Petro C. K. is a temporal being living on a spinning rock in a vast universe who writes tiny haiku about infinitesimally small moments of time. He has been nominated for several Touchstone and Pushcart awards since he started writing poetry in 2022, and is the 2024 First Place winner of the Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu contest. His debut book of experimental haiku, Waiting for an Oracle, is out on Nun Prophet Press. He is the founding editor of dadakuku, and loves to talk about music.
Dwarf Stars 2023, 2024
Jim Kacian is founder and president of The Haiku Foundation, founder and owner of Red Moon Press, Editor-in-Chief of Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W. W. Norton, 2013), author of some 20 books of poetry (mainly haiku) and editor of scores more. He lives in the Shenandoah Valley with his life partner of more than 30 years, Maureen Gorman, and kayaks big water whenever he can. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Kacian
Dwarf Stars 2012, 2019
Jason Kahler is a teacher and writer in Michigan. His work has appeared in Analog, Club Plum, and Seneca Review, among other places. He sometimes posts at his website, jasonkahler.com, and you can follow him on Twitter @JasonKahler3.
Star*Line 44.2
Bonita Kale
Rhysling Anthology 1993
Toshiya Kamei is mostly based in Mexico.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Star*Line 42.4, 43.2
Anna Kander is a social worker in the Midwest. Her work appears in Breadcrumbs, the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and beyond. You can find her at annakander.com.
Star*Line 40.4
Jennifer Schomburg Kanke’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Goblin Fruit, and Star*Line. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, she now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is a doctoral candidate at Florida State University.
Star*Line 38.3
Yuna Kang is a queer, Korean-American writer based in Northern California who is currently attending UC Berkeley. She has been published in journals such as Strange Horizons, Rising Phoenix Press, and more. Their website iskangyunak.wixsite.com/website
Dwarf Stars 2022
Liana Kapelke-Dale’s poetic interests include bridging the gap between science and the artistic, and her poems frequently contain scientific elements. She is a law student, and her other interests include Latin American travel, classic rock music, and vintage fashion. Liana’s work has been previously published in Forge, Gloom Cupboard, the Monongahela Review, and Transient, and can be seen in From the Depths.
Star*Line 37.4
Francene Kaplan
Star*Line 45.2, 45.3
Martha Kaplan is a poet from Madison, Wisconsin.
Star*Line 36.3
Maureen Kaplan
Star*Line 4.3
John Kaprielian is a nature photographer, photo editor, and now a “digital asset management librarian” who brings his keen eye for natural history to his poems, which are often inspired by his observations. He has been writing poetry for 40 years, and studied creative writing at Cornell with the poet A. R. Ammons while getting his undergraduate degree. His work has been published in The Blue Nib, Poetry Quarterly, Riddled with Arrows, CP Quarterly, and many other journals, and he has a poetry collection available on Amazon. He lives in Putnam County, NY, with his wife and assorted pets.
Dwarf Stars 2022
Charles Kasler
Star*Line 33.2
Sandra Kasturi is a poet, writer, editor and the publisher of ChiZine Publications. She is fond of red lipstick, gin & tonics, and Idris Elba.
Dwarf Stars 2011, 2013
Rhysling Anthology third place in 1998, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022, honorable mention in 2025
Alan Katerinsky
Rhysling Anthology 2025
Star*Line 38.4, 39.3
Stephen B. Katz is the Pearce Professor of Professional Communication in the Department of English at Clemson University. In addition to scholarly books and articles, and a limited edition chapbook of poetry, “Nana!”, he has published poems in The American Medical Association’s Archives of Family, Voices: Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapy, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Star*Line: Magazine of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, Elohi Gadugi, Survive and Thrive: Journal of Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine, Pembroke Magazine, South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, Free Verse, College Composition and Communication, Pre/Text, Postmodern Culture, European Judaism (London) Obsidian III: Black Literature in Review, The Raleigh News and Observer, and other journals.
Dwarf Stars 2007
Star*Line 32.2, 38.2, 38.3
Herb Kauderer is a retired factory worker/truck driver who grew up to be an associate professor of English at Hilbert College with a PhD, an MFA, and other degrees. His writing has won the Critters Readers’ Award (2021), Asimov’s Readers’ Award (2017), the Ewaipanoma Sonnet Contest (2008), received third place Dwarf Star Award (2021), third place Elgin Award (2020), and honorable mention in Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (1996). He co-edits SpecPo Reviews. One of his favorite hobbies is getting physicists drunk so he can understand them. More about him and his writing can be found at HerbKauderer.com.
Dwarf Stars 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, third place in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Rhysling Anthology 1992, 1993, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Star*Line 37.4, 38.1, 38.3, 38.4, 39.1, 39.2, 39.3, 39.4, 40.1, 40.2, 40.3, 40.4, 41.1, 41.2, 41.3, 41.4, 42.1, 42.2, 42.3, 43.1, 44.1, 44.2, 44.3, 44.4, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 46.2, 46.3, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 47.4
Roz Kaveney
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Emil Kay
Star*Line 2.12, 3.1, 3.6
Gavin Kayner
Star*Line 47.1
Nicholas G. Kealey holds a bachelor's degree in film. He lives in Portland, Oregon where he enjoys the outdoors and writing speculative fiction in his free time.
Star*Line 44.4
Erin Keane
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Bran Keane
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Rosalie Morales Kearns, a writer of Puerto Rican and Pennsylvania Dutch descent, is the author of the novel Kingdom of Women (Jaded Ibis, 2017), about a female Roman Catholic priest in a slightly alternate near-future. She’s also the author of the literary/fabulist story collection Virgins and Tricksters (Aqueous, 2012) and founder of Shade Mountain Press.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Trevor Kearns
Star*Line 42.2
W. B. Keckler
Dwarf Stars 2007
Shane D. Keene
Dwarf Stars 2025
Spencer Keene
Star*Line 48.1
M. Kei
Dwarf Stars 2008, 2009, 2010
David J. Kelly, despite a scientific training, has a fascination with words and the music of language. He enjoys writing Japanese short forms and has been published in a number of print and online journals. His first collection is Hammerscale from the Thrush’s Anvil (Alba, 2016).
Dwarf Stars 2019
Star*Line 41.2
James Patrick Kelly
Rhysling Anthology 1990, 1999
M. X. Kelly lives in St. Petersburg, Florida with her domestic partner, Val, their two cats, and a coffee pot. Her work has appeared in Star*Line, Abyss & Apex, Speculative North, Bards and Sages Quarterly, and other magazines and anthologies across the known ’verse. M. X.’s website can be summoned with the typed incantation of mxkelly.weebly.com.
Dwarf Stars 2018
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Star*Line 39.3, 40.1, 40.2, 40.3
Patricia Kelly
Dwarf Stars 2007, 2009
S. A. Kelly
Dwarf Stars 2008
Star*Line 32.4, 33.1, 33.4, 34.2
Ward Kelley
Rhysling Anthology 2002
Bridget Kelley-Lossada
Dwarf Stars 2008
Julie Bloss Kelsey’s science fiction poetry has appeared in Star*Line, Grievous Angel, Scifaikuest, and Jersey Devil Press. She won the Dwarf Stars Award in 2011 and tied for second place in 2016. In 2018, Julie teamed with fellow sci-fi poet Susan Burch to edit 25 Science Fiction Tanka and Kyoka at Atlas Poetica.
Dwarf Stars first place in 2011, 2012, second place in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Star*Line 37.2, 40.4
Jean McClure Kelty
Star*Line 5.4, 6.2
Millea Kenin
Star*Line 4.2
J.Y.T. Kennedy writes speculative fiction and poetry in Alberta, Canada. Her publications include poems in the anthologies Stellar Evolutions and Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland.
Dwarf Stars 2023
Keith Kennedy
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Eileen Kernaghan
Rhysling Anthology 1988, 1994
Luke Kernan (Ph.D. Student, University of Victoria) is a poet, mythographer, and graphic novelist. His doctoral work in anthropology explores sensory experiences of psychosis, and his ethnographic fieldwork will construct a sensorial narrative of what psychosis is like to model these moments through comics and poetry. Luke has often featured as a spoken-word performer, and he has recently published an article on suicidal bipolar poets in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 16:1 alongside two of his poems, “Skylarks Swallowing Stars” and “The Hanged Man’s Nous; A Note-taker’s Needle.” Correspondences to lkernan@uvic.ca. Twitter: @lukekernan.
Rhysling Anthology 2021, 2022
Simon Kewin
Dwarf Stars 2013
Star*Line 35.3, 36.4
Cassandra Khaw
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Pankaj Khemka, originally from India, is a practicing physician, specializing in infectious diseases. He turns to poetry to express the everyday triumphs and tragedies of the human condition. He was recently honored as “poet of the month” by Moon Tide Press. He lives in Orange, California, with Floyd The Ficas.
Rhysling Anthology 2022, 2023
Star*Line 44.2
Rebeca Lu Kiernan
Rhysling Anthology 2003
Eun-byeol Kim
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Sasha Kim
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Duke Kimball lives in Lansing Michigan with his wife Michelle and a dog named after a cheese factory. His poetry and fiction have appeared in places like Mysterion, Kaleidotrope, and Strange Horizons. You can follow him on Twitter @capndukekimball.
Star*Line 44.2
Michael P. Kinch
Rhysling Anthology 1991
Sally Rosen Kindred
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018
Barry King
Star*Line 35.3
E. E. King
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Laura King
Dwarf Stars 2013
Catt Kingsgrave
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Jovanka Kink
Rhysling Anthology 1991
Aaron Kinne
Star*Line 40.2
Mihi Kinno
Star*Line 38.2
K. J. Kirby
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2007
Merie Kirby grew up in California and now lives in North Dakota. She is the author of two chapbooks, The Dog Runs On and The Thumbelina Poems. Her poems have been published in Mom Egg Review, Rogue Agent, FERAL, Strange Horizons, and other journals. She is equally fond of board games, cheese, and space movies. You can find her online at meriekirby.com.
Dwarf Stars 2022
Kurt Kirchmeier
Star*Line 31.6, 33.4
Jason Kirk
Star*Line 38.4
Erin Kirsh
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Mariko Kitakubo
Dwarf Stars 2007, 2009
Vanessa Kittle is a former chef, soldier, and lawyer who now teaches English. Her fantasy and science fiction stories have been featured by Akashic Books. Vanessa has also recently appeared in magazines such as the Rhysling Anthology, Contemporary American Voices, Dreams and Nightmares, Abyss and Apex, Star*Line, and Silver Blade. Her books have received hundreds of thousands of downloads on Amazon in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance, and cooking. Vanessa edits the Abramelin Poetry Journal. She enjoys watching cheesy movies, cooking, gardening, and Star Trek!
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Star*Line 40.3
Adam Kizanis
Rhysling Anthology 1996
kjmunro, originally from Vancouver, Canada, moved to the Yukon Territory in 1991. She is Membership Secretary for Haiku Canada & a member of the League of Canadian Poets. Her debut poetry collection is contractions (Red Moon Press, 2019).
Dwarf Stars 2019
Annette Curtis Klause
Star*Line 4.6, 5.3
Henry Kneiszel was born in the wild wild midwest and writes due to a witch’s curse. They specialize in anti-capitalist broadcasts for fellow ADHD brains and seek glory for the poet gangs of Duluth, Minnesota. All hail Lake Superior, our beloved municipal goddess.
Star*Line 45.2
Tara Knight (she/her) is a healthcare provider residing in a small hockey town in Northern Ontario, Canada. First published in Poetry is You, she is now older and wiser. Tara’s work can also be found in The Literary Hatchet 32 and Gleam: Journal of the Cadralor 5 & 6. Tara’s work was also long-listed in the 2022 Raven Short Story Contest (Pulp Literature).
Star*Line 46.3
Aaron Knuckey
Star*Line 42.1, 43.1, 45.4, 47.1
Deborah P. Kolodji moderates the Southern California Haiku Study Group, is the California Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America, and is a member of the Board of Directors for Haiku North America. Former president of SFPA, she has a degree in mathematics from the University of Southern California. With over 1000 published poems to her name and four chapbooks of poetry, Seaside Moon (2005), unfinished book (2006), Symphony of the Universe (2006), and Red Planet Dust (2007), her first full length book of haiku and senryu, highway of sleeping towns, was published by Shabda Press in 2016 and was awarded a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award by the Haiku Foundation. She finds inspiration in the beaches, mountains, deserts, and urban life of Southern California.
Dwarf Stars 2007, 2008, 2009, second place in 2010, 2011, first place in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Rhysling Anthology 1994, 1996, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2016, 2022
Star*Line 31.1, 32.2, 32.3, 32.4, 32.5, 33.3, 35.3, 37.2, 38.2, 38.3, 38.4, 39.1, 39.2, 40.3, 41.4, 42.2, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3, 44.2, 44.4, 45.1
David C. Kopaska-Merkel, a retired paleontologist, won the 2006 Rhysling Award for best long poem (collaboration with Kendall Evans), and edits Dreams and Nightmares magazine (since 1986). He has edited Star*Line, an issue of Eye to the Telescope, and several Rhysling anthologies, has served as SFPA president, and is an SFPA Grandmaster. His poems (more than 1200 of them) have been published in Analog, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and more than 200 other venues. Some Disassembly Required, a collection of dark speculative poetry, won the 2023 Elgin award. His latest collection, Unwholesome Guests, was published in 2024 by Weird House. Blog: dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com; @DavidKM on Twitter.
Dwarf Stars 2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, second place in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
Rhysling Anthology 1993, second place in 2000, second place in 2001, third place in 2003 + second place in 2003, 2004, 2005, first place in 2006, second place in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, second place in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Star*Line 30.2, 31.5, 31.6, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3, 32.4, 32.5, 32.6, 33.2, 33.3, 33.4, 33.5, 34.1, 34.3, 34.4, 35.1, 35.2, 35.3, 35.4, 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, 41.3, 41.4, 42.1, 42.2, 42.3, 42.4, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3, 44.1, 44.2, 44.4, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 47.4, 48.1
F. Korn
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Nicole Kornher-Stace
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2010, 2012
Dean Kostos’ poems, personal essays, and translations have appeared in over 300 journals. His literary criticism has appeared on the Harvard University Press website and Talisman. A multiple Pushcart-Prize nominee and a recipient of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Cultural Innovation Grant, he has taught at Wesleyan, The Gallatin School of New York University, and The City University of New York. His poem “Subway Silk” was translated into a film and screened in Tribeca and at San Francisco’s IndieFest.
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Star*Line 40.2, 40.3
Michelle Koubek
Star*Line 47.4
Manos Kounougakis
Dwarf Stars 2014, 2017
Andrew Kozma
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Star*Line 36.2
Ash Krafton is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose poetry and short fiction have appeared in various literary and genre publications. She’s also the author of novel-length fiction, including the Demimonde trilogy as well as The Heartbeat Thief, an historical fantasy written under the pen name AJ Krafton. She's a member of SFPA and resides in the heart of the Pennsylvania coal region with her family and bossy German Shepherd dog.
Star*Line 39.2, 39.3
Mark Kreighbaum
Rhysling Anthology 1992
Michael Kriesel is the former poetry editor of Rosebud magazine, as well as the 2016 SFPA contest judge, and the winner of The North American Review’s Hearst Prize and numerous other awards,. Pebblebrook Press published his first full-length collection Zen Amen: abecedarians in 2019. His work appears in the 2017 anthology New Poetry from the Midwest. A past President of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, his poems and reviews have appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Antioch Review, Library Journal, Rattle, The Progressive, Small Press Review, and Wisconsin People & Ideas. Read his electronic chapbook of short poems Every Name in the Book at righthandpointing.net/michael-kriesel-every-name
Dwarf Stars 2014, 2015
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Star*Line 35.4, 36.1, 37.4, 38.1, 39.3, 40.1, 41.1, 41.3, 42.3
Padmini Krishnan writes poetry and short fiction. Her haiku have appeared in Shamrock Haiku, The Heron's Nest, Tinywords, Cattails and Under the Basho, among others. Her forthcoming senryu is to be published in the next issue of tsuri-dōrō.
Dwarf Stars 2022
Jennifer Lynn Krohn
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Kimberly Kuchar
Dwarf Stars 2025
Rhysling Anthology 2025
Star*Line 47.4
Anatoly Kudryavitsky lives in Dublin, Ireland, and in Reggio di Calabria, Italy. His poems appear in Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, The North, The Prague Revue, Plume, BlazeVox, The Honest Ulsterman, Cyphers, Stride, etc. His most recent poetry collections are The Two-Headed Man and the Paper Life (MadHat Press, 2019) and Scultura Involontaria (Multimedia Edizione, Italy, 2020; a bilingual English/Italian edition of his selected poems). He has also published three collections of his haiku. His latest novel, The Flying Dutchman, has been brought out by Glagoslav Publications, England, in 2018. He is the founding editor of SurVision Books.
Dwarf Stars 2022
Mickey Kulp
Star*Line 42.1
Craig Kurtz is the author of Wortley Clutterbuck’s Practical Guide to Deplorable Personages, illustrated by Anni Wilson. Recent work featured in Blue Unicorn, Wax Paper, and (broadcast) The Next Big Thing at KALX 90.7FM.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Star*Line 43.3
Ellen Kushner
Rhysling Anthology 1991
Tara Kustermann
Star*Line 42.2
K.V.K Kvas
Star*Line 44.3, 46.1
Catherine Kyle
Rhysling Anthology 2020