Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance poet, teaching artist and game designer from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing, the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions, and the inaugural Ignyte Award for Best in Speculative Poetry, and is published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Strange Horizons, Reckoning, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, among others. He is the former poetry editor of FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. His debut poetry collection, Can You Sign My Tentacle?, is forthcoming from Interstellar Flight Press.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Richard J. O’Brien was born in New Jersey and currently lives in Pennsylvania. He completed an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Some years ago, he served in the army before the Berlin Wall came down, and later attended Rutgers University where he received a B.A. in English. His poems have appeared in Falling Star Magazine, Loch Raven Review, The Houston Literary Review, New Plains Review, Citron Review, Stray Branch Literary Magazine, The Penwood Review, and The Inflectionist Review.
Star*Line 37.1
A. J. Odasso is a former SFPA treasurer.
Dwarf Stars 2013, 2015
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
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Joy Oestreicher
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Jonathan Olfert
Rhysling Anthology 2025
Aimee Ogden
Rhysling Anthology 2015
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Helen Ogden is an Earth-based haijin who writes primarily about present-day earthly flora and fauna of the central coast of California, with occasional digressions into other worlds and time dimensions.
Dwarf Stars 2023
Uche Ogbuji
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Omodero David Oghenekaro is a writer from Delta State, Nigeria. His work has appeared in Lolwe, The Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Fiyah Literary Magazine, Brittle Paper and elsewhere. He's a member of the Frontiers Collective. He's a student of Biomedical Technology at the University of Port Harcourt.
Dwarf Stars 2023
Amabilis O’Hara
Rhysling Anthology 2025
Bryant O’Hara is a programmer, poet, and musician—not always in that order, sometimes all at once. His poetry has been published in Pandemic Atlanta 2020, Star*Line, and Eyedrum Periodically. His debut poetry collection, The Ghettobirds, was published by Frayed Edge Press. He lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia, with his wife Alice, two out of seven children, and one out of six grandchildren. intimateandintricate.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
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Diem Okoye
Dwarf Stars 2024
Iulian Olaru
Dwarf Stars 2008
Chuck Oliveros
Rhysling Anthology 1985
C. G. Olsen’s PhD work focused on Norse heroic and mythological literature. He has had poetry published in The Rose and Thorn Journal, Ideomancer, and Everyday Poets.
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Jon Olsen lives in Minneapolis where he writes poems and performs stories.
Star*Line 38.4
Olga Pavlinova Olenich
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Debbie Olson
Star*Line 46.3
Christina Olson
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Norman J. Olson
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Rebecca Olson
Star*Line 45.4
Brian Gene Olson
Dwarf Stars 2020
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K. Cassandra O’Malley (1942-2015) had work in Newsweek, New Worlds, Pandora, Tales of the Unanticipated, Time Gum, and the Lady Poetesses from Hell and Time Gum collections of the Lady Poetesses from Hell. Two chapbooks of her poems, The Well of Changes and other poems and The Freeway of Heaven and other poems, edited by Ruth Berman, Terry A. Garey, and Eleanor Arnason, were published in 2016 by Bag Person Press.
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Sara Omer is a Kurdish-American writer whose poetry is forthcoming in Apparition Lit, and elsewhere. Her fiction has been published in The Deeps and MYRIAD Zine, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the Associate Fiction Editor for Orion's Belt.
Star*Line 47.1
Nobumitsu Omiya (b. 1938) is a science writer from Tokyo and a cofounder of the SF Studies Course (Esuefu Rangaku Kouza), formerly known as the SF Fan Science Study Group (Esuefu Fan Kagaku Benkyou Kai). His recent books in Japanese include Lectures on the “Latest Science” that Transforms the Way of Seeing the World (2012) and Great Scientific Theories Explained (2015).
Star*Line 42.2
Egbiameje Omole
Dwarf Stars 2024
Chiamaka Onu-Okpara
Star*Line 40.4
K. A. Opperman
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
Cindy O’Quinn is an Appalachian writer who grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. Cindy is the author of Dark Cloud on Naked Creek, and the dark poetry collection Return to Graveyard Dust, which made it to the 2017 HWA Bram Stoker preliminary ballot. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Twisted Book of Shadows, the HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. V, Nothing's Sacred Vols. 4 & 5, Rag Queen Periodical, Moonchild Magazine, Sanitarium Magazine, and others. You can follow Cindy for updates on Facebook @CindyOQuinnWriter, Instagram cindy.oquinn, and Twitter @COQuinnWrites.
Dwarf Stars 2020
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022
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Ed Orr
Rhysling Anthology 1984
Sergio Ortiz is a two-time Pushcart nominee, a six-time Best of the Web nominee, and 2016/17 Best of the Net nominee. His poems have appeared in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Loch Raven Review, Drunk Monkeys, Algebra Of Owls, Free State Review, and The Paragon Journal. His chapbook An Animal Resembling Desire was published by Finishing Line Press. He is currently working on his first full-length collection of poems, Elephant Graveyard.
Star*Line 40.4
Victor Ortiz
Dwarf Stars 2024
Alan Rice Osborn
Rhysling Anthology second place in 1995
Marijane Osborn
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Emma K. Osborne is a fiction writer and poet from Melbourne, Australia. Her poetry has appeared as an editor's choice in Star*Line and her fiction has been published by Daily Science Fiction.
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Alice Oswald
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Jason O’Toole
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Eric Otto
Dwarf Stars 2015
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Rhiannon Owens
Rhysling Anthology 2024
Shade Oyemakinwa won a poetry award in middle school and has been riding that high ever since. They are a writer, voice actor, and podcaster who has created and written the podcasts “Come On In, The Water’s Fine” and “Fairytale Tidbits.”
Star*Line 43.4
Charlotte Ozment is a homesteading Texan on several acres full of devas, dogs and squirrels. Her poems have appeared in many unique publications such as Aphelion, Bindweed, Gyroscope Review, Idle Ink, Quail Bell, Star*Line, and Shoreline of Infinity.
Star*Line 40.2, 42.1