The Dwarf Stars anthology, containing the nominees for the SFPA Dwarf Stars Award, has been published every year since 2006. All nominated poets are listed below. Blue indicates a first place Dwarf Stars Award winner; red, second place; and yellow, third place. In the case of ties, the tied poems each received the award. Note that some poets received multiple nominations in given years, which are not indicated. Please see the Dwarf Stars pages for more complete nomination information.
| Jonel Abellanosa resides in Cebu City, the Philippines. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals, his speculative poetry in Pedestal Magazine, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Inkscrawl, Liquid Imagination and Ghost City Review. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and Dwarf Stars award. His poetry collections include Songs from My Mind’s Tree and Multiverse (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, New York), 50 Acrostic Poems (Cyberwit, India), In the Donald’s Time (Poetic Justice Books and Art, Florida). His first speculative poetry collection, Pan’s Saxophone, is forthcoming from Weasel Press. Dwarf Stars 2015 |
| Rasha Abdulhadi is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Cathy Ackerson is. Dwarf Stars 2007, 2008 |
| Duane Ackerson is. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2008 |
| Linda D. Addison is the award-winning author of four collections, including How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, and the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award, co-editor of Sycorax's Daughters, an anthology of horror fiction & poetry by African-American women. Addison is a founding member of the writer’s group Circles in the Hair (CITH), and a member of HWA, SFWA and SFPA. lindaaddisonpoet.com. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2008 |
| Adjei Agyei-Baah (born Eric Adjei Baah, June 29, 1977, Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana), lecturer, translator, editor, and haiku poet. He is currently a PhD candidate in English at the Division of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand. He is the cofounder of Africa Haiku Network, Poetry Foundation Ghana, and The Mamba, Africa’s first haiku journal. Agyei-Baah’s work won recognition in the Japan-Russia Haiku Contest in 2014, received the Heron’s Nest Award (best haiku of issue) in 2016, been shortlisted for the World Haiku Club’s R. H. Blyth Award in 2019, and anthologized in Kala Ramesh’s Naad Anunaad: An Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku (2016). His debut haiku collection, Afriku (2016), was commended by Nigerian Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka. His fourth book, Piece of My Fart (2018) is the first senryu collection from Africa. Agyei-Baah is the primary author of the four Haikupedia articles about African haiku; he lives in Kumasi, Ghana. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| ai li is a Straits Chinese short-form poet from London and Singapore who writes about life, love and loss bringing healing and prayer to her poems. The creator of cherita, editor and publisher of the cherita, founding editor and publisher of still, moving into breath and dew-on-line, she is also an evidential spiritualist medium, an urban photographer, and a surrealist collage painter. Find her essence in the quiet of her inner rooms at amazon.com/ai-li/e/B0080X6ROC Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Camille Alexander is. Dwarf Stars 2011 |
| Francis W. Alexander lives in Sandusky, Ohio. Wes is the author of When the Mushrooms Come and I Reckon. The creator of the Forbidden Haibun and cocreator with Terrie Relf and Theresa Santitoro of the drabbun is the coeditor of a forthcoming drabbun anthology. He has had poems published in Space & Time, Abyss and Apex, Modern Haiku, Contemporary Haibun, failed Dwarf Stars 2009, 2015, 2022 |
| Anita Allen is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| Melissa Allen is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| Mike Allen is the editor of Mythic Delirium and a past president of SFPA. Dwarf Stars 2008, 2009, 2012 |
| Erik Amundsen is. Dwarf Stars 2015 |
| Colleen Anderson lives in Vancouver, BC, and is a multiple award nominee in poetry. Hundreds of her poems have been widely published in such venues as Polu Texni, HWA Poetry Showcases, Shadow Atlas and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. She has edited three anthologies and guest-edited Eye to the Telescope 29, “The Dark.” Colleen’s recent poetry collection I Dreamed a World is available from LVP Publications. When not writing, exploring or reading, she keeps an eye out for mold monsters and mermaids. colleenanderson.wordpress.com Dwarf Stars 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Donald R. Anderson is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| James Arthur Anderson is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Randall Andrews is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Susan Antolin is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Helga Anton-Beitz is German and lives at the Baltic Sea. She is happy to have spent two years in the US where her affection to the English language grew. She earned her doctoral degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and enjoys transforming her scientific interest into creative writing. Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| Billy Antonio is. Dwarf Stars 2018 |
| Aurora Antonovic is. Dwarf Stars 2011 |
| Fay Aoyagi is. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2009, 2010, 2014 |
| Patrick Armstrong is. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| 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 fifth HWA Poetry Showcase. 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. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| Residing in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Hifsa Ashraf is a pioneer in her country for writing modern Japanese-style micropoetry in English and Urdu. Her work has been widely published. She has recently won the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems 2021 from the Haiku Foundation. She is the author of five micropoetry books where she received special mention for her poetry collection, Her Fading Henna Tattoo, in the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award 2020 and in the Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award 2021. As an editor, she jointly curates the Haiku Commentary blog. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| assu is. Dwarf Stars 2007, 2013 |
| Joseph Salvatore Aversano was a big Star Wars fan when about the size of an Ewok or Jawa. While he no longer likes wars so much, he does like looking up at the stars. His poems have been published in numerous journals such as E-ratio, Bones, is/let, Die Leere Mitte, Modern Haiku, otata, and Otoliths. Dwarf Stars 2015, 2020 |
| Dave Bacharach is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Eugen Bacon is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Kriti Bajaj is. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| Stewart C. Baker is an academic librarian, speculative fiction writer and poet, and the editor-in-chief of sub-Q Magazine. Stewart was born in England, has lived in South Carolina, Japan, and California (in that order), and currently resides in Oregon with his family—although if anyone asks, he’ll usually say he’s from the Internet. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Ross Balcom is. Dwarf Stars 2013, 2015 |
| Stacey Balkun is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Francine Barnwarth began studying and writing haiku in 1989 and continues to the present day. She has served as second vice-president of the Haiku Society of America and as editor of the Society's journal, Frogpond, 2012 through 2015. With Michele Root-Bernstein in 2017 she coauthored The Haiku Life: What We Learned As Editors of Frogpond (Modern Haiku Press). She currently serves as a member of the editorial staff for the Red Moon Anthology. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Roxanne Barbour is a writer from Burnaby, BC, Canada. She started writing after she took early retirement in 2010. Roxanne has written and published numerous novels: An Alien Collective; Revolutions; Sacred Trust; Kaiku; Alien Innkeeper; An Alien Confluence; Alien Innkeeper on Particle. She also writes speculative poetry, and has had poems published in Scifaikuest, Star*Line, Polar Borealis, Polar Starlight, Dwarf Stars, and many other magazines. Dwarf Stars 2019, 2022 |
| John Barlow is. Dwarf Stars 2010 |
| Elizabeth Barrette is. Dwarf Stars 2009, 2012, 2014 |
| Sam Bateman is. Dwarf Stars 2018 |
| Juanjo Bazán is a Spanish author based in Madrid. His work has appeared in magazines Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Scifaikuest and Daily Science Fiction, and in anthologies Multiverse and Visiones. He has a science degree in Astrophysics and a M.A. in Creative Writing. Find him on Twitter as @xuanxu. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Roberta Beary identifies as gender-fluid. They grew up in Queens, NY, and divide their time between the eastern US and the west of Ireland. Beary’s poem “After Long Absence” recently won The Haiku Foundation’s inaugural Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun. Dwarf Stars 2011, 2016, 2022, 2023 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2008, 2013 |
| Guy Belleranti lives in Tucson, Arizona. He writes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, puzzles and humor for both adults and children. His work has been published by over 230 different publications. A few of the places where his speculative poetry has appeared include Scifaikuest, The Fifth Di…, Illumen, Midnight Echo, parABnormal Magazine, The Hungur Chronicles, Grievous Angel, and Spaceports & Spidersilk. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2022 |
| Elizabeth W. Bennefeld is. Dwarf Stars 2010 |
| Carol Berg’s poems are forthcoming or in Crab Creek Review (Poetry Finalist 2017), DMQ Review, Hospital Drive (Contest Runner-Up 2017), Sou’wester, Spillway, Redactions, Radar Poetry, Verse Wisconsin and Zone 3. Her chapbooks Her Vena Amoris (Red Bird Chapbooks) and “Self-Portraits” in Ides (Silver Birch Press) are available. She was winner of a scholarship to Poets on the Coast and a recipient of a Finalist Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| F. J. Bergmann edits poetry for Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (mobiusmagazine.com), 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. A Catalogue of the Further Suns won the 2017 Gold Line Press poetry chapbook contest and the 2018 SFPA Elgin Chapbook Award. fjbergmann.com Dwarf Stars 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 |
| Fred W. Bergmann translates as a hobby. Now ostensibly retired, he plans to do more poetry and short fiction translations from Spanish, German, and Ladino. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Jacob Bergstresser is. Dwarf Stars 2021 |
| Noah Berlatsky is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| 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 Rhysling Award. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2014 |
| Karen Berry is. Dwarf Stars 2011 |
| Peggy Hale Bilbro is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Max Bindi is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Johannes S. H. Bjerg lives in a village where nobody knows what he’s up to. Rumour has it that he fumbles with words and images and only talks to dead philosophers, saints and God. He has a website where all his books are listed megaga.dk/?page_id=530 and has made most of them free for download. Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| Melodie Bolt is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Dan Bornstein is a writer, artist, and translator with experience working in three languages: English, Hebrew, and Japanese. Haiku poetry, which he learned to read and appreciate in the original while living in Japan, inspires much of his creative work. He regularly posts texts and visual art on his bilingual website: danbornstein.com. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 |
| Crystal Boson is. Dwarf Stars 201 |
| Bruce Boston is the author of sixty books and chapbooks, including the novels The Guardener’s Tale and Stained Glass Rain. His latest fiction collection, Gallimaufry, and his latest poetry collection, Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets, are available from online booksellers. Dwarf Stars 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Karen Bovenmeyer is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| David Boyer is. Dwarf Stars 2015, 2017 |
| Lisa M. Bradley is. Dwarf Stars 2008, 2009 |
| Mark E. Brager is. Dwarf Stars 2015, 2018 |
| Lida Broadhurst is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Ralf Bröker is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Randyn Brooks is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| Dawn Bruce is. Dwarf Stars 2011 |
| Katerina Bruno is most at home in libraries and bookstores, watching the night sky from her backyard, or standing at the top of a mountain looking to the sea. Katerina loves reading and writing science fiction and her poetry has appeared in The Starlight SciFaiku Review and other publications. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Shelly Bryant is. Dwarf Stars 2011, 2017 |
| Rebecca Buchanan is the editor of the Pagan literary ezine Eternal Haunted Summer. She has been published in a variety of venues, including Abyss & Apex, Cliterature, Enchanted Conversation, The Future Fire, Polu Texni, and Silver Blade. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Helen Buckingham has had a number of haiku collections published over the years, including the Touchstone Award shortlisted water on the moon and its sister work mirrormoon (both Original Plus Press, 2010). Her most recent collection is the Touchstone shortlisted sanguinella (Red Moon Press, 2017). Her manuscript life on saturn was awarded an Hon. Mention in the Sable Books Int. Women’s Haiku Contest, 2021. Dwarf Stars 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2023 |
| Susan Burch is a good egg. Dwarf Stars 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 |
| Tony Burfield is. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| Jason P. Burnham loves to spend time with his wife, children, and dog. Find him on Twitter at @AndGalen. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Gary C. Busha is. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| Ronald A. Busse dwells deep in Denver, Colorado. His sophomore book, Poems That Could End the World, published by Turning Point, is due out in October. His poetry has appeared in Star*Line, Illumen, Bete Noire,internationally in FreeXpresSion, and in other publications. He self-published his first poetry book, Into the Retrospectrum, in 1997. Additionally, Busse wrote his first published poem, "Christmas," in 1975 at the age of eight, but didn't know it at the time since it was published many years later, in 2016. Find him on Facebook and at RonbusWriterAndMore.com. Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| Barbara Candiotti is an artist, photographer, and writer. Star*Line and Eye to the Telescope have published her poems. Litro Magazine has published an essay. Her digital art pieces have been accepted by Phantom Kangaroo, Zoetic Press, Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, Invisible City, Star*Line (cover art), Evocations Review, Electricspec (cover art), ParABnormal (cover art), Defunkt Magazine, Illumen Magazine, Cosmic Crime Magazine, Kind Writers and The William and Mary Review. Her work can be found at candiotti-art.com. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Sarah Cannavo is a writer of prose and poetry haunting southern New Jersey. Her work has appeared in Star*Line, DBND Publishing's Halloween Horror Vol. 3, Pulp Modern, and JOURN-E, among others, and is forthcoming in Dreams and Nightmares and From the Yonder Vol. 3. Her poetry has been nominated for the 2020 and 2021 Rhysling Awards. Her story "Unreality" and novella "Wolf of the Pines" are available on Amazon. She's been rumored to post on her site moodilymusing.blogspot.com, and been sighted tweeting @moodilymusing. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Lucia Cardillo lives in Rodi Garganico, Foggia, Italia. Her haiku were published on international journals and blogs, including The Mainichi, The Asahi Haikuist Network, Otata, Failed Haiku, Haikuniverse, The Haiku Foundation, Brass Bell, Stardust Haiku, Ulitka, Presence, Modern Haiku, Wales Haiku Journal, FemKumag, Bonsai Journal, Ephemerae, Euterpe, Le lumachine, Sharmrock, The Zen Space, Under the Basho, Tinyword, Hedgerow, Blithe Spirit, Blog di Writer's Blog di Charlotte Digregorio, etc. Awards: The Mainichi Haiku in English, Best of 2017 and 2018; First Place, Italian haiku competition Gustavo Pece 2018, ed. La Ruota, Italy; Third Place, Italian haiku competion Giappone Svelato 2019. Work anthologised: Haiku Anthology Vol. 2 (2017), Vol. 3 and Vol. 4 (2018); Haiku University, ed. Saku publishing Co. ltd., Japan; Herbier Haiku (2017) ed. Graines de Vent, France; Empreintes (2018) and Enfances (2018) ed. Graines de Vent, France. Recently published his book All'ombra del gelso (La Ruota Edizioni: Rome), a collection of his haiku, in the double version Italian/English. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Anna Cates is a graduate of Indiana State University (MA English and PhD Curriculum & Instruction/English) and National University (MFA 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. Her books include The Meaning of Life (Cyberwit Press), The Frog King (Cyberwit Press), The Darkroom (Prolific Press), The Golem & the Nazi (Red Moon Press), The Journey (Wipf & Stock), Love in the Time of Covid (Wipf & Stock), and The Poison Tree: A Peace Play (Wipf & Stock). She presently resides in Wilmington, Ohio, with her cats, Freddie and Fifi, and is a member of the Tower Poets of the Yellow Springs, Ohio, area. Dwarf Stars 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2014, 2020 |
| Anna Marie Catoir is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Hemapriyah Chellapan is a Pune-based freelance artist and illustrator. She took to Japanese short forms in the summer of 2019. Ever since, her works have been featured in a variety of journals, anthologies and e-zines. One of her poems was shortlisted for the 2020 Touchstone Award and she currently serves as the editor of haiku at the QuillS. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| In addition to his work as a poet, M.C. Childs serves as dean of architecture and planning at the University of New Mexico, and is the author of many award-winning urban design books including The Zeon Files, Squares, and Urban Composition. He is currently developing forecasting tools for urban designers. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Michael Ch’ong is. Dwarf Stars 2017 |
| Margaret Chula is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2007, 2012, 2 |
| Joyce Clement is. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| 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 Lighthouse (CZP, 2020). Dwarf Stars 2013, 2014, 2017 |
| Carolyn Clink is a genre poet living in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. In 2011 she won the Aurora Award for Best Song/Poem of the year for "The ABCs of the End of the World." She has belonged to the same poetry workshop since 1995. Dwarf Stars 2010, 2012, 2014, 2022 |
| 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 the supernatually weird and horrific, fantasy, science fiction, and adventure. A member of HWA and SFPA
, he has published a chapbook, This Ae Nighte, Every Nighte and Alle: 33 Poems of the Weird, Horrific, and Supernatural (2018); his magnum opus in speculative poetry, The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems (Bold Venture Press, 2019); and Khayyám's Rubáiyát: A New Version in English Verse (June 2019, also from Bold Venture). In more scholarly writings, he has published essays on fantastic and imaginative fiction and specifically on the literary achievements of Robert E. Howard, including editing Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems. Coffman’s poetry is, almost exclusively, rhymed and metered verse. His favorite form is, without doubt, the sonnet, but his work experiments and innovates broadly across many cultures and poetic forms. Dwarf Stars 2018, 2020 |
| Alicia Cole is a writer and artist in Huntsville, AL. She’s the editor of Priestess & Hierophant Press. Her work has appeared in TAB: The Journal of Poetry and Poetics, SageWoman, Atlas and Alice, Star*Line, Split Lip Magazine and NILVX, among other publications. Dwarf Stars 2014, 2015 |
| Katharine Coles is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Carlos Colón is. Dwarf Stars 2017 |
| Beate Conrad is. Dwarf Stars 2011 |
| PS Cottier lives in Canberra and writes poetry, book reviews and the occasional short story. She also edits poetry for a newspaper. Dwarf Stars 2015, 2022, 2023 |
| Tim Cremin is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Septimiu M. Cristian is. Dwarf Stars 2015 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2006 |
| William Cullen, Jr. is a veteran and works at a non-profit in Brooklyn, NY. His poetry has appeared in Camroc Press Review, Gulf Stream, Pirene's Fountain, Spillway, Stepaway, Willows Wept Review, Word Riot and Written River. Dwarf Stars 2015, 2016 |
| Stephen C. Curro is an unabashed nerd from Windsor, Colorado. He has published fiction with Daily Science Fiction and 365tomorrows, and along with Star*Line has published or forthcoming poetry with Acorn, Utopia Science Fiction and Scifaikuest, among others. Stephen is also a strong environmentalist and he writes educational materials for Taproot Guru, an animal advocacy nonprofit. When he’s not writing, he works as a high school paraprofessional. When he’s not working, he enjoys reading, scuba diving, collecting fossils, and watching bad monster movies. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Ron Czerwien is the owner of Avol’s Books, LLC, which sells used & out-of-print books on the internet. His poems have appeared online and in a number of print journals. Ron serves on the board of The Council for Wisconsin Writers. His chapbook a little rain, a little more was published in 2018 by Bent Paddle Press. In his free time Ron creates collages using images cut from old magazines, some of which can be seen on his Instagram account @czerwienron. You can find out more about Avol’s Books at avolsbooks.com. Ron once had a bookstore, Alternate Realities, that specialized in SF/F. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| Koji A. Dae is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Matthew Daley, writer and educator, is a father of three, husband of one, and a terrible singer/dancer who tries to turn many of life’s moments into a musical. His poetry can be found in 34th Parallel Magazine, Neologism, Detritus, The Cabinet of Heed, The Green Light, Forever Endeavor, Necro, Unlost Journal, Indicia, Cathexis, The Caterpillar, Bewildering Stories, and Star*Line. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Tony Daly is a retired U.S. Air Force Reservist and a DC/Metro Area creative writer. He has work forthcoming or previously published in Polu Texni, parABnormal Magazine, Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, and others. He is married with two children, two dogs, and pays the bills by writing boring stuff. For a list of published work, please visit aldaly13.wixsite.com/website or follow him on Twitter @aldaly18. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Mark Danowsky is author of the poetry collection As Falls Trees (NightBallet Press, 2018). He’s Managing Editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Tracy Davidson lives in Warwickshire and writes poetry and flash fiction. Her work has appeared in various publications and anthologies, including: Poet’s Market, Mslexia, Atlas Poetica, Modern Haiku, The Binnacle, A Hundred Gourds, Shooter, Journey to Crone, The Great Gatsby Anthology, WAR and In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Gary A. Davis is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband and son. Her prize-winning poetry has appeared in over fifty journals, including F&SF and Asimov’s. Her prose has appeared in venues such as Analog and Galaxy's Edge. For more about her work, including her poetry collections, The Gates of Never and Bounded by Eternity, please see edda-earth.com. Dwarf Stars 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 |
| Robert Dawson teaches mathematics at Saint Mary's University, in Nova Scotia. He has been writing poetry and short fiction for about ten years; his poems have appeared in Star*Line, Rampike, and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. He is an alumnus of the Sage Hill and Viable Paradise writing workshops. His preferred vehicle is a bicycle. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Cherie Hunter Day lives in northern California among 17 thirsty redwoods. Her latest short poem/haiku collection is Miles Deep in a Drum Solo (Backbone Press, 2022), the winner of the Backbone Press Haiku Book Contest 2022. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2017, 2022 |
| Malcolm Deeley is. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| Kristen Deming is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Toi Dericotte is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Lena Donnarumma is a marine biologist from Hudson Valley, NY. She developed a passion for writing during her studies, travels, and research of ocean life, particularly the strange creatures which dwell there. She has been involved with writing in the fiction community and enjoys writing poetry inspired by her interests. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Kevin Doran is. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| Bloomington, Indiana (USA) author James 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 Dwarf Stars 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2019 |
| Gene Doty is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| John H. Dromey was born in northeast Missouri. Through the years, he’s written light verse, humor, and fiction for a wide variety of publications, numbering in the hundreds. His short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter, Mystery Magazine, Stupefying Stories Showcase, Woman’s World, and elsewhere. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Rebecca Drouilhet is. Dwarf Stars 2015 |
| A. B. S. Dudevaunt was the pen name of Stephen M. Wilson. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023 |
| Robin Wyatt Dunn was born in Wyoming in 1979. He is a graduate student in creative writing at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. You can read more of his work at robindunn.com. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| John J. Dunphy is the author of the scifaiku trade paperbacks Stellar Possibilities and Dark Nebulae, both of which are published by Alban Lake. His non-scifaiku poetry volumes include pagan rites (bottle rockets press), Touching Each Tree (Free Food Press), Old Soldiers Fading Away (Pudding House) and Zen Koanhead (Second Reading Publications). He owns The Second Reading Book Shop in Alton, Illinois. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2019, 2020 |
| Roger Dutcher is a Rhysling-winning poet who lives in Wisconsin. In addition to poetry he enjoys live music, wine, basketball, and reading. His poetry has appeared in Asimov's, Amazing Stories, Modern Haiku, among other genre and non-genre publications. Dwarf Stars 2020, 2022 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2007, 2011, 2014 |
| Carmen Duvalma lives in Targoviste, Romania, where she is a high school literature teacher. She has a doctorate in literature with a thesis on Eugene Ionesco’s theater and published it under the title “Eugene Ionesco and the world of total refuge” (Romanian Literature Museum Publishing House, 2011). She is also the author of a book of poetry, entitled The dream that will kill me (Vinea Publishing House, 2008). She has published haiku in international journals, including Failed Haiku, Autumn Moon Haiku, Cattails and The Red Moon Anthology of English Language Haiku 2019 (Red Moon Press, 2020). Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| Martin Dyar is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Topher Dykes is a West Sussex native who resides in Nottinghamshire with his wife, and the tribe of magpies that live in the chimney. A long-time science-fiction enthusiast since he first started reading, he has been published in Blithe Spirit and tsuri-dōrō. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| John M. Edwards is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2014 |
| Kirsten Cliff Elliot is a Kiwi now living in the UK. She describes herself as a reader, writer and librarian. Her haiku were featured in A New Resonance 8 (Red Moon Press, 2013), and her first collection of haiku and tanka Patient Property: a journey through leukemia (Velvet Dusk Publishing, 2019) was shortlisted for The Haiku Foundation's Touchstone Distinguished Books Award 2019. She is former editor of the haikai section of the New Zealand Poetry Society magazine, a fine line, and has edited two Per Diem collections for THF: Dream Speak (2013) and Libraries (2021). Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Melissa Ridley Elmes is a Virginia native currently living in Missouri in an apartment that delightfully approximates a hobbit hole. Her recent poetry and fiction have appeared in Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Spectral Realms, Illumen, Haven, Reunion: The Dallas Review, and various other print and web venues, and her first book of poetry, Arthurian Things: A Collection of Poems, was published by Dark Myth Publications in 2020. Dwarf Stars 2022, 2023 |
| Margarita Engle is. Dwarf Stars 2007, 2009 |
| Carrie Etter is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Eavonka Ettinger is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| Keith Evetts is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Colleen M. Farrelly is a freelance writer and mathematician living in Miami, FL. She enjoys exploring the possibilities of physics, building tech start-ups, and African innovation. Her first popular science book is The Shape of Data (2023). Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2013, 2014, 2015 |
| Debby Feo has been writing poems and short stories since the seventies, with her first sci-fi poem published in 2007. Debby writes poems/short stories/books in the genres of sci-fi, vampire, historical fiction, children’s, and fantasy. Goodreads Author’s Page: Debby Feo Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Greg Fewer is. Dwarf Stars 2021, 2023 |
| Amelia Fielden is. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| Livia Finucci is. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| Mark A. Fisher is a writer, poet, and playwright living in Tehachapi, CA. His poetry has appeared in Angel City Review, Spectrum, Altadena Poetry Review, Penumbra, Lummox, and many other places. His first chapbook, drifter, is available from Amazon. His second, hour of lead, won the 2017 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest. Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| Lorin Ford is. Dwarf Stars 2015 |
| Francesca Forrest is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Bryn Fortey is. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2023 |
| Melissa Frederick is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Todd Fredson is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Chris Friend is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| M. Frost is. Dwarf Stars 2008, 2013 |
| Jen Stewart Fueston is the author of Madonna, Complex (Cascade Books 2020), Latch (River Glass Books 2019) and Visitations (Finishing Line Press 2015). Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in AGNI, Thrush, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Iron Horse Review, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. A native of Colorado, she has taught writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder, as well as internationally. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Susan Beth Furst is a Touchstone Award-nominated poet and author. She writes Japanese short-form poetry and especially enjoys writing haibun. She has authored two children’s picture books, including Electric Pink: A Christmas Haibun. Susan has published two haiku collections; souvenir shop: memories of the highland park zoo, and midwinter moon: a collection of Christmas haiku. Susan lives in Woodbridge, Virginia, with her husband, Herb. You can find her on Instagram @sueshaikus & @susanbethfurst. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| James D. Fuson is. Dwarf Stars 2017 |
| Joshua Gage [removed by request]. Dwarf Stars 2008, 2009, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 |
| 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 Dwarf Stars 2009, 2012 |
| Michael J. Galko is a scientist and a poet who lives and works in Houston, TX. He is the owner, creator and curator of "Haiku House", a residential art project less than a mile from downtown Houston. Haiku House has several hundred wood-burned and painted original haiku on the structure and fence and in the yard. Michael's haiku have appeared in a spectrum of haiku-themed journals. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Jean Gallagher is the author of This Minute (Fordham UP); Stubborn (Oberlin College Press), and Start (Oberlin College Press). She teaches creative writing at NYU, where she is a professor of English at the Tandon School. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Linda Galloway is. Dwarf Stars 2010 |
| Tom Galusha is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Doug Gant has been an avid reader of science fiction, fantasy, and horror for many decades. His interest in folktales and mythology, along with his background in mathematics, allows him to meld the mystic and the analytic. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Dr. Tim Gardiner is an ecologist, editor, essayist, poet, and children’s author from Manningtree in Essex, UK. He has been widely published in journals and anthologies. He is a former co-editor of the tanka prose section of Haibun Today and current poetry editor for Suspect Device punk fanzine. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Adele Gardner (any/none/they, Mx.) is a fiction writer & award-winning poet with a poetry collection, Halloween Hearts, forthcoming from Jackanapes Press and work in Analog, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, and Daily Science Fiction. This genderfluid night owl loves libraries, samurai films, and reading comics with cats. An active/full member of SFWA and HWA and a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop with master's degrees in English literature and library science, Adele serves as literary executor for father, mentor, and namesake Delbert R. Gardner and coeditor of the Dwarf Stars 2022 anthology with lifelong friend Greer Woodward. gardnercastle.com Dwarf Stars 2007, 2015, 2021, 2022 |
| Toni J. Gardner is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| 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, 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: Future Anthropology (currently being translated into Portuguese), Odes to Scientists (2019), Betelgeuse Dimming (2020), and Utopian Problems (2021). He is a five-time Elgin Nominee. He is a regular contributor to DreamFoundry.org's blog, and is the current editor of Star*Line, and short-story editor at Aphelion. jplgarnier.blogspot.com Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| Brian Garrison has a Masters in Neuroscience, but has not let that get in the way of his poetry. His chapbook New Yesterdays, New Tomorrows came out in 2017. When he isn't working on his own writing, Brian helps The Haikooligan to publish Parody Poetry Journal. bugthewriter.com, parodypoetry.com Dwarf Stars 2017, 2022 |
| John Garrison is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Laura Garrison is. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| Sharmon Gazaway writes from the Deep South, where she lives with her husband beside a historical cemetery haunted by the wild cries of pileated woodpeckers. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Forge Literary Magazine, Welter, Daily Science Fiction, MetaStellar, Enchanted Conversation, microverses.net: Octavos, NewMyths.com (twice), Metaphorosis, The Society of Classical Poets Journal IX, Breath and Shadow (twice), Ghost Orchid Press, and elsewhere in speculative and literary publications. You can find more of her work in the anthologies Orpheus + Eurydice Rewoven and Love Letters to Poe Volumes I and II; her poetry is featured in the anthologies Daughter of Sarpedon, Wayward & Upward, and Dark Waters. Sharmon is currently at work on an adult fantasy novel. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Paul Geiger is a retired biochemist, career spent at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. After serving in the Navy as a lieutenant in the Korean war, he earned a PhD at Johns Hopkins University, 1962. Only in 2014 did he find a fascination in haiku and other oriental forms of poetry primarily because he loves the short forms with intriguing ideas or mysteries like Zen. In that year he joined Allpoetry.com to learn more about these forms. Photo haiku, haiku combined with interesting photos, is a particular form of fun. He thinks a lot about how to find Basho’s lightness in a few words. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Jo Gerrard is. Dwarf Stars 2006 |
| Andre Dorian Gheorghe is. Dwarf Stars 2006 |
| James Gianforti is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Mark Gilbert lives in the UK and enjoys writing short poetry, medium poetry and prose (any length). He is a member of the British Haiku Society and has had longer poems in Twist in Time, Abyss & Apex, Black Bough and Fireflies' Light. His really short collection of really short haiku was recently published at the Origami Poems Project. Dwarf Stars 2022, 2023 |
| Sarah Glass is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Ian Goh is a video game writer based in Singapore. His work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, and is forthcoming in Asimov's Science Fiction. Currently, as always, he is working on too many things at once. Find more of his work at iangohwrites.com. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Maxwell I. Gold is a multiple award nominated author who writes prose poetry and short stories in weird and cosmic fiction. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines including Weirdbook Magazine, Space & Time Magazine, Startling Stories, Strange Horizons, Tales from OmniPark Anthology, Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas and more. He’s the author of Oblivion in Flux: A Collection of Cyber Prose from Crystal Lake Publishing. Maxwell’s forthcoming books include a collaborative book of poems titled Mobius Lyrics with Bram Stoker Award winner Angela Yuriko Smith to be released in 2022; Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums from Hex Publishers and an Other Mythology prose poetry chapbook from Interstellar Flight Press both to be released in 2023. He lives in Ohio with his partner and two dogs Marshall and Otto, and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Horror Writers Association as the organization’s Treasurer. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Kim Goldberg is. Dwarf Stars 2021 |
| After earning his Master’s degree, Mel Goldberg taught literature and writing in California, Illinois, Arizona, and as a Fulbright Exchange teacher in Cambridgeshire, England. For seven years, his artist-wife and he lived in and traveled in a small motorhome throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico. They moved to Mexico where they live on a small income. His writing has been published online and in print in the U.S., UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico. He has won several awards in Japan for his tanka, haibun, and haiku, including the grand prize for in the 7th Setouchi Matsuyama International Photo-Haiku Contest in 2018. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Sanford Goldstein is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Leonard Gonatarek is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Howie Good is. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| Alan Ira Gordon’s poetry publications include Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and he’s a frequent contributor to Star*Line, the quarterly journal of SFPA. Alan’s science fiction/fantasy poetry has received seven Rhysling Award nominations and an Analog year’s best nomination. He has two published poetry collections, Planet Hunter and The Doggo Book, both published by Hiraeth Books. 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 his published work can be found on his website at alaniragordon.com. Dwarf Stars 2016, 2022, 2023 |
| Steven Wittenberg Gordon is. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| 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). Dwarf Stars 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 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 was also Editor of Star*Line, the print journal of the SFPA (2017–2020). His poetry collections include Dragonfly, Ghost Wars, Fighting Kite, The Coolest Month, and the upcoming Pacific Crossing. Speculative poems have appeared in Abyss & Apex, Altered Reality Magazine, Dreams and Nightmares, Grievous Angel, Philippines Graphic (Philippines), Silver Blade, and the anthologies Multiverse (UK) and Strange Land (Poet's Haven). He blogs at The Man with the Blue Guitar. Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| Jason Gray is the author of Radiation King, winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry, and Photographing Eden, as well as two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo. His poems have been featured in Poetry, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Image, and elsewhere. jason-gray.net Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Arielle Greenberg is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2009, 2010 |
| Susan Grimm is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Eliza Griswold is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Albert W. Grohmann works as a bookseller, and lives in Westfield, New Jersey. His work has previously appeared in Scifaikuest. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Piotr Gwiazda is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his novel The Forever War. That novel and other works, including The Hemingway Hoax and Forever Peace, have won science-fiction awards, including the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and Rhysling Award. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Hazel Hall is a well published Australian poet and musicologist. Her latest collections are Step by Step, with Angie Egan (Picaro Poets 2019), Moonlight Over the Siding (Interactive Press 2019), You are Her Words, with Canadian artist Karen Bailey (HD Press 2019), and Severed Web with Australian artist Deborah Faeyrglenn (Picaro Poets 2020). Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| A Pushcart Prize nominee, Jennifer Hambrick is the First Place winner of the 2018 Haiku Society of America Haibun Award Competition and the author of the poetry collection Unscathed (NightBallet Press), nominated for the Ohioana Book Award. She is widely published, with hundreds of poems in literary journals, including The American Journal of Poetry, Chiron Review, Santa Clara Review, Main Street Rag, POEM, San Pedro River Review, Third Wednesday, Mad River Review, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, and major Japanese newspapers The Asahi Shimbun and The Mainichi, among others. Jennifer Hambrick has received numerous awards and other recognitions for her poetry, including from Tokyo’s NHK World TV, in the Jane Reichhold Haiga Competition, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival International Haiku Invitational, the Golden Haiku Competition (Washington, D.C.), the Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Competition (Boston), the Ohio Poetry Association, and others. A classical musician and public radio broadcaster and web producer, Jennifer Hambrick lives in Columbus, Ohio. Her blog, Inner Voices, is at jenniferhambrick.com. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Todd Hanks is. Dwarf Stars 2006 |
| K. S. Hardy is. Dwarf Stars 2011 |
| C.R. Harper is a writer/editor of formal and speculative micropoetry. Representative works have appeared online, in print, and inside a gumball machine in Vancouver. Dwarf Stars 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023 |
| Lev Hart, having lived on this planet for 68 years, is becoming impatient with the delayed arrival of his rescue ship. Meanwhile he has majored in English, worked with homeless people, moved to Israel, and returned to Canada. His beloved and he have been together almost forever. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Michele L. Harvey is. Dwarf Stars 2010 |
| K. L. Hasell is. Dwarf Stars 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. Dwarf Stars 2019, 2020 |
| John Hawkhead is a globally published writer from the South West of England who, in 2021, won the Porad Haiku Contest, the Setouchi-Matsuyama Photo-Haiku Grand Prix, took second place in the Martin Lucas Haiku Award and was a Finalist in the Trailblazer contest. His scifaiku have featured in Aphelion, Grievous Angel, Scifaikuest, The Sciku Project, and Star*Line. His Alba Publishing book Small Shadows is available from John via Twitter: @HawkheadJohn. Dwarf Stars 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Tia Haynes is. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Marilyn Hazelton is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Berrien C. Henderson is. Dwarf Stars 2007, 2008 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2006 |
| Howard V. Hendrix is. Dwarf Stars 2010 |
| Mariel Herbert writes short speculative fiction, as well as English haiku and senryu. She likes to mix science with myths, and humor with reality. Her science fiction and fantasy poems have been published in Liminality, Octavos, and Star*Line, among others. And her scifaiku and horrorku have appeared in failed Dwarf Stars 2022, 2023 |
| Alicia Hilton is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Carolyn M. Hinderliter is. Dwarf Stars 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2020 |
| C. William Hinderliter is. Dwarf Stars 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020 |
| Jordan Hirsch writes speculative fiction and poetry in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, where she lives with her husband. Her work has appeared with Liminality Magazine, Octavos, The Future Fire, and other venues. Find her on Twitter: @jordanrhirsch. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Jamal Hodge is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and writer. As a writer, Hodge is an active member of the Horror Writer's Association and SFPA, being nominated for the 2021 & 2022 Rhysling Awards for his poems “Fermi's Spaceship” and “Loving Venus,” while his poem “The Silence of God” placed in the 2021 HWA Poetry Showcase. Jamal's poetry is featured in the anthology Chiral Mad 5 alongside such legends as Stephen King & Linda Addison. And most recently, Hodge has been tasked to be co-editor of the historical book 45 Black Men in Horror. You can find his work featured in the historical all-black issue of Star*Line (issue 43.4), Space & Time Magazine, Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters, and Other Phenomena, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, and many others. writerhodge.com. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Nick Hoffman grew up in a small town in Michigan, but now lives in Cork, Ireland’s second city, where he enjoys watching Star Trek reruns. His work has appeared in various haiku and senryu journals, as well as Scifaikuest, Star*Line and Eye to the Telescope. Dwarf Stars 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Mark Holloway is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| M. J. Holmes (she/her) is a writer, teacher, and graduate student. She was a runner-up for the 2022 Andrew Siderius Memorial Contest hosted by Friday Flash Fiction. She has work published in I Know That Ghosts Have Wandered the Earth: A Collection of Brontë-Inspired Ghost Stories, The Horror Zine, and was featured by @streetwritersofficial. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @mjholmes3. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Ruth Holzer is. Dwarf Stars 2017 |
| Akua Lezli Hope uses sound, words, fiber, glass, metal, and wire to create poems, patterns, stories, music, sculpture, adornments, and peace. She wrote her first speculative poems in the sixth grade and has been in print since 1974 with over 400 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), and Stratospherics (a micro-chapbook of scifaiku available at the Quarantine Public Library). A Cave Canem fellow, her honors include the NEA, two NYFAs, an SFPA award, and multiple Rhysling and Pushcart Prize nominations. She has won Rattle’s Poets Respond twice and launched Speculative Sundays, an online poetry reading series. She is the editor of the record-breaking sea-themed issue of Eye to the Telescope 42, and of NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators, the history-making first of its kind, from Sundress Publications (2021). She won a 2022 New York State Council of the Arts grant to create Afrofuturist, speculative, pastoral poetry. A third-generation New Yorker, she exhibits her artwork regularly. She sings songs from her favorite anime in Japanese, practices her soprano saxophone, and prays for the cessation of suffering for all sentience from the ancestral land of the Seneca, the Southern Finger Lakes region of New York State. Dwarf Stars 2022, 2023 |
| Elizabeth Howard is. Dwarf Stars 2010 |
| Marilyn Humbert lives in the northern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, surrounded by bush. Her pastimes include writing free verse, tanka, and haiku. Her tanka and haiku appear in international and Australian journals, anthologies and online. Some of her free-verse poems have been awarded prizes in competitions and some have been published. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Ellen Huang (she/her) is a writer of the magical, whimsical, and gothic. Her poems “Aromantic Jesus,” (miniskirt magazine), “Split Attraction” (warning lines), and “You Might Not Be Struck By Lightning As You Wish” (The Rising Phoenix Review) have each been nominated for Best of the Net 2021. She has also been named in “Poets of Color to Watch for in 2021” in Luna Luna Magazine and as an ace resource on Invisible Cake Society. She reads for Whale Road Review and is published in 100+ venues including K’in Literary, Lumiere Review, Ghost City, Crow & Cross Keys, Kissing Dynamite, horse egg literary, Apparition Lit, Sword & Kettle Press, Brown Sugar Lit, and more. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| C. E. Hyun is. Dwarf Stars 2015 |
| Alegria Imperial, a former journalist in the Philippines, graduated from the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas, Manila with a degree of Literature in Journalism, a course that steeped her in Continental literary works. Her mainstream poems comprise her first published works in a few journals among them The Cortland Review, qarrtsiluni, and Passager. Her discovery of haiku started her writing short Japanese poetry forms that have since been widely published with some gaining awards. She launched her first e-chapbook, ‘counting star-bones’ of 20 contemporary haiku, Yavanika Press, Bangalore, India, July 2018 followed recently by another e-chapbook, ‘we do not bleed like nigtingales when felled singing’ at Bones Journal Books, 2020. Both arearchived at The Haiku Foundation Digital Library. She immigrated to Canada 12 years ago, where she now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| Diane Jackman’s poetry has appeared in Eye to the Telescope, Spillway, Rialto, snakeskin, Grey Hen, small press magazines and anthologies in UK and US. She has won or been placed in several competitions. Starting out as a children’s writer with seven books and 100 published stories, she now concentrates on poetry. Her first collection Lessons from the Orchard will be published by Sacred Eagle Publishing in September. She runs a poetry café in Brandon, in the heart of England’s desert. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Major Jackson is. Dwarf Stars 2010 |
| Charlee Jacob (1952–2019) was an American author specializing in horror fiction, dark fantasy, and poetry. Her writing career began in 1981 with the publication of several poems under the name Charlee Carter Broach. She began writing as Charlee Jacob in 1986. Charlee was also a digger for dinosaur bones, a seller of designer rags, and a cook, to mention only a few things. With more than 950 publishing credits, this native Texan was best known for her graphic explorations of the themes of human degradation, sexual extremism, and supernatural evil. Her first novel This Symbiotic Fascination (Necro Publications, 1997) was nominated for the International Horror Guild Award and the Bram Stoker Award. Some of her recent publishing projects include the novels Containment, Still, Vestal, and Season of the Witch, all from Necro Publications. She was a three-time Bram Stoker Award winner, two of those awards for her novel Dread in the Beast and the poetry collection Sineater; the third award for collaborative poetry collection, Vectors, with Marge Simon. Permanently disabled, she had begun to paint as one of her forms of physical therapy. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Duro Jaiye is. Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| Raven Jakubowski lives and writes in Queens, NY. Raven’s work has appeared in Star*Line, Daily Science Fiction, and Flash Fiction Online. In addition to writing, Raven is a professional craftsperson and is active in the labor movement. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Soren James is a writer and visual artist who recreates himself on a daily basis from the materials at his disposal, continuing to do so in an upbeat manner until one day he will sumptuously throw his drained materials aside and resume stillness without asking why. More of his work can be seen here: sorenjames.wordpress.com Dwarf Stars 2018 |
| Tim Jamieson is. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2007 |
| Peter Jastermsky writes short-form works, with a focus on haiku, senryu, haibun, and cherita. His writing has appeared in many print and online journals and anthologies. Born in Connecticut, Peter lived in Philadelphia for many years before relocating to Southern California. He and his family now live in the high desert with their cat and horse. Peter’s first haiku and senryu collection, Steel Cut Moon, is published by Cholla Needles Press. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Holly Jensen’s work has appeared in PANK Magazine, Pear Noir! the Midwest Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is the author of Selected Timelines: Past and Future (Neon Books, 2014) and lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| Jennifer Jerome is. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| Emily Jiang is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| Yunsheng Jiang lives in Shanghai. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Eva Joan is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Joyce Sandeen Johnson is. Dwarf Stars 2010 |
| Mat Joiner is a writer and poet living near Birmingham, England. His work has appeared in Not One Of Us, Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit, and Stone Telling. With Shira Lipkin, he co-edits the speculative poetry webzine, Liminality. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| R. Mac Jones is. Dwarf Stars 2021 |
| Shelly Jones (she/they) is a Professor of English at a small college in upstate New York, where she teaches courses in mythology, folklore, and writing. Her speculative work has been published in Podcastle, NewMyths.com, The Future Fire, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been previously nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find them on Twitter @shellyjansen. Dwarf Stars 2022, 2023 |
| 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 book, co-edited with PS Cottier, is the anthology The Stars Like Sand: Australian Speculative Poetry (2014). For more, see timjonesbooks.blogspot.com Dwarf Stars 2010 |
| Jim Kacian is founder and president of The Haiku Foundation, founder and owner of Red Moon Press, Editor-in-Chief of Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W. W. Norton, 2013), author of some 20 books of poetry (mainly haiku) and editor of scores more. He lives in the Shenandoah Valley with his life partner of more than 30 years, Maureen Gorman, and kayaks big water whenever he can. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Kacian Dwarf Stars 2012, 2019 |
| Yuna Kang is a queer, Korean-American writer based in Northern California who is currently attending UC Berkeley. She has been published in journals such as Strange Horizons, Rising Phoenix Press, and more. Their website is kangyunak.wixsite.com/website Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Nature photographer, photo editor, and now a “digital asset management librarian,” John Kaprielian brings his keen eye for natural history to his poems, which are often inspired by his observations. He has been writing poetry for 40 years, and studied creative writing at Cornell with the poet A. R. Ammons while getting his undergraduate degree. His work has been published in The Blue Nib, Poetry Quarterly, Riddled with Arrows, CP Quarterly, and many other journals, and he has a poetry collection available on Amazon. He lives in Putnam County, NY, with his wife and assorted pets. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Sandra Kasturi is a poet, writer, editor and the publisher of ChiZine Publications. She is fond of red lipstick, gin & tonics, and Idris Elba. Dwarf Stars 2011, 2013 |
| Steven B. Katz is. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| Herb Kauderer retired from 20 years as a mostly factory-working Teamster to become an associate professor of English at Hilbert College. He has a PhD in popular literature, and an MFA in screenwriting, along with five other degrees. He has been a member of SFPA since 1989, though with a few lapses for child-rearing. He was lead screenwriter of the indie feature film Beyond the Mainstream (2013), and to date has written 18 poetry collections, 60+ short stories, 200+ articles and reviews, and over 1600+ accepted poems. He is trying to learn how to relax. HerbKauderer.com Dwarf Stars 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| W. B. Keckler is. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| M. Kei is. Dwarf Stars 2008, 2009, 2010 |
| Bridget Kelley-Lossada is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Despite a scientific training, David J. Kelly has a fascination with words and the music of language. He enjoys writing Japanese short forms and has been published in a number of print and online journals. His first collection is Hammerscale from the Thrush’s Anvil (Alba, 2016). Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| M. X. Kelly lives in St. Petersburg, Florida with her partner, Val, their three cats, and a coffee pot. Her work has appeared in Star*Line, Abyss & Apex, Scifaikufest, Queer Sci-Fi, and other magazines and anthologies across the known ’verse. M.X.’s website can be summoned with the typed incantation of mxkelly.weebly.com/. Dwarf Stars 2018 |
| Patricia Kelly is. Dwarf Stars 2007, 2009 |
| S. A. Kelly is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Julie Bloss Kelsey’s science fiction poetry has appeared in Star*Line, Grievous Angel, Scifaikuest, and Jersey Devil Press. In 2018, Julie teamed with fellow sci-fi poet Susan Burch to edit 25 Science Fiction Tanka and Kyoka at Atlas Poetica. Dwarf Stars 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 |
| J.Y.T. Kennedy writes speculative fiction and poetry in Alberta, Canada. Her publications include poems in the anthologies Stellar Evolutions and Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Simon Kewin is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Laura King is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Merie Kirby grew up in California and now lives in North Dakota. She is the author of two chapbooks, The Dog Runs On and The Thumbelina Poems. Her poems have been published in Mom Egg Review, Rogue Agent, FERAL, Strange Horizons, and other journals. She is equally fond of board games, cheese, and space movies. You can find her online at meriekirby.com. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Mariko Kitakubo is. Dwarf Stars 2007, 2009 |
| Originally from Vancouver, Canada, kjmunro moved to the Yukon Territory in 1991. She is Membership Secretary for Haiku Canada & a member of the League of Canadian Poets. Her debut poetry collection is contractions (Red Moon Press, 2019). Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Deborah P Kolodji is the California Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America and 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. Dwarf Stars 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| David C. Kopaska-Merkel, a retired paleontologist, won the 2006 Rhysling Award for best long poem (collaboration with Kendall Evans), and edits Dreams and Nightmares magazine (since 1986). He has edited Star*Line, an issue of Eye to the Telescope, and several Rhysling anthologies, has served as SFPA president, and is an SFPA Grandmaster. His poems (more than 1200 of them) have been published in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Mythic Delirium, and more than 200 other venues. Some Disassembly Required, his latest poetry collection, comes out in 2022 from Diminuendo Press. Blog: dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com; @DavidKM on Twitter. Dwarf Stars 2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 |
| Manos Kounougakis is. Dwarf Stars 2014, 2017 |
| 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 Dwarf Stars 2014, 2015 |
| Padmini Krishnan writes poetry and short fiction. Her haiku have appeared in Shamrock Haiku, The Heron's Nest, Tinywords, Cattails and Under the Basho, among others. Her forthcoming senryu is to be published in the next issue of tsuri-dōrō. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Anatoly Kudryavitsky lives in Dublin, Ireland, and in Reggio di Calabria, Italy. His poems appear in Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, The North, The Prague Revue, Plume, BlazeVox, The Honest Ulsterman, Cyphers, Stride, etc. His most recent poetry collections are The Two-Headed Man and the Paper Life (MadHat Press, USA, 2019) and Scultura Involontaria (Multimedia Edizione, Italy, 2020; a bilingual English/Italian edition of his selected poems). He has also published three collections of his haiku. His latest novel, The Flying Dutchman, has been brought out by Glagoslav Publications, England, in 2018. He is the founding editor of SurVision Books. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Kelli Lage is earning her degree in Secondary English Education and works as a substitute teacher. She is a poetry reader for Bracken Magazine. Lage's work has appeared in The Lumiere Review, Welter Journal, Watershed Review, and elsewhere. Website: www.KelliLage.com. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2020 |
| William Landis has a B.S. in Agricultural Education with a Concentration on Plant and Soil Science, Class of 2012, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Dwarf Stars 2017, 2019 |
| David W. Landrum is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Dennis M. Lane is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Beth Langford is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| David Glen Larson is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| John Edward Lawson is. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| Angel Leal is a Mexican, trans/nonbinary poet from Texas. Their work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Rhysling Award, and has previously appeared in venues such as Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, and the Club Q Benefit Anthology We Apologize For The Inconvenience published by Beyond The Veil Press. You can find them at angel-leal.com or floating around Twitter @orbiting_angel. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for over twenty years. Her latest books are from opposite ends of the poetry spectrum: Elemental Haiku, containing haiku for the periodic table, and The Sign of the Dragon, an epic fantasy with Chinese elements, winner of the 2021 Elgin Award. She hides her online presence with a cryptically named website, marysoonlee.com, and an equally cryptic Twitter account @MarySoonLee. Dwarf Stars 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Gerri Leen is a writer and poet from Northern Virginia who's into horse racing, tea, and collecting encaustic art and raku pottery. She has poetry published or accepted by The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Dark Matter, Dreams and Nightmares, and others. Visit gerrileen.com to see what she's been up to. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Kat Lehmann is a Co-Founding Co-Editor of whiptail: journal of the single-line poem and a panelist for The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. Kat is a winner of The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem and is included in the New Resonance community of haiku poets. She is the author of three books of poetry. A former research biochemist, she likes to contemplate the grandiose within the details. Read Kat’s work on her website: katlehmann.weebly.com. Dwarf Stars 2022, 2023 |
| Sandi Leibowitz is. Dwarf Stars 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 |
| Rose Lemberg is. Dwarf Stars 2010, 2011, 2014 |
| Rebecca Lilly has published several collections of haiku and short poetry with Red Moon Press, as well as a recent collection of prose poems, Creatures Among Us (Broadstone Books, 2019). With degrees from Cornell (MFA, poetry) and Princeton (PhD, philosophy) universities, Rebecca works as a writer and researcher. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Since 1988, Sandra J. Lindow has had 24 Rhysling nominations and 6 Dwarf Star nominations. She is a past SFPA Vice President and acting President. Her poetry and reviews have appeared in Star*Line. Last summer she was startled to win the Convergence slam contest for the second time in a row. Dwarf Stars 2007, 2015, 2016, 2019 |
| Darrell Lindsey is. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| Alyssa Lo is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Gregory Longenecker is. Dwarf Stars 2018 |
| Aurelio Rico Lopez III is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| Jennifer Loring’s short fiction has been published in Tales from the Lake, Nightscript IV, Dim Shores Presents, and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthologies Not All Monsters and Arterial Bloom. She holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction with a concentration in horror fiction and is currently working toward a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies–Humanities & Culture, studying the ecoGothic and the monstrous-feminine in horror video games. She is also a member of the American Folklore Society and National Women’s Studies Association. Jenn lives in Philadelphia, PA, where she and her husband are owned by a turtle and two basset hounds. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Monica Louzon is. Dwarf Stars 2021 |
| Goran Lowie is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Bob Lucky, an editor at Contemporary Haibun Online, is the author of Ethiopian Time (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014) and Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks (SurVision Books, 2018), and a winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize in 2018. He currently splits his time between Saudi Arabia, where he teaches and plays in a ukulele band, and Portugal, where he is working his way through all the regional cheeses and wines. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Roddy Lumsden is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| paul m is. Dwarf Stars 2009, 2010, 2018 |
| Minadora Macheret is. Dwarf Stars 2018 |
| Kurt MacPhearson is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Joy Reed MacVane lives in the New York Hudson Valley and hides out summers on an island off the Maine coast. Dwarf Stars 2017, 2019 |
| Richard Magahiz tries to live an ordered life in harmony with all things natural and created but one that follows unexpected paths. He wrangles computers as a day job but imagines a time when life might center around other things. His work has appeared at Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Sein und Werden, Call Me [Brackets], Bewildering Stories, and Contemporary Haibun Review. His website is zeroatthebone.us. Dwarf Stars 2013, 2017, 2022, 2023 |
| 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, Rhysling, 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 Dwarf Stars 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 |
| 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, and Glittership. The Saint of Witches, Avra’s debut collection of horror poetry, is forthcoming from Weasel Press. You can find her on Twitter @avramargariti. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Amelia Martens is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Jeannie Martin is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Scott Mason is. Dwarf Stars 2017 |
| dl mattila is. Dwarf Stars 2016, 2018 |
| Robin Mayhall is a writer and editor from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who has battled rheumatoid arthritis since age 21. She enjoys reading, especially history, and hanging out with her cat. She has seen poetry, articles, and stories published in a number of publications, including Star*Line, and has had two poems nominated for the Rhysling Award. She has been an SFPA member too long to remember when she joined! Robin edited the online zine Abyss & Apex for several years (under the pen name Aleta Daknis) and was editor of the 2017 and 2020 Dwarf Stars anthologies. She has written two young adult graphic novels—The Quest for Dragon Mountain and He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not—both for Lerner Publishing/Graphic Universe. Dwarf Stars 2007, 2022 |
| Lauren Mayhew is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Lauren McBride finds inspiration in faith, family, nature, science, and membership in the SFPA. Nominated for the Best of the Net, Pushcart and Rhysling Awards, her poetry has appeared internationally in speculative and mainstream publications for young adults and adults, including Asimov’s and Fantasy & Science Fiction. She enjoys swimming, gardening, baking, reading, writing, and knitting scarves for our troops. Dwarf Stars 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Joy McCall is paraplegic and bedbound but the world outside her window is filled with small trees and singing birds and she has kinfolk and friends who bring gladness. She has written far too many books of poetry, mostly tanka, which she has loved since she was a child. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Michael McCormick writes peculiar poems and surreal stories in his Batman pajamas. Mike's work in more than seventy magazines and anthologies has earned a Best of the Net, Pushcart nomination, Opossum Prize, and other awards. Connect with Mike at @mikemccormickauthor on Facebook or mikemccormick.org. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Tanya McDonald is. Dwarf Stars 2010 |
| Marietta McGregor is. Dwarf Stars 2018 |
| Tyler McIntosh is an environmental scientist, educator, and advocate making his home in the western United States. His creative work ranges from speculative scifaiku to haibun and regularly appears in numerous print and online journals. Whenever possible, Tyler loves to be out adventuring in the mountains, deserts, and waters of the landscape he calls home. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| David McKee is. Dwarf Stars 2016, 2017 |
| Living in Happy Valley, Michele Mekel wears many hats of her choosing: writer and editor; educator and bioethicist; poetess and creatrix; cat herder and chief can opener; witch and woman; and, above all, human. With more than 130 poems published, her work has appeared in various academic and creative publications, including being featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and nominated for Best of the Net. Her poetry has also been translated into Cherokee. She is co-principal investigator for the Viral Imaginations: COVID-19 project. Dwarf Stars 2022, 2023 |
| Joanne Merriam is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Alan Meyrowitz is. Dwarf Stars 2013, 2015 |
| P. Andrew Miller is. Dwarf Stars 2015 |
| j. mirio is a poet from Madison, Wisconsin. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| Dan Mitrut is. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| Vasile Moldovan is. Dwarf Stars 2010 |
| B. Sharise Moore is a writer/educator, the host of Moore Books with B. Sharise on YouTube, and the Poetry Editor at Fiyah Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. A New Jersey native and graduate of Rutgers University, Moore’s poems and short stories have appeared in several anthologies and journals including For Harriet, The City: A Cyberfunk Anthology, and Chosen Realities: Summer 2020. Her YA steampunk/magical realism novel, Dr. Marvellus Djinn’s Odd Scholars, is set for an early 2021 release. For more, visit bsharisemoore.com. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Joanne Morcom is. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2010, 2013 |
| Drew Morse is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Ron C. Moss is a Tasmanian poet and artist whose haiku and short form poetry has appeared in leading journals and anthologies across the world. His award-winning poems have been featured many times and translated into several languages. The soon-to-be-released Broken Starfish is Ron's third major collection of his previously published haiku, and it brings together work from twenty years of writing. Ron’s interest in Asian philosophy has also influenced his art practice, through abstract watercolour, Sumi-e (ink paintings), and Zenga (Zen inspired painting). He also uses the more modern tools of photography and digital-art making. His study of these disciplines has allowed him to create words to paintings and paintings to words—achieving a highly contemplative expression of creativity and joy. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2019, 2021 |
| Lee Murray is a multi-award-winning writer and poet from Aotearoa-New Zealand. A Shirley Jackson Award winner, and a four-time Bram Stoker Award® winner—including for poetry for Tortured Willows (with Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, and Geneve Flynn)—Lee is a Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellow for her narrative poetry collection Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud, and an NZSA Honorary Fellow. Her poem “cheongsam” won her the Australian Shadows Award for 2021. Read more at leemurray.info. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Kristine Ong Muslim is. Dwarf Stars 2008, 2012 |
| Victoria Nations is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Kim L. Neidigh is. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| Mari Ness is. Dwarf Stars 2014, 2015 |
| Karen L. Newman is. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2008 |
| Ngo Binh Anh Khoa is a teacher of English in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In his free time, he enjoys daydreaming and writing speculative poetry. His poems have appeared in Scifaikuest, Weirdbook, Star*Line, Spectral Realms, and other venues. He can be found on Facebook at facebook.com/khoa.ngo.5059. Dwarf Stars 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Scott Nicolay is. Dwarf Stars 2010 |
| ayaz daryl nielsen, veteran and former hospice nurse, lives in Longmont,
Colorado, USA. Editor of bear creek haiku (35+ years/160+ issues) with poetry
published worldwide, he is online at bear creek haiku poetry, poems and info.
Among other deeply appreciated honors, he is especially delighted
by the depth and heart of poets worldwide whose poems
have a home in bear creek haiku’s print and online presence. Dwarf Stars 2017, 2020, 2022 |
| Kimberly Nugent is a freelance editor and stay-at-home mom. She is also a gamer, nerd, and lover of all things geek. Twitter @blueteaediting Dwarf Stars 2019, 2020, 2021 |
| Stuart Nunn is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Réka Nyitrai lives in Bucharest, Romania. She was born in Transylvania, a land that she truly considers magic. She studied communication and political marketing. She always felt attracted to poetry, especially to short forms, however she only started writing haiku since 2018, early spring. She writes haiku, tanka and cherita. Her work has been published in Under the Basho, Failed Haiku, FemkuMag, Otata, and The Asahi Shimbun. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Cindy O’Quinn is an Appalachian writer now living and writing on an old homestead in northern Maine. Cindy is a Bram Stoker Award and Rhysling Award nominated writer. Her work is published or forthcoming in Shotgun Honey Presents Vol 4: Recoil, HWA Poetry Showcase: Vol. V, The Twisted Book of Shadows Anthology, Eerie Christmas Anthology, Sanitarium Magazine, Space & Time Magazine, Star*Line, and others. Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| A. J. Odasso is. Dwarf Stars 2013, 2015 |
| Helen Ogden is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Omodero David Oghenekaro is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Iulian Olaru is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Brian Gene Olson is. Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| Eric Otto is. Dwarf Stars 2015 |
| Roland Packer has worked as a musician for over forty years in various roles—performer, teacher and composer. He has been writing haiku for that same period of time and has been published in numerous journals including Modern Haiku, Frogpond and Presence. A lifelong interest in astronomy, astrophysics and science fiction has led to an occasional speculative haiku. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Linda Papanicolaou is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| 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 ScienceFiction and elsewhere. You can find her on twitter @epapasoulioti and on her blog plothopes.com. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Vandana Parashar is a postgraduate in Microbiology, an educator and a haiku poet. Her haiku, senryu and tanka have been published in many national and international journals of repute and has won her many prizes and accolades. Her haiku was also shortlisted for the prestigious Touchstone Award in 2021. Her debut e-chapbook I Am was published by Title IX Press in 2019. Her second chapbook Alone, I Am Not was published by Velvet Dusk Publishing in 2022. She is the Associate Editor of haikuKATHA and is also in the editing team of Poetry Pea. Twitter: @vandana020175; Instagram: instagram.com/_vandana0201/ Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Dominik Parisien is. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| Jeffrey Park is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| Kiwanda Paul is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2007, 2010, 2019 |
| 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). Dwarf Stars 2012, 2020, 2021, 2022 |
| petro c. k. is a temporal being who seeks the small moments, the momentous moments, and the weird moments, and channels them through writing, photos, and art. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Pippa Phillips is a recovering academic who lives too far away from the ocean. She writes short things and long things. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Marisca Pichette is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Victor Piñeiro is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| Robert Piotrowski is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| John R. Platt is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| Maryalicia Post is a travel writer based in Dublin, Ireland. Her travel website is maryaliciatravel.com. She enjoys writing poetry; her publications include After You and Arc, both available on Amazon. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2013, 2017, 2019 |
| Joan Prefontaine is. Dwarf Stars 2018 |
| Claudia Coutu Radmore is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Valentina Ranaldi-Adams was born in the USA to parents from Arpino, Italy. She attended the University of Akron, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. Valentina worked as a computer programmer for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Alaska Quarterly, Frogpond, Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, and Presence. Dwarf Stars 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Wendy Rathbone is. Dwarf Stars 2011 |
| Dave Read is a Canadian poet living in Calgary. He primarily writes short poems with an emphasis on the Japanese genres of haiku, senryu, tanka, and haibun. He was a recipient of the 2016 Touchstone Individual Poem Award for haiku as granted by The Haiku Foundation. His work has been published in many journals, including Haiku Canada Review, Presence, Modern Haiku and Acorn, and anthologies, including old song: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, 2017. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| John Reinhart sings hollow songs to empty tunes on dark nights when only the light from dwarf stars inspires earth. Dwarf Stars 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2020 |
| 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). Dwarf Stars 2012, 2019 |
| S. Brackett Robertson is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| Iliana Rocha is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Lana M. 'Rochel is. Dwarf Stars 2021 |
| Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell is an award-nominated tie-in writer and poet. Her work includes the novels Marvel Untold: Sisters of Sorcery, SF/H thriller 7 SYKOS, and The Shard Axe series, set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons Online, as well as dozens of short stories, poems, and comic book scripts. She is a disabled pediatric cancer/mental health awareness advocate and a reconnecting Chippewa/Métis. She lives in the desert with her family, buried under books. You can find out more at marsheilarockwell.com or follow her on Twitter @MarcyRockwell. Dwarf Stars 2012, 2018, 2022 |
| 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). Dwarf Stars 2007, 2008, 2009 |
| Susan Rooke is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Brian Rosenberger lives in a cellar in Marietta, GA and writes by the light of captured fireflies. He is the author of As the Worm Turns and three poetry collections: Poems That Go Splat, And For My Next Trick…, and Scream for Me. Dwarf Stars 2013, 2022 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| Jenny Rossi is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| RK Rugg is a non-Native native of the American West—a proud Jewish cowboy—who currently teaches middle-school writing in New England. His work has appeared in Utopia, Illumen, Apex & Abyss, Asimov’s and elsewhere. RaymondKRugg.com. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Matt S is. Dwarf Stars 2011 |
| Tom Sacramona is. Dwarf Stars 2018, 2020 |
| Deborah W. Sage is a native of Kentucky, USA. A confirmed Anglophile, she merged her talent and Sherlockian interest in her first book of poetry, Doggerel In The Night-Time, (Gasogene Press, 1991). Since then, her recent writings have been published in Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine and Eternal Haunted Summer as well as private commissions. She was award winner for “How To Bring Peace” in Louisville Eccentric Observer (LEO)’s 2021 literary competition. As a former business executive, after years of being committed to the bottom line, she is gaining equilibrium in her psyche through her endeavors in folklore and faerie. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Barun Saha, PhD, is a scientist and poet from India. He primarily writes tanka, haiku, and cherita. His poems are published in several journals, such as Ribbons, Star*Line, the cherita, and horror senryu journal. Some of his poems can be found on Twitter. Visit barunsaha.me for more information. Dwarf Stars 2022, 2023 |
| oino sakai is. Dwarf Stars 2006 |
| Peter Adam Salomon (–2021) His debut novel, Henry Franks, was published by Flux in 2012. His second novel, All Those Broken Angels (Flux, 2014), was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in Young Adult fiction. Both novels were named a “Book All Young Georgians Should Read” by The Georgia Center for The Book. He founded both National Dark Poetry Day (Oct. 7) and the annual international HWA Poetry Showcase. His poem “Electricity and Language and Me” appeared on BBC Radio 6, performed by The Radiophonic Workshop. Eldritch Press published his first collection of poetry, PseudoPsalms: Prophets (nominated for the Elgin Award), and his second and third poetry collections, PseudoPsalms: Saints v. Sinners and PseudoPsalms: Sodom (nominated for the Elgin Award), were published by Bizarro Pulp Press. In addition, he was the editor for the HWA Poetry Showcase Volumes I and II. He is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Horror Writers Association, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, SFPA, the International Thriller Writers, and The Authors Guild. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Srinivasa Rao Sambangi works for a pharma company at Hyderabad in India. He writes Japanese short forms of poetry, especially haiku as a hobby. His haiku is published in various international and national journals of repute including Frogpond, Heron's Nest, Modern Haiku, Canada Haiku Review, Akitsu, Failed Haiku, World Haiku Review, Taj Mahal Review, etc. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Aaron Sandberg has appeared or is forthcoming in Flash Frog, Phantom Kangaroo, Qu, Asimov’s, No Contact, Alien Magazine, The Shore, The Offing, Sporklet, Crow & Cross Keys, Burningword Journal, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. A multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, you can see him—and his writing—on Instagram @aarondsandberg. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Federica Santini is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| teri santitoro edits the minimal genre poetry magazine Scifaikuest. She inhabits a crazy world where horses of a different color exist for real, cats bring nasty gifts to the door, and little grey dogs can change the world. As an illustrator (aka 7ARS), author and editor, she composes and/or illustrates strange tales about everything from aliens to vampires. She plays ukulele, guitar and bass, uses her computer to enhance her artwork and sprays stories into her laptop in the hopes of sharing them with the world. As a poet, she is known as sakyu. Dwarf Stars 2008, 2022, 2023 |
| Sumiko Saulson is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Lorraine Schein is a NY writer. Her work has appeared in VICE Terraform, Strange Horizons, NewMyths and Michigan Quarterly, and in the anthologies Wild Women and Tragedy Queens. The Futurist’s Mistress, her poetry book, is available from Mayapple Press. Her new book, The Lady Anarchist Café, is out now from Autonomedia: autonomedia.org/product/the-lady-anarchist-cafe/. Dwarf Stars 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2012, 2019 |
| Albert Schlaht is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| Jennifer Schwabach is. Dwarf Stars 2010 |
Ann K. Schwader’s poems have recently appeared in Spectral Realms, Dreams & Nightmares, Star*Line, Abyss & Apex, and Weird Fiction Review. Her most recent collection, Dark Energies (P’rea Press 2015) was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist. She was voted SFPA Grand Master in 2018. |
| Greg Schwartz works in a cubicle. He's been lucky enough to win a Dwarf Stars Award and publish a chapbook of horror poems, Bits & Pieces. He was formerly the staff cartoonist for SP Quill Magazine and a book reviewer for Whispers of Wickedness. Dwarf Stars 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2020, 2023 |
| Jenny Schwartz is. Dwarf Stars 2011 |
| Julie Schwerin, author of What Was Here (Folded Word Press), recently moved from Ohio to Wisconsin. She served for five years as Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America. Now, she is an associate editor at The Heron’s Nest and member of the Red Moon Anthology editorial team. She was one of seventeen poets featured in A New Resonance 9 (Red Moon Press) and has co-edited, along with Jim Kacian, Echoes 2, A New Resonance 11, and A New Resonance 12, all of Red Moon Press. In addition, Schwerin was instrumental in establishing several haiku installations in the Midwest including The Forest Haiku Walk at the Holmes County Open Air Art Museum in Millersburg, Ohio, the Seasons of Haiku Trail at The Holden Arboretum in Kirtland, Ohio, and Words in Bloom: A Year of Haiku at the Chicago Botanic Garden, to feature the work of other poets and bring further awareness to haiku. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| 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 Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| Nita Sembrowich is. Dwarf Stars 2014 |
| semi (AKA Terrie Leigh Relf AKA The Boortean Ambassador to Haura) is a Lifetime Member of the SFPA and an Active Member of the HWA. She is on staff at Hiraeth Publishing and is the poetry editor for Tales from the Moonlit Path. Dwarf Stars 2010, 2012, 2013, 2021, 2022 |
| Claudia Serea is. Dwarf Stars 2015 |
| John W. Sexton is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| William Shaw is a poet from Sheffield, England. One day he might catch an idea of his own. You can find him on Twitter @Will_S_7 Dwarf Stars 2018, 2020, 2021 |
| Tiffany Shaw-Diaz is an award-winning artist and poet living in Centerville, Ohio. You can learn more about her via tiffanyshawdiaz.com. Dwarf Stars 2018, 2019 |
| Annie Sheng writes, translates and researches—and enjoys alliteration in her baking (i.e., matcha macapuno muffins). Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Warsan Shire is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Serhiy Shpychenko began to write Haiku in 2009 and has publications in specialized online journals, such as Ёrshik: journal of senryu and kyoka. He has won many international competitions in Russian-language Haiku. He was born in Kiev, Ukraine and lives there with his wife; they have two sons. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| 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 Dwarf Stars 2010, 2012, 2 |
| Caroline Skanne is a poet, writer, multimedia artist, editor & publisher. She is obsessed with robins, wildflowers & small poems. Born in Sweden she moved to the UK as a teenager & spent 15 years in London’s East End before relocating to Kent, where she lives by the River Medway with her family, cats & dog. Educated in London, she has an MA in Anthropology & Cultural Politics from Goldsmiths’s University. Her thesis explored the link between gender stereotypes & identity in children’s literature, with particular reference to the female hero. She grew up on Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking, or rather, she never grew up! Her trio of poetry books paper wings (haiku, senryu & haiga), wild blossom (tanka & tanka art) & driftwood (small poems & artwork) were released in 2018. She’s the editor of Hedgerow: a journal of small poems. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Ken Slaughter’s first published tanka appeared in A Hundred Gourds, in the spring of 2012. Later that year, he won second prize in the TSA annual contest, along with an honorable mention. In 2015 he won the contest. He also writes senyru, and is the servant of two one-eyed cats. He and his wife Jan live in the USA, in Worcester, MA. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2010, 2021 |
| Imogen L. Smiley (she/her) is a twenty-four-year-old writer from Essex, UK. She has anxiety, depression, and an endless love of dogs. @Imogen_L_Smiley. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| dan smith is. Dwarf Stars 2010, 2011, 2013 |
| Daniel C. Smith has published dozens of stories, articles, reviews and poems in the genres of science fiction and horror. His speculative poetry has received an honorable mention the year’s Best of Fantasy and Horror and has also been included in several anthologies, including Changes, Wondrous Web Worlds, and Dwarf Stars. His first two short story collections, Nano-Bytes and 3 of a Perfekt Pear, are available in print and electronic form from Nomadic Delirium Press (nomadicdeliriumpress.com). Dwarf Stars 2006 |
| Mahaila Smith (any pronouns) is a young femme writer, living and working on the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg in Ottawa, Ontario. They are one of the co-editors for The Sprawl Mag (thesprawlmag.ca). They like learning theory and writing spec poetry. Their debut chapbook, Claw Machine, was published by Anstruther Press in 2020. You can find more of their work on their website: mahailasmith.ca. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Meg Smith is a writer, journalist, dancer, and events producer living in Lowell, Mass. USA. In addition to previously appearing in Dwarf Stars anthologies and Star*Line, her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Cafe Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Lowell Review, The Horror Zine, Aphelion, Raven Cage, and many more. She is author of five poetry books and a short fiction collection, The Plague Confessor. She welcomes visits to megsmithwriter.com. Dwarf Stars 2007, 2010, 2012, 2019, 2022, 2023 |
| Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States 2017–2019. She has published four collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars. In April 2018, she was nominated for a second term as United States Poet Laureate. poetryfoundation.org/poets/tracy-k-smith Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Gloundan Smorpian emigrated from a red state before that was a thing and has never looked back. Raised on pulp-era SF from the dumpster behind a small-town library, Smorpian was infected at an early age. As a young man, he held jobs such as short-order cook and llama herder, before landing a plush gig as poet-in-residence at a gas station in rural Washington state. There he supplements his meager income as a pumpjockey with generous payments from fine publishers everywhere. Dwarf Stars 2019, 2020 |
| Steve Sneyd (1941–2018) was a Grand Master of SFPA and an
important speculative poet and stalwart proponent, chronicler and historian
of SF poetry, publishing SF poetry since the late 1970s (at
least). His poetry appeared in Star*Line, Dreams &
Nightmares, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry and Hadrosaur Tales, as well as many SF and poetry journals, fanzines, and small-press
anthologies. His collections include Gestaltmacher, Gestaltmacher,
Make Me a Gestalt: Ninety-Nine Poems from the Nineties (The Four Quarters,
2000) and Mistaking the Nature of the Posthuman (Hilltop Press, 2008). His
handwritten SF poetry newsletter, DataDump, in print since 1992, published more than 200 issues. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| Christina Sng is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares (2017), A Collection of Dreamscapes (2020), Tortured Willows (2021), and Elgin Award runner-up Astropoetry (2017). Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art have appeared in numerous venues worldwide, including Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Interstellar Flight Magazine, Penumbric, Southwest Review, and The Washington Post. Visit her at christinasng.com and connect on social media @christinasng. Dwarf Stars 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2019, 2020 |
| Joshua St. Claire works as a an accounting director for a large non-profit in Pennsylvania, USA. He enjoys writing on coffee breaks and after putting his kids to bed. His speculative poetry has appeared in Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Scifaikuest, and in the publications of Starship Sloane. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the Rhysling Award. His work in short forms has appeared in the Dwarf Stars Anthology and was long-listed for a Touchstone Award. Dwarf Stars 2022, 2023 |
| Stephanie Staab is an American poet living in the Black Forest. Her second chapbook, Letterlocking, is forthcoming from Alternating Current Press. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| J. E. Stanley is. Dwarf Stars 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 |
| John Stevenson is. Dwarf Stars 2006 |
| W. Gregory Stewart is. Dwarf Stars 2006 |
| Maria Steyn is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Cheryl Stiles is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| Debbie Strange is an internationally published short-form poet, haiga artist, and photographer whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. She enjoys exploring the wilds with her husband in their lime green 1978 VW campervan. Debbie maintains a publications and awards archive at debbiemstrange.blogspot.com. Dwarf Stars 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Lynn Strongin is. Dwarf Stars 2007 |
| Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta is passionate about what haikai poetic forms allow a writer to do. Basho's haiku inspire him to look closely at nature. Issa's inspire him to appreciate all life with sensitivity. To one day write like these great Japanese masters is a life-long goal that he intends to pursue. He is the founding editor of Haiku Seed Journal. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Alan Summers currently hails from Chippenham (England) via London, then Bristol (think pirates and Treasure Island). Alan is founder of Call of the Page. Dwarf Stars 2018, 2022 |
| David Lee Summers is. Dwarf Stars 2017 |
| George Swede is. Dwarf Stars 2009, 2012 |
| Anna Sykora is. Dwarf Stars 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 |
| Sonya Taaffe is. Dwarf Stars 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018 |
| Ann Christine Tabaka is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Barbara (Booth) Tate is an award-winning artist and writer, originally from Akron, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Santa Fe Literary Review, Storyteller Magazine, Modern Haiku, Contemporary Haibun Online, Frogpond, Presence, Blithe Spirit, Akitsu Quarterly, seashores, Hedgerow, Cattails, Autumn Moon Journal and Wales Haiku Journal, among others. Past President of the Tri-County Society of Fine Arts in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio she was a finalist in the United Poet Laureate International competition for the Alexander Fui Sak Chang Award—short free verse in Chinese or English and 1st place in the Gulf Coast Writers Assoc. (poetry division).
She is a member of the British Haiku Society, Haiku Society of America and Haiku Canada, currently residing in Winchester, TN. Her son Duane Booth lives in Akron, Ohio as does three grandchildren Justin & his wife Jamie, Brandon & Kaitlin & new addition great-granddaughter Aubrianna. Dwarf Stars 2020 |
| Dietmar Tauchner, born in 1972 in Austria, lives & works in Puchberg & Vienna as a social-worker / counselor, author and lover. His work has been published in various magazines & anthologies worldwide. He received some awards, as the Taisho (Grand Prize) at the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition in Kumamoto, Japan, in 2013; and the Second Place for Noise of Our Origin at the 2014 HSA Mildred Kanterman Merit Book Awards. He’s been a member of the Red Moon Anthology Editorial Staff since 2013. Dwarf Stars 2009, 2012, 2014, 2019 |
| N. E. Taylor is. Dwarf Stars 2013, 2014, 2018 |
| Paul Kareem Tayyer is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Arlene Teck is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Michelle Tennison is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Marcie Lynn Tentchoff is an Aurora Award winning poet/writer/editor from the west coast of Canada, and her work has appeared in such publications as Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, and On Spec. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2007, 2022 |
| Cathy Tenzo is. Dwarf Stars 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. Dwarf Stars 2019, 2020, 2021 |
| Jenny Thompson’s poetry has been published in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, and the anthology Post ROE Alternatives: Fighting Back. She lives in Pittsburgh. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Thomas Tilton is a counselor by day, poet by night, and a lifelong science fiction fan. His speculative poems have appeared in Scifaikuest, Star*Line, and Disturbed Digest. He lives with his family in Michigan. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Lisa Timpf is a retired HR and communications professional who lives in Simcoe, Ontario. Her speculative poetry has appeared in a variety of venues, including Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Dreams and Nightmares, New Myths, and Tesseracts 21. Dwarf Stars 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023 |
| Pat Tompkins is. Dwarf Stars 2010, 2012, 2014 |
| 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. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Gene Twaronite is the author of four collections of poetry. His first poetry book, Trash Picker on Mars, published by Kelsay Books, was the winner of the 2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Arizona poetry. His scifi/fantasy collection What the Gargoyle Sees was nominated for an Elgin Award in 2021. Gene’s newest poetry collection Shopping Cart Dreams will be published by Kelsay Books in 2022. Gene’s poems have been described as: “ranging from edgy to whimsical to inscrutable … playfully haunting and hauntingly playful.” He now lives in Tucson. Follow more of his poetry at genetwaronitepoet.com Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Rahel Tyle is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| DJ Tyrer dwells on the northern shore of the Thames estuary, close to the world’s longest pleasure pier in the decaying seaside resort of Southend-on-Sea, and is the person behind Atlantean Publishing and editor of View From Atlantis. DJ’s poems have been published in the 2016 Rhysling Anthology, Speculations III, and issues of Enchanted Conversation, The Horror Zine, Scifaikuest, Sirens Call, Spectral Realms, Star*Line, and Tigershark. The e-broadsides SuperTrump and A Wuhan Whodunnit are available to download from the Atlantean Publishing website. djtyrer.blogspot.co.uk. DJ Tyrer's Facebook page is at facebook.com/DJTyrerwriter/ Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Rod Usher is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| ushi is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Cor van den Heuvel is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Wendy Van Camp is the Poet Laureate for the City of Anaheim, California. Her work is influenced by cutting edge technology, astronomy, and daydreams. A graduate of the Ad Astra Speculative Fiction Workshop, Wendy has won Honorable Mention at the Writers of the Future Contest, is a twice-nominated finalist for the Elgin Award, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in Starlight Scifaiku Review, Quantum Visions, The Junction, and Far Horizons. She is the poet and illustrator of The Planets: a scifaiku poetry collection and editor of the annual Eccentric Orbits: An Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry by Dimensionfold Publishing. Find her: wendyvancamp.com. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Marcus Vance is. Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| JoSelle Vanderhooft is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Yuliiya Vereta is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Holly Lyn Walrath is a writer of poetry and short fiction. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Liminality, Eye to the Telescope, and elsewhere. She is a freelance editor and volunteer with Writespace literary center in Houston, Texas. Find her on Twitter @HollyLynWalrath or at hlwalrath.com. Dwarf Stars 2018, 2021 |
| Trent Walters has had poems in Asimov's, Dreams and Nightmare, Minnesota River Review, The Pedestal, Star*Line, Typehouse, among others. Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Linda Jeannette Ward is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Brittany Warman is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Jamie Wasserman is. Dwarf Stars 2012 |
| William John Watkins is. Dwarf Stars 2017 |
| Mindy Watson is a Washington, DC-based formal verse poet who holds an MA in Nonfiction Writing from the Johns Hopkins University. Her poems have appeared in venues including Eastern Structures, the Poetry Porch, the Quarterday Review, Snakeskin, Star*Line, Think Journal, and Samson Low’s Potcake Chapbooks series: Form in Formless Times. You may read her work at mindywatson.wixsite.com/poetryprosesite Dwarf Stars 2019 |
| Joseph P. Wechselberger lives in Browns Mills, NJ, USA, is happily retired since March 2007, and is a member of the Haiku Society of America. He began writing haiku and senryu in 2018, has been nominated for the 2021 and 2022 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems, and has been published in Acorn, Akitsu Quarterly, Asahi Haikuist Network, Blōō Outlier Journal, Bones, cattails, Charlotte Digregorios's Writer's Blog Daily Haiku, Chrysanthemum, Cold Moon Journal, dadakuku, failed haiku, Fireflies' Light, Five Fleas, Frogpond, Golden Triangle Haiku Contest 2022, Haiku Canada Review, The Haiku Poets of the Garden State New Jersey Botanical Garden Sign Project April 2022 and April 2023, Haiku Seed, Hedgerow, The Heron's Nest, Horror Senryu Journal, Kingfisher, MahMight haiku journal, The Mainichi Haiku in English, Modern Haiku, The Pan Haiku Review, Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku & Senryu, Presence, Prune Juice, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, seashores, Shamrock Haiku Journal, Stardust, Time Haiku, tinywords, tsuri-dōrō, ubu, Under the Basho, United Haiku and Tanka Society, whiptail, United Haiku and Tanka Society Songbirds Online Anthology 2022, Haiku 2022, jar of rain: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2020, skipping stones: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2022, Shaping Water: Erotic Haiku and Tanka (2022), and Sucking Mangos Naked, erotic haiku and related forms (2022). Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Michael Dylan Welch is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| A. J. Wentz writes speculative poetry and prose. Her work has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Eye to the Telescope, Fireflies' Light, and elsewhere. She lives in Arkansas with her husband, cat, and too many teacups. You can find her at ajwentz.com. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Maceo J. Whitaker is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Andrew White is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Lucy Whitehead writes haiku and poetry. Her haiku have been published widely in numerous international journals and anthologies such as Acorn, Autumn Moon Haiku, Blithe Spirit, bones, Cattails, Chrysanthemum, Frogpond, hedgerow, Modern Haiku, Otata, Presence, Prune Juice, The Heron's Nest, tinywords, and The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2018 and 2019. Her longer poetry has recently been published or is forthcoming in Broken Spine Artist Collective, Burning House Press, Clover and White, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, Parentheses Journal, Pink Plastic House, 3 Moon Magazine, Re-side, The Wombwell Rainbow, and Twist in Time Literary Magazine. You can find her on Twitter @blueirispoetry. Dwarf Stars 2019, 2020 |
| N. C. Whitehead is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Kim Whysall-Hammond is. Dwarf Stars 2023 |
| Neal Wilgus is. Dwarf Stars 2015, 2017 |
| Andrew J. Wilson lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. His short stories, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared all over the world. Recent work has been published in Umbrellas of Edinburgh: Poetry and Prose Inspired by Scotland's Capital City, Scotia Extremis: Poems from the Extremes of Scotland's Psyche, and Wuxing Lyrical: Playful Poems Based on Chinese Astrology. With Neil Williamson, he coedited the award-nominated anthology Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction. Dwarf Stars 2020, 2022 |
| Kath Abela Wilson travels the world with her mathematician and flute-player husband Rick Wilson. They live essentially on the Caltech campus in Pasadena, California. She has always had a taste for the surreal in art and literature and has published in many journals including Astropoetica, Atlas Poetica, Illumen, Eye to the Telescope, Star*Line, Pirene's Fountain, and Scryptic. Hosting poetry workshops and salons, she leads the performance group Poets on Site. Her weekly Poetry Corner for CololadoBoulevard.net features environmental and fantastic themes. Her books include Owl Still Asking, Tanka for Troubled Times; Driftwood Monster, Haiku for Troubled Times; Locofo Chaps (Moria Press). She has won many haiku and tanka awards. Dwarf Stars 2018 |
| Matthew Wilson has been published repeatedly in Star*Line, Night to Dawn Magazine, Hiraeth Books and many more. His first story collection Gargoyles of the Abbey is now available on Amazon. Dwarf Stars 2017, 2022, 2023 |
| Stephen M. Wilson (1970–2013) was the poetry editor for Abyss & Apex and also edited the speculative poetry twitterzine microcosms and San Joaquin Delta College’s literary magazine, Artifact. Stephen also spent more than three years as the poetry editor for Doorways. He and Linda D. Addison were editors for the 2013 Dwarf Stars anthology. Dwarf Stars 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 |
| Shannon Connor Winward is. Dwarf Stars 2017, 2018 |
| James Won is. Dwarf Stars 2015 |
| Greer Woodward’s poetry is in Eye to the Telescope, Star*Line, Silver Blade, Scifaikuest, and Illumen, as well as Haiku Dialogue, Haikuniverse, and Blōō Outlier Journal. 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. Greer and Adele Gardner were the 2022 Dwarf Stars Chairs. Dwarf Stars 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Jeffrey Woodward is. Dwarf Stars 2008 |
| Charles Wright is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
| Grzegorz Wróblewski is. Dwarf Stars 2016 |
| Jane Yolen, a SFPA Grand Master, 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. Dwarf Stars 2007 + 2007, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2019 |
| Peter Yovu is. Dwarf Stars 2011 |
| Rafal Zabratynski is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Kimberly Zajac is. Dwarf Stars 2010 |
| José Luis Zárate is. Dwarf Stars 2013 |
| Hal Y. Zhang is a lapsed physicist who splits her time between the east coast of the United States and the Internet. Her language-and-loss chapbook AMNESIA from Newfound won the Eric Hoffer Micro Press Award, and her women-with-sharp-things collection Goddess Bandit of the Thousand Arms was published by Aqueduct Press. halyzhang.com Dwarf Stars 2022 |
| Lee Clarke Zumpe is. Dwarf Stars 2009 |
