Poet Biographies: W

Margaret Wack
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018

D. R. Wagner
Star*Line 35.4

Phoebe Wagner grew up in Pennsylvania, the third generation to live in the Susquehanna River Valley, where she spent her days among the endless hills pretending to be an elf. Currently, she lives in the high desert of Nevada with her husband and two cats. Follow her on Twitter: @pheebs_w
Star*Line 41.4

Susan E. Wagner’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Fudoki Magazine, Paper Dragon, Agape Review. Unique Minds: Creative Voices, at Princeton University, selected three of her poems for their 2021 exhibition. She is the author of Unmuted: Voices on the Edge, a collection of hybrid poetry about mental illness and families. Susan is an editor with The Writing Center at Pearl S. Buck International.
Rhysling Anthology 2022

Anna Waite
Rhysling Anthology 2012

Sandy Walejko
Rhysling Anthology 2009

Bonnie Rae Walker
Star*Line 40.2

Deborah Walker
Star*Line 34.1, 34.4, 35.3

Tamara K. Walker resides in Colorado and writes short fiction, often of a surreal, irreal, magical realist, speculative or otherwise unusual flavor, and poetry, often in originally East Asian forms. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Star*Line, Scifaikuest, indefinite space, Ribbons, Eucalypt, A Hundred Gourds, Lavender Review and LYNX, among others.
Star*Line 40.3, 41.1

T. D. Walker is the author of Small Waiting Objects (CW Books, 2019), a collection of near-future science fiction poems. Her poems and stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Web Conjunctions, The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Luna Station Quarterly, and elsewhere. She draws on both her grounding in literary studies and her experience as a computer programmer in writing poetry and fiction. Read more at tdwalker.net
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2019, 2020, 2024
Star*Line 37.4

Dusty Wallace lives in the Appalachians of Virginia with his wife and two sons. He enjoys reading, writing, and the occasional fine cigar. Follow him at DustyVersion.blogspot.com
Star*Line 36.4, 37.3, 38.4

Terry H. Smith Wallace
Star*Line 5.6

Holly Lyn Walrath’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, and elsewhere. Her chapbook of words and images, Glimmerglass Girl, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She is a freelance editor and host of The Weird Circular, an e-newsletter for writers containing submission calls and writing prompts. She lives in Houston, Texas. Find her online at hlwalrath.com
Dwarf Stars 2018, 2021
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Star*Line 39.4, 41.2, 41.4, 43.3

Caitlin Meredith Walsh
Rhysling Anthology 2012

Chad Walsh
Rhysling Anthology 1981
Star*Line 4.4

David Walter
Rhysling Anthology 1997

Trent Walters has had poems in Asimov's, Dreams and Nightmare, Minnesota River Review, The Pedestal, Star*Line, Typehouse, among others.
Dwarf Stars 2019

Jo Walton
Rhysling Anthology 2007, 2018

Robert Walton
Star*Line 45.4

Natalie Wang
Rhysling Anthology 2020

Yilin Wang 王艺霖 (she/they) is a writer, a poet, and Chinese-English translator. She is the editor and translator of The Lantern and Night Moths (Invisible Publishing, 2024). Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, The Tyee, Words Without Borders, Samovar, and elsewhere. The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories (TorDotCom 2022). She has won the Foster Poetry Prize, received an Honorable Mention in the poetry category of Canada’s National Magazine Award, been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, and been a finalist for an Aurora Award. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and is a graduate of the 2021 Clarion West Writers Workshop. yilinwang.com.
Dwarf Stars 2024
Rhysling Anthology 2022

Kyla Lee Ward has released two collections of dark and fantastic poetry through P’rea Press—The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities and The Land of Bad Dreams—as well as publishing short fiction, articles and a novel. She won the inaugural Australian Shadows Award for poetry and various works have garnered other Shadows and Aurealis Awards, and Stoker, Ditmar and Rhysling nominations. An actor, and sometime host with the Rocks Ghost Tours, she has travelled widely and rhymed adventurously. Her interests include history, occultism and scaring innocent bystanders.
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2013, third place in 2020, 2022

Linda Jeannette Ward
Dwarf Stars 2009

Gerald Warfield
Rhysling Anthology 2012

Brittany Warman
Dwarf Stars 2013
Rhysling Anthology 2013, 2018
Star*Line 44.4

Jamie Wasserman
Dwarf Stars 2012
Rhysling Anthology 2004, 2006

Israel Wasserstein
Star*Line 38.4

Amirah al Wassif
Rhysling Anthology 2022

Gary S. Watkins
Star*Line 37.1

William John Watkins
Dwarf Stars 2017
Rhysling Anthology 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996 , first place in 2002, 2005, 2014, 2015
Star*Line 33.3, 34.4, 39.1, 39.2, 40.1

Ian Watson
Rhysling Anthology 2000, third place in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009

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
Star*Line 41.1, 41.2, 41.3, 41.4, 42.1

Anna Weaver
Star*Line 34.4

James Weaver
Star*Line 36.1

Richard Weaver has, post-Covid, returned as the writer-in-residence at the James Joyce Pub. Among his other pubs: conjunctions, Louisville Review, Southern Quarterly, Free State Review, Hollins Critic, Little Patuxent Review, Loch Raven Review, The Avenue, & New Orleans Review. He’s the author of The Stars Undone (Duende Press, 1992), and wrote the libretto for a symphony, Of Sea and Stars (2005). Recently, his 175th prose poem was published. He was a finalist in the 2019 Dogwood Literary Prize in Poetry.
Star*Line 41.1, 45.4

Diana Webb
Dwarf Stars 2024

Jeanine Webb
Star*Line 39.2

Matt Weber
Star*Line 42.3

Sarah Brown Weitzman
Star*Line 41.4, 42.3

Nora Weston is a Michigan-based writer/artist. Her publishing credits include novels and anthologies, plus short stories and poetry. Currently, work has been accepted to Green Ink Poetry, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Timber Ghost Press, and Crow Toes Quarterly.
Star*Line 41.1, 45.1

Don Webb
Rhysling Anthology 1991

Bud Webster
Rhysling Anthology 2005

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, 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, MahMight haiku journal, The Mainichi Haiku in English, Modern Haiku, The Pan Haiku Review, Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku & Senryu, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Shamrock Haiku Journal, Time Haiku, tsuri-dōrō, ubu, Under the Basho, United Haiku and Tanka Society, United Haiku and Tanka Society Songbirds Online Anthology 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
Dwarf Stars 2009

M. Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award winning author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job, as well as the science fiction novels Beautiful Red, Children of Arkadia, The Voyage of the White Cloud, and the Andersson Dexter cyberpunk detective series. Their mainstream books include the Devi Jones’ Locker YA series and the humorous coming-of-age novel The Home for Wayward Parrots. Darusha’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in many venues, including Terraform and Nature. Originally from Canada, Darusha lives in Wellington, New Zealand after spending several years sailing the Pacific.
Rhysling Anthology 2021

Rebecca Bratten Weiss’s creative work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Two Hawks Quarterly, Presence, Connecticut River Review, Shooter, New Ohio Review, Gyroscope Review, The Seventh Wave, Westerly, and Reckoning. She has published three chapbook collections: Mud Woman (Dancing Girl Press, 2018), with Joanna Penn Cooper; Talking to Snakes (Ethel Zine and Press, 2020); and The Gods We Have Eaten (Bottlecap Press, 2023). She resides in rural Ohio where she works as an editor and journalist.
Rhysling Anthology 2023

A. J. Wells
Rhysling Anthology 1994

A. J. Wentz is a writer in the southern US who always has a cup of tea in hand. Her work has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Eye to the Telescope, Wales Haiku Journal, and elsewhere. You can find her on Twitter @ajwentzwrites and at ajwentz.com.
Dwarf Stars 2023
Star*Line 48.1

Jon Wesick is a regional editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual. He’s published hundreds of poems and stories in journals such as the Atlanta Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Metal Scratches, Pearl, Slipstream, Space and Time, Tales of the Talisman, and Zahir. The editors of Knot Magazine nominated his story “The Visitor” for a Pushcart Prize. His poem “Meditation Instruction” won the Editor’s Choice Award in the 2016 Spirit First Contest. Another poem “Bread and Circuses” won second place in the 2007 African American Writers and Artists Contest. Jon is the author of the poetry collection Words of Power, Dances of Freedom as well as several novels and a short story collection.
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2017
Star*Line 47.1

Jacqueline West’s poetry has appeared in journals including Mythic Delirium, Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit, Liminality, and Star*Line, has been nominated twice for both the Rhysling Award and the Pushcart Prize, and received a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. Her first full-length poetry collection, Candle and Pins: Poems on Superstitions was published by Alban Lake in 2018. She is also the author of the New York Times-bestselling middle grade series The Books of Elsewhere, the Schneider Family Honor Book The Collectors, and several other middle grade and young adult novels. Jacqueline lives with her family in Red Wing, Minnesota. jacquelinewest.com
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025
Star*Line 42.1, 44.1, 46.2, 47.1, 47.4

Frida Westford
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Star*Line 32.1, 33.2, 34.2

Karen J. Weyant
Rhysling Anthology 2017

Tom Whalen
Rhysling Anthology 1989

Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
Rhysling Anthology 2018

Steve Wheat
Rhysling Anthology 2025
Star*Line 45.4

Lesley Wheeler
Rhysling Anthology 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018
Star*Line 38.4

Peggy Wheeler
Rhysling Anthology 1996

Maceo J. Whitaker
Dwarf Stars 2016

Ursula Whitcher
Dwarf Stars 2024

Andrew White
Dwarf Stars 2023

Mark Arvid White
Star*Line 38.4

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
Dwarf Stars 2009

Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality and writes hoping to find an audience for her musings. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud 'War Poetry for Today' competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including Apogee, Firewords, Peach Velvet, Light Journal and So It Goes. Find Lynn at lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077
Rhysling Anthology 2019

Kim Whysall-Hammond was born and raised in London, yet now lives deep in the country. She is an Astronomer who has also worked in Climate Research and in Telecommunications. Her speculative poetry has appeared in American Diversity Report, Andromeda Spaceways, Dreams and Nightmares, Eternal Haunted Summer, Frozen Wavelets, Kaleidotrope, On Spec, Silver Blade, Star*Line and The Dread Machine. She also has poems in anthologies from Milk and Cake Press and Brigids Gate Press. Find more of her work at thecheesesellerswife.wordpress.com.
Dwarf Stars 2023
Star*Line 40.4, 41.3, 42.2, 42.4, 45.1, 46.1

Jessica Paige Wick
Rhysling Anthology 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2020

Gail Sosinsky Wickman
Star*Line 34.4

Tanner Wiens
Star*Line 34.2, 34.3

Scott Wiggerman is the author of three books of poetry, Leaf and Beak: Sonnets, Presence, and Vegetables and Other Relationships; and the editor of several volumes, including Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry, Bearing the Mask, and 22 Poems and a Prayer for El Paso. Poems have appeared recently in Gyroscope Review, Unlost, Shot Glass Journal, San Pedro River Review, and Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry column. His website is swig.tripod.com.
Star*Line 44.1

Ian Willey is a writer and teacher from Akron, Ohio, now living in the inland sea area of Japan. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including One Sentence Poems, Mobius, and Unbroken.
Dwarf Stars 2024
Star*Line
44.2, 44.3, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 47.2, 47.4, 48.1

Darius Williams is the vehicle for the proliferation of his "selfish" words, but he often wonders where, if anywhere, they are driving him.
Star*Line 43.3

Donna Glee Williams
Star*Line 45.3

Patricia Williams
Star*Line 36.4

Paul O. Williams
Star*Line 1.8, 1.11, 2.10

James Webb Wilson
Star*Line 33.1

Stephen Wilson
Star*Line 35.4

Amber Winter
Star*Line 44.4, 45.1, 48.1

Michael Winter
Star*Line 45.2

Wren Winters
Star*Line 36.4

Dale Wisely
Star*Line 37.3

Phoebe Wilcox
Rhysling Anthology 2011

Fran Wilde’s novels and short stories have been finalists for four Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, and two Hugo Awards, and include her Nebula- and Compton-Crook-winning debut novel Updraft, its sequels Cloudbound and Horizon, her 2019 debut Middle Grade novel Riverland, and the Nebula-, Hugo-, and Locus-nominated novelette The Jewel and Her Lapidary. Her short stories and poems appear in Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, Uncanny, and the 2017 Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. She writes for publications including The Washington Post, ReactorMag.com, Clarkesworld, iO9.com, and GeekMom.com and is the Director of the Genre MFA Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University.
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2020

Carlye Wilder
Star*Line 47.4

Ben Wilensky
Rhysling Anthology 2008

Neal Wilgus
Dwarf Stars 2015, 2017
Rhysling Anthology 1980, 1981, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2017
Star*Line 1.11, 2.1, 2.3, 3.5, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 6.2, 31.1, 32.1, 33.3, 34.1, 34.2, 34.3, 35.1, 35.2, 35.3, 36.2, 36.4, 37.1, 37.2, 37.4, 39.2, 39.3, 40.1, 41.3

Jane Williams
Rhysling Anthology 2017

Thomas Wiloch
Rhysling Anthology 1992, 1995, 1996
Star*Line 5.4, 6.2, 31.6

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
Star*Line 44.1

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 first place in 2018
Star*Line 32.3, 41.3

Patrice M. Wilson
Rhysling Anthology 2011

Matthew Wilson has been published repeatedly in Star*Line, Night to Dawn magazine, Hiraeth publishing and many more. His first story collection "Gargoyles of the Abbey" is now available on kindle.
Dwarf Stars 2017, 2022, 2023
Star*Line 36.3, 36.4, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4, 38.1, 38.2, 38.3, 38.4, 39.1, 39.2, 39.3, 39.4, 40.1, 40.4, 41.1, 41.2, 41.3, 41.4, 42.1, 42.2, 42.3, 42.4, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3, 44.1, 44.2, 44.3, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 47.4

Stephen M. Wilson (A. B. S. Dudevaunt) (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. Several of his poems were nominated throughout the years for the Dwarf Stars Award (including a win in 2011). He and Linda D. Addison were editors for the 2013 Dwarf Stars anthology.

Dwarf Stars 2006, 2008, 2009, third place in 2010, 2011, 2013
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Star*Line 30.2, 32.1, 32.2, 33.5, 34.1, 35.2, 36.1

Sarah Ann Winn
Rhysling Anthology 2017

Laurel Winter
Rhysling Anthology 1994, first place in 1998, first place in 1999, 2000, 2003, 2014

T. Winter-Damon
Rhysling Anthology 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995
Star*Line 32.6

Shannon Connor Winward collapsed from a congenital curse and now speaks of herself in the past tense, regretting all those times she said, “I wish I never had to leave my bed.” In other lives she authored the Elgin Award-winning Undoing Winter (Finishing Line Press, 2014) and The Year of the Witch (Sycorax Press, 2018); served as Secretary for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and a Delaware Division of the Arts Fellow in Fiction; and founded Riddled with Arrows Literary Journal. Shannon’s relics can be found (or are forthcoming) in eclectic places from Analog Science Fiction & Fact to Zetetic, including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Flash Fiction Online, Pseudopod, Literary Mama, Native Skin, Deaf Poet’s Society, SageWoman, Poetry Ireland Review and Rattle, and a feature in Poets & Writers. For now her ghost lingers in the brokedown tower of her body in a blue room, where she writes madly against the gods and the clock.
Dwarf Stars 2017, 2018
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2017, 2018, honorable mention in 2023
Star*Line 37.1, 39.4, 40.2

Laura Madeline Wiseman
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Star*Line 38.1, 39.2, 40.2, 40.3, 41.2

Steven Withrow's poems have appeared in Spectral Realms, Asimov's Science Fiction, Dreams & Nightmares, and Epitaphs: The Journal of the New England Horror Writers. His short poem, "The Sun Ships," from a collection of the same title, was nominated for a 2016 Rhysling Award. His most recent solo collection is The Bedlam Philharmonic. His collaborative collection with Frank Coffman, The Exorcised Lyric, contains "Toward Solstice Station," a nominee for the 2022 Rhysling Award. His first opera with composer Paul Zeigler, The Beckoning Fair One, is nearing production. He lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2022, 2024
Star*Line 42.2

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) was the author of two dozen novels and hundreds of shorter stories. He was best known for The Book of the New Sun, The Book of the Long Sun, and The Book of the Short Sun, as well as The Wizard Knight. He won the Nebula Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, the British Science Fiction Award, the Locus Reader’s Poll, and many others. In 1996, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Fantasy Convention, and in 2007 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

Rhysling Anthology first place in 1978
Star*Line 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 5.3

James Won
Dwarf Stars 2015

Deborah Wong is a Rhysling Award- and Pushcart Prize-nominated Malaysian poet of second-generation-Chinese descent. Her work has been published in many online journals and print magazines in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Thailand, and Japan, as well as in Malaysia. Her poetry chapbook Autopsy of Sentiments was published by Working Desk Publishing (2020). Find her on Twitter: @PetiteDeborah.
Rhysling Anthology 2020, 2021

Saint James Harris Wood
Star*Line 31.1

G. E. Woods
Rhysling Anthology 2023

Elizabeth Jodi Woodward
Rhysling Anthology 2007

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 second place in 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Star*Line 32.6, 37.4, 38.1, 38.4, 39.4, 40.1, 40.3, 40.4, 41.2, 41.3, 42.2, 43.1, 43.3, 44.3, 45.2, 47.4

Jeffrey Woodward
Dwarf Stars 2008

Bryan Thao Worra is a Lao American poet who keeps taking on duties for SFPA.
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Star*Line 36.2

Charles Wright
Dwarf Stars 2009

K. Ceres Wright
Rhysling Anthology 2008

Sarah Wright
Rhysling Anthology 2015

Grzegorz Wróblewski
Dwarf Stars 2016

Ann Wuehler
Rhysling Anthology 2022

Stephanie M. Wytovich is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her work has been showcased in numerous magazines and anthologies such as Weird Tales, Nightmare Magazine, Southwest Review, Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 2, The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 8 & 15, as well as many others. Wytovich is the Poetry Editor for Raw Dog Screaming Press and is a recipient of the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award, the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant, and has received the Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship for non-fiction writing. She is a member of SFPA, an active member of the Horror Writers Association, and a graduate of Seton Hill University’s MFA program for Writing Popular Fiction. Her Bram Stoker Award-winning poetry collection, Brothel, earned a home with Raw Dog Screaming Press alongside Hysteria: A Collection of Madness, Mourning Jewelry, An Exorcism of Angels, Sheet Music to My Acoustic Nightmare, and The Apocalyptic Mannequin. Her debut novel, The Eighth, is published with Dark Regions Press, and her nonfiction craft book for speculative poetry, Writing Poetry in the Dark, is available now from Raw Dog Screaming Press. Follow Wytovich at stephaniewytovich.blogspot.com and on Twitter and Instagram @SWytovich and @thehauntedbookshelf. You can also find her essays, nonfiction, and class offerings on LitReactor.
Rhysling Anthology 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, honorable mention in 2023, 2025
Star*Line 37.1, 39.2, 40.2, 41.4

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