Cecilia Caballero is an Afro-Chicano creative nonfiction writer, poet, speaker, teaching artist, lecturer of Ethnic Studies, and lover of all things spooky. She is co-editor of The Chicana Motherwork Anthology and she is an alum of workshops and fellowships with Tin House, Macondo, and the Women’s National Book Association. Her creative work has been published in Dryland, Epiphany, Raising Mothers, The Acentos Review, and elsewhere, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart and a Rhysling. Cecilia is currently working on a memoir and a speculative book of poetry about the intersections of racial justice, psychology, medicine, quantum physics, and healing beyond Western paradigms. Twitter: @la_sangre_llama.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Star*Line 44.3
Robert Payne Cabeen
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Morley Cacoethes
Star*Line 46.2
Lanette Cadle
Star*Line 39.4
Paige Caine
Star*Line 43.3
David Calder
Rhysling Anthology 1980
Star*Line 3.5
Diane Callahan strives to capture her sliver of the universe through writing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. As a developmental editor and ghostplotter, she spends her days shaping stories. Her YouTube channel, Quotidian Writer, provides practical tips for aspiring authors. You can read her work in Short Édition, Translunar Travelers Lounge, Riddled with Arrows, Rust+Moth, and The Sunlight Press, among others.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Sarah Mahino Calvello
Dwarf Stars 2025
Rob Cameron has poems, essays and short fiction in Foreign Policy Magazine, Tor.com, The New Modality, Carterhaugh School of Folklore, and Clockwork Phoenix Five. His debut middle grade novel is forthcoming from Labyrinth Road. Rob is also lead organizer for the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers, a guest host and curator for the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series, and executive producer of Kaleidocast.nyc. You can find him at Rob-cameron.com.
Star*Line 45.1
Tara Campbell is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction editor at Barrelhouse. Prior publication credits include SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, Jellyfish Review, Booth, Strange Horizons, and Escape Pod/Artemis Rising. She's the author of a novel, TreeVolution, and two collections, Circe's Bicycle and Midnight at the Organporium. She received her MFA from American University in 2019. taracampbell.com
Star*Line 42.4, 44.4, 46.3
Tyree Campbell
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2003, 2018, 2019
Star*Line 31.5
Anton Cancre
Rhysling Anthology 2017
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 and artstation.com/barbaracandiotti1.
Dwarf Stars 2022
Star*Line 44.2, 45.2, 47.2
Michael Canfield
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Sarah Cannavo is a writer of prose and poetry haunting southern New Jersey. Her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Pulp Modern, Liquid Imagination, DBND Publishing’s Halloween Horror Volume 3, JOURN-E, and From the Yonder Volume 3, and is forthcoming in Dreams and Nightmares and parABnormal. Her poems “Fallen But Not Down” and “Learning the Way” were nominated for a 2020 and 2021 Rhysling Award, respectively, and her poem “There Goes the Security Deposit” was nominated for the 2022 Dwarf Stars Awards. Her story “Unreality” and novella Wolf of the Pines are available now on Amazon. She's rumored to post on her site moodilymusing.blogspot.com, and she's been sighted tweeting @moodilymusing.
Dwarf Stars 2022
Rhysling Anthology 2020, 2021, 2023
Star*Line 43.2, 44.1, 44.2, 44.3, 44.4, 45.1, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 48.1
Charles Cantrell has poems in recent or forthcoming issues of Mudfish, Confrontation, Rumble Fish Quarterly, Mobius, Dreams and Nightmares, Star*Line, Dead Inside: Poems & Essays About Zombies (anthology from Foiled Crown Books), Citron Review, Seven Circle Press, West Texas Literary Review, Appalachian Heritage, Pinyon Review, South85 and Miramar Poetry Journal. A book of poetry, Wild Wreckage, is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press. Nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize in poetry, he’s also held residencies at Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and The Vermont Studio Center.
Star*Line 35.4, 42.2
Shari Caplan
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Orson Scott Card is the author of award-winning science-fiction novels and more. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University.
Star*Line 3.4
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
Michael Carlson
Rhysling Anthology 1979
Michael Carman
Rhysling Anthology 2002
Garrett Carroll is a poet and songwriter whose work has been published in Star*Line, Abyss & Apex, Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, and Amethyst Press. He holds a B.A. in English/liberal arts from Adams State University and now calls North Dakota home. When he is not writing poetry, journaling, or playing music, he is daydreaming about all those things or wanting to cuddle with dogs.
Star*Line 44.3, 44.4, 45.1, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 47.2, 47.3, 47.4, 48.1
Kristi Carter
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Francis Cartier
Rhysling Anthology 2003
Benjamin Cartwright
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Steve Castro’s debut poetry collection, Blue Whale Phenomena, was published in 2019 (Otis Books: Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California). His poetry has appeared in Star*Line and elsewhere. Speculative prose poems co-written with Daniel Romo are forthcoming in Hotel Amerika and Okay Donkey.
Star*Line 39.4
Rosalind Casey
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2011
Chris Castro-Rappi
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Star*Line 38.2
Dennis Caswell
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Dr. Anna Cates is a graduate of Indiana State University (M.A. English and Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction/English) and National University (M.F.A. 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. She is author of the following collections: The Meaning of Life and The Frog King (Cyberwit Press), The Darkroom (Prolific Press), The Golem & the Nazi (Red Moon Press), The Journey (Resource Publications), and Love in the Time of Covid (Wipf & Stock). She presently resides in Wilmington, Ohio with her two cats, Freddie and Fifi.
Dwarf Stars 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Rhysling Anthology 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
Star*Line 45.2, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 47.4, 48.1
Alan Catlin
Rhysling Anthology 1990, 1993, 1995
Star*Line 5.6
Beth Cato is a Nebula Award-nominated and 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
Rhysling Anthology 2015, 2016, third place in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, honorable mention in 2024, 2025
Star*Line 34.1, 36.1, 36.2, 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, 40.2, 40.3, 40.4, 41.1, 41.2, 41.4, 42.1, 42.3, 43.2, 43.3, 44.1, 44.3, 44.4, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.2, 46.4, 47.1, 47.2, 47.4
Anna Marie Catoir
Dwarf Stars 2009
John Caulkins resides in Waltham, “Watch City,” Massachusetts, with his wife, two children, and Scottish terrier. His poetry has previously appeared in Eye To The Telescope, Dream Noir, and Star*Line.
Star*Line 41.1, 42.1, 43.2
Siv Cedering
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1985
Christopher M. Cevasco
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Star*Line 31.1
Kenny A. Chaffin writes poetry, fiction and nonfiction and has published in a variety of magazines. He grew up in southern Oklahoma and now lives in Denver, CO, where he works hard to make enough of a living to support two cats, numerous wild birds and a bevy of squirrels. kacweb.com/writing.html
Star*Line 37.2, 40.1, 44.3
Gregg Chamberlain
Star*Line 43.1
Matthew Chamberlin lives in Virginia, where he also writes and teaches. His work has appeared in Apex Magazine, Jersey Devil Press, A-minor, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Phantom Drift, and other places.
Star*Line 39.1, 44.4
A. E. Chandler is an historian and author. While living in Nottingham, she studied the social history behind Robin Hood at university, tramping through Sherwood Forest, learning how to carve a longbow in the woods, and poring over parchment manuscripts. She was once kidnapped by a miller and locked in a medieval prison, but she’s fine now. Her books include: Into the World, Amazon top-25 seller Questionable Quizzes, and the bestselling novel The Scarlet Forest: A Tale of Robin Hood. aechandler.wixsite.com/author
Star*Line 44.4, 46.1
José Chapa (Mission, Texas, 1990) authored Pájaros de Pólvora, Sospecha de un Viaje Astral, and Notes from the Last Age from Flowersong Books. His work has appeared in literary journals across Latin America and the United States. He is a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.
Star*Line 41.2
Chris Chapin
Star*Line 33.2
Priya Chand is a California transplant living in the Midwest. Dragonslayer is her first published poem. Find more of her work at priyachandwrites.wordpress.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2022, honorable mention in 2023
Vajra Chandrasekera
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Myna Chang (she/her) is the host of Electric Sheep SF. Her work has been selected for Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton), Best Small Fictions, CRAFT, Daily Science Fiction, and MicroPodcast’s special science fiction edition. She has won the Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction and the New Millennium Writings Award in Flash Fiction. Read more at MynaChang.com or find her on Bluesky @MynaChang.
Rhysling Anthology honorable mention 2024
Fred Chappell
Rhysling Anthology 1996
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
Cat S. Chen
Star*Line 47.1
Maya Chhabra’s poetry has appeared in Strange Horizons, Liminality, and Abyss & Apex, among other venues.
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Star*Line 41.1
Kenneth B. Chiacchia
Rhysling Anthology 2007
M.C. Childs seeks universes in which (A) his SF poems have been published, (B) people regularly make an effort to be kind, and (C) blueberry pie is available. He currently serves as Interim Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico and his award-winning urban design books include The Zeon Files: the art and design of historic Route 66 signs, Urban Composition, and Squares: a public place design guide.
Dwarf Stars 2019
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Star*Line 39.3, 40.1, 40.3, 42.2
Chukwuma Eke Pacella Chioma
Star*Line 45.3
May Chong is a Malaysian poet and writer. Her speculative works have appeared in various regional and international venues, including Strange Horizons, LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, Apparition Lit, and Multiverse. She can be found tweeting about feminism, nature and other random oddments at @maysays.
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2021
Michael Ch’ong
Dwarf Stars 2017
Mary E. Choo
Rhysling Anthology 1989, 1993, 2006
David Chorlton
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Zella Christensen
Star*Line 38.4
Charles Christian is a writer, journalist, blogger, podcaster, radio host, and storyteller. He devised the Ink Sweat & Tears poetry and Grievous Angel SF&F poetry and flash fiction webzines. He has edited four poetry collections, including the 2016 Rhysling Anthology for the SFPA, served on the UK Society of Authors' Poetry & Spoken Word Group committee, is on the British Haiku Society management committee, and for two years was a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel. He is also the author of the writing guide Writing Genre Fiction – Creating Imaginary Worlds: The 12 Rules.
Star*Line 39.3, 45.4
Emmie Christie’s work includes practical subjects, like feminism and mental health, and speculative subjects, like unicorns and affordable healthcare. She has been published in various short story markets including Ghost Orchid Press, Infinite Worlds Magazine, and Flash Fiction Online. She graduated from the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2013. You can find her at emmiechristie.com.
Star*Line 45.4
Joe R. (Randell) Christopher has had one book of poems professionally published: The Varieties of Poetic Genres: Ars Poetica (Mellen Poetry Press, 2012). A chapbook of his Tolkien-related verse—Musings beneath A Tree of Amalion—was published by the New England Tolkien Society (2nd edition, 1993). He edited The Casebook of Gregory Hood, by Anthony Boucher and Denis Greene (Crippen and Landru, 2009); and edited one issue of Niekas, Ed Meskys’ fanzine, on Dark Fantasy (1998). He has written, edited, or compiled six other books. Note: someone, under the name of Joe R. Christopher, self-published (Amazon Digital Services) a SF novel titled Alice in 2002; it is NOT by this Joe R. Christopher.
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Paul Chuks
Rhysling Anthology 2025
Margaret Chula
Dwarf Stars 2009
Richard Chwedyk is a Nebula Award-winning science fiction writer who teaches at Columbia College Chicago and wherever else that will have him.
Rhysling Anthology 2004
Star*Line 39.1
Alex Cigale’s poems have appeared in Colorado, Green Mountains, North American, Tampa, and The Literary Reviews, and online in Asymptote, Drunken Boat, McSweeney’s. His translations from the Russian can be found in Ancora Imparo, Cimarron Review, Literary Imagination, Modern Poetry in Translation, PEN America, Brooklyn Rail In Translation, The Manhattan, St. Ann’s, and Washington Square Reviews. He is one of the editors of Asymptote, The Madhatters’ Review, The St. Petersburg Review, Third Wednesday, and Verse Junkies. He was Assistant Professor at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Star*Line 37.2
Lisa J. Cihlar has been a babysitter, picked cherries at an orchard, worked in a cherry processing factory, picked strawberries for one day, clerk at a bakery where she was fired, pots and pans washer in a hospital kitchen, gas station attendant where she made donuts, fried chicken, made sandwiches, and sold fishing bait, college library clerk, shoe factory worker glueing linings to the inside of shoe parts, DJ at a contemporary radio station, public library clerk, and public library director.
Star*Line 35.4
Casey Clabough
Star*Line 41.1
Gwendolyn Clare
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Carrie Clark
Star*Line 43.2
Chloe N. Clark’s work appears in Apex, Glass, Hobart, Uncanny, and more. She is co-EIC of Cotton Xenomorph, writers for Nerds of a Feather, and her debut chapbook is out from Finishing Line Press
Star*Line 39.2
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, third place in 2012
Rhysling Anthology 1999, third place in 2000, second place in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, second place in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2024
Star*Line 30.2, 32.4, 32.5, 32.6, 34.1, 34.3, 34.4, 35.4, 36.1, 36.4, 38.4, 39.4, 41.1, 41.2, 41.4, 43.1, 47.1
Jennifer Clark
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Cassandra Rose Clarke’s work has placed in the Rhysling Awards and been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, the Pushcart Prize, and YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults. She grew up in south Texas and currently lives in Houston, where she writes and serves as the associate director for Writespace, a literary arts nonprofit. She holds an M.A. in creative writing from The University of Texas at Austin, and in 2010 she attended the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop in Seattle. Her latest novel is Halo: Battle Born, out now from Scholastic.
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2018, 2019
Star*Line 40.4, 42.1, 43.2
Joyce Clement
Dwarf Stars 2014
Denise Clemons
Star*Line 38.4
Sara Cleto haunts the borders between folklore and literature in her poetry, fiction, and scholarship. She completed her PhD in English and Folklore at the Ohio State University in 2018, and she is a co-founder of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic where she teaches courses on fairy tales, creative writing, mythic adaptation, and more. Her poetry and fiction can be found in Uncanny Magazine, Faerie Magazine, Liminality, Mythic Delirium, Goblin Fruit, and others.
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2018
Star*Line 44.4
T. R. Click
Star*Line 36.4, 37.1
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 won the Aurora Award again, in the same category, in 2022. Her poetry has appeared in Analog, Weird Tales, On Spec, andPolar Starlight.
Dwarf Stars 2010, 2012, 2014, 2022, 2025
Rhysling Anthology 2013, 2014, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Star*Line 16.3, 19.2, 29.4, 31.5, 33.5, 34.1
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, third place in 2014, 2017
Rhysling Anthology 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, third place in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2025
Star*Line 39.1, 39.4, 40.4, 42.4
Robert Clinton lives near Boston, has an MFA in writing from Goddard College, and has been a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Sarabande Books published Taking Eden (poems). He’s had poems in Wisconsin Review, Antioch Review, Stand and The Atlantic, among others.
Star*Line 44.1
William Clunie is a writer, artist, and translator living in Berlin, Germany. His most recent collection, Laws of Discord, is available on Amazon.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Star*Line 43.3, 44.2
Lenore McComas Coberley (1925–2022) was a Wisconsin poet, transplanted from Appalachia.
Star*Line 36.2
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 weird, horror, fantasy, science fiction, and adventure. A member of HWA and SFPA, his poetry publications thus far are: This Ae Nighte, Every Nighte and Alle: 33 Poems of the Weird, Horrific, and Supernatural (2018), The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems (2019), Khayyám's Rubáiyát: A New Version in English Verse (2019), Black Flames & Gleaming Shadows (2020), and Eclipse of the Moon (2021). His first fiction collection, Three Against the Dark: Collected Dr. Venn Occult Detective Mysteries was published March 2022. He created and monitors the Weird Poets Society Facebook Group and is Editor & Publisher of Mind's Eye Publications.
Dwarf Stars 2018, 2020
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Star*Line 43.1
Marcia Cohee
Rhysling Anthology 1988
Mary Anne Cohen
Rhysling Anthology 1995
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
Star*Line 35.3, 36.2, 37.1, 40.3
Douglas Cole has published four poetry collections, and his work appears in anthologies such as Best New Writing, Bully Anthology , and Coming Off The Line as well as journals such as The Chicago Quarterly Review, Owen Wister Review, Slipstream, Red Rock Review, and Midwest Quarterly. More is available online in The Adirondack Review, Ithaca Lit, Talking Writing, as well as recorded stories in Bound Off and The Baltimore Review. He has been nominated for two Pushcarts and a Best of the Web. He received the Leslie Hunt Memorial Prize in Poetry; the Best of Poetry Award from Clapboard House; and First Prize in the “Picture Worth 500 Words” from Tattoo Highway. Interviews and publication links can be found at douglastcole.com.
Star*Line 40.2
Gerald L. Coleman is a Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, and Science Fiction & Fantasy Author. He did his undergraduate work in philosophy, english, and religious studies, followed by a Master's degree in Theology. He is the author of the Epic Fantasy novel saga The Three Gifts, which currently includes When Night Falls (Book One), A Plague of Shadows (Book Two), and the upcoming When Chaos Reigns (Book Three), which is scheduled for release in 2021. His most recent poetry appears in Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, Drawn To Marvel: Poems From The Comic Books, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Vol. 18, Black Bone Anthology, the 10th Anniversary Issue of Diode Poetry Journal, About Place Journal, and Star*Line 43.4. His speculative fiction short stories appear in the Science Fiction, Cyberfunk anthology The City, the Rococoa Anthology by Roaring Lion, the Urban Fantasy anthology Terminus, the 2019 JordanCon anthology You Want Stories?, Dark Universe: Bright Empire, and Cyberfunk! by MVMedia. He has been a Guest Author at DragonCon, Boskone, Blacktasticon, JordanCon, Atlanta Science Fiction & Fantasy Expo, The Outer Dark Symposium, World Horror Con, Imaginarium, and Multiverse. He is a Scholastic National Writing Juror and a co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets. He recently released a collection of poetry entitled Nappy Metaphysic. You can find him at Geraldcoleman.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Star*Line 43.4
Donyae Coles
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Katharine Coles
Dwarf Stars 2016
Michael R. Collings is the 2016 HWA GrandMaster Award Recipient and a Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Corona Obscura (2016), Writing Darkness (2012) and A Verse to Horrors (2012).
Rhysling Anthology 1986, 1994
Star*Line 4.2, 4.5, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 42.4
Christopher Collingwood
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Billy Collins (1941–) was appointed United States Poet Laureate 2001–2003. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar; he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library “Literary Lion.” His last three collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. He has published twelve collections of poetry, most recently The Rain in Portugal, a New York Times bestseller.
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2009
Logan Thrasher Collins is a futurist, synthetic biologist, and author. He is also a student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. When he was 16, Logan invented a new type of antimicrobial peptide for treating antibiotic resistant infections and he is now investigating nanotechnology-based methods for mapping the brain. His poetry and short fiction have been published in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Abyss & Apex, Altered Reality Magazine, Aphelion and 365tomorrows, and his synthetic biology research has been published in ACS Biochemistry.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Michael Collins
Star*Line 40.2, 40.3
Carlos Colón
Dwarf Stars 2017
Elsa Colon
Star*Line 34.1, 34.3
Stephen R. Compton
Rhysling Anthology 1987, 1988
Star*Line 2.4/5, 2.8, 2.9, 6.1
Michael Conner
Star*Line 35.2
Beate Conrad
Dwarf Stars 2011
Sean M. Conrey is an associate director in the Project Advance program at Syracuse University, where he teaches in the English and Textual Studies department. His most recent full-length collection of poems, The Book of Trees, was published in late 2017 by Saint Julian Press and won a 2018 Catholic Press Award for poetry. His first collection, The Word in Edgewise, was published by Brick Road Poetry Press in 2014. His poems have appeared in American Letters and Commentary, Cream City Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Midwest Quarterly, Notre Dame Review and Tampa Review, among others. A chapbook of poems, A Conversation with the Living, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2009 and a monograph Coming to Terms with Place, a theoretical work concerned with how language affects our sense of place, was published in 2007. Recordings of his experimental music project, Mercury City Suburbs, are available online.
Star*Line 42.2
C. A. Conrad
Rhysling Anthology 2003
L. R. Conti
Star*Line 46.3
William Cook
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Michael Coolen
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Earl Cooley III is a new poet, published twice. Trained in computer technology, after retirement he started to write poetry.
Star*Line 36.4, 38.4
Holly Cooley
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Jack Cooper
Rhysling Anthology 2024, 2025
C.S.E. Cooney
Rhysling Anthology 2009, 2010, first place in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016
Constance Cooper
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2008
H. J. Cording
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Adam Cornford
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1983, 1984
Star*Line 31.6
Sharon Cote, a linguist and a late-in-the-making poet, has long loved studying both language, including metaphor, and speculative fiction. Several years ago, her poetic impulses demanded she pay them more attention, and a growing number of her poems have now escaped into the world, including publications in Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge (artist’s choice winner), Star*Line, Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, Deep Water Literary Journal, Strange Poetry, Avocet, and several anthologies. She lives in Virginia with her husband and a rather strange dog.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Star*Line 41.2, 43.2, 44.3, 45.1
PS Cottier lives in Canberra, and her most recent speculative collection is Monstrous (Interactive Press, 2020). She edited The Stars Like Sand: Australian Speculative Poetry with Tim Jones. PS Cottier wrote a PhD on images of animals in the works of Charles Dickens at the Australian National University, and collects gnomes.
Dwarf Stars 2015, 2022, 2023
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Star*Line 31.5, 32.2, 32.6, 34.4, 35.1, 35.3, 39.2, 44.4, 45.2, 46.4
Wesli Court
Star*Line 5.6
Scott J. Couturier is a poet & prose writer of the Weird, liminal, & darkly fantastic. His work has appeared in numerous venues, including The Audient Void, Spectral Realms, The Dark Corner Zine, Space & Time Magazine, & Weirdbook. Currently he works as a copy & content editor for Mission Point Press, living an obscure reverie in the wilds of northern Michigan with his partner/live-in editor & two cats.
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2024
Harris Coverley is a member of the Weird Poets Society, and has had verse accepted for Star*Line, Spectral Realms, Jitter, Scifaikuest, and Utopia Science Fiction, amongst many others. His haiku sequence "The Planets? Sweet . . ." (Star*Line, 42.4) was nominated for the 2020 Rhysling Award, Short Poems category. He lives in Manchester, England.
Dwarf Stars 2024, 2025
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Star*Line 42.3, 43.1, 43.3, 45.2
David E. Cowen is the Bram Stoker-nominated author of four volumes of poetry, Bleeding Saffron (Weasel, 2018), The Seven Yards of Sorrow (Weasel, 2016), The Madness of Empty Spaces (Weasel, 2014) and Sixth & Adams (PW Press, 2001). His work has been seen in poetry journals, fiction anthologies and non-fiction magazines and anthologies in several countries. He was the editor of Volumes III and IV of the HWA Poetry Showcase.
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2019
Star*Line 44.1
Damien Cowger is a writer of short fiction and poetry. His work has appeared in Fox Cry Review, Midwest Literary Magazine, and Denver Syntax. He lives in Athens, Ohio where he is the Managing Editor of New Ohio Review. Damien estimates that he has swallowed about $1.20 in dimes in his lifetime.
Star*Line 36.2
Cardinal Cox
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Star*Line 39.4
Edward Cox
Star*Line 31.5, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3, 32.4, 32.5, 32.6, 33.2, 33.3, 33.4, 33.5, 34.1, 34.2, 34.3, 34.4, 35.1, 35.2, 35.3, 35.4
Andrew M. Crabtree is a Canadian teacher, currently based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His poetry has appeared in Goblin Fruit, the Kyoto Journal, and Rumba Under Fire from Punctum Press.
Star*Line 39.3
Jeff Crandall is a Washington State poet, glass artist and a founding editor of Floating Bridge Press. His work has appeared previously in Beloit Poetry Journal, Bloom, North American Review, JAMA and Seattle Review, among others. His book of poems, The Grief Pool, was published by Firestorm Press.
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2020
Star*Line 42.3
Tim Craven
Rhysling Anthology 2015
D. M. Crawford
Star*Line 46.1, 46.2
Gary William Crawford (1953–) is an American writer and small press publisher, the founder and editor of Gothic Press,which since 1979 has published books and periodicals in the field of Gothic literature, including the journal Gothic and the horror poetry magazine Night Songs. In recent years, the press has published The Gothic Chapbook Series, which features pamphlets of fiction, poetry and scholarship. He has numerous poems, stories, and articles in the small press.
Star*Line 31.1, 32.1, 32.3, 34.1
Henry Crawford
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Oscar L. Crawford
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Tim Cremin is a high school mathematics teacher in Massachusetts. Tim’s poetry has been published in many fine journals, including Acorn, bottle rockets, contemporary haibun online, Failed Haiku, Frogpond, Mayfly, Modern Haiku, Ribbons, The Heron’s Nest,and tinywords. Selected poems of his have been included in several anthologies, including Haiku 2021, Haiku 2023, and String Theory: the Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2021.
Dwarf Stars 2023
Mary Cresswell is from Los Angeles and lives in New Zealand. Her fifth book, Field Notes: a satiric miscellany, was published by Mākaro Press, Wellington, in 2017. See also read-nz.org/writer/cresswell-mary
Star*Line 34.2, 36.3, 38.2, 39.1, 44.3, 47.1
Vonnie Winslow Crist’s poetry has been published in Weirdbook, Outposts of Beyond, FrostFire Worlds, Weird Sisters, Disturbed Digest, Star*Line, Garland of the Goddess, Dauntless, The Dark Ones, Starward Tales II, and elsewhere. A Maryland State Arts Council Poet for ten years and a Pushcart nominee, she strives to celebrate the power of myth in her poetry.
Rhysling Anthology 2025
Star*Line 41.1
Septimiu M. Cristian
Dwarf Stars 2015
David A. Crouch
Star*Line 30.2
Cletus Crow
Star*Line 47.2
Jennifer Crow’s work has appeared in a number of print and electronic venues over the past quarter-century. Her short poem, “Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon” was a co-winner of the 2023 Rhysling award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Curious readers can catch up with her on Threads @kythiaranos, or on Bluesky @writerjencrow.bsky.social.
Dwarf Stars 2006
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2021, first place in 2023
Star*Line 31.1, 31.5, 31.6, 33.1, 33.4, 33.5, 39.1, 40.3, 42.3, 43.3, 44.2, 45.1, 45.3, 46.4, 47.2, 48.1
Jane Crowley
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Efren L. Cruzada
Star*Line 41.1
crystalwizard
Star*Line 41.2, 41.3
Carrie Cuinn
Star*Line 38.4
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
Star*Line 37.1, 37.2, 37.4, 38.1, 38.2, 38.3, 39.3
Karl Culley lives in Poland.
Star*Line 37.2, 38.2
M. J. Cuniff
Rhysling Anthology 2022
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, 2024
Star*Line 43.3, 44.1, 44.3, 44.4, 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 46.3
James Cushing
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Betsy Curtis
Star*Line 2.4, 2.5, 2.8
JM Cyrus is a speculative fiction writer living in London, England. She writes whenever there is a chance, and reads even when there isn’t one. She holds a master’s degree in Reception Theory, and wrote her thesis on the reader’s journey. She usually writes fiction, but poetry occasionally strikes. Her work can be found all over the place, a full list is available on her site jmcyrus.carrd.co. Say hello at jmcyrus.writer@gmail.com.
Star*Line 47.1
Cythera
Rhysling Anthology 2006
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
Star*Line 35.3, 36.1