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
Jennifer Ruth Jackson writes about reality’s weirdness and the plausibility of the fantastic. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Apex Magazine, and more. She runs a blog for disabled and neurodivergent writers called The Handy, Uncapped Pen from an apartment she shares with her husband. Visit her on Twitter: @jenruthjackson.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Star*Line 35.4, 38.4
Major Jackson
Dwarf Stars 2010
Sarah Jackson's work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Translunar Travelers Lounge, and Electric Spec. She's also the editor of Inner Worlds magazine. Her website is sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io and you can find her on Mastodon as sarahijackson@wandering.shop
Star*Line 47.1
Tracina Jackson-Adams
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2001, 2003, 2004
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
Rhysling Anthology 1994, 1995, 1996, second place in 1998, second place in 1998, 1999, third place in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, third place in 2004, 2005
Star*Line 32.6
Simon Jacobs
Star*Line 36.1
Karie Jacobson
Star*Line 44.3
Scott Jacobson
Star*Line 37.3
Laura Jacobsen
Rhysling Anthology 2003
Vanessa Jae writes horrifically beautiful anarchies, reads stories for Apex Magazine and translates for Progressive International. She also collects black hoodies and bruises in mosh pits on Tuesday nights. To read tweets by interesting people follow her at @thevanessajae.
Star*Line 45.2
Lowell Jaeger
Star*Line 35.4
Duro Jaiye
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
Star*Line 39.1, 44.1, 47.3
David Jalajel is the author of Moon Ghazals (Beard of Bees Press, 2009), Cthulhu on Lesbos (Ahadada Books, 2011)—which is book-length poem in Sapphic stanzas—a chapbook in Dan Waber’s This is Visual Poetry series (2013) and Rhyme & Refrain (University of the Western Cape, 2017). His work has appeared in a number of online and print journals, including Otoliths, Shampoo, experiential-experimental-literature, Recursive Angel, The New Post-Literate, Gulf Coast, Star*Line, Anti-, Lynx, and Eclectica. He thinks Pluto is a planet.
Star*Line 41.2, 44.4
Maya C. James is a graduate of the Lannan Fellows Program at Georgetown University, and full-time student at Harvard Divinity School. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, FIYAH, Soar: For Harriet, and Georgetown University’s Berkley Center Blog, among others. Her work focuses primarily on Afrofuturism, and imagining sustainable futures for at-risk communities. She currently writes infrequent reviews for Strange Horizons. You can find more of her work here: mayajameswrites.wordpress.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Star*Line 43.4
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
Star*Line 38.4, 39.2, 39.4, 40.2, 40.4, 41.4, 42.2, 44.3, 45.1, 46.3, 46.4
Tim Jamieson
Dwarf Stars 2006, 2007
Michael Janairo is a writer who lives in upstate New York. His poetry and fiction are forthcoming or have appeared in Weirdbook, Mirror Dance, The Sunlight Press, Star Ship Sofa, Mithila Review, Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #8, Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History, Eye to the Telescope Issues 7 and 29, and Star*Line, which nominated his poem "For Your Own Safety" for the Pushcart Prize. His Filipino family name is pronounced 'ha NIGH row.' He blogs at michaeljanairo.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2021
Star*Line 39.1, 42.4
Shelli Jankowski-Smith
Dwarf Stars 2024
Hawona Sullivan Janzen is a time-traveling poet, composer, and social practice artist who believes that art is the only thing that can save us from ourselves. Her poems have been made into 6-ft-tall broadsides and plastered on the sides of buildings, featured on coffee sleeves, and read on National Public Radio.
Star*Line 43.4
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
Jerry H. Jenkins
Rhysling Anthology 1997
Ruth Jenkins
Rhysling Anthology 2016
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
Star*Line 36.2
Jennifer Jerome
Dwarf Stars 2014
Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, a Nebula-, Locus-, Ignyte Award finalist, and an immigrant from Fujian. She is a member of HWA and SFWA. Her work can be found in F&SF, The Dark, and Uncanny, among others. She is the recipient of Odyssey Workshop's 2022 Fresh Voices Scholarship and the author of Linghun and I AM AI. Find her on Twitter (@AiJiang_) and online (aijiang.ca).
Star*Line 45.1, 45.3, 46.3
Emily Jiang
Dwarf Stars 2012, 2024
Rhysling Anthology 2024
Yunsheng Jiang lives in Shanghai.
Dwarf Stars 2013
Star*Line 34.3, 35.3, 37.1, 37.4, 38.4, 40.2
Eva Joan
Dwarf Stars 2023
Johan-Julle
Star*Line 30.2
Jeffrey Johannes is a tall Wisconsin poet.
Star*Line 36.2, 36.3, 37.2, 37.3
Joan Wiese Johannes is also a tall Wisconsin poet.
Star*Line 37.1, 38.1
Azriel Johnson
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Clay Franklin Johnson is an amateur pianist, devoted animal lover, and incorrigible reader of Gothic literature & Romantic-era poetry. His first collection of poetry, A Ride Through Faerie & Other Poems (2021), is available from Gothic Keats Press. Find out more on his website at clayfjohnson.com or follow him on Twitter @ClayFJohnson.
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
C. W. Johnson
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Star*Line 36.2
John Philip Johnson has had poems in many journals and reviews, including Rattle, Ted Kooser’s newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry,” the Poetry Foundation’s website, Asimov’s, F&SF, and Strange Horizons. His forthcoming second comic book of graphic poetry, The Book of Fly, will be available soon at johnphilipjohnson.com.
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2013, third place in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024
Star*Line 35.4, 36.1, 36.3, 36.4, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4, 38.1, 39.2, 40.2, 43.3, 44.2
Joyce Sandeen Johnson
Dwarf Stars 2010
Julie Allyn Johnson, a sawyer's daughter—the eldest of six girls—from the American Midwest, savors long walks in the woods, any time of year. She loves Halloween, photography, gravel-travel, art, poetry and haiku, reading, linocut printing and hiking in the Rocky Mountains. Her current obsession is tackling the rough-and-tumble sport of quilting and the accumulation of fabric. Julie's poetry can be found in various journals including Lyrical Iowa, The Briar Cliff Review, Phantom Kangaroo, The Disappointed Housewife, Anti-Heroin Chic, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Better Than Starbucks and Chestnut Review.
Star*Line 45.1, 45.4, 48.1
George Clayton Johnson
Star*Line 3.3
Leonard R. Johnson, Jr.
Rhysling Anthology 2006
P. M. F. Johnson
Star*Line 34.2
Marci Rae Johnson
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Stace Johnson
Star*Line 42.1
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 first place in 2014
Karen G. Jollie
Star*Line 2.3, 2.4/5, 2.6, 2.8, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 3.1, 3.6, 4.2, 5.2, 6.3
Troy Jollimore’s books of poetry are Syllabus of Errors, At Lake Scugog, and Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Daniel R. Jones is a writer from Indianapolis, IN. He's currently an MFA candidate at Lindenwood University. Previously, he's had work published in the South Bend Tribune, In the Bend, Spill Words Press, Time of Singing, and he won an award for best poem in the 2013 edition of Bethel College’s Crossings.
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Star*Line 40.3
Darius Jones’s stories and poems have appeared in Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast,and other places. He is a member of the HWA and SFWA and lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Learn more at dariusjoneswriter.com or on Twitter @DariusJonesWrit.
Star*Line 45.4, 46.3
Jean Jones
Dwarf Stars 2024
J. L. Jones is an African-American software developer and hobbyist gamer. He currently lives in MD.
Star*Line 43.4
Mark Jones is an English professor and amateur jazz pianist who lives in Blue Island, Illinois. His creative work has appeared in Bewildering Stories, Niteblade, Scifaikuest, and Star*Line.
Star*Line 37.4
R. Mac Jones co-edited the anthology Found Anew. His work has appeared in Star*Line, Strange Horizons, Right Hand Pointing, Mirror Dance, Unlost Journal, NonBinary Review, Gingerbread House, Bewildering Stories, and Eye to the Telescope, among other places. rmacjoneswrote.com
Dwarf Stars 2021, 2025
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Star*Line 40.4, 41.2, 41.4, 42.4, 43.1, 43.3, 44.3, 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.2, 47.3
Robert Jones III holds a doctorate in molecular biology from Indiana University and is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Cottey College, where he taught for 27 years. He currently resides in southwestern Missouri with his wife. His only previous speculative publication is a short story in the March issue of Sci Phi Journal. In previous years, he has also published two research articles, one as part of a group effort for the Journal of Bacteriology and the other as an individual contribution to the Transactions of the Missouri Academy of Sciences.
Star*Line 45.2, 46.1
Russell Jones is an Edinburgh-based writer and editor. He is the author of six published collections of poetry: cocoon (Tapsalteerie, 2020), Dark Matters(Tapsalteerie, 2018), The Green Dress Whose Girl is Sleeping (Freight Books, 2015), Our Terraced Hum (in Caboodle, Prole Books, 2015), Spaces of Their Own (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2013) and The Last Refuge (Forest Publications, 2009). Russell was the UK's first Pet Poet Laureate (2018–2019).
Rhysling Anthology 2014, 2019
Star*Line 37.2
Shelly Jones (they/them) is a professor at a small college in upstate New York, where they teach courses in mythology, folklore, and writing. Their speculative work has been published by Apex, F&SF, The Future Fire, and elsewhere. Their work has been previously nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a Best Microfiction finalist. Find them on Twitter @shellyjansen.
Dwarf Stars 2022, 2023, 2024
Star*Line 44.1, 44.4, 45.3, 46.3
Tim Jones is a New Zealand poet, author and editor who was awarded both the New Zealand Society of Authors Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature and a Sir Julius Vogel Award in 2010. His latest books are climate poetry collection New Sea Land (2016) and climate fiction novella Where We Land (2019). For more, see timjonesbooks.co.nz/blog/
Dwarf Stars 2010
Rhysling Anthology 2002, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
T. R. Jones lives in Texas. His work has appeared in Lalitamba, Illumen, Scifaikuest, Spaceports & Spidersilk, andStar*Line. He is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association.
Star*Line 41.3, 42.3, 42.4, 43.1, 43.2, 45.2, 46.2, 47.1
Zak Jones
Star*Line 38.3
Johann Jönsson
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Jeana Jorgensen
Rhysling Anthology 2019Andrew Joron is the author of several collections of poetry, including The Absolute Letter, Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems, Fathom, and Science Fiction. Joron is also the author of The Cry at Zero: Selected Prose and Neo-Surrealism; Or, The Sun at Night: Transformations of Surrealism in American Poetry. His poetry has also been included in the anthologies American Hybrid and Primary Trouble. His translations from the German include surrealist Richard Anders's The Footsteps of One Who Has Not Stepped Forth and philosopher Ernst Bloch's Literary Essays. Joron is an assistant professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University and plays the theremin in the musical improvisational trio Free Rein. He lives in Berkeley.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1978, first place in 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, first place in 1986, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2005, 2010
Star*Line 2.4/5, 2.6, 3.5, 4.1, 4.3, 4.5, 6.1, 31.6
Sierra July is a University of Florida graduate, writer, and poet. Her poems have been published in Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, and by the Society of Classical Poets. She is a representative author for Songs of Eretz Poetry Review.
Star*Line 36.4