991
Keith Allen Daniels
Rhysling Anthology 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, second place in 1996, 1997
Mark Danowsky is author of the poetry collection As Falls Trees (NightBallet Press, 2018). He’s Managing Editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal.
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Andrew Darlington has had masses of material published in all manner of strange and obscure places, magazines, websites, anthologies and books. He has also worked as a Stand-Up Poet on the “Alternative Cabaret Circuit”, and has interviewed very many people from the worlds of Literature, SF-Fantasy, Art and Rock-Music for a variety of publications (a selection of his favourite interviews collected into the Headpress book I Was Elvis Presley’s Bastard Love-Child). His latest poetry collection is The Poet’s Deliberation On The State Of The Nation (Penniless Press), while his fiction collection A Saucerful Of Secrets is available from Parallel Universe Publ.
Rhysling Anthology 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994
Rohinton Daruwala lives and works in Pune, India. He writes code for a living, and speculative fiction and poetry in his spare time. He tweets as @wordbandar and blogs at https://wordbandar.wordpress.com/. His work has previously appeared in Strange Horizons, New Myths, Star*Line, Liminality and Through the Gate.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018
Nitoo Das is a birder, caricaturist, and poet. Her first collection of poetry, Boki, was published in 2008 by Virtual Artists Collective. Her second book, Cyborg Proverbs, was brought out by Poetrywala in 2017 and was longlisted for the 1st Jayadev National Poetry Award the same year. Her poetry has been published in journals like Poetry International Web, Pratilipi, Muse India, Eclectica, North East Review, Vayavya, Poetry at Sangam, Uncanny Magazine, Almost Island, Diaphanes, The Indian Quarterly, etc. Das’s work has also found place in several anthologies. Two recent ones are Centrepiece: New Writing and Art from Northeast India (Zubaan, 2018) and The Himalayan Arc: Journeys East of South-east (Harper Collins India, 2018). Das teaches literature at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Harry Davidov
Rhysling Anthology 1987, 1994
The stories of David Davies explore the traditional-made-new, something he has lived as a first generation immigrant to the USA. His Pushcart- and Bram Stoker-nominated writing has been published in Granfalloon, The Underwood Press, Rise Up Review, and Shadow Atlas, among others. He is a two-time winner of the King Edward Prize for youth poetry, and an active member of SFPA.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Jim Davies is a cognitive scientist living in Ottawa and a member of the Lyngarde writer’s group. His plays have been produced by Push Push Theatre in Atlanta, Sock 'n' Buskin in Ottawa, Chicago’s Otherworld Theatre Company, The Oak theatre in Atlanta, and the Critical Stage Company in Kingston. His poetry has appeared in Bywords literary magazine and Altered Reality Magazine. He is author of the serialized fiction series Eve Pixiedrowner and the Micean Council, an urban animal fantasy, and is is author of the popular science book Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. She’s known for her prize-winning poetry and acclaimed short stories and novels. Her work has appeared in F&SF, Analog, and Asimov’s. For more about her work, including her poetry collections, The Gates of Never and Bounded by Eternity, and her chapbook, From Voyages Unending, please see edda-earth.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Holly Day’s recent publications include the nonfiction books Music Theory for Dummies and Tattoo FAQ, and the poetry books In This Place She Is Her Own, A Wall to Protect Your Eyes, Folios of Dried Flowers and Pressed Birds, Where We Went Wrong, Into the Cracks, and Cross Referencing a Book of Summer.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Jennifer de Guzman
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Becca De La Rosa
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Corrine de Winter is.
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2000, 2017
Camilla DeCarnin
Rhysling Anthology 1989, 1992, 2009
Malcolm Deeley
Rhysling Anthology 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Sandy DeLuca
Rhysling Anthology 2001
Bryan D. Dietrich is a former SFPA president. He is the author of seven books of poems. He is also co-editor of an anthology of superhero poetry and editor of the journal Archaeopteryx. Bryan has published poems in Asimov's, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, The New Yorker, Poetry, Harvard Review, Yale Review, and many other journals. He has won an Asimov's Readers Choice Award, The Paris Review Prize, a “Discovery”/The Nation Award, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer. Professor of English at Newman University, Bryan lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife, Gina, and their son, Nick.
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2008, 2010, third place in 2015, 2016
Tom Digby
Rhysling Anthology 1989
Peter Dillingham
Rhysling Anthology 1978, 1981
Ashley Dioses is a writer of dark poetry and fiction from southern California. Her debut collection of dark traditional poetry, Diary of a Sorceress, was released in 2017 from Hippocampus Press. Her second poetry collection of early works, The Withering, is forthcoming from Gehenna and Hinnom Books autumn 2019. Her poetry has appeared in Weird Fiction Review, Skelos, Weirdbook, Black Wings VI: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, and others. She is an Active member in the HWA and a member of the SFPA. She blogs at fiendlover.blogspot.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1981, 1995
Raymond DiZazzo
Rhysling Anthology 1981, first place in 1982
Erin Donahoe
Rhysling Anthology 2002, 2003, 2004
J. W. Donnelly
Rhysling Anthology 1994
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1978, 1983
Bloomington, Indiana (USA) author James S. Dorr's most recent book is a novel-in-stories from Elder Signs Press, Tombs: A Chronicle of Latter-Day Times of Earth. Working mostly in dark fantasy/horror with some forays into science fiction and mystery, his The Tears of Isis was a 2013 Bram Stoker Award® finalist for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, while other books include Strange Mistresses: Tales of Wonder and Romance, Darker Loves: Tales of Mystery and Regret, and his all-poetry Vamps (A Retrospective). Dorr has also been a technical writer, an editor on a regional magazine, a full time non-fiction freelancer, and a semi-professional musician, and currently harbors a Goth cat named Triana. For more information, readers are invited to stop by Dorr's blog at jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com
Rhysling Anthology 1987, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, second place in 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, third place in 2017
FJ Doucet’s work has appeared in Silver Blade, Eye to the Telescope and New Myths, among others, and is forthcoming in Bone Milk III. She has been a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a former president of the Brooklin Poetry Society, based just outside of Toronto, Canada.
Rhysling Anthology 2021, 2023
Ken Duffin
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1981
Rt. Rev. Denise Dumars, M.A., is a retired college English instructor and a writer of mostly dark poetry and fiction and mostly metaphysical nonfiction. She has published collaborations with the likes of Nancy Ellis Taylor, W. Gregory Stewart, Kevin J. Anderson, Don Webb, Kendall Evans, and many others. She also helms Rev. Dee's Apothecary, a New Orleans-style Botanica, and is a wedding officiant and officiant at other sacred services. She is a Hierophant in the Fellowship of Isis, an international spiritual organization. She hails from Los Angeles’ beautiful South Bay region, but her heart is in New Orleans.
Rhysling Anthology 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, second place in 1995, second place in 1996, third place in 1997, 2001, second place in 2002, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2017, 2019, 2022
Robin Wyatt Dunn was born in Wyoming in 1979. You can read more of his work at robindunn.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2020, 2022
Roger Dutcher lives in Wisconsin where he enjoys most of the pleasures of the state like beer, cheese, and the Packers, but not Winter. He is the co-founder of The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. He was an editor for poetry at Strange Horizons.
Rhysling Anthology 1988, 1992, 1993, 2001, third place in 2002, first place in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2019
Peg Duthie is the author of Measured Extravagance (Upper Rubber Boot, 2012; tinyurl.com/MeasEx). She blogs at varytheline.org and zirconium.dreamwidth.org/ and there's more about her at nashpanache.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2014, 2015
Marianne J. Dyson
Rhysling Anthology 1993, 1994
James Ebersole’s stories and poems have appeared in such places as The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories, The Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase (Vol. I, IV, V), Folk Horror Revival: Corpse Roads, Richmond Macabre, Drabbledark, Broken Worlds, and The Cockroach Conservatory. He lives in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Rosemary Edgehill is.
Rhysling Anthology 1995
Rhysling Anthology 1979
Wayne Edwards
Rhysling Anthology 1994
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1984, 1985
Amal El-Mohtar is the Nebula-nominated author of The Honey Month, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different kinds of honey. Her work has appeared in several magazines and anthologies including Uncanny, Lightspeed, Stone Telling, Apex, Mythic Delirium, and Strange Horizons. Her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed magazine's Women Destroy Science Fiction special issue and Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories. She is a founding member of the Banjo Apocalypse Crinoline Troubadours, edited Goblin Fruit, a quarterly journal of fantastical poetry, and lives in Glasgow with her fiancé and two jellicle cats.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 2009 + third place in 2009, 2010, first place in 2011, 2013, first place in 2014, 2019
Rhysling Anthology 1981, 1988
Rebecca Elizabeth is.
Rhysling Anthology 1995
Stephanie Ellis
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Whitewater. He retired from university teaching in 1997 and since devoted his time to writing, editing, publishing, and performance, finding time also to work with his wife Shirley to restore their land to native habitat. He published steadily over many years. A Wisconsin native, Ron held advanced degrees in literature and media studies from Cornell University and the Union Institute. In 2001 he joined Rosebud magazine, serving first as poetry editor, and currently as associate editor, art director, and Web author. Since his 1985 residence with peace activist and U.S. Poet Laureate William Stafford, Ellis published four books of poetry, released numerous audio and video performances, played in bands, and created his own psychedelic cover art.
Rhysling Anthology 1986, 1988, 1993
Neil Ellman
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Melissa Ridley Elmes is a Virginia native currently living in Missouri in an apartment that delightfully approximates a hobbit hole. She is the author of Arthurian Things: A Collection of Poems (Dark Myth Publications, 2020), which was nominated for the Elgin award. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart prize and the Dwarf Star and Rhysling awards, and her words have appeared in Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Dreams & Nightmares, Spectral Realms, Illumen, Liquid Imagination, Eccentric Orbits, DarkWinter, and elsewhere.
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Martin Elster
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2016
Phil Emery
Rhysling Anthology 2001
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1979, 1981, 1986
Megan Engelhart
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Margaret Kathryn Erickson
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Alexandra Erin
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017
Bob Erman
Rhysling Anthology 1999
Timons Esias is a writer and poet living in Pittsburgh. His short stories, ranging from literary to genre, have been published in nineteen languages. He has over a hundred poems in print, including Spanish, Swedish and Chinese translations, in markets ranging from 5AM to Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Literary Journal of Baseball. His poetry collection, Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek (Concrete Wolf) came out in 2016. He is Adjunct Faculty at Seton Hill University, in the Writing Popular Fiction MFA Program.
Rhysling Anthology 1996, third place in 1998, 2001, 2002, 2012, 2015, 2017
Frederico Lisci Espino, Jr.
Rhysling Anthology 1981
Kendall Evans has had work, including many collaborations, in various sf/fantasy/horror magazines and anthologies.
His poem "The Keeper of the Lighthouse at Land's
End" received an honorable mention in The
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. He is also the author of the
novelette "Don Huavaca's Dia De Los Muertos," which appeared in the
anthology Bare
Bone 6.
Rhysling Anthology 2003, first place in 2006, 2007, second place in 2008, 2009, first place in 2010 + second place in 2010, 2011, second place in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023
Gary Every has won regional journalism awards for articles such as “Losing Geronimo’s Language” and “The Apache Naichee Ceremony.” Stories are included in his book Shadow of the OhshaD. He has been nominated for the Rhysling Award 7 times.
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2017
Marcus Ewert
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Kevin Fagen
Rhysling Anthology 1991
Roy P. Fairfield
Rhysling Anthology 1993, 1995
Jonathan Falk
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Alice Fanchiang
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017
Michael Fantina
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Laura Fargas
Rhysling Anthology 1984
Donna Farley
Rhysling Anthology 2002
Angel Favazza works as a Michigan-based high-school English teacher. She is an avid fan of all things sci-fi. Her other interests include: writing, nature photography and most recently, learning to watercolor.
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Karolina Fedyk writes speculative fiction and poetry in two languages, and occasionally tweets as @karigrafia.
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Debby Feo has been writing poems and short stories since high school. Her first poem was published in 2007 and her first short story in 2008, both by Sam's Dot Publishing, in Beyond Centauri. I have since been published in multiple magazines/anthologies, and have 10 published books, and 4 self-published poetry books. My genres are children's poetry, children's SciFi, Science Fiction, Vampire, and Fantasy.
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Chris Ferrier
Rhysling Anthology 2003
Clarabelle Fields is a writer, web developer, and editor native to the Rocky Mountains. She holds a BA in classical languages (2018, summa cum laude) and studied in the UK as a Fulbright Summer Institute participant. Her poetry, prose, and photography have appeared in print and online over 100 times. Find out more at clarabellefields.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Gemma Files
Rhysling Anthology 2009, 2013, 2022
Michael Finley
Rhysling Anthology 1986
B. Bucley Finnegan
Rhysling Anthology 1986
Jack Fisher is.
Rhysling Anthology 2002
Kari A. Flickinger was a finalist in the IHLR 2018 PhotoFinish. Her poetry has been published in Written Here: The Community of Writers Poetry Review, Riddled with Arrows, Burning House Press, Door-Is-A-Jar, Ghost City Review, and Rhythm & Bones among others. She is an alumna of UC–Berkeley. When not writing, she plays guitar to her unreasonably large Highlander cat. Find her: @kariflickinger
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Geneve Flynn is an award-winning fiction editor and author. Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, which she co-edited with Lee Murray, won the 2020 Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards and shortlisted for the British Fantasy, Aurealis, and Australian Shadows awards.
Geneve’s short stories have been published in various markets, including Flame Tree Publishing, PseudoPod, Crystal Lake Publishing & Black Spot Books, and Things in the Well. Her poetry appears in Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken, a Bram Stoker Award-nominated collaboration with Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, and Lee Murray, and she has been nominated for both the Rhysling and Pushcart awards.
Geneve loves tales that unsettle, all things writerly, and B-grade action movies. If that sounds like you, check out her website at geneveflynn.com.au.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Michael F. Flynn
Rhysling Anthology 1990, 1996
Adam Ford
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1989, 1990, 1995
Francesca Forrest has lived in the United States, England, and Japan and used to boast about having given birth to children on three continents. If she’d started earlier, she might have tried for births on the rest. Currently she works as a copy editor, spending as much of her free time writing as possible. She’s had short stories and poems published both online and in print, along with one novel, Pen Pal. She also volunteers as a tutor in a medium-security jail and has helped with a program to make children’s books available in the various mother tongues spoken in Timor-Leste. She loves knowing which plants in a landscape are edible and the folk names of wildflowers.
Rhysling Anthology 2009, 2010, 2013, third place in 2015
Bryn Fortey
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Cornelius Fortune is the senior editor of BLAC Detroit magazine. Stands for Black Life, Arts & Culture.
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Michael Fosburg
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2013
Chris Fox
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Hugh Fox
Rhysling Anthology 2011
J D Fox
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Janet Fox
Rhysling Anthology 1981
Robert Frazier has seen his work in such publications as Asimov’s
Science Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, Amazing,
Weird Tales, Tales of the Unanticipated, Dreams & Nightmares, and The
Magazine of Speculative Poetry. His work has also appeared
in almost every significant anthology containing science fiction
poetry. He received an Asimov’s Readers’
Poll Award in 1991. Frazier’s original collections include Peregrine (1978), Co-Orbital
Moons (1988) and The Daily Chernobyl (2000, winner
of the Anamnesis Press Poetry Chapbook Award). He collaborated
with Bruce Boston on Chronicles of the Mutant Rainforest (1992).
He was
a longtime editor of Star*Line and was the editor of Speculative Poetry Review and of
the seminal anthology Burning with a Vision. He was elected an SFPA Grand Master in 2005.
Rhysling Anthology 1979, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, third place in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, third place in 2011, 2014, 2017
Janis Freegard
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Melissa Frederick
Rhysling Anthology 2011
J. Bruce Fuller
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Serena Fusek
Rhysling Anthology 2008, 2013, 2015
Ian Futter began writing surreal stories and poems in his childhood, as an escape from a world in which he felt increasingly isolated. His recent decision to share these poems has led to his work appearing in numerous publications. To date he has had poems published in all 10 volumes of S.T. Joshi's Spectral Realms anthologies, Jason Brock's Bram Stoker-nominated anthology, The Darke Phantastique, and 2 editions of Centipede Press's Weird Fiction Review of the year. He continues to write in a richly metaphorical style, which he hopes will help readers make sense of their lives, and which S.T. Joshi recognised when he described Ian's work as “no mere shudder-coining.”
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Ziad Gadou
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Joshua Gage
Rhysling Anthology 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, third place in 2015, 2022
William J. Gagnon
Rhysling Anthology 1995
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington, and is the author of four books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, and The Robot Scientist’s Daughter. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and in The Year’s Best Horror Vol. 6. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review and Prairie Schooner. webbish6.com
Rhysling Anthology 2009, 2010, 2013, 2018, 2023
Lila Gailey
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Neil Gaiman is a well-known fantasy author. See his website.
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2017, 2018
Milo Gallagher
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Tisha Garcia
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Steven Gardiner
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Cat-loving cataloging librarian Adele Gardner (gardnercastle.com) is a full/active member of SFWA & HWA and a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop with master's degrees in English literature and library science. With a story forthcoming in Analog, as well as 52 stories and over 335 poems published in Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Online, PodCastle, Pedestal Magazine, Polu Texni, Dreams and Nightmares, NewMyths.com, Deep Magic, and more (some under former name variations such as C. A. Gardner, Lyn C. A. Gardner, etc.), Adele has had nine poems win or place in the Poetry Society of Virginia Awards, Rhysling Award, and Balticon Poetry Contest. Copies of Adele's poetry book Dreaming of Days in Astophel are available from the author (out of print with the publisher). Adele is literary executor for father, mentor, and namesake Dr. Delbert R. Gardner.
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, third place in 2012, third place in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Rhysling Anthology 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2018
Robert K. Gardner
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Terry A. Garey’s poetry has been published in many journals and anthologies, including Dodeca, Uranus, Star*Line, Asimov's, Weird Tales, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Raw Sacks, Paper Bag Writer, Dreams and Nightmares, Women en Large, and Burning With A Vision. She has edited poetry for Janus, Tales of the Unanticipated, and is the editor (with Eleanor Arnason) of Time Gum, and also Time Frames: an anthology of speculative poetry. She lives in Minneapolis, MN with a librarian, two cats, and more books than she can count. She is a founding member of Lady Poetesses From Hell.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1997, 1982, first place in 2013, 2015
Gwynne Garfinkle
Rhysling Anthology 2013, 2015
Jean-Paul L. Garnier lives and writes in Joshua Tree, CA, where he is the owner of Space Cowboy Books, a science fiction bookstore, independent publisher, and producer of Simultaneous Times podcast. In 2020 his first novella Garbage In, Gospel Out was released by Space Cowboy Books and in 2018 Traveling Shoes Press released Echo of Creation, a collection of his science fiction short stories. He has also released several collections of poetry: In Iudicio (Cholla Needles Press 2017), Future Anthropology (currently being translated into Portuguese), Odes to Scientists (audiobook, Space Cowboy Books, 2019) and Betelgeuse Dimming (2020). He is a three-time Elgin Nominee and also appeared in the 2020 Dwarf Stars anthology. He is also a regular contributor for Canada’s Warp Speed Odyssey blog. His short stories, poetry, and essays have appeared in many anthologies and webzines. jplgarnier.blogspot.com
Rhysling Anthology 2021
John Garrison
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2006, 2013
Kristin Garth is a Pushcart, Best of the Net & Rhysling nominated poet from Pensacola and a sonnet stalker. Her sonnets have stalked magazines like Five: 2: One, Yes, Glass, Luna Luna, Occulum, Drunk Monkeys, and other places. She is the author of eleven books of poetry including Pink Plastic House (Maverick Duck Press), Puritan U (Rhythm & Bones Press) and Candy Cigarette Womanchild Noir (The Hedgehog Poetry Press) and the forthcoming Flutter: Southern Gothic Fever Dream (TwistiT Press, 2020) and Dewy Decimals (Arkay Artists, 2020). Follow her on Twitter: @lolaandjolie and on kristingarth.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Emily Gaskin
Rhysling Anthology 2007
Charlotte Geater
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Barbara Genovese
Rhysling Anthology 1994
Wade German’s poems have appeared internationally in numerous journals and anthologies, including Dark Horizons, Dreams and Nightmares, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Midnight Echo, Mythic Delirium, Nameless, Phantom Drift, Space and Time, Spectral Realms, Star*Line, Strange Sorcery and Weird Fiction Review.
Rhysling Anthology 2010, third place in 2013, 2019, 2020
Amy Gerstler
Rhysling Anthology 1994
Emma J. Gibbon
Rhysling Anthology 2020
John Giorno
Rhysling Anthology 2007
Thomas Glave, Jr.
Rhysling Anthology 1988
Maxwell Ian Gold writes prose poetry and short stories in weird and cosmic fiction. He is a regular contributor to Spectral Realms, edited by Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, and his work has also appeared in Weirdbook Magazine, Space & Time Magazine, Startling Stories, Baffling Magazine and many others. Website: thewellsoftheweird.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Albert Goldbarth (1948– ) has published more than twenty-five collections of poetry and has won numerous awards, including twice winning the National Book Critics Circle award for poetry (Goldbarth is the only poet to have received the award twice).
Rhysling Anthology 1982, 1988, 1995, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2012, third place in 2016
Peter Goldstein
Rhysling Anthology 1997
Currently in her second-term as Poet Laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts, Patricia Gomes is the former editor of Adagio Verse Quarterly, and has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. A 2018 and 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee, Gomes is the author of four chapbooks. Ms. Gomes recent publications include Tidings, Star*Line, Muddy River Review, Rituals,and Poets of New England published by Underground Writers Press. Ms. Gomes is the co-founder of the GNB Writers Block as well a member of the SciFi Poetry Association, New England Horror Writers, and Massachusetts Poetry Society. She writes—she is writing now—she will continue to write.
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2021
Howie Good is the author of The Loser's Guide to Street Fighting, winner of the 2017 Lorien Prize from Thoughtcrime Press, and Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, winner of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry. His latest book is I'm Not a Robot, (Tolsun Books, 2018).
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Alan Ira Gordon is an urban planning professor at Worcester State University. His poetry publications include Analog Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and he’s a frequent contributor to Star*Line. Alan’s poetry has received eight Rhysling Award nominations, two Dwarf Stars Award nominations and an Analog Magazine year’s best nomination (Second Place Award). He has two published poetry collections, Planet Hunter and The Doggo Book (Hiraeth Books). Planet Hunter was nominated for the SFPA Elgin Award. Alan guest-edited Issue 24 of Eye To The Telescope, the online publication of SFPA. His poetry, short stories and articles have been published in various genre magazines and anthologies, a partial list of which can be found on his webpage at alaniragordon.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Amelia Gorman is a baker and writer in Eureka, California. She's a big fan of weird fiction, animal rescue, and backpacking. You can read more of her poetry in Liminality and Speculative City and some of her recent fiction in Nox Pareidolia from Nightscape Press and Negative Space from Dark Peninsula Press. Find her online at ameliagorman.com
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2020, third place in 2023
LeRoy Gorman lives in Napanee, Ontario. His poetry, much of it minimalist and visual, has appeared in publications and exhibitions worldwide. He is the author of two dozen poetry books and chapbooks. His most recent title is goodwill galaxy hunting (Urban Farmhouse Press).
Rhysling Anthology 2013, 2019
Theodora Goss is the World Fantasy Award–winning author of the short story collection In the Forest of Forgetting (2006); Interfictions(2007), a short story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; Voices from Fairyland (2008), a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems; The Thorn and the Blossom (2012), a novella in a two-sided accordion format; the poetry collection Songs for Ophelia (2014); and debut novel The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (2017). She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, Seiun, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List, and her work has been translated into eleven languages. She teaches literature and writing at Boston University and in the Stonecoast MFA Program. Visit her at TheodoraGoss.com.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 2004, 2008, 2011, 2013, first place in 2017, 2020, 2022
Vince Gotera is a professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, where he served as Editor of the North American Review (2000–2016). He also served as Editor of Star*Line, the print journal of SFPA (2017–2020). His poetry collections include Dragonfly, Ghost Wars, Fighting Kite, The Coolest Month, and the upcoming Pacific Crossing. Recent poems appeared in Altered Reality Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Dreams & Nightmares, The Ekphrastic Review, Philippines Graphic (Philippines), Rosebud, The Wild Word (Germany) and the anthologies Multiverse (UK), Dear America, and Hay(na)ku 15. He blogs at The Man with the Blue Guitar.
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
T. M. Götti
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Jeremy Gottwig
Rhysling Anthology 2004
Neile Graham is Canadian by birth and inclination, though she lives in Seattle to keep in touch with rain and beaches. In 2017 she won a World Fantasy Award for her work with Clarion West Writers Workshop where she helped run the summer workshop for 19 years. Her poetry has been published in many print and online publications. Her most recent collection, her fourth, is The Walk She Takes, poems about all the stony places she found in Scotland, the home of her ancestors. neilegraham.com has more info.
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022
Taylor Graham
Rhysling Anthology 1992
Charles A. Gramlich
Rhysling Anthology 1995, 2002, 2009, 2016
April Grant
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2015
Robin Rose Graves is.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Lora Gray
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Roy Gray
Rhysling Anthology 1999
Sarah Grey’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in Lightspeed, Nightmare, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and elsewhere. She has degrees in Art History, Medieval Studies, and law, speaks multiple languages poorly, and enjoys world travel and roller skating. She lives in California with her family and an excessive quantity of cats.
Rhysling Anthology 2021, second place in 2023
Suzie Gray (also known as B.AR.D) is a poet and playwright from London. Her latest SF poetry collections are Energy (Or the Art of Keeping it Together) and E-Tabula Rasa. She has also created Augmented Reality poetry for SeekXR, Snapchat, Facebook and Artivive. She has also written for stage—having produced the plays SUM, Terra Firma and Cuckoos and Chrysalides. She is currently working on a chapbook called Material Girl, which focuses on the concepts of materialism and a post-scarcity future.
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Rhysling Anthology 1991, 1993, second place in 1995, 2022
Timothy Green is the editor of Rattle.
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Eric Greinke
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Stephen Gresham
Rhysling Anthology 1981
John Grey is an Australian poet, U.S. resident. Recently published in That, Muse, Poetry East and North Dakota Quarterly, with work upcoming in Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Thin Air, Dalhousie Review and the Dunes Review.
Rhysling Anthology 1988, first place in 1998, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2015, 2019
Jennifer A. Grier is a poet, planetary scientist, and fiction writer. Over three dozen of Dr. Grier’s poems and stories have appeared in venues such as Eternal Haunted Summer, Space and Time, NILVX, and Mirror Dance. Her memberships include: the Maryland Writer's Association and the Horror Writers Association. Look for posts and tweets of astronomical facts and unusual fictions at jagrier.com and @grierja on Twitter.
Rhysling Anthology 2003
Hel Gurney
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Deborah Guzzi
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Tyler Hagemann was born and raised in Lindsay, Ontario, but has spent the last decade in Toronto. He is a recent graduate of a psychology program, and holds a BFA in theatre.
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Joe Haldeman
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1984, 1990, 1991, 1995, first place in 2001, second place in 2006, second place in 2007, 2013
Elissa L. A. Hamilton
Rhysling Anthology 1982, 1983
Adam Hammer
Rhysling Anthology 1979
Larry Hammer
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2010
Todd Hanks
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2009
Michael H. Hanson has written six collections of poetry: Autumn Blush and Jubilant Whispers (Racket River Publishing), Dark Parchments and When the Night Owl Screams (MoonDream Press), and Android Girl And Other Sentient Publications and Quarantine World: Trapped in The Coronaverse (Three Ravens Publishing). His work regularly appears in the annual Rhysling Anthology and the HWA Poetry Showcase. He currently lives in Colorado.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
K. S. Hardy is.
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Jo Ann Harper
Rhysling Anthology 1978
Nin Harris
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Graham Hartill
Rhysling Anthology 1995
J. C. Hartley
Rhysling Anthology 1993
L. R. Harvey
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Lola Haskins
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Brittany Hause’s speculative poetry has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Kaleidotrope, and many other places, and their Spanish-to-English verse translations can be read in Better Than Starbucks, Star*Line, and elsewhere. They're not from the UK, but that's where they currently live.
Rhysling Anthology 2022, 2023
Lee S. Hawke writes misshapen and thought-provoking fiction from Australia.
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Clark Hays
Rhysling Anthology 1995, 2003
Richard Hedderman
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Gloria Heffernan
Rhysling Anthology 2016
J. C. Hendee
Rhysling Anthology 1994
Elizabeth Henderson
Rhysling Anthology 2004
Samantha Henderson lives in Southern California. Her poetry has been
published in Weird Tales, Goblin Fruit, Mythic
Delirium, Stone Telling, Star*Line, Strange Horizons, and Lone
Star Stories. Her short fiction has been published in Strange
Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, Clarksworld, Fantasy, Abyss & Apex, and the anthologies Running
with the Pack and Steampunk Reloaded.
Rhysling Anthology 2006, third place in 2007, second place in 2009 + second place in 2009, first place in 2010, 2011, 2013
Chad Hensley has poetry appearances in Weirdbook, Skelos Magazine, Spectral Realms, The Audient Void, and the Horror Writers Association's Poetry Showcase.
Rhysling Anthology 1996
Tom Henighan
Rhysling Anthology 1989
feí hernandez (b.1993 Chihuahua, Mexico) is a trans, Inglewood-raised, formerly undocumented immigrant artist, writer, healer. They have been published in POETRY, Pank Magazine, Oxford Review of Books, Frontier Poetry, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, amongst others. They are a Define American Fellow for 2021 and are currently the Board President of Gender Justice Los Angeles. féi is the author of the full-length poetry collection Hood Criatura (Sundress Publications 2020) which was on NPR’s Best Books of 2020. féi collects Pokémon plushies!
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Vicki Ann Heydron
Rhysling Anthology 1981
Ed Higgins
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Nancy Hightower
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Jaimee Hills
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Carolyn M. Hinderliter
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2013, 2017
Jordan Hirsch writes speculative fiction and poetry in Saint Paul, MN, where she lives with her husband. Find her on Twitter (@jordanrhirsch), and find more of her work on her website: jordanrhirsch.wordpress.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2022, 2023
Christopher Hivner
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Millie Ho’s work appears in Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Uncanny, and others. She was a finalist for the 2019 Rhysling Awards. Find her at millieho.net.
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2019, 2021
Jamal Hodge is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and writer who is an active member of HWA and SFPA. His screenplay Mourning Meal (based on the poem by Linda Addison) won 5 awards (including best short screenplay at the NYC Horror Film Festival 2018). Jamal's poetry is featured in the historical all-black issue of Star*Line (43.4) and has been featured in Space & Time Magazine, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Chiral Mad 5, and others. Since 2016 Hodge's films have been screened at Cannes and 100 other Film Festivals, winning 50+ awards including Best of The Fest at the Hip Hop Film Festival (2020) and Best Director at Chelsea Film Festival (2020). In 2018 Jamal directed the first season of Investigation Discovery Channel's Primal Instinct and came on as a Producer on the Animated feature film Pierre The Pigeon Hawk (starring Will.I.Am, Jennifer Hudson, Keenan Thompson, and Whoopi Goldberg).
Rhysling Anthology 2021, 2022
Merav Hoffman
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Roald Hoffman
Rhysling Anthology 1987
Ada Hoffmann is the author of the space opera novels The Outside and The Fallen, as well as dozens of speculative short stories and poems. She is an autistic self-advocate, an adjunct professor of computer science, a former semi-professional soprano, tabletop gaming enthusiast, and LARPer. She lives in eastern Ontario.
Rhysling Anthology 2014, 2017, 2022
Linda Hogan
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Martha Hollander
Rhysling Anthology 1993
Glenna Holloway
Rhysling Anthology 1995
Rochelle Lynn Holt
Rhysling Anthology 1986
Akua Lezli Hope, a 2022 SFPA Grand Master, is a paraplegic creator & wisdom seeker who uses sound, words, fiber, glass, metal, & wire to create poems, patterns, stories, music, sculpture, adornments & peace. She wrtoe her first speculative poems in the 6th grade and has been in print since 1974 with nearly 500 poems published. Her collections include Embouchure: Poems on Jazz and Other Musics (Writer’s Digest book award winner), Them Gone, & Otherwheres: Speculative Poetry (2021 Elgin Award winner). A Cave Canem fellow, her honors include the NEA, two NYFA fellowships, a Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association award & multiple Best of the Net, Rhysling, Dwarf Stars & Pushcart Prize nominations. She won a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts grant to create Afrofuturist speculative, pastoral poetry. She created the Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading series. She edited the record-breaking sea-themed issue of Eye To The Telescope 42 & NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators, the history-making first of its kind (Sundress Publications, 2021). Her short fiction is included in the ground-breaking speculative anthology Dark Matter, and in the new, celebrated Africa Risen anthology (Tor 2022), among others. She exhibits her artwork regularly, practices her soprano saxophone and dreams of access and freedom in the ancestral land of the Seneca.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2021, 2022, third place in 2023
Jessica J. Horowitz Born in Korea, Jessica now writes speculative fiction and poetry in New England, where they balance their aversion to cold with the inability to live anywhere without snow. Previous works can be at Flash Fiction Online, Fireside, DSF, Apparition Lit. and others. They blog infrequently at pengolin.wordpress.com and have slightly more frequent feelings and opinions on Twitter @transientj
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Bill Hotchkiss
Rhysling Anthology 1985
L.A. Story Houry
Rhysling Anthology 2004, 2005
Ellie Howard
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s numinous work has won the ANZAC Award, the Alfred Award and has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. The author of five formal poetry collections, her work has appeared in scores of journals across the world, including Eye to the Telescope, Anima, Enchanted Conversation, Riddled with Arrows, Polu Texni, Coffin Bell, The Literary Hatchet, Illumen, Fairy Magazine, Breach and Star*Line. English-born, semi-Australian-bred, she now lives in the cold grey wilds of the Pacific Northwest USA where she writes poetry, raises black chickens and practices useful Northern magic. She tweets at twitter.com/Farmerpoet2
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022
Ellen Huang
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Persephone Erin Hudson
Rhysling Anthology 2020
August Huerta
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Brian Hugenbruch lives in upstate New York with his family and their pets. By day, he writes information security programs to protect your data on (and from) the internet. By night, he writes speculative poetry and fiction. His poetry has appeared in publications such as Star*Line, Apparition Lit, and Liminality. You can find him online on Twitter @Bwhugen, on Instagram @the-lettersea, and at the-lettersea.com. No, he’s not sure how to say his last name, either.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Rhys Hughes
Rhysling Anthology 1998
Olaitan Humble is a writer and editor. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Award. His writing appears in North Dakota Quarterly, FIYAH, HOBART, HOAX, Chiron Review, Superstition Review, Ethel Zine, Luna Luna Magazine, among others. Twitter: @olaitanhumble.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Ian Hunter is a Scottish poet whose poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the UK, USA and Canada. He is a member of the Glasgow SF Writers Circle and poetry editor of the British Fantasy Society.
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Abi Hynes is a drama and fiction writer based in Manchester, UK. She won the Cambridge Short Story Prize earlier in 2020, and was shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction’s ‘Novella-in-flash’ award in 2017. Her short stories have been widely published in print and online, and have most recently appeared in Black Static, Lucent Dreaming, BFS Horizons and Neon. Her work has also been published in several short story anthologies, including recent books from Splice and Fairlight Books. Her plays have been performed across the UK, she graduated from Channel 4’s 4Screenwriting Course in 2018, and she is currently developing new shows for TV. She has written four episodes of a new historical audio drama for Audible, which will be out later in 2021.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Beatrice Winifred Iker (they/them) is a Southern Appalachian poet, author, and tarot reader. They are an Ignyte and Rhysling Award finalist whose work can be found in Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, and others. Beatrice is a co-host of the Afronauts Podcast, which discusses and uplifts Black speculative fiction, and is a Voodoonauts Fellowship alum. You can find Beatrice online at beatriceiker.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Pedro Iniguez is a speculative fiction writer and Rhysling, Pushcart, and Best of the Net-nominated poet from Los Angeles. His fiction and poetry has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Shortwave Magazine, Worlds of Possibility, Tiny Nightmares, Star*Line, Space and Time Magazine, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, Savage Realms Monthly, and Infinite Constellations, among others. He can be found online at pedroiniguezauthor.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Katherine Inskip teaches astrophysics for a living, and spends her spare time thwarting her kids’ plans for world domination and populating the Universe with worlds of her own. She's co-editor for Cast of Wonders, the YA genre fiction podcast. You can find her stories and poetry in various venues including Motherboard, Abyss & Apex, and Luna Station Quarterly. She lives off cake, coffee and logic puzzles.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Geoff Inverarity
Rhysling Anthology 2020
irving
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2015
Jennifer Ruth Jackson writes about reality’s weirdness and the plausibility of the fantastic. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Apex Magazine, and more. She runs a blog for disabled and neurodivergent writers called The Handy, Uncapped Pen from an apartment she shares with her husband. Visit her on Twitter: @jenruthjackson.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Tracina Jackson-Adams
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2001, 2003, 2004
Rhysling Anthology 1994, 1995, 1996, second place in 1998 + second place in 1998, 1999, third place in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, third place in 2004, 2005
Laura Jacobsen
Rhysling Anthology 2003
Maya C. James
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Michael Janairo is a writer who lives in upstate New York. His poetry and fiction are forthcoming or have appeared in Weirdbook, Mirror Dance, The Sunlight Press, Star Ship Sofa, Mithila Review, Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #8, Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History, Eye to the Telescope Issues 7 and 29, and Star*Line, which nominated his poem "For Your Own Safety" for the Pushcart Prize. His Filipino family name is pronounced 'ha NIGH row.' He blogs at michaeljanairo.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2021
Jerry H. Jenkins
Rhysling Anthology 1997
Ruth Jenkins
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Azriel Johnson
Rhysling Anthology 2018
C. W. Johnson
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Clay Franklin Johnson is an amateur pianist, devoted animal lover, and incorrigible reader of Gothic literature & Romantic-era poetry. His first collection of poetry, A Ride Through Faerie & Other Poems (2021), is available from Gothic Keats Press. Find out more on his website at www.clayfjohnson.com or follow him on Twitter @ClayFJohnson.
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
John Philip Johnson has had poems in many journals and reviews, including Rattle, Ted Kooser’s newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry,” the Poetry Foundation’s website, Asimov’s, F&SF, and Strange Horizons. His forthcoming second comic book of graphic poetry, The Book of Fly, will be available soon at johnphilipjohnson.com.
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2013, third place in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
Leonard R. Johnson, Jr.
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Marci Rae Johnson
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Troy Jollimore’s books of poetry are Syllabus of Errors, At Lake Scugog, and Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Daniel R. Jones
Rhysling Anthology 2017
R. Mac Jones co-edited the anthology Found Anew. His work has appeared in Star*Line, Strange Horizons, Right Hand Pointing, Mirror Dance, Unlost Journal, NonBinary Review, Gingerbread House, Bewildering Stories, and Eye to the Telescope, among other places. rmacjoneswrote.com
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Russell Jones is an Edinburgh-based writer and editor. He is the author of six published collections of poetry: cocoon (Tapsalteerie, 2020), “Dark Matters” (Tapsalteerie, 2018), The Green Dress Whose Girl is Sleeping (Freight Books, 2015), “Our Terraced Hum” (in Caboodle, Prole Books, 2015), "Spaces of Their Own" (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2013) and "The Last Refuge" (Forest Publications, 2009). Russell was the UK's first Pet Poet Laureate (2018–2019).
Rhysling Anthology 2014, 2019
Tim Jones is a New Zealand poet, author and editor who was awarded both the New Zealand Society of Authors Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature and a Sir Julius Vogel Award in 2010. His latest books are climate poetry collection New Sea Land (2016) and climate fiction novella Where We Land (2019). For more, see timjonesbooks.co.nz/blog/
Rhysling Anthology 2002, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022
Johann Jönsson
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Jeana Jorgensen
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Andrew Joron is the author of several collections of poetry, including The Absolute Letter, Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems, Fathom, and Science Fiction. Joron is also the author of The Cry at Zero: Selected Prose and Neo-Surrealism; Or, The Sun at Night: Transformations of Surrealism in American Poetry. His poetry has also been included in the anthologies American Hybrid and Primary Trouble. His translations from the German include surrealist Richard Anders's The Footsteps of One Who Has Not Stepped Forth and philosopher Ernst Bloch's Literary Essays. Joron is an assistant professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University and plays the theremin in the musical improvisational trio Free Rein. He lives in Berkeley.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1978, first place in 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, first place in 1986, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2005, 2010
Bonita Kale
Rhysling Anthology 1993
Toshiya Kamei
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Sandra Kasturi is a poet, writer, editor and the publisher of ChiZine Publications. She is fond of red lipstick, gin & tonics, and Idris Elba.
Rhysling Anthology third place in 1998, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022
Herb Kauderer is a retired factory worker/truck driver who grew up to be an associate professor of English at Hilbert College with a PhD, an MFA, and other degrees. His writing has won the Critters Readers’ Award (2021), Asimov’s Readers’ Award (2017), the Ewaipanoma Sonnet Contest (2008), received third place Dwarf Star Award (2021), third place Elgin Award (2020), and honorable mention in Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (1996). He co-edits SpecPo Reviews. One of his favorite hobbies is getting physicists drunk so he can understand them. More about him and his writing can be found at HerbKauderer.com .
Rhysling Anthology 1992, 1993, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Bran Keane
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Rosalie Morales Kearns, a writer of Puerto Rican and Pennsylvania Dutch descent, is the author of the novel Kingdom of Women (Jaded Ibis, 2017), about a female Roman Catholic priest in a slightly alternate near-future. She’s also the author of the literary/fabulist story collection Virgins and Tricksters (Aqueous, 2012) and founder of Shade Mountain Press.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Rhysling Anthology 2002
James Patrick Kelly
Rhysling Anthology 1990, 1999
M. X. Kelly lives in St. Petersburg, Florida with her domestic partner, Val, their two cats, and a coffee pot. Her work has appeared in Star*Line, Abyss & Apex, Speculative North, Bards and Sages Quarterly, and other magazines and anthologies across the known ’verse. M. X.’s website can be summoned with the typed incantation of mxkelly.weebly.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Julie Bloss Kelsey’s science fiction poetry has appeared in Star*Line, Grievous Angel, Scifaikuest, and Jersey Devil Press. She won the Dwarf Stars Award in 2011 and tied for second place in 2016. In 2018, Julie teamed with fellow sci-fi poet Susan Burch to edit 25 Science Fiction Tanka and Kyoka at Atlas Poetica.
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Keith Kennedy
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Eileen Kernaghan
Rhysling Anthology 1988, 1994
Luke Kernan (Ph.D. Student, University of Victoria) is a poet, mythographer, and graphic novelist. His doctoral work in anthropology explores sensory experiences of psychosis, and his ethnographic fieldwork will construct a sensorial narrative of what psychosis is like to model these moments through comics and poetry. Luke has often featured as a spoken-word performer, and he has recently published an article on suicidal bipolar poets in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 16:1 alongside two of his poems, “Skylarks Swallowing Stars” and “The Hanged Man’s Nous; A Note-taker’s Needle.” Correspondences to lkernan@uvic.ca. Twitter: @lukekernan.
Rhysling Anthology 2021, 2022
Cassandra Khaw
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Pankaj Khemka
Rhysling Anthology 2022, 2023
Rebeca Lu Kiernan
Rhysling Anthology 2003
Eun-byeol Kim
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Sasha Kim
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Michael P. Kinch
Rhysling Anthology 1991
Sally Rosen Kindred
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018
E. E. King
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Catt Kingsgrave
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Jovanka Kink
Rhysling Anthology 1991
K. J. Kirby
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2007
Erin Kirsh
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Vanessa Kittle is a former chef, soldier, and lawyer who now teaches English. Her fantasy and science fiction stories have been featured by Akashic Books. Vanessa has also recently appeared in magazines such as the Rhysling Anthology, Contemporary American Voices, Dreams and Nightmares, Abyss and Apex, Star*Line, and Silver Blade. Her books have received hundreds of thousands of downloads on Amazon in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance, and cooking. Vanessa edits the Abramelin Poetry Journal. She enjoys watching cheesy movies, cooking, gardening, and Star Trek!
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Adam Kizanis
Rhysling Anthology 1996
Deborah P Kolodji moderates the Southern California Haiku Study Group, is the California Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America, and is a member of the Board of Directors for Haiku North America. Former president of SFPA, she has a degree in mathematics from the University of Southern California. With over 1000 published poems to her name and four chapbooks of poetry, Seaside Moon (2005), unfinished book (2006), Symphony of the Universe (2006), and Red Planet Dust (2007), her first full length book of haiku and senryu, highway of sleeping towns, was published by Shabda Press in 2016 and was awarded a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award by the Haiku Foundation. She finds inspiration in the beaches, mountains, deserts, and urban life of Southern California.
Rhysling Anthology 1994, 1996, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2016, 2022
David C. Kopaska-Merkel edited Star*Line in the late ’90s, and later served as SFPA President. He won the Rhysling award (long poem) in 2006 for “The Tin Men,” a collaboration with Kendall Evans, and has edited two Rhysling Anthologies. He was voted SFPA Grand Master in 2017. His poetry has been published in scores of venues, including Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Polu Texni, and Night Cry. He is the author of 30 books, ranging from fantasy poetry to geology. Several are available on Smashwords and Amazon. The newest is a poetry chapbook, Entanglement, co-authored with Kendall Evans, from Diminuendo Press. Kopaska-Merkel edits and publishes Dreams and Nightmares, a genre poetry zine in its 33rd year of publication. dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com; @DavidKM on Twitter.
Rhysling Anthology 1993, second place in 2000, second place in 2001, third place in 2003 + second place in 2003, 2004, 2005, first place in 2006 + second place in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, second place in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
F. Korn
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Nicole Kornher-Stace
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2010, 2012
Dean Kostos’ poems, personal essays, and translations have appeared in over 300 journals. His literary criticism has appeared on the Harvard University Press website and Talisman. A multiple Pushcart-Prize nominee and a recipient of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Cultural Innovation Grant, he has taught at Wesleyan, The Gallatin School of New York University, and The City University of New York. His poem “Subway Silk” was translated into a film and screened in Tribeca and at San Francisco’s IndieFest.
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Andrew Kozma
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Mark Kreighbaum
Rhysling Anthology 1992
Michael Kriesel is the former poetry editor of Rosebud magazine, as well as the 2016 SFPA contest judge, and the winner of The North American Review’s Hearst Prize and numerous other awards,. Pebblebrook Press published his first full-length collection Zen Amen: abecedarians in 2019. His work appears in the 2017 anthology New Poetry from the Midwest. A past President of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, his poems and reviews have appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Antioch Review, Library Journal, Rattle, The Progressive, Small Press Review, and Wisconsin People & Ideas. Read his electronic chapbook of short poems Every Name in the Book at righthandpointing.net/michael-kriesel-every-name
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Jennifer Lynn Krohn
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Craig Kurtz
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Ellen Kushner
Rhysling Anthology 1991
Catherine Kyle
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Rachel Lachmansingh
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Betsy Ladyzhets
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Marc Laidlaw
Rhysling Anthology 1978
Wesley Lambert
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Geoffrey A. Landis is a physicist, science fiction writer, and poet. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Heinlein award for fiction, and the Rhysling and Dwarf Stars awards for poetry. When he is not writing, he is a scientist at the NASA John Glenn Research Center, developing new technologies for spaceflight.
Rhysling Anthology 1991, 1992, first place in 2000, first place in 2009, 2010, 2011, second place in 2014, 2018, 2021, 2022
Dennis M. Lane
Rhysling Anthology 2013, 2014
Beth Langford
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Charles Larsen
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Patrick Lawler
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Jennifer Lawrence
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Kathleen A. Lawrence has had poems published in Rattle (Poets Respond), Scryptic, haikuniverse, Silver Blade, Altered Reality, Undertow Tanka Review, New Verse News, Star*Line, and Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, among others. Two of her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net awards and two for Rhysling Awards and one for a Pushcart Prize.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
John Edward Lawson
Rhysling Anthology 2007
Peter Layton
Rhysling Anthology 1995
Jenna Lê
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Rhysling Anthology 1980, first place in 1982, 2007
Rio Le Moignan
Rhysling Anthology 2006
James Frederick Leach
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Angel Leal
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Michelle Leasure
Rhysling Anthology 1995
Nicole J. LeBoeuf
Rhysling Anthology 2023
B. J. Lee
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for over twenty years. She is a SFPA Grand Master and three-time winner of both the AnLab Readers’ Award and the Rhysling Award. Her latest books are from opposite shores of the poetry ocean: "How to Navigate Our Universe," containing 128 astronomy poems, and "The Sign of the Dragon," novel-length epic fantasy, winner of the Elgin Award. She hides her online presence with a cryptically named website (marysoonlee.com) and an equally cryptic Twitter account (@MarySoonLee).
Rhysling Anthology 2001, 2002, first place in 2014, 2015, 2016, third place in 2017, first place in 2018 + third place in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2008
Gerri Leen lives in Northern Virginia and originally hails from Seattle. In addition to being an avid reader, she's passionate about horse racing, tea, and collecting encaustic art and raku pottery. She has stories and poems in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nature, Strange Horizons, Dark Matter and others, and is a member of SFWA and HWA. See more at gerrileen.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2020, 2021, 2022, honorable mention in 2023
Rhysling Anthology 2002
Sandi Leibowitz
Rhysling Anthology 2015, 2017
Rose Lemberg
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, third place in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022
Shelley Lesher
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Muriel Leung
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Greg Leunig
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Richard L. Levesque
Rhysling Anthology 1995
Francine P. Lewis
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Julia Burns Liberman
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Tonya Liburd
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018
Nolan Liebert
Rhysling Anthology 2016
John C. Light
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Alan P. Lightman
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1983
Thomas Ligotti
Rhysling Anthology 1986
Sandra J. Lindow is co-editor of the SpecPo Review blog. Her most recent collection is Chasing Wild Grief, 2021. Her inspiration for writing "Intergalactic Baba Yaga" came from working in a Chicken Hut in 1972 as well as from Dr. Who. Now she lives on a hilltop in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Her front door is painted like a Tardis.
Rhysling Anthology 1988, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2002, third place in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, third place in 2016, 2019, third place in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Sarah Lindsay
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Darrell Lindsey
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Shira Lipkin’s poetry and short fiction have been published in Apex
Magazine, Stone Telling, Chizine, Interfictions 2, Mythic Delirium, and other wonderful magazines and anthologies. She lives in Boston
with her family and the requisite cats, most of whom also write. She
also fights crime with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, does six
impossible things before breakfast, and would like a nap now.
Rhysling Anthology 2010, first place in 2012, 2013, 2016
Darren Lipman
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Steve Littlejohn
Rhysling Anthology 1996
Trevor Livingston is.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
A. J. Locke
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Frank Belknap Long
Rhysling Anthology 1978
Lori R. Lopez writes Speculative Verse and Prose along with other genres. She also enjoys illustrating her odd books for young and old and in-between. Lori and two talented sons formed a creative company named Fairy Fly Entertainment, and a Folk Band called The Fairyflies to record original songs. Her collection Darkverse: The Shadow Hours received a 2018 Elgin Nomination. Poems have been honored with Rhysling Nominations, and various titles won Book Awards for Fiction and Poetry. A Hat-Wearer, Animal-Lover, Activist, Vegan, Tree-Hugger and all-around Eccentric, Lori’s poetry and stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines including California Screamin’ (the Foreword Poem), The Sirens Call, The Horror Zine, Weirdbook, Spectral Realms, Space & Time, Illumen, Altered Realities, Bewildering Stories, Oddball Magazine, Impspired, Rhysling Anthologies, and HWA Poetry Showcases.
Rhysling Anthology 2020, 2021, 2022
Christina Loraine
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Native New Yorker LindaAnn LoSchiavo, a Pushcart Prize and Rhysling Award nominee, is a member of SFPA and The Dramatists Guild.
Elgin kissed "A Route Obscure and Lonely" and "Concupiscent Consumption" are her latest poetry titles.
Forthcoming: a chapbook by Cerasus Poetry and a full-length collection by Beacon Books.
Her Texas Guinan documentary won "Best Feature Documentary" at N.Y. Women's Film Fest (Dec. 2021), linktr.ee/LindaAnn.LoSchiavo. Twitter @Mae_Westside. Her YouTube channel, LindaAnn Literary, presents her poetry as videos: youtube.com/channel/UCHm1NZIlTZybLTFA44wwdfg
Rhysling Anthology 2021, 2022
April Lott
Rhysling Anthology 2004
Bronwyn Lovell
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2018
P. H. Low is a Malaysian American writer and poet with work published in Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Fantasy Magazine, and Abyss & Apex, among others. P. H. attended Viable Paradise in 2019, is a member of the Pitch Wars class of 2021, and currently serves as a first reader for khōréō, a speculative fiction magazine featuring immigrant and diaspora writers and stories.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
A. E. Lowery
Rhysling Anthology 2008
S. Qiouyi Lu writes, translates, and edits between two coasts of the Pacific. Eir work has appeared in several award-winning venues. E edits the magazine Arsenika and runs microverses, a hub for tiny narratives. You can find out more about S. at eir website s.qiouyi.lu or on Twitter @sqiouyilu.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2021
Suzanne Lummis
Rhysling Anthology 1985
David Lunde was born in Berkeley, California, USA, in 1941 and raised in Saudi Arabia, where his father was an engineer with the Arabian American Oil Co. After graduating from Knox College in 1963, he attended the Iowa Writer’s Workshop on the recommendation of Archibald MacLeish, where he studied poetry, fiction writing, and translation, and received his MFA in 1967. In his second year, he was awarded the Old Gold Fellowship in Writing, which paid his tuition for a year. After that, he supported himself by inking charts and graphs of satellite data for Dr. James A. Van Allen in the Physics and Astronomy department, and occasionally babysitting for Kurt Vonnegut. After graduation, he taught English literature and creative writing, and directed the creative writing program at SUNY Fredonia. While there, he and Theodore Burtt Jr. founded The Basilisk Press, which published 13 books of poetry by authors from all over the USA. He was also managing editor of Drama and Theater magazine, poetry editor of The Riverside Quarterly, and contributing editor of Escarpments. Upon retiring in 2001, he moved to North Bend, Oregon, with his wife, fantasy novelist Patricia A. McKillip. Approximately 1,000 of Lunde’s poems, stories, articles, and translations have appeared internationally in more than 250 periodicals and 40 anthologies. He has published 10 books of poems and, in collaboration with Mary M.Y. Fung, The Carving of Insects, a translation of the collected poems of the 20th-century Chinese poet Bian Zhilin, which won the 2007 PEN USA Translation Award. Past awards include the Academy of American Poets Prize and two Rhysling Awards for Best Speculative Poem of the Year. Another collection of Lunde’s Chinese translations, Breaking the Willow, was published in fall 2008, and in 2011 he and two fellow translators, Geoffrey Waters and Michael Farman, published a new translation of the classic Chinese anthology 300 Tang Poems. Lunde’s books include Ironic Holidays (Sariya Press, 1965, chapbook, hand-printed by author), Les Papillons(Lupo Press, 1965, Sludge Gulper1 (The Basilisk Press, 1971), Calibrations (Allegany Mountain Press,1981), Blues for Port City (Mayapple Press, 1995, chapbook of SF poetry), Heart Transplants & Other Misappropriations (Mellen Poetry Press, 1996), Nightfishing in Great Sky River: Poems of Inner and Outer Space (Anamnesis Press, 1999), Instead (Mayapple Press, 2007), Breaking the Willow:Poems of Parting, Exile, Separation & Reunion (White Pine Press, 2008, translated by David Lunde), The Grandson of Heinrich Schliemann & Other Truths and Fictions (Mayapple Press, 2014), and A Full Load of Moonlight: Chinese Chan Buddhist Poems (Musical Stone Culture, 2014, translated by Mary M.Y. Fung and David Lunde).
Rhysling Anthology 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, first place in 1992, 1993, 1995, third place in 2000, 2004, 2006
Hillary Lyon
Rhysling Anthology 2018
C. S. MacCath
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2012
Alex Dally MacFarlane
Rhysling Anthology 2010
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
Rhysling Anthology 1981, 1991, 1992, 1995
Lee MacKenzie
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Lynne M. MacLean has had poetry and short fiction published in Speculative North, On Spec Magazine, Room Magazine, Podcastle, Stupefying Stories, Tesseracts 15, and Horrific History, among others. She is the 2019 co-winner of the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Older Writers Grant. She is a Canadian community health research consultant and writer in Ottawa, Canada. You can find her on Twitter @LynneMaclean2 and lynnemmaclean.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Toby MacNutt is a queer, nonbinary trans, disabled dancer/choreographer, author, and teacher living in Burlington, VT. In June 2018 Toby premiered ENTER THE VOID, a performance installation in the darkness of space, accompanied by a sci-fi poetry guidebook. Recent publications of Toby's poetry and prose include Vulture Bones, EnbyLife, Strange Horizons and Liminality magazines, and their debut collection If Not Skin (Aqueduct Press, 2018).
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Kurt MacPhearson
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2013
Minadora Macheret
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Rich Magahiz has a day job working with computers, originally as a physicist, later as a devops engineer. He's published some poetry in Scifaikuest, Dreams and Nightmares, Abyss and Apex, and Star*Line, and has had one poem nominated for the Rhysling Award. He lives close to where he grew up on the west coast.
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2022
Elissa Malcohn edited the “Interplay” section of Star*Line 34.4. Her poetry has appeared in Asimov’s, the 2012 Rhysling Anthology, Fifth Di…, and elsewhere. In 2013 her "Fibonacci Sequence" received honorable mention in the PBS NewsHour Science Rap contest. Outside the genre, she is a regular contributor to the CareGifters anthology series from Caregiving.com, which helps benefit caregivers in need.
Rhysling Anthology 1984, 1986, 2012
Paul Malécot
Rhysling Anthology 1996
Kim Malinowski is a lover of words. Her collection Home was published by Kelsay Books and her chapbook Death: A Love Story was published by Flutter Press. Her work has appeared in Mythic Delirium, Gone Lawn, Corvid Queen, Enchanted Living, Illumen, AHF Magazine, and others. She writes because the alternative is unthinkable.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Nissa Malli
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Mack W. Mani is an American poet and author; his work has appeared in Neon, NewMyths, and The Pedestal Magazine. His screenplay You and Me and Dagon Make Three won Best Screenplay at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in 2018. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with his husband Jordan Seider.
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Hank Mannheimer
Rhysling Anthology 1988
Katie Manning
Rhysling Anthology 2020
John C. Mannone, the 2019 Dwarf Stars Chair and the 2013 Rhysling Chair, has speculative work in Pedestal, New England Journal of Medicine, Baltimore Review, Devilfish Review, Event Horizon, Eye to the Telescope, Riddled with Arrows, NonBinary Review, Altered Reality Magazine, Star*Line and many others. He has three poetry collections: Apocalypse (Alban Lake Publishing) won 3rd place in the 2017 Elgin Book Award; Disabled Monsters (The Linnet’s Wings Press) was featured at the 2016 Southern Festival of Books; Flux Lines, love-related poems using science metaphors, is forthcoming in 2019. He’s been awarded the Horror Writers Association Scholarship (2017) and nominated for several Pushcart, Dwarf Stars and Best of the Net awards. He’s poetry editor for Abyss & Apex, Silver Blade, and Liquid Imagination. He’s also notable in literary circles: celebrity judge for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (2018), winner of the Jean Ritchie Fellowship in Appalachian literature (2017), and a Weymouth writer in residence (2016 & 2017). Mannone is a retired professor of physics living between Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee. jcmannone.wordpress.com
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023
Mark Mansfield
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Alessandro Manzetti
Rhysling Anthology 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Caroline Mao is a designer and computer science student at Barnard College Columbia. She loves reading, New York City, and bubble tea.
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Joy Marchand
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Chris Marchello is an autistic poet, fiction author, and essayist. He has been previously published in Rattle and The Oyez Review, among other publications. He is also the author of the newsletter The Republic of Letters, about finding ways to be OK in a transient universe. His work often deals with themes of deep time, the subjectivity of experience, and Buddhist concepts such as nonduality and interbeing. Chris lives in northwestern New Jersey, where when not writing he can be found baking sourdough bread to share with his best friend (and inevitably, her dog).
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Adrianne Marcus
Rhysling Anthology 1982
Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Pushcart-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra’s work haunts publications such as Vastarien, Asimov’s, Liminality, Arsenika, The Future Fire, Space & Time, Eye to the Telescope, and Glittership. The Saint of Witches, Avra’s debut collection of horror poetry, is forthcoming from Weasel Press. You can find Avra on twitter @avramargariti.
Rhysling Anthology 2022, honorable mention in 2023
Eric Marin
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Rebecca Marjesdatter is.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 2000+second place in 2000, 2002
Jack Hollis Marr
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Melissa Marr
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Helen Marshall
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014
Richard Mathews
Rhysling Anthology 1994
Elise Matthesen was born and raised in the U.S. Upper Midwest and is still here. She is a disabled poet and a third generation factory worker. She strives to follow Neil Gaiman’s advice to make good art, particularly in her day job where she makes art jewelry with evocative names. Some of this art jewelry has inspired other people to write, which is what got Elise a World Fantasy Award nomination in 2009. She is very fond of sushi and of investigating the comfort food of many cultures, and she has a lingering suspicion that the liver paté reference in Lois McMaster Bujold’s work was aimed at her. Her most memorable day as a coffeehouse performance poet was the one when Dr. Maya Angelou unexpectedly became part of her birthday party before the Twin-Cities-wide poetry slam competition.
Rhysling Anthology 1996
Airea D. Matthews
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Jason Matthews
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Meep Matushima is a white disabled genderqueer lesbian poet, with poetry in Strange Horizons, Microverses, Strange Fire: Jewish Voices from the Pandemic, and other fine publications. Say “hi” on Twitter to @meep_matsushima, and find more of her poetry at meep-matsushima.neocities.org and patreon.com/meep_matsushima.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Frederick Mayer
Rhysling Anthology 1981
Carl Mayfield
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Robin M. Mayhall
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2007
Bruce McAllister’s poetry and short fiction have appeared over the years in literary magazines, national magazines, many of the SFF&H field magazines, and “year’s best” volumes. His poetry has appeared recently in Analog, Asimov’s and Dreams and Nightmares, and his short fiction has won or been shortlisted for awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Hugo, the Nebula, Locus, and the Shirley Jackson, among others. In another life he was co-editor of what and leading-edge West Coast poetry quarterly and small press, helping to publish the major experimental poets and intermedia artists of that decade. His most recent novel is The Village Sang to the Sea: A Memoir of Magic. He lives in southern California with his wife, choreographer Amelie Hunter, and has three grown children, Liz, Ben and Annie.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Lauren McBride finds inspiration in faith, family, nature, science and membership in the SFPA. Nominated for the Best of the Net, Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Awards, her poetry has appeared in dozens of publications including Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Dreams & Nightmares. She enjoys swimming, gardening, baking, reading, writing and knitting scarves for troops.
Rhysling Anthology 2015, 2022
John McCarthy
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Elizabeth R. McClellan
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023
Hosho McCreesh
Rhysling Anthology 2007
Mark A. McCutcheon teaches literary studies at Athabasca University. His poems have appeared in journals like Star*Line, On Spec, Grain, and Kaleidotrope. Mark is the author of The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology (Athabasca UP, 2018), and his literary criticism also appears in The Explicator, Continuum, and other scholarly journals and books. He tweets as @sonicfiction.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
JM McDermott
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Steven E. McDonald
Rhysling Anthology 1981
Dawn McDuffie
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Terry McGarry
Rhysling Anthology 1993, 2001
Claudia C. McGiveny
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Maureen McHugh
Rhysling Anthology 2004
Patrick McKinnon
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1990
Brendan McMahon
Rhysling Anthology 1996
Richard McMullen
Rhysling Anthology 1986
Mary McMyne
Rhysling Anthology 2014, 2017, 2020
Pam McNew
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009
Todd Mecklem
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr.
Rhysling Anthology 2003
Lynette Mejía writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror prose and poetry from the middle of a deep, dark forest in the wilds of southern Louisiana. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Rhysling Award and the Million Writers Award. You can find her online at lynettemejia.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2015, 2016
David Memmott
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1991, 1998, 2005, 2009
Paul Merchant
Rhysling Anthology 1988
Joanne Merriam
Rhysling Anthology 2012
W. S. Merwin
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Mark Meyer
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Kate Meyer-Currey lives in Devon. A varied career in frontline settings has fuelled her interest in gritty urbanism, contrasted with a rural upbringing, often with a slipstream twist. She has over a hundred poems published in print and online journals and anthologies in the UK and internationally. Her poem ‘Gloves’ was in the top 100 of the UK’s Poetry for Good competition (2021) and ‘We got this’ was shortlisted for the 2021 Black in White poetry competition. ‘Boys of Vallance Road’ came third in the poetry category of the London Society’s ‘Love Letter to London’ competition (March 2022). Her chapbooks County Lines (Dancing Girl) and Cuckoo’s Nest (Contraband) are due out in 2022.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Nicholas Midgley
Rhysling Anthology 1997
Margaret Miles
Rhysling Anthology 1992
Mario Milosevic
Rhysling Anthology 2002
Devin Miller is a queer, genderqueer cyborg and lifelong denizen of Seattle, with a love of muddy beaches to show for it. Their short fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Metaphorosis; their poetry can be found in Mermaids Monthly and The Future Fire, and on select King County Metro bus terminals. You can learn more about Devin's writing at devzmiller.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Errol Miller
Rhysling Anthology 1994, 1996
P. Andrew Miller
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Terry Miller
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Katharine Mills
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Samuel Minier
Rhysling Anthology 2002
Lev Mirov
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017, 2023
Debasish Mishra is a Senior Research Fellow in Humanities at National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Bhubaneswar, India. Prior to his current engagement, he has worked in United Bank of India and taught at Central University of Odisha. A recipient of The Bharat Award for Literature in 2019 and The Reuel International Best Upcoming Poet Prize in 2017, his recent work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, California Quarterly, Penumbra, Amsterdam Quarterly, The Headlight Review, Enchanted Conversation, Star*Line, and elsewhere. He has also reviewed books for The Expository Times, Forum for Modern Language Studies and Muse India.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Vincent Miskell’s speculative poetry has appeared in Asimov's SF, Star*Line, Space & Time, F & SF, Aoife's Kiss, TLJ, From the Asylum, and the HWA Showcase. His SF novelette, Godspeed, Inc., is a free download on many ebook outlets, and his most recent novel is The Night Stands Still. Orignally from New Jersey, he lives with his wife and rescued cats and dogs in Dania Beach, FL.
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2022
Miguel O. Mitchell
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Sharon Mock
Rhysling Anthology 2010
H. D. Moe
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Irina Moga
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Virginia M. Mohlere lives in the swamps of Houston and writes with a fountain pen that is extinct in the wild. Her work has been seen in Cabinet des Fées, Strange Horizons, Mythic Delirium, Goblin Fruit, and MungBeing.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
George Moore
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Marian Moore
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Edward Morris
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Tiffany Morris is a Mi'kmaw/settler writer of speculative poetry and fiction from Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia. Her work has previously appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, and Apex Magazine, among others. Her full-length horror poetry book will be released from Nictitating Books in 2022. Find her on twitter @tiffmorris or at tiffmorris.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Drew Morse
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2006, 2008
Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss is an Anglo-Ghanaian writer and teacher who has lived in the UK, Japan and currently, Australia. His work seeks to explore and challenge liminal landscapes, complex identities and social constructs of race. Most recently, Andrew’s poetry is featured in Poetry for the Planet and The Best New British and Irish Poets Anthology 2019-2021 by The Black Spring Press Group (BSPG). He has been published by Afropean, Fly on the Wall Press and Sound the Abeng, among others. His debut collection will be published this year by BSPG and his debut novel will be published by RoseyRavelston. Andrew’s poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Rhysling Award for 2022 respectively.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Jaime Lee Moyer was the 2010 Rhysling chair.
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
Michelle Muenzler, known at local conventions as “The Cookie Lady,” writes things both dark and strange to counterbalance the sweetness of her baking. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in numerous magazines, and she takes immense joy in crinkling words like little foil puppets. Visit michellemuenzler.com for links to her work.
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Lee Murray is a multi-award-winning writer and poet, and a five-time Bram Stoker Awards® winner, including for poetry for Tortured Willows (with Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, and Geneve Flynn). A NZSA Honorary Literary Fellow, Lee is a Grimshaw Sargeson Fellow and winner of the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize for her forthcoming prose-poetry collection Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud. She is an Elgin Award runner up, and a Rhysling-, Dwarf Star-, and Pushcart-nominated poet. Her poem 'cheongsam' won the Australian Shadows Award for poetry for 2021. Her poetry anthology Under Her Eye (co-edited with Lindy Ryan), a women in horror project in association with the Pixels Project to prevent violence against women, releases in Nov 2023 from Black Spot Books. Read more at leemurray.info.
Rhysling Anthology honorable mention in 2022, 2023
Kristine Ong Muslim
Rhysling Anthology 2008, 2009, 2010
Edward Mycue
Rhysling Anthology 1992
D. L. Myers
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018, 2020
Soonest Nathaniel
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Shweta Naryan
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2011
Vivek Narayanan teaches poetry in the MFA Creative Writing program at George Mason University. His books of poems include After (2022, New York Review of Books, from which the finalist poem was taken) Universal Beach, and Life and Times of Mr S.
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Ruth Naylor
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Aminath Neena is an English lecturer from the picturesque archipelago nation of the Maldives. An avid lover of words, poetry is a hobby closest to her heart. Her poems usually revolve around themes such as love, relationships, spirituality, society, and global issues. Her poems are published or are forthcoming in a range of international platforms like the Trouvaille Review, Spill words, Muddy River Poetry Review, Impspired magazine and many others.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Kim L. Neidigh
Rhysling Anthology 2015
KB Nelson is a Canadian writer whose poems have appeared in over two dozen journals and anthologies. Her chapbook Muse of Natural History was published in June 2021. KB has resided from coast to coast in Canada, in Arizona, and in New Zealand. She has won awards in both poetry and short fiction including the 2017 Cedric Literary Award for poetry. KB currently lives, writes and hikes the beaches and forests on the unceded territory of the Sechelt First Nation on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Mari Ness
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2015, 2018, 2022
Karen L. Newman
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Kurt Newton’s poetry has appeared numerous magazines and anthologies over the years, including Strange Horizons, Space and Time, Mythic Delirium, Dreams and Nightmares, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope and Polu Texni.
Rhysling Anthology 1999, 2001, 2011, 2012, 2019, 2022, 2023
James B. Nicola
Rhysling Anthology 2010
John Nichols
Rhysling Anthology 1997
Scott Nickell
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Misha Nogha
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Dante Novario is a Pushcart-nominated writer from Louisville, KY, where he works as a therapist with special needs individuals. His writing has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Firewords Magazine, KAIROS, Peeking Cat Literary, Nimrod International Journal, Thin Air Magazine, Ghost City Press and others. His poetry can also be found on the literary podcast Strange Horizons. Find more of his writing on Instagram @dante_novario.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance poet, teaching artist and game designer from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing, the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions, and the inaugural Ignyte Award for Best in Speculative Poetry, and is published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Strange Horizons, Reckoning, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, among others. He is the former poetry editor of FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. His debut poetry collection, Can You Sign My Tentacle?, is forthcoming from Interstellar Flight Press.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Bryant O’Hara is a programmer, poet, and musician—not always in that order, sometimes all at once. His poetry has been published in Pandemic Atlanta 2020, Star*Line, and Eyedrum Periodically. His debut poetry collection, The Ghettobirds, was published by Frayed Edge Press. He lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia, with his wife Alice, two out of seven children, and one out of six grandchildren. intimateandintricate.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Cindy O’Quinn is an Appalachian writer who grew up in the mountains of West Virginia.
In 2016, Cindy and her family moved to the northern woods of Maine, where she continues to write horror stories and speculative poetry.
Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Shotgun Honey Presents Vol 4: RECOIL, The Twisted Book of Shadows Anthology, Shelved: Appalachian Resilience During Covid-19 Anthology, HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. V, Space & Time Magazine, Nothing's Sacred Vols. 4 & 5, Sanitarium Magazine, and others.
Cindy is a multiple Rhysling Award-nominated poet, Dwarf Stars nominee, and two-time Bram Stoker Award nominee.
You can follow Cindy for updates on Facebook @CindyOQuinnWriter, Instagram cindy.oquinn, and Twitter @COQuinnWrites.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022
Jason O’Toole
Rhysling Anthology 2020
A. J. Odasso
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Joy Oestreicher
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Uche Ogbuji
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Aimee Ogden
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Olga Pavlinova Olenich
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Chuck Oliveros
Rhysling Anthology 1985
Christina Olson
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Norman J. Olson
Rhysling Anthology 2008
K. A. Opperman
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
Ed Orr
Rhysling Anthology 1984
Alan Rice Osborn
Rhysling Anthology second place in 1995
Alice Oswald
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Jeremy Paden
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Carol D. Page is.
Rhysling Anthology 1996, 1998, 2000
Triin Paja
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Susan Palwick
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1986, 1990
Eva Papasoulioti is a writer of speculative fiction and poetry. She lives in Athens, Greece, with her spouse and their two cats. She’s a Rhysling finalist and her work has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Solarpunk Magazine, Utopia Science Fiction and elsewhere. You can find her on twitter @epapasoulioti and on her blog plothopes.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Glen Pape
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Jesse Parent
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Stephanie Parent
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Dominik Parisien
Rhysling Anthology 2013, 2014, 2015
Suphil Lee Park is the author of Present Tense Complex, winner of the Marystina Santiestevan Prize. She spent 9/14 of her life all over the Korean peninsula before landing in the American Northeast. She graduated from New York University with a BA in English and from the University of Texas at Austin with an MFA in Poetry. Her poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, the Iowa Review, the Massachusetts Review, Writer’s Digest, and the Yale Review, among many others. You can find more about her at suphil-lee-park.com
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Paul Park
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Nathan Parker
Rhysling Anthology 2004
Like a magpie, Rhonda Parrish is constantly distracted by shiny things. She’s the editor of many anthologies and author of plenty of books, stories and poems. She lives with her husband and three cats in Edmonton, Alberta, and she can often be found there playing Dungeons and Dragons, bingeing crime dramas or cheering on the Oilers. Her website, updated regularly, is at rhondaparrish.com and her Patreon, updated even more regularly, is at patreon.com/RhondaParrish.
Rhysling Anthology 2009, 2021
Max Pasakorn
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Caitlyn Paxson
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Peter Payack was the first Poet Populist of Cambridge Massachusetts (2007–2009). He's an acclaimed poet and writer with multiple appearances in The Paris Review, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Cornell Review, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Creative Computing, and the Boston Globe. He has published over 1,500 poems, stories, prose poems, photos, and articles. His work has been anthologized and he has published 20 books, including No Free Will in Tomatoes and Blanket Knowledge, both from Zoland Books. Peter was an Assistant Professor Communications at The Berklee College of Music, and taught Technical & Scientific Communications at The University of Massachusetts Lowell for over 30 years where he was awarded the 2010 Haskell Award for Distinguished teaching. Payack has also been a visiting artist at The Center For Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T. You can read more about Peter at peterpayack.com.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1980
Michael H. Payne’s novels have been published by Tor Books and Sofawolf Press, his short stories have appeared in Asimov's, the Writers of the Future collection, and 11 of the last 12 volumes of the Sword and Sorceress anthology, and his poems can be found in Silver Blade, Gathering Storm, and the Civilized Beasts anthology. After 15 years of posting daily comics to various websites, he's now settled into a more sedate rate of four pages a week while running the SFWA's Featured Book program and compiling the monthly Round-Up for SFPA.
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Josh Pearce has stories and poetry in Analog, Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Cast of Wonders, Clarkesworld, IGMS, and Nature. He currently works at Locus magazine and lives in California with his wife and sons. One time, Ken Jennings signed his chest.
Rhysling Anthology 2020, 2021
Richard William Pearce is.
Rhysling Anthology 2001
Steven L. Peck
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Isabel Pelech
Rhysling Anthology 2007
Kate Pentecost
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2020
Juan Manuel Pérez is a Mexican-American poet of indigenous descent and the current Poet Laureate for Corpus Christi, Texas (2019–2020), is the author of several books of poetry including two new books, Space in Pieces (The House Of The Fighting Chupacabras Press, 2020) and Screw the Wall! and Other Brown People Poems (FlowerSong Press, 2020).
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2012, 2013, 2020
Terry Persun has been writing and publishing poetry, short stories, and novels since the early 1970s. He has been the recipient of many novel and poetry awards over the years, including the Star of Washington Award and a Silver IPPY Award. Terry writes in a variety of genres including science fiction, fantasy, thriller, mystery, and mainstream fiction. He is a respected keynoter and speaker at libraries, writers’ groups, writers’ conferences, and universities across the country. Terry has an MA in creative writing from SUNY Stony Brook, runs his own marketing agency, and has worked in publishing for over 30 years.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Simon Petrie
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2013
Krysada Panusith Phounsiri is a Lao American born in Huay Xai, Laos. He immigrated to the U.S. at age two where he lived in Southeast San Diego. He began writing poetry at age 11, but fell in love with poetry when he attended UC Berkeley. He is a Physics/Astrophysics double major, with a minor in Creative Writing. He is a professional dancer who has competed and performed internationally through the dance form known as Breaking. He is also an avid photographer. His work has appeared previously in publications such as the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s national photo project “A Day In the Life of Asian America”. His recent series "Beauty Beyond Scars" is featured in various blogs/content sites including The Getty and The Phoblographer. He debuted his first book of poetry in April 2015, titled Dance Among Elephants. The book is a poetic journey of identity, family, homeland, love, and dance.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 2016
Tom Piccirilli
Rhysling Anthology 2000, 2001
David Piercy
Rhysling Anthology 1984
Marge Piercy (1936– ) has published close to 20 books of poetry and close to 20 novels. Her novels generally address larger social concerns through sharply observed characters and brisk plot lines. Her poetry shows the same commitment to the social and environmental issues that fill her novels. The Moon is Always Female (1980) is considered a classic text of the feminist movement.
Rhysling Anthology 1982
Terese Mason Pierre (she/her) is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Uncanny, Strange Horizons and Fantasy Magazine, among others. Her work has been nominated for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, Best of the Net, the Aurora Award, and the Ignyte Award. She is one of ten winners of the Writers’ Trust Journey Prize, and was named a Writers’ Trust Rising Star. Terese is the co-Editor-in-Chief of Augur Magazine, a Canadian speculative literature journal, and co-Director of AugurCon, Augur’s biennial speculative literature conference. She has co-hosted poetry reading series, spoken at conferences, organized literary events, judged writing contests, and facilitated creative writing workshops. She is the author of chapbooks Surface Area (Anstruther Press, 2019) and Manifest (Gap Riot Press, 2020). Terese lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter.
Rhysling Anthology 2021, first place in 2023
Signe Pike
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Rhysling Anthology 1990, 1991, 1993, 2017, 2018
Richard Pitaniello
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Karen R. Porter
Rhysling Anthology 2004
Christine Post
Rhysling Anthology 1989
Jonathan Vos Post
Rhysling Anthology 1985, 1986, first place in 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, second place in 1995
Steph Post
Rhysling Anthology 2017
P. Aaron Potter
Rhysling Anthology 2022
After years of impersonating a Systems Engineer, Ken Poyner has retired to watch his wife of forty+ years continue to break both Masters and Open world raw powerlifting records. Ken’s two current poetry collections, The Book of Robot and Victims of a Failed Civics, and three short fiction collections, Constant Animals, Avenging Cartography, and The Revenge of the House Hurlers, are available from Amazon and most book-selling websites. Visit him at kpoyner.com.
Rhysling Anthology 1986, 2017, 2018
Tim Pratt is a North Carolina native now living in California, where
he is associate editor for Locus magazine and co-edits
the literary zine Flytrap with his fiancée, Heather
Shaw. His first full-length poetry collection, If There Were
Wolves, is forthcoming from Prime Books/Aegis. His poetry
has appeared in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and Weird
Tales, among others. Pratt is also a Nebula-nominated fiction
author, and his first novel, The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, will
be published in December. In addition, his story “Hart & Boot”
appeared in the Michael Chabon-edited volume of Best American
Short Stories.
Rhysling Anthology 2003, 2004, first place in 2005 +second place in 2005, 2006, 2012
Katherine Quevedo was born and raised just outside of Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. Her poetry has received an honorable mention in the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and appeared in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, The Common Tongue Magazine, Coffin Bell, Eye to the Telescope, Latinx Lit Mag, and elsewhere. Her speculative fiction has appeared in Fireside Magazine, Best Indie Speculative Fiction Vol. III and IV, and elsewhere. Find her at www.katherinequevedo.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Matt Quinn
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Qyn
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Jacie Ragan
Rhysling Anthology 1993, 1994, 1997, 2013
Jack Ralls
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Jessy Randall’s poems, stories, and other things have appeared in Asimov's, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and Strange Horizons. Her most recent book is How to Tell If You Are Human: Diagram Poems (Pleiades, 2018). She's a librarian at Colorado College, currently working on a series of poems about women in math and science. Her website is bit.ly/JessyRandall.
Rhysling Anthology 2004, 2019, 2020
Margaret Randall
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Kathryn Rantala
Rhysling Anthology 1978, 1979, 1982, 1998
Dan Raphael
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1995
Wendy Rathbone has over 500 poems published, most recently in Asimov's, Apex, Pedestal Magazine, Dreams and Nightmares, the Rhysling Anthology, Lupine Lunes, and ETTT. She has won 3rd place in the SFPA poetry contest in the "long poem" category. Dead Starships won 2nd place in the 2017 Elgin Book Award.
Rhysling Anthology 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, third place in 2000, 2002, 2016, second place in 2017
Christina M. Rau is the author of the Elgin Award-winning sci-fi fem poetry collection, Liberating The Astronauts (Aqueduct Press) and the poetry chapbooks WakeBreatheMove (Finishing Line Press) and For The Girls, I (dancing girl press). Her poetry has appeared on gallery walls in The Ekphrastic Poster Show, on car magnets for The Living Poetry Project, and in various literary journals. Her prose has appeared on Book Riot and in Reader’s Digest. She was named 2020 Poet of the Year by Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and Poet In Residence for Oceanside Library NY 2020-1, and she won the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Creative Endeavors. In her non-writing life, when she’s not teaching yoga or offering reiki, she’s watching the Game Show Network. Find her links on christinamrau.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2021
Melanie A. Rawls
Rhysling Anthology 1989
Saba Sayed Razvi
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2018
Peter Redgrove
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Gabby Reed
Rhysling Anthology 2015, 2016
John Reinhart is an arsonist and jungle gym. He writes in the timeslices between presents, twisting bloody words onto dead trees. He feels sorry about the trees. Check out more of his work and consider committing your soul in monthly installments to support his work at patreon.com/johnreinhart
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
Suzanne Reinschild
Rhysling Anthology 1996
Terrie Leigh Relf is a lifetime member of the SFPA and an active member of the HWA. She is the poetry editor for Tales from the Moonlit Path and the contest judge and editor for Alban Lake Publishing's "somewhat quarterly" Drabble contest. In addition to being a poet and fiction writer, Relf is also a professional content provider, editor, writing and life coach. You can learn more about her by visiting the following websites: tlrelf.wordpress.com, terrieleighrelf.com, and tlrelfreikipractitioner.wordpress.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Anna Remennik is a chemical engineer working in Silicon Valley and enjoys writing poems about automatic titrators, technical supply chain processes, and occasionally even more fantastical things. She can be found online at annaremennik.wordpress.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Harold Renisch
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Thomas D. Reynolds
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1987, 1988, 1999
Margaret Rhee
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Sofía Rhei writes fantasy and science fiction for adults and children. Her books for kids include the series El joven Moriarty, award-winning and translated to 3 languages, and La calle Andersen, written with Marian Womack. She has published nine experimental poetry titles, winning the national prize “Javier Egea,” as well as three genre short fiction collections: Las ciudades reversibles, partially translated to English as Reversible Cities (Talisman); El bosque profundo, dark microfiction about tarot and woods, and the meta-literary Everything is made of letters (Aqueduct Press). Her novels for adults are Róndola, Celsius award-winning humorous fantasy fairytale retelling, and Espérame en la última página, a ghost story about books (rights sold to Italian, Serbian, French and Chinese markets).
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Todd Earl Rhodes
Rhysling Anthology 1997
Clélie Rich
Rhysling Anthology 1998
Mark Rich
Rhysling Anthology 1986, 1988, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2015
Matthew Richards
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Silvatiicus Riddle. Forest Enigma. A Mystery Within a Feral Landscape. The Unknowable Woodlands. Curiously Mystified Thicket. Anachronistic Troubadour. Sleepy Iconoclast. Witch. Lover. Friend. Lost Boy. Multi-faceted, multi-dimensional being disguised as a Dark Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Writer, and Poet. A Faerie, misplaced. A strange, 19th century Victorian-Gothic figure haunting the doorways of the mind. Sometimes looks like a painting, or a small, wooden doll. Might have been educated in the likes of English and Literature at Kingsborough. May have appeared as an enchanted poem, folded tightly among the pages of Abyss & Apex, Dreams & Nightmares, Enchanted Living, Spectral Realms, Eternal Haunted Summer, and others. Is far too shy to ask you to help him find his time machine. He cannot recall where he parked it. If found, please call: [redacted].
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Ron Riekki wrote My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland’s Apprentice House Press), U.P.: a novel (Ghost Road Press), and Posttraumatic: A Memoir (Small Press Distribution). He edited Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice (Michigan State University Press), And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, 1917–2017 (MSU Press), Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (MSU Press, Independent Publisher Book Award), The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works (Wayne State University Press, Michigan Notable Book), and The Many Lives of The Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise (McFarland). Riekki acts in the film Short Straw (directed by Steve Balderson, starring Joe Pantoliano) and is the title role in the horror film Flesher (directed by John Johnson, starring Erica Mary Gillheeney).
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Andrew Rihn
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Tom Riley
Rhysling Anthology 1988
Rich Ristow was born in Bittburg, Germany. His parents
were, at the time, educators for the Department of Defense
Dependant Schools. From there, he's lived in England, Bermuda,
Belgium, The Netherlands, China, West Virginia, North Carolina and New Jersey.
He holds degrees from West Virginia University, and in 2004,
he earned a MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina
at Wilmington. He was the 2015 Rhysling chair.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 2007
Uncle River is.
Rhysling Anthology 1994, 1996, 2006
Teresa Noelle Roberts
Rhysling Anthology 2006
W. C. Roberts
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2018, 2019, 2020
S. Brackett Robertson
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Daniel R. Robichaud
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Margo Roby
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Erin Robinson graduated from Lycoming College in Pennsylvania where she studied history and creative writing. She currently resides in Connecticut where she pet-sits, among other odd jobs. Her poetry has been published in Timeless Tales Magazine, NonBinary Review and Liminality, and a short story appeared in Pantheon Magazine.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Multiple Scribe and Rhysling Award nominee Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell is the author of twelve books to date. Her work includes 7 SYKOS, a near-future SF/H thriller co-written with writing partner/husband Jeff Mariotte; The Shard Axe series, the only official novels that tie into the popular fantasy MMORPG, Dungeons & Dragons Online; two collections; dozens of short stories and poems; multiple articles on writing and the writing process; and a handful of comic-book scripts. She is also a disabled pediatric cancer and mental health awareness advocate, and a reconnecting Chippewa/Métis. She resides in the Valley of the Sun, where she writes dark fiction and poetry in a home she and her family have dubbed ‘Redwall.’ Find out more here: marsheilarockwell.com, or follow her on Twitter at @MarcyRockwell.
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Robert J. Rodda
Rhysling Anthology 1995
J. C. Rodriguez is a writer and educator from Westbury, NY. His poetry has appeared in Voicemail Poems, FreezeRay, Meow Meow Pow Pow, Taco Bell Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is a poetry manuscript reader at Interstellar Flight Press and a recipient of a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Stephen D. Rogers
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Steven Rogers
Rhysling Anthology 1999
Karen A. Romanko has seen over 100 of her poems and short stories published
in venues such as Strange Horizons, Aberrant Dreams, Ideomancer, and Lone
Star Stories. When she switches literary hats, she edits and publishes
speculative fiction and poetry anthologies under the Raven Electrick Ink
imprint, such as Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia (2010) and Jack-o'-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy (2011).
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2008, 2009, second place in 2011
Hester J. Rook is an Australian Shadows Award-winning and Rhysling Award-shortlisted poet, fiction writer and co-editor of Twisted Moon Magazine. They are often found salt-scrunched on beaches, reading arcane tales and losing the moon in mugs of tea. Find Hester on Twitter @hesterjrook and read more poems and fiction at hesterjrook.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2022
Camille Rosas
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Rhea Rose
Rhysling Anthology 1998
Louis B. Rosenberg is the author of three sci-fi graphic novels (Eons, Upgrade, and Monkey Room) and an award-winning web series (Lab Rats) from Frostbite Pictures. His short fiction and poetry has appeared in Abyss & Apex, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Points in Case, Sci-Fi Lampoon, Dark Matter Magazine, Dark Lane Anthology 10, Spring into Sci-Fi Anthology 2021, and the Tales to Terrify podcast. Rosenberg is also a well-known AI researcher, so his cautionary tales about artificial intelligence are based on real issues faced by the scientific community.
Rhysling Anthology 2021, 2022
Tracey S. Rosenberg
Rhysling Anthology 1999
Brian Rosenberger
Rhysling Anthology 2008
John B. Rosenman
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Shana Ross
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Ruth Roston
Rhysling Anthology 1989
Irving Rothchild
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Yann Rousselot
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Shelagh Rowan-Legg
Rhysling Anthology 2015
James Frederick William Rowe
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Sankar Roy
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Allan Rozinski is a writer of speculative poetry and fiction. His poetry and fiction has most recently been accepted or published in Spectral Realms, Weirdbook, Star*Line, The Literary Hatchet, and the 2020 Rhysling Anthology, which contains his 2020 Rhysling-nominated poems “The Solace of the Father Moon” (short category) and “Cannibal Rex” (long category). He can be found on Twitter and Facebook.
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2020, 2021
Mark Rudolph
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2002, 2004
Alison Rumfitt
Rhysling Anthology 2018
J. C. Runolfson
Rhysling Anthology 2007, 2009, 2010
Ty Russell
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Ryfkah
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Sara Saab
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Christiaan Sabatelli
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Abu Bakr Sadiq is a Nigerian poet. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Uncanny Magazine, Augur Magazine, FIYAH, Mizna, Zone 3 Press Magazine, The Lit Quarterly, Rockvale Review, and elsewhere. He writes from Minna. Find him on twitter @bakronline.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Wayne Allen Sallee
Rhysling Anthology 1989
Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Rhysling Anthology 1989
John Salonia
Rhysling Anthology 2001
Sofia Samatar
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
William Sanders
Rhysling Anthology 2007
Charles M. Sapiak
Rhysling Anthology 2002, first place in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
Ruby Sara
Rhysling Anthology 2013
R. Paul Sardanas
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2012
Lynn Sargent is a writer, philosopher, and aerialist, from Ontario, Canada. You can find more of her work in publications like Visions, Polar Borealis, and Wild Musette. She was a 2018 Rhysling Award Nominee and a 2018 Aurora Award Nominee. Feel free to reach out to her on Twitter @SamLynneS.
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Fungisayi Sasa
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Michelle Scalise
Rhysling Anthology 2000, 2016
Amy Schaefer
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Lauren Scharhag (she/her) is an award-winning author of fiction and poetry, and a senior editor at Gleam. Her 2023 releases include Midnight Glossolalia (with Scott Ferry and Lillian Necakov; Meat for Tea Press), Morels (Voice Lux Press), and Moonlight and Monsters (forthcoming, Gnashing Teeth Press). She lives in Kansas City, MO. linktr.ee/laurenscharhag.
Rhysling Anthology 2022, 2023
Ruth Lisa Schechter
Rhysling Anthology 1984
Lorraine Schein
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Lawrence Schimel (New York, 1971) writes in both Spanish and English and has published over 100 books as author or anthologist, in many different genres. He has won the Lambda Literary Award (twice), the Spectrum Award, the Independent Publisher Book Award, the Rhysling Award, and other honors. He is also the publisher of A Midsummer Night's Press. He lives in Madrid, Spain, where he works as a Spanish-to-English translator.
Rhysling Anthology 1993, 1995, first place in 2002, third place in 2007, 2007, 2012
Andrea Schlecht lives in Ottawa, Canada. She is a retired archivist and spends her retirement with family, outdoor photography, walks in the woods, writing, reading and fires in the fireplace. Her poems and stories have appeared mainly in genre publications, including Tesseracts, Polar Borealis, Polar Starlight and Scifaikuest.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Lucy Cohen Schmeidler
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2004
E. F. Schraeder is the author of Liar: Memoir of a Haunting (Omnium Gatherum, 2021), a story collection, and two poetry chapbooks. Recent work has appeared in Lost Contact, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, NonBinary Review, Lavender Review, and other journals and anthologies. Schraeder’s nonfiction has appeared in Vastarien: A Literary Journal; Radical Teacher; the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom blog, and elsewhere.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Mirta Ana Schultz
Rhysling Anthology 2007
Ann K. Schwader’s poems have recently appeared in Spectral Realms, Dreams & Nightmares, Star*Line, Abyss & Apex, and Penumbra. Her collections Dark Energies (P'rea Press 2015) and Wild Hunt of the Stars (Sam's Dot 2010) were Bram Stoker Award Finalists. She was voted SFPA Grand Master in 2018..
Rhysling Anthology 1991, 1993, 1994 1995, 1999, second place in 2000, second place in 2001, 2002, third place in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, first place in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, first place in 2016, 2019, 2022
Greg Schwartz
Rhysling Anthology 2008, 2009
Darrell Schweitzer
Rhysling Anthology 2002, 2006, 2020
Tobias Seamon
Rhysling Anthology 2004, 2006
Peter Sears
Rhysling Anthology 2009
E. Sedia
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Alexandra Seidel spent many a night stargazing when she was a child. These days, she writes stories and poems, something the stargazing helped with. Alexa's writing has appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and elsewhere. You can follow her on Twitter @Alexa_Seidel, like her Facebook page (facebook.com/AlexaSeidelWrites/), and find out what she’s up to at alexandraseidel.com
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019
Abhisha Sengupta
Rhysling Anthology 2018
M. Sereno
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017
Craig Sernotti
Rhysling Anthology 2002
Diane Severson
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Julia Sevin
Rhysling Anthology 2007
John W. Sexton
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2017, 2018, 2020
Grace Seybold
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Heather Shaw
Rhysling Anthology 2002, 2005
William Shaw
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Joseph M. Shea
Rhysling Anthology 1993
Marilyn Shea
Rhysling Anthology 1988
Walter Shedlofsky
Rhysling Anthology 1978
Mary Sheffield
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1988
Michael Shorb
Rhysling Anthology 2012
David F. Shultz writes speculative poetry and short fiction from Toronto, ON, where he is lead editor at tdotSpec, producing anthologies such as Strange Economics, Imps & Minions, and Speculative North magazine. His 70+ works are featured through publishers such as Augur, Diabolical Plots, and Third Flatiron. Author webpage: davidfshultz.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2019, 2021
Crystal Sidell, a Tampa Bay native, grew up playing with toads in the rain and indulging in speculative fiction. She holds a master of arts in both English and library & information science, moderates two creative writing groups, and has reviewed books for the Florida Library Youth Program. Her work appears in Apparition Lit, F&SF, Frozen Wavelets, Haven Spec, Orchid’s Lantern, and elsewhere. You can find her online at crystalsidell.wixsite.com/mysite.
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Avi Silver
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Alan Ray Simmons lives in Alameda, California. He has been quoted on the front page of The New York Times. Poet-In-Residence, City of Chicago, 1979–80. Nominated for a SFPA 2020 Rhysling Award. His work has recently appeared in Genre: Urban Arts, Thin Air, Red Coyote, 42 Word Story Anthology, Heron Clan VII, Kanstellation, Illumen, Abyss & Apex, and American Writers Review, Art In The Time of Covid-19, San Fedele Press, The Martian Wave, Hiraeth Press, and Clarendon Books Poetica #2, Inner Circle Writer’s Poetry Anthology 2020. See more at simmonsink@blogspot.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Meliors Simms
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Marge Simon lives in Ocala, Florida, and serves on the HWA Board of Trustees. She has three Bram Stoker Awards, Rhysling Awards for Best Long and Best Short Fiction, the Elgin, Dwarf Stars and Strange Horizons Readers’ Award. Marge’s poems and stories have appeared in Clannad, Pedestal Magazine, Asimov’s, Silver Blade Polu Texni, Bete Noire, New Myths, Daily Science Fiction, et al. Her stories also appear in anthologies such as Tales of the Lake 5, Chiral Mad 4, You, Human and The Beauty of Death, to name a few. She attends the ICFA annually as a guest poet/writer. Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/-/e/B006G29PL6
Rhysling Anthology 1991, 1992, first place in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, third place in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, second place in 2013, 2014, first place in 2015, 2016, first place in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Hamant Singh
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Vandana Singh
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2004
Bobbi Sinha-Morey's poetry has appeared in a wide variety of places such as Plainsongs, Pirene's Fountain, The Wayfarer, Helix Magazine, Miller's Pond, The Tau, Vita Brevis, Cascadia Rising Review, Old Red Kimono, and Woods Reader. Her books of poetry are available at Amazon.com and her work has been nominated for Best of the Net 2015 and 2018. bobbisinhamorey.wordpress.com.
Rhysling Anthology 1997, 2001
Brian Skinner
Rhysling Anthology 1993
David Sklar
Rhysling Anthology 2016
David M. Skov
Rhysling Anthology 1987
Justin T. O’Conor Sloane’s work has appeared in various publications, including The Flying Saucer Poetry Review, The Starlight SciFaiku Review, Southern Cross Review, Sandstorm, The Guardian, The Internet TESL Journal and the Global Ideas Book. In 2002, he was the first winner of the Macmillan Education Onestopenglish poetry contest. Justin is the editor at Starship Sloane Publishing where he has the distinct honor of working with some of the most talented writers and artists in this universe or any other.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Noel Sloboda earned his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, with a concentration in literary modernism and secondary expertise in Shakespeare studies. His dissertation on Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein became a book: The Making of Americans in Paris (2008). Between 2006 and 2016, he sat on the board of directors for the Gamut Theatre Group, in Harrisburg PA, while serving as dramaturg for its nationally-recognized Shakespeare company. His writing on Shakespeare has appeared in journals such as Studies in the Humanities, Shakespeare Bulletin, The Journal of the Wooden O, The Shakespeare Newsletter, and in the anthology In/Fidelity: Essays on Film Adaptation. During the past decade, Sloboda has also published two collections of poetry along with hundreds of poems in journals and magazines. Sloboda is currently an Associate Professor at Penn State York.
Rhysling Anthology 2001, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Angela Yuriko Smith
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Cislyn Smith
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2020
dan smith
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Emily Smith is a speculative fiction writer and a New Yorker by way of the Southwestern deserts. She writes about apocalypses both dreamed and realized, lost cities, and creatures that live beyond the edges of the world. Find her on Twitter as @memilies
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Simon Smith
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Rhysling Anthology 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2004
Christina Sng is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in numerous venues worldwide and received nominations in the Rhysling, Dwarf Stars and Elgin Awards, as well as honourable mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and the Best Horror of the Year. Visit her at christinasng.com and connect on social media @christinasng.
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Maryanne K. Snyder
Rhysling Anthology 1990, 1993
Cynthia So
Rhysling Anthology 2020
A. C. Spahn
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Lucien E. G. Spelman
Rhysling Anthology 2010
William Browning Spencer
Rhysling Anthology 2009
D.A. Xiaolin Spires steps into portals and reappears in sites such as Hawai’i, NY, various parts of Asia and elsewhere, with her keyboard appendage attached. Her work appears or is forthcoming in publications such as Clarkesworld, Analog, Strange Horizons, Nature, Terraform, Uncanny, Grievous Angel, Fireside, Galaxy’s Edge, StarShipSofa, Andromeda Spaceways (Year’s Best Issue), Diabolical Plots, Factor Four. Select stories can be read in German, Vietnamese, Estonian and French translation. She can be found on Twitter: @spireswriter and on her website: daxiaolinspires.wordpress.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2020
Robin Spriggs
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2012, 2015
Michael Spring
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Nancy Springer
Rhysling Anthology 1983
Mary Rudbeck Stanko
Rhysling Anthology 2001
J. E. Stanley
Rhysling Anthology 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Anthony Starke
Rhysling Anthology 1993
Heidy Steidelmayer
Rhysling Anthology 2012
J. J. Steinfeld
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Richard Stevenson recently retired to Nanaimo from a thirty-year gig teaching English and Creative Writing at Lethbridge College in southern Alberta. He has published thirty books and a CD of jazz and poetry with Naked Ear. Forthcoming titles in the Cryptid, ET, and Fortean lore series include a trilogy, Cryptid Shindig, and a standalone volume, An Abominable Swamp Slob Named Bob. Also forthcoming are a lyric/ haikai children’s collection, Action Dachshund! and Bature! West African Haikai (Bature pronounced ba TOOR ay).
Rhysling Anthology 2022
J. P. V. Stewart
Rhysling Anthology 1999
W. Gregory Stewart is.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, third place in 2000, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015
Mary Stone
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Alfonsina Storni
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Lynn Strongin
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Blaize Kelly Strothers is a writer, freelance editor, and artist from NYC. She lives in PA with her husband, sons, and beloved lap cat, Ozzy. She can be found at blaizestrothers.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Romie Stott is the administrative editor and a poetry editor of Strange Horizons. Her poems have appeared in inkscrawl, Dreams&Nightmares, Polu Texni, On Spec, The Deadlands, and Liminality, but she is better known for her essays in The Toast and Atlas Obscura, and a microfiction project called postorbital. As a filmmaker, she has been a guest artist of the National Gallery (London), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), and the Dallas Museum of Art. You can find her fairly complete bibliography here.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Jason Sturner
Rhysling Anthology 2014, 2015
Alena Indigo Anne Sullivan was born to witches and raised in a neopagan community in the North Georgia mountains. She now resides in Bear River, Nova Scotia, with her wonderful husband Bruce and their many animal companions. Alena is a fiction writer, poet, and visual artist who focuses on the relationship between narrative and identity. She holds a BA in Anthropology and an MFA from the Stonecoast MFA Program for Creative Writing. Alena's short fiction and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, Rich Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, Goblin Fruit, Illumen, Urban Fantasy, Star*Line, Expanded Horizons, Luna Station Quarterly, the Wormwood Press, and elsewhere. Alena also runs Sealskin Studios on Etsy, where she offers embroidered spells and prayer images, otherworldly jewelry, and various other magical objects as she creates them. You can find her at alenasullivan.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Nike Sulway
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2021
David Lee Summers
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2016,
Naru Dames Sundar
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017
David Hunter Sutherland
Rhysling Anthology 1992
Andrew Robert Sutton was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University where he studied both telecommunications and the written word. His heart has been torn between his love of cutting-edge technologies and traditional art forms ever since. His articles on the history of technology and its impact on business have appeared in over forty publications, including newspapers, magazines, and numerous blogs. "Into Flight" is his first foray into poetry.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 2013
Rachel Swirsky
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2008
Anna Sykora
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2012, 2014
Sonya Taaffe
Rhysling Anthology first place in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2019
Alyza Taguilaso is a resident doctor training in General Surgery from the Philippines. Her work has been shortlisted in contests like the Manchester Poetry Prize and Bridport Poetry Prize. Her poems have been published in several publications, including Electric Literature, Crazy Horse, The Deadlands, Canthius, Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Orbis Journal, Voice and Verse, and Luna Journal PH, among others. You may find her online via wordpress (@alyzataguilastorm), instagram (@ventral), and twitter (@lalalalalalyza).
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Bogi Takács
Rhysling Anthology 2015, 2016, 2017
Sara Tantlinger
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Nancy Ellis Taylor
Rhysling Anthology 1993, 1995, 2002, 2011
Pamela K. Taylor
Rhysling Anthology 2007
Peggy J. Taylor
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2000
John Teehan
Rhysling Anthology 2004
Steve Rasnic Tem
Rhysling Anthology 1981, 1983, 1993
Margarita Tenser
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff is a writer/poet/editor/acting teacher from the west coast of Canada, where she lives in a deeply forested area with her family and various other mostly wild creatures. Her work has appeared in such publications as Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Polar Borealis and Polu Texni. Marcie's third poetry collection, Midnight Comes Early, is due out shortly from Hiraeth Publishing.
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2020, 2021, 2022
Cathy Tenzo
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Gretchen Tessmer is a writer/attorney based in the U.S./Canadian borderlands of Northern New York. She writes both short fiction and poetry, with work appearing in Nature, Strange Horizons and F&SF, among other venues.
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
Shveta Thakrar
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2018
Natalia Theodoridou
Rhysling Anthology 2014, 2016
Jessica Drake Thomas
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Scott Thomas
Rhysling Anthology 2003
Sheree Renée Thomas is the author of Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books 2020), Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press), longlisted for the 2016 Otherwise Award and honored with a PW Starred Review, and Shotgun Lullabies (2011). Her work is widely anthologized and appears in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, The New York Times, and Marvel's Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda. Sheree is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949 and associate editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, founded in 1975. Sheree lives in Memphis, Tennessee, near a mighty river and a pyramid. Visit shereereneethomas.com
Rhysling Anthology 2003, 2007, 2021
Jessica D. Thompson
Rhysling Anthology 2007
Ann Thornfield-Long
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018
R. Thursday
Rhysling Anthologysecond place in 2021
Richard L. Tierney
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2018, 2021
Lisa Timpf is a retired HR and communications professional who lives in Simcoe, Ontario. Her speculative poetry has appeared in New Myths, Star*Line, Apparition Lit, Liminality, Polar Borealis, and other venues. You can find out more about Lisa’s writing projects at lisatimpf.blogspot.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2020, 2021, third place in 2023
James E. Tolan
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Sarah Tolmie is a poet, speculative fiction writer and professor of British literature and creative writing at the University of Waterloo. Her poetry collection The Art of Dying was nominated for the 2019 Griffin Prize, and her poem “Ursula Le Guin in the Underworld” won the 2019 Rhysling Award (Long Poem) and is nominated for an Aurora Award. Her most recent novel, The Little Animals, about the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Leeuwenhoek and his weird (fictional) encounter with the goose girl from the Brothers Grimm, came out in May to starred reviews in PW and Locus. Her work appears in Year’s Best Canadian Poetry in English (2018) and Year’s Best Weird Fiction (2017). Her first book of poems, Trio, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award in 2015, and her first novel, The Stone Boatmen, for the Campbell Award (2014).
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Jeanie Tomasko is the author of a few books of poetry, including The Collect of the Day and Dove Tail (both from Bent Paddle Press), Violet Hours (Taraxia Press) and Small Towns Along the Coast (Dancing Girl Press). See jeanietomasko.com
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Rita Janice Traub
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Brian Trent
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Mikal Trimm
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Ali Trotta is a poet, editor, dreamer, word-nerd, and unapologetic coffee addict. Her poetry has appeared in Uncanny, Fireside Fiction,and Cicada magazines, with a forthcoming poem in The Best of Uncanny Magazine from Subterranean Press. She wrote TV show reviews for Blastoff Comics. These have included Agent Carter, The Flash, and Supergirl. Additionally, for Blastoff, she has written some personal essays. Ali’s always scribbling on napkins, looking for magic in the world, and bursting into song. When she isn’t word-wrangling, she’s cooking, baking, hugging an animal, or pretending to be a mermaid. She’s on Twitter as @alwayscoffee, and you can also read her blog at alwayscoffee.wordpress.com. Two of her past Uncanny poems have been nominated for a Rhysling Award.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021
Amanda Trout is currently a junior Creative Writing and Spanish major at Pittsburg State University, where she serves as Editor-in-Chief of the university's lit mag, Cow Creek Review. Amanda's poetry has been previously published in Cow Creek Review, littledeathlit, and The Lyric. She loves cicadas, space, and mythology.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Jean-Louis Trudel is a Canadian writer, professor, and translator. While teaching history at the University of Ottawa and elsewhere, he also writes: mostly prose, mostly science fiction, and mostly in French. Since the 1990s, he has also written and published short fiction and poetry in English, in venues ranging from Asimov's to Eye to the Telescope.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Tlotlo Tsamaase
Rhysling Anthology 2017
R. Gene Turchin
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Lewis Turco
Rhysling Anthology 1983
Mary A. Turzillo won the 2000 Nebula for Novella with Mars Is No Place for Children. Her poetry collection Lovers & Killers won the 2013 Elgin Award. She has been on the British SF Association, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars, and Rhysling ballots. Sweet Poison, her collaboration with Marge Simon, was a Stoker finalist and won the 2015 Elgin. Her novel Mars Girls came out in 2017 from Apex. Her literary horror collection Bonsai Babies (Omnium Gatherum, 2016) contains several award-winning stories. Satan’s Sweethearts, also with Simon, won second place in the Elgin Award. Her current project is A Mars Cat and his Boy. She was on the U.S. foil fencing team for Veteran World Championships in Germany, 2016. She lives in Ohio, with her husband scientist-writer-fencer Geoffrey Landis.
Rhysling Anthology 1996, second place in 1997, 2008, third place in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2022
DJ Tyrer is the person behind Atlantean Publishing, was placed second in the 2015 Data Dump Award for Genre Poetry, and has been published in issues of Cyaegha, Frostfire Worlds, The Horrorzine, Illumen, Outposts of Beyond, Scifaikuest, Sirens Call, Star*Line, Tigershark and The Yellow Zine, and online at Grievous Angel, Lonesome October, and Three Drops from a Cauldron, as well as releasing several chapbooks, such as The Tears of Lot-49. The echapbook One Vision is available from Tigershark Publishing. djtyrer.blogspot.co.uk
Rhysling Anthology 2016
roibéard uí-neíll
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2006
Peter Ullian
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Scott H. Urban is.
Rhysling Anthology 2000, 2005
Jen Valencia
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Catherynne M. Valente
Rhysling Anthology 2005, second place in 2007, first place in 2008, third place in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2022
K H van Berkum
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Gene Van Troyer is.
Rhysling Anthology 1981, 1982, 1983, 2001
JoSelle Vanderhooft
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012
Jeff VanderMeer
Rhysling Anthology 1990, first place in 1994
Burlee Vang
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Peter Venable
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Morgan L. Ventura is a speculative fiction writer, poet, and anthropologist based in Ireland. Ventura's poetry and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Crow and Cross Keys, Augur, and Eye to the Telescope, while their fiction and essays appear in Lackington's, Geist, and Best Canadian Essays 2021.
Rhysling Anthology 2021, 2022
karen verba
Rhysling Anthology 1996
Rachel Verkade is a Canadian woman currently living in England. Her stories have been published in Under the Bed, 69 Flavors of Paranoia, See the Elephant, Pseudopod, and The New Accelerator, as well as the anthologies Lost Worlds, Tales of Blood and Squalor, and Enter the Apocalypse. She is also a reviewer for The Future Fire, her poetry has been featured in Liminality, and she has been a contributer to The Escapist. Her story “Blood and Ivory” was nominated for the 2011 Million Writers award and named one of the notable stories of the year. When she's not writing, she is using her background in wildlife biology to keep her cats and parrot from eating her husband.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Steve Vernon
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Marie Vibbert’s poetry has appeared in Analog, Asimov’s, and a variety of poetry venues such as Dreams and Nightmares and Liminality. She once sold a rhyming poem to a magazine that had "no rhyming poetry" in their guidelines, which remains her highest poetic achievement. She also writes prose, her debut novel Galactic Hellcats came out in 2021, and by day she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023
Peter Viereck
Rhysling Anthology 1986
Aaron Vlek
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Krystal Volney is known for her children’s series, ‘Dr. Zazzy,’ that started in 2013, as well as poetry. She is also known for her quotes, computing interviews for Win One IQ Magazine (World Intelligence Network) as a tech writer and part-time editor.
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2019
Chuck Von Nordheim
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Margaret Wack
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018
Susan E. Wagner’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Fudoki Magazine, Paper Dragon, Agape Review. Unique Minds: Creative Voices, at Princeton University, selected three of her poems for their 2021 exhibition. She is the author of Unmuted: Voices on the Edge, a collection of hybrid poetry about mental illness and families. Susan is an editor with The Writing Center at Pearl S. Buck International. susanewagner.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Anna Waite
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Sandy Walejko
Rhysling Anthology 2009
T. D. Walker is the author of Small Waiting Objects (CW Books, 2019), a collection of near-future science fiction poems. Her poems and stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Web Conjunctions, The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Luna Station Quarterly, and elsewhere. She draws on both her grounding in literary studies and her experience as a computer programmer in writing poetry and fiction. Read more at tdwalker.net
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2019, 2020
Holly Lyn Walrath’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, and elsewhere. Her chapbook of words and images, Glimmerglass Girl, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She is a freelance editor and host of The Weird Circular, an e-newsletter for writers containing submission calls and writing prompts. She lives in Houston, Texas. Find her online at www.hlwalrath.com
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Caitlin Meredith Walsh
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Chad Walsh
Rhysling Anthology 1981
David Walter
Rhysling Anthology 1997
Jo Walton
Rhysling Anthology 2007, 2018
Natalie Wang
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Yilin Wang
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Kyla Lee Ward has released two collections of dark and fantastic poetry through P’rea Press—The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities and The Land of Bad Dreams—as well as publishing short fiction, articles and a novel. She won the inaugural Australian Shadows Award for poetry and various works have garnered other Shadows and Aurealis Awards, and Stoker, Ditmar and Rhysling nominations. An actor, and sometime host with the Rocks Ghost Tours, she has travelled widely and rhymed adventurously. Her interests include history, occultism and scaring innocent bystanders.
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2013, 2020, 2022
Gerald Warfield
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Brittany Warman
Rhysling Anthology 2013, 2018
Jamie Wasserman
Rhysling Anthology 2004, 2006
William John Watkins
Rhysling Anthology 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996 , first place in 2002, 2005, 2014, 2015
Ian Watson is.
Rhysling Anthology 2000, third place in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Don Webb
Rhysling Anthology 1991
Bud Webster
Rhysling Anthology 2005
M. Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award winning author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job, as well as the science fiction novels Beautiful Red, Children of Arkadia, The Voyage of the White Cloud, and the Andersson Dexter cyberpunk detective series. Their mainstream books include the Devi Jones’ Locker YA series and the humorous coming-of-age novel The Home for Wayward Parrots. Darusha’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in many venues, including Terraform and Nature. Originally from Canada, Darusha lives in Wellington, New Zealand after spending several years sailing the Pacific.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Rebecca Bratten Weiss’s creative work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Two Hawks Quarterly, Presence, Connecticut River Review, Shooter, New Ohio Review, Gyroscope Review, The Seventh Wave, Westerly, and Reckoning. She has published three chapbook collections: Mud Woman (Dancing Girl Press, 2018), with Joanna Penn Cooper; Talking to Snakes (Ethel Zine and Press, 2020); and The Gods We Have Eaten (Bottlecap Press, 2023). She resides in rural Ohio where she works as an editor and journalist.
Rhysling Anthology 2023
A. J. Wells
Rhysling Anthology 1994
Jon Wesick is a regional editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual. He’s published hundreds of poems and stories in journals such as the Atlanta Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Metal Scratches, Pearl, Slipstream, Space and Time, Tales of the Talisman, and Zahir. The editors of Knot Magazine nominated his story “The Visitor” for a Pushcart Prize. His poem “Meditation Instruction” won the Editor’s Choice Award in the 2016 Spirit First Contest. Another poem “Bread and Circuses” won second place in the 2007 African American Writers and Artists Contest. Jon is the author of the poetry collection Words of Power, Dances of Freedom as well as several novels and a short story collection.
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2017
Jacqueline West’s work has appeared in Mythic Delirium, Strange Horizons, Liminality, Mirror Dance, and Star*Line, among other publications. Her first full-length poetry collection, Candle and Pins: Poems on Superstitions was released in 2018. She is also the author of the New York Times-bestselling middle grade series The Books of Elsewhere and several other award-winning books for young readers. Jacqueline lives with her family in Red Wing, Minnesota. www.jacquelinewest.com
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2020, 2022
Frida Westford
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Karen J. Weyant
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Tom Whalen
Rhysling Anthology 1989
Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Lesley Wheeler
Rhysling Anthology 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018
Peggy Wheeler
Rhysling Anthology 1996
Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality and writes hoping to find an audience for her musings. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud 'War Poetry for Today' competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including Apogee, Firewords, Peach Velvet, Light Journal and So It Goes. Find Lynn at lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Jessica Paige Wick
Rhysling Anthology 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2020
Phoebe Wilcox
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Fran Wilde’s novels and short stories have been finalists for four Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, and two Hugo Awards, and include her Nebula- and Compton-Crook-winning debut novel Updraft, its sequels Cloudbound and Horizon, her 2019 debut Middle Grade novel Riverland, and the Nebula-, Hugo-, and Locus-nominated novelette The Jewel and Her Lapidary. Her short stories and poems appear in Asimov’s, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, Uncanny, and the 2017 Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. She writes for publications including The Washington Post, Tor.com, Clarkesworld, iO9.com, and GeekMom.com and is the Director of the Genre MFA Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University.
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2020
Ben Wilensky
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Neal Wilgus
Rhysling Anthology 1980, 1981, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2017
Jane Williams
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Thomas Wiloch
Rhysling Anthology 1992, 1995, 1996
Patrice M. Wilson
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Sarah Ann Winn
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Laurel Winter
Rhysling Anthology 1994, first place in 1998, first place in 1999, 2000, 2003, 2014
t. Winter-Damon
Rhysling Anthology 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995
Shannon Connor Winward collapsed from a congenital curse and now speaks of herself in the past tense, regretting all those times she said, “I wish I never had to leave my bed.” In other lives she authored the Elgin Award-winning Undoing Winter (Finishing Line Press, 2014) and The Year of the Witch (Sycorax Press, 2018); served as Secretary for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and a Delaware Division of the Arts Fellow in Fiction; and founded Riddled with Arrows Literary Journal. Shannon’s relics can be found (or are forthcoming) in eclectic places from Analog Science Fiction & Fact to Zetetic, including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Flash Fiction Online, Pseudopod, Literary Mama, Native Skin, Deaf Poet’s Society, SageWoman, Poetry Ireland Review and Rattle, and a feature in Poets & Writers. For now her ghost lingers in the brokedown tower of her body in a blue room, where she writes madly against the gods and the clock.
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2017, 2018, honorable mention in 2023
Laura Madeline Wiseman
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Steven Withrow's poems have appeared in Spectral Realms, Asimov's Science Fiction, Dreams & Nightmares, and Epitaphs: The Journal of the New England Horror Writers. His short poem, "The Sun Ships," from a collection of the same title, was nominated for a 2016 Rhysling Award. His most recent solo collection is The Bedlam Philharmonic. His collaborative collection with Frank Coffman, The Exorcised Lyric, contains "Toward Solstice Station," a nominee for the 2022 Rhysling Award. His first opera with composer Paul Zeigler, The Beckoning Fair One, is nearing production. He lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2022
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1978
Deborah Wong is a Rhysling Award- and Pushcart Prize-nominated Malaysian poet of second-generation-Chinese descent. Her work has been published in many online journals and print magazines in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Thailand, and Japan, as well as in Malaysia. Her poetry chapbook Autopsy of Sentiments was published by Working Desk Publishing (2020). Find her on Twitter: @PetiteDeborah.
Rhysling Anthology 2020, 2021
G. E. Woods
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Elizabeth Jodi Woodward
Rhysling Anthology 2007
Greer Woodward’s poetry is in Star*Line, Silver Blade, Scifaikuest, Haikuniverse, Illumen, Halloween Haiku 2, Lupine Lunes and Zen of the Dead. When living in the New York City area, she was a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and wrote lyrics for Theatreworks/USA's Sherlock Holmes and the Red-Headed League. She also contributed to the musical revues Pets! and That's Life!, the latter an Outer Critics Circle Awards nominee for Best Off-Broadway Musical. She currently lives on the Big Island of Hawaii and is a member of the Hawaii Writers Guild.
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Bryan Thao Worra is a Lao American poet who keeps taking on duties for SFPA.
Rhysling Anthology 2014
K. Ceres Wright
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Sarah Wright
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Ann Wuehler
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Stephanie M. Wytovich is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her work has been showcased in numerous magazines and anthologies such as Weird Tales, Nightmare Magazine, Southwest Review, Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 2, The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 8 & 15, as well as many others. Wytovich is the Poetry Editor for Raw Dog Screaming Press and is a recipient of the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award, the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant, and has received the Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship for non-fiction writing. She is a member of SFPA, an active member of the Horror Writers Association, and a graduate of Seton Hill University’s MFA program for Writing Popular Fiction. Her Bram Stoker Award-winning poetry collection, Brothel, earned a home with Raw Dog Screaming Press alongside Hysteria: A Collection of Madness, Mourning Jewelry, An Exorcism of Angels, Sheet Music to My Acoustic Nightmare, and The Apocalyptic Mannequin. Her debut novel, The Eighth, is published with Dark Regions Press, and her nonfiction craft book for speculative poetry, Writing Poetry in the Dark, is available now from Raw Dog Screaming Press. Follow Wytovich at stephaniewytovich.blogspot.com and on Twitter and Instagram @SWytovich and @thehauntedbookshelf. You can also find her essays, nonfiction, and class offerings on LitReactor.
Rhysling Anthology 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, honorable mention in 2023
Xanadu (Ofnguyenfame)
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Erzebet Yellowboy
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Jim Yockey
Rhysling Anthology 2004
Jane Yolen is an SFPA Grand Master. She has ten books of adult poetry out and many many more collections of children's poetry. Her actual book count as of this writing is 376 books, but she's expecting more out in fall 2019 and spring 2020.
Rhysling Anthology 1983, 1986, 1987, 1992, first place in 1993, 1995, 1996, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019
Pat York
Rhysling Anthology 1997
Marly Youmans
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Ree Young
Rhysling Anthology 1991
Jeffery Zable
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Danielle Zaccagnino
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Rhysling Anthology 1981
Hal Y. Zhang writes non-rhyming flights and fantasies in places like Uncanny, Liminality, and Strange Horizons. Her work is at halyzhang.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Audrey Zheng is an editor at The Red Lemon Review.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Lily Zhou
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Paul Edwin Zimmer
Rhysling Anthology 1981
Thomas Zimmerman
Rhysling Anthology 1993
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Rhysling Anthology 2014, 2015
Maria Zoccola is a queer Southern writer with deep roots in the Mississippi Delta. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University. Her speculative poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, and elsewhere. Her literary poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
