2012 Rhysling Award—Short Poem: Shira Lipkin Appeared in Mythic Delirium 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. |
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2012 Rhysling Award—Long Poem: Megan Arkenberg Appeared in Strange Horizons
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Second Place—Short Poem: Erik Amundsen Appeared in Stone Telling |
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Second Place—Long Poem: G. O. Clark and
Kendall Evans Appeared in Dreams and Nightmares
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Third Place—Short Poem: Lyn C. A. Gardner Appeared in Tales of the Talisman  Lyn
C. A. Gardner keeps company with five feline friends. Her first poetry
collection, Dreaming of Days in Astophel, is available from Sam's Dot
Publishing. Her first cat, Tino, actually did type "Nio" on
her laptop one day. From his vantage on her shoulders, he purred feline
wisdom while she wrote and helped to shape "In Translation." gardnercastle.com |
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| Third Place—Long Poem: Mary Turzillo Poem: “The Legend of the Emperor’s Space Suit (A Tale of Consensus Reality)” Appeared in New Myths |
The 2012 Rhysling
Winners
Megan Arkenberg is a student in Wisconsin who, after next semester,
will hopefully be able to call herself a teacher. Her short stories
have recently appeared in Asimov's, Lightspeed, and Beneath
Ceaseless Skies, and her poetry has been published in Strange
Horizons, Ideomancer, and dozens of other places. She procrastinates by editing the fantasy
e-zine Mirror Dance and the historical fiction e-zine Lacuna.
G.
O. Clark is the author of ten poetry collections, the most recent, White
Shift, 2012, and a short-story collection, The
Saucer Under My Bed & Other Stories, 2011, both from Sam's
Dot Publishing. He won the Asimov's Readers Award for
poetry in 2001, and was a Stoker Award nominee in 2012. He lives
in Davis, CA.
More
than 250 poems by Kendall Evans have been published in various
sf, fantasy, and horror magazines and anthologies. He is the
author of a book-length dramatic poem, The Rings of Ganymede, for
which he is currently seeking a publisher.