Overcomer Ibiteye
Star*Line 45.4
Beatrice Winifred Iker (they/them) is a Southern Appalachian poet, author, and tarot reader. They are an Ignyte and Rhysling Award finalist whose work can be found in Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, and others. Beatrice is a co-host of the Afronauts Podcast, which discusses and uplifts Black speculative fiction, and is a Voodoonauts Fellowship alum. You can find Beatrice online at beatriceiker.com.
Dwarf Stars 2024
Rhysling Anthology 2023
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, andPassager. 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’ atBones 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
Pedro Iniguez is a speculative fiction writer and Rhysling, Pushcart, and Best of the Net-nominated poet from Los Angeles. His fiction and poetry has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Shortwave Magazine, Worlds of Possibility, Tiny Nightmares, Star*Line, Space and Time Magazine, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, Savage Realms Monthly, and Infinite Constellations, among others. He can be found online at pedroiniguezauthor.com.
Dwarf Stars Winner in 2025
Rhysling Anthology 2023, second place in 2025
Star*Line 44.4, 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 46.4, 47.1
Katherine Inskip teaches astrophysics for a living, and spends her spare time thwarting her kids’ plans for world domination and populating the Universe with worlds of her own. She's co-editor for Cast of Wonders, the YA genre fiction podcast. You can find her stories and poetry in various venues including Motherboard, Abyss & Apex, and Luna Station Quarterly. She lives off cake, coffee and logic puzzles.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Geoff Inverarity
Rhysling Anthology 2020
irving (David Vandervort)’s poetry has previously appeared in Dreams and Nightmares, From the Asylum, Niteblade, Paper Crow, Star*Line and other fine publications.
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2015
Star*Line 32.5, 33.1, 33.2, 37.3, 39.2, 40.2
Ayòdéjì Israel
Rhysling Anthology 2025
Valentin D. Ivanov is an amateur SF writer and a professional astronomer from Bulgaria with more than thirty stories published in his native country. His English language publications include Strange Horizons, the anthologies Letters to Tiptree and Diamonds in the Sky. His stories have beep published also in Germany and Russia.
Star*Line 44.2
Shokuo Izuo (b. 1962) is a computer graphics animator, projection mapping producer, and lecturer from Hiroshima, Japan. Her poetry in Japanese appears in Imaginia, for which she has illustrated covers, and Tanshes-f. She is a member of the science-fiction group Imaginian founded by writer, editor, and critic Hiroyasu Amase.
Star*Line 41.2
Raoul Izzard lives in Spain.
Star*Line 38.4, 39.3