Chukwuma Eke Pacella is a seventeen-year-old Nigerian poet, short story writer, and feminist. She works as a poetry editor for the Teen lit journal and has contributed to literary magazines such as Synchronized Chaos, Eunoia Magazine, IHRAF, Cajun Mutt, and others. She can be reached on Twitter @dancing_poet, or on Instagram @pacellachukwumaeke and @hcaf_abuja.
Star*Line 45.3
Roland Packer has worked as a musician for over forty years in various roles—performer, teacher and composer. He has been writing haiku for that same period of time and has been published in numerous journals including Modern Haiku, Frogpond and Presence. A lifelong interest in astronomy, astrophysics and science fiction has led to an occasional speculative haiku.
Dwarf Stars 2022
Pravat Kumar Padhy, a scientist, poet, and essayist, is based in Bhubaneswar, India. He obtained his Master of Science and a Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, ISM Dhanbad. He is a mainstream poet and a writer of Japanese short forms of poetry. His poem “How Beautiful” is included in the undergraduate curriculum at the university level. He has been accoladed with The Kloštar Ivanić International Haiku Award, The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Invitational Award, the IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, The Setouchi Matsuyama Photo Haiku Award, The Katherine Mansfield International Haiku Award, and others. His haiku are featured at Mann Library, Cornell University, “Haiku Wall”, Historic Liberty Theatre Gallery in Bend, Oregon. His tanka appeared in Kudo Resource Guide, University of California, Berkeley, and put on rendition in the Musical Drama Performance Coming Home, The International Opera through Art Songs, Toronto, Canada. He introduced new forms of poetry: Hainka: the fusion of haiku and tanka, Micro-Haiga, and Braided Haiku. He served as a panel judge of ‘The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems’ and is on the editorial board of Under the Basho. Besides poetry, he devotes time to writing scientific papers on ‘Planetary Geology’ and listening to classical music and songs. His publications can be read at pkpadhy.blogspot.com
Dwarf Stars 2024
Jeremy Paden
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Pravat Kumar Padhy
Dwarf Stars 2025
Carol D. Page
Rhysling Anthology1996, 1998, 2000
Sarah Page
Star*Line 37.3, 38.3
Triin Paja
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Abi Marie Palmer
Star*Line 46.4
Rhonda Palmer
Star*Line 34.3
Susan Palwick
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1986, 1990
Helena Pantsis (she/they) is a writer and artist from Naarm, Australia. A full-time student of creative writing, they have a fond appreciation for the gritty, the dark, and the experimental. Her works are published in Longleaf Review, Rejection Letters, and Lammergeier Mag. More can be found at hlnpnts.com.
Star*Line 45.3
Kathryn Papadopoulos
Star*Line 48.1
Eva Papasoulioti is a writer of speculative fiction and poetry. She lives in Athens, Greece, with her spouse and their two cats. She’s a Rhysling finalist, and her work has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Solarpunk Magazine, Radon Journal, and elsewhere. You can find her on twitter @epapasoulioti and on her blog plothopes.com.
Dwarf Stars 2023
Rhysling Anthology 2023, 2025
Star*Line 43.2, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 46.1, 46.2, 46.4, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3
Glen Pape
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Linda Papanicolaou
Dwarf Stars 2009
John Pappas
Dwarf Stars 2024
Vandana Parashar is a postgraduate in Microbiology, an educator and a haiku poet. Her haiku, senryu and tanka have been published in many national and international journals of repute and has won her many prizes and accolades. Her haiku was also shortlisted for the prestigious Touchstone Award in 2021. Her debut e-chapbook I Am was published by Title IX Press in 2019. Her second chapbook Alone, I Am Not was published by Velvet Dusk Publishing in 2022. She is the Associate Editor of haikuKATHA and is also in the editing team of Poetry Pea. Twitter: @vandana020175; Instagram: instagram.com/_vandana0201/
Dwarf Stars 2022
Jesse Parent
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Stephanie Parent
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Dominik Parisien
Dwarf Stars 2014
Rhysling Anthology 2013, 2014, 2015
Star*Line 35.4
Carma Lynn Park has been reading and writing science fiction and fantasy for (mumble, mumble) years. Much of her time is spent hunched over a computer keyboard for the inevitable day job as well as for creative work. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in a variety of publications. You can read some of her poems and view photos at carmalynnpark.com.
Dwarf Stars 2024
Star*Line 46.2
Jeffrey Park lives in Germany and teaches English at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
Dwarf Stars 2013
Star*Line 35.4, 38.1, 40.4, 42.1, 45.1
Paul Park
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Suphil Lee Park is the author of Present Tense Complex, winner of the Marystina Santiestevan Prize. She spent 9/14 of her life all over the Korean peninsula before landing in the American Northeast. She graduated from New York University with a BA in English and from the University of Texas at Austin with an MFA in Poetry. Her poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, the Iowa Review, the Massachusetts Review, Writer’s Digest, and the Yale Review, among many others. You can find more about her at suphil-lee-park.com
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Nathan Parker
Rhysling Anthology 2004
Ciarán Parkes lives in Galway, Ireland. He enjoys writing, taking photographs, and swimming in the nearby Atlantic. Published in The Threepenny Review, Tyger Tyger Magazine, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, and other places.
Star*Line 46.4
Rhonda Parrish, like a magpie,is constantly distracted by shiny things. She’s the editor of many anthologies and author of plenty of books, stories and poems. She lives with her husband and three cats in Edmonton, Alberta, and she can often be found there playing Dungeons and Dragons, bingeing crime dramas or cheering on the Oilers. Her website, updated regularly, is at rhondaparrish.com and her Patreon, updated even more regularly, is at patreon.com/RhondaParrish.
Dwarf Stars 2014
Rhysling Anthology 2009, 2021, 2024
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Bobby Parrott was obviously placed on this planet in error. In his own words, “The intentions of trees are a form of loneliness we climb like a ladder.” His poems appear or are forthcoming in Spoon River Poetry Review, RHINO Poetry, Atticus Review, The Hopper, Poetic Sun, Clade Song, Rabid Oak, and elsewhere. He currently finds himself immersed in a forest-spun jacket of toy dirigibles, dreaming himself out of formlessness in the chartreuse meditation capsule called Fort Collins, Colorado where he lives with his partner Lucien, his house plant Zebrina, and his wind-up robot Nordstrom.
Star*Line 44.4, 45.3, 46.3
Max Pasakorn
Rhysling Anthology 2023
H.V. Patterson (she/her) is a speculative poet, fiction writer, and playwright living in Oklahoma. Poetry credits include ETTT, Star*Line, Haven Speculative, and Small Wonders and anthologies from Sliced Up Press, Strange Quark Press, and Black Spot Books. Her poem "Mother; Microbes" was selected for the inaugural Brave New Weird anthology from Tenebrous Press. She’s a cofounder of Horns and Rattles Press, and you can find her on X: @ScaryShelley and Instagram: @hvpattersonwriter
Dwarf Stars 2024, 2025
Star*Line 47.2, 48.1
K. S. Patterson
Star*Line 41.1
Kiwanda Paul
Dwarf Stars 2008
Caitlyn Paxson
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Peter Payack was the first Poet Populist of Cambridge Massachusetts (2007–2009). He's an acclaimed poet and writer with multiple appearances in The Paris Review, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Cornell Review, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Creative Computing, and the Boston Globe. He has published over 1,500 poems, stories, prose poems, photos, and articles. His work has been anthologized and he has published 20 books, including No Free Will in Tomatoes and Blanket Knowledge, both from Zoland Books. Peter was an Assistant Professor Communications at The Berklee College of Music, and taught Technical & Scientific Communications at The University of Massachusetts Lowell for over 30 years where he was awarded the 2010 Haskell Award for Distinguished teaching. Payack has also been a visiting artist at The Center For Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T. You can read more about Peter at peterpayack.com.
Dwarf Stars 2007, 2010, 2019, 2024
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1980
Star*Line 3.4, 3.5, 4.2
Michael H. Payne’s novels have been published by Tor Books and Sofawolf Press, his short stories have appeared in Asimov's, the Writers of the Future collection, and 11 of the last 12 volumes of the Sword and Sorceress anthology, and his poems can be found in Silver Blade, Gathering Storm, and the Civilized Beasts anthology. After 15 years of posting daily comics to various websites, he's now settled into a more sedate rate of four pages a week while running the SFWA's Featured Book program and compiling the monthly Round-Up for SFPA. Check hyniof.com for more details.
Dwarf Stars 2024, 2025
Rhysling Anthology 2019, third place in 2020, 2021, 2022
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Josh Pearce has stories and poetry in Analog, Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Cast of Wonders, Clarkesworld, IGMS, and Nature. He currently works at Locus magazine and lives in California with his wife and sons. One time, Ken Jennings signed his chest.
Rhysling Anthology 2020, 2021
Star*Line 40.2, 41.4, 42.2, 43.1, 44.2, 45.2, 47.2, 48.1
Richard William Pearce
Rhysling Anthology 2001
Rick Ansell Pearson
Star*Line 46.2, 46.3, 46.4
Steven L. Peck
Rhysling Anthology 2011
Isabel Pelech
Rhysling Anthology 2007
Kate Pentecost
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2020
Simon Perchik (1923–2022) was an attorney whose poems appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker and elsewhere. His last collection was The Reflection in a Glass Eye (Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library, 2020). His free e-books and his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” can be found online. To view one of his interviews: youtube.com/watch?v=MSK774rtfx8.
Star*Line 36.3, 39.1, 39.4, 40.3, 42.2, 43.1, 43.2, 44.1, 44.4
Juan Manuel Pérez is a Mexican-American poet of indigenous descent and the current Poet Laureate for Corpus Christi, Texas (2019–2020), is the author of several books of poetry including two new books, Space in Pieces (The House Of The Fighting Chupacabras Press, 2020) and Screw the Wall! and Other Brown People Poems (FlowerSong Press, 2020).
Dwarf Stars 2012, 2020, 2021, 2022
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2012, 2013, 2020
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Fiona Perry’s first collection of poetry, Alchemy (Turas Press, Dublin), won the Poetry Book Awards (2021) Silver Medal and was shortlisted for the Rubery Prize. Her flash fiction, Sea Change, won first prize in the Bath Flash Fiction Awards (2020). Her poetry and short fiction has been published internationally in publications such as Lighthouse, Skylight47, Utopia, Abyss & Apex, and Ink, Sweat & Tears.
Star*Line 47.1
Georgette Perry
Star*Line 5.1
Jim Perry
Star*Line 30.2
Terry L. Persun has been writing and publishing poetry, short stories, and novels since the early 1970s. He has been the recipient of many novel and poetry awards over the years, including the Star of Washington Award and a Silver IPPY Award. Terry writes in a variety of genres including science fiction, fantasy, thriller, mystery, and mainstream fiction. He is a respected keynoter and speaker at libraries, writers’ groups, writers’ conferences, and universities across the country. Terry has an MA in creative writing from SUNY Stony Brook, runs his own marketing agency, and has worked in publishing for over 30 years.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Star*Line 5.3
Jessica Peter writes dark, haunted, and sometimes absurd short stories, novels, and poems. She's a social worker and health researcher who lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with her partner and their two black cats. You can find her writing in venues such as LampLight Magazine, The NoSleep Podcast, and Brigid’s Gate anthologies, among other places. You can find her on Twitter @jessicapeter1 or at jessicapeter.net.
Star*Line 46.2
Simon Petrie is a NZ-born research scientist and science fiction writer now living in Canberra, Australia. His short fiction has been shortlisted numerous times for the Aurealis and Ditmar awards, and he is a three-time winner of NZ's Sir Julius Vogel Award. A selection of his fiction can be found in his misleadingly-titled collection 80,000 Totally Serious Passwords That No Hacker Would Ever Guess.
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Star*Line 39.1
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2013
Ursula Pflug
Star*Line 31.6
Pippa Phillips is a recovering academic who lives too far away from the ocean. She writes short things and long things.
Dwarf Stars 2022
Chris Philpot lives and works as a Case Manager in Washington, DC. His poems and translations have appeared in Glitterwolf and (un)CIVIL. In both his day job and his poetry, he hopes to effect social change.
Star*Line 37.1
Krysada Panusith Phounsiri is a Lao American born in Huay Xai, Laos. He immigrated to the U.S. at age two where he lived in Southeast San Diego. He began writing poetry at age 11, but fell in love with poetry when he attended UC Berkeley. He is a Physics/Astrophysics double major, with a minor in Creative Writing. He is a professional dancer who has competed and performed internationally through the dance form known as Breaking. He is also an avid photographer. His work has appeared previously in publications such as the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s national photo project “A Day In the Life of Asian America”. His recent series "Beauty Beyond Scars" is featured in various blogs/content sites including The Getty and The Phoblographer. He debuted his first book of poetry in April 2015, titled Dance Among Elephants. The book is a poetic journey of identity, family, homeland, love, and dance.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 2016
Tom Piccirilli
Rhysling Anthology 2000, 2001
Marisca Pichette is the winner of the 2022 F(r)iction Spring Literary Contest and has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize. Her speculative poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair, is out now from Android Press. She spends her time in the woods and fields of Western Massachusetts, sacred land that has been inhabited by the Pocumtuck and Abenaki peoples for millennia. Find her on Twitter as @MariscaPichette and Instagram as @marisca_write.
Dwarf Stars 2023, 2025
Star*Line 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 47.4
Rhysling Anthology 2024, 2025
David Piercy
Rhysling Anthology 1984
Marge Piercy (1936– ) has published close to 20 books of poetry and close to 20 novels. Her novels generally address larger social concerns through sharply observed characters and brisk plot lines. Her poetry shows the same commitment to the social and environmental issues that fill her novels. The Moon is Always Female (1980) is considered a classic text of the feminist movement.
Rhysling Anthology 1982
Terese Mason Pierre (she/her) is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Uncanny, Strange Horizons and Fantasy Magazine, among others. Her work has been nominated for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, Best of the Net, the Aurora Award, and the Ignyte Award. She is one of ten winners of the Writers’ Trust Journey Prize, and was named a Writers’ Trust Rising Star. Terese is the co-Editor-in-Chief of Augur Magazine, a Canadian speculative literature journal, and co-Director of AugurCon, Augur’s biennial speculative literature conference. She has co-hosted poetry reading series, spoken at conferences, organized literary events, judged writing contests, and facilitated creative writing workshops. She is the author of chapbooks Surface Area (Anstruther Press, 2019) and Manifest (Gap Riot Press, 2020). Terese lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Follow her on Instagram and visit her website at teresemasonpierre.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021, first place in 2023
Star*Line 43.4
Marc Pietrzyrkowski
Star*Line 38.1
Signe Pike
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Ace G. Pilkington
Rhysling Anthology 1990, 1991, 1993, 2017, 2018
Star*Line 42.2
Victor Piñeiro
Dwarf Stars 2012
Robert Piotrowski
Dwarf Stars 2016
Richard Pitaniello
Rhysling Anthology 2008
John R. Platt
Dwarf Stars 2012
Alex Plummer
Star*Line 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4, 38.1, 38.2, 38.3, 38.4, 39.1, 39.2
John Pogline got his BA in art from Mesa State College in 2005. His favorite medium is soft pastels but likes to work with other materials. He enjoys doing landscapes, as well as flowers and horses. However, he has a great appreciation for science fiction and fantasy. It is this genre of art that he really enjoys.
Star*Line 44.3
David S. Pointer
Star*Line 34.3, 35.4
Frederick Pollack
Star*Line 35.3
Rachel Pollack is an American science fiction author, comic book writer, and expert on divinatory tarot. She is involved in the women's spirituality movement.
Star*Line 6.1
Karen R. Porter
Rhysling Anthology 2004
Robert E. Porter
Star*Line 31.1
Christine Post
Rhysling Anthology 1989
Jonathan Vos Post
Rhysling Anthology 1985, 1986, first place in 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, second place in 1995
Star*Line 6.1, 6.2
Maryalicia Post is a travel writer based in Dublin, Ireland. She enjoys writing poetry and her publications include After You and Arc, both available on Amazon.
Dwarf Stars 2019
Steph Post
Rhysling Anthology 2017
P. Aaron Potter grew up a Geek in the Wilderness. Star Trek, Tolkien, and computer programming kept him (mostly) out of trouble until college. He lives and teaches in southern California, where he is married to The Smartest Person in the World.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Star*Line 44.2, 44.3
Bethany Powell
Star*Line 43.2
Ken Poyner’s four collections of brief fictions and four collections of speculative poetry can be found at most online booksellers. He spent 33 years in information system management, is married to a world record holding female power lifter, and has a family of several cats and betta fish. Individual works have appeared in Café Irreal, Analog, Danse Macabre, The Cincinnati Review, and several hundred other places. kpoyner.com
Dwarf Stars 2013, 2017, 2019
Rhysling Anthology 1986, 2017, 2018
Star*Line 34.4, 35.1, 35.2, 35.3, 35.4, 36.4, 37.2, 37.4, 38.2, 38.3, 38.4, 39.1, 39.2, 39.3, 39.4, 40.1, 40.3, 41.1, 41.2, 41.4, 42.2, 42.4, 44.1, 44.3, 45.3, 46.1, 46.3, 47.1
Vijay Prasad
Dwarf Stars 2025
K. M. Praschak
Star*Line 34.3, 47.4
Tim Pratt is a North Carolina native now living in California, where he is associate editor for Locus magazine and co-edits the literary zine Flytrap with his fiancée, Heather Shaw. His first full-length poetry collection, If There Were Wolves, is forthcoming from Prime Books/Aegis. His poetry has appeared in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and Weird Tales, among others. Pratt is also a Nebula-nominated fiction author, and his first novel, The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, will be published in December. In addition, his story “Hart & Boot” appeared in the Michael Chabon-edited volume of Best American Short Stories.
Rhysling Anthology 2003, 2004, first place in 2005, second place in 2005, 2006, 2012
Joan Prefontaine
Dwarf Stars 2018
Daniel Priest
Star*Line 37.3
Marilee Pritchard likes poetry that is accessible and uses beautiful imagery. She has dual degrees in English and Nursing. Once retired, she reverted to her two loves, writing poetry and playing the piano. Recently, her work appeared in Passager, 3rd Wednesday, Willow Review, and Door Is a Jar. She lives with her partner, Tom, and a ferocious terrier called Lucky.
Star*Line 43.3
Matthew Pritt
Star*Line 35.4