Mary Jo Rabe grew up on a farm in eastern Iowa, got degrees from Michigan State University (German and math) and University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (library science) where she became a late-blooming science fiction reader and writer. She worked in the library of the chancery office of the Archdiocese of Freiburg, Germany for 41 years, and lives with her husband in Titisee-Neustadt, Germany. She has published Blue Sunset, inspired by Spoon River Anthology and The Martian Chronicles, electronically and has had poems published in Star*Line, Pandora, Stygian Articles, The Martian Wave, Astropoetica, The Sword Review, Raven Electrick, Mindflights, and Space & Time.
Star*Line 42.1
Claudia Coutu Radmore
Dwarf Stars 2009
Jacie Ragan
Rhysling Anthology 1993, 1994, 1997, 2013
Arjun Rajendran
Star*Line 39.3, 41.2
Jack Ralls
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Star*Line 39.4
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams was born in the USA to parents from Arpino, Italy. She attended the University of Akron, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. Valentina worked as a computer programmer for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Akitsu Quarterly, Frogpond, Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, and Presence.
Dwarf Stars 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025
Star*Line 46.1
Jessy Randall’s poems, stories, and other things have appeared in Asimov's, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and Strange Horizons. Her most recent book is How to Tell If You Are Human: Diagram Poems (Pleiades, 2018). She's a librarian at Colorado College, currently working on a series of poems about women in math and science. Her website is bit.ly/JessyRandall.
Dwarf Stars 2019, 2024
Rhysling Anthology 2004, 2019, 2020
Star*Line 32.2, 35.3, 37.1, 38.2, 38.4, 39.4, 44.1, 46.4, 47.1, 47.2
Julietta Randall
Star*Line 34.2
Margaret Randall
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Sonny Rane lives and works in Prague. You can find him at the corner of Lightness and Unbearable, or leave him a message at sonnyrane.com.
Star*Line 47.1
Kathryn Rantala
Rhysling Anthology 1978, 1979, 1982, 1998
Star*Line 1.12, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 5.5, 6.1
Dan Raphael
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1995
Wendy Rathbone has over 500 poems published, most recently in Asimov's, Apex, Pedestal Magazine, Dreams and Nightmares, the Rhysling Anthology, Lupine Lunes, and ETTT. She has won 3rd place in the SFPA poetry contest in the "long poem" category. Dead Starships won 2nd place in the 2017 Elgin Book Award.
Dwarf Stars 2011
Rhysling Anthology 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, third place in 2000, 2002, 2016, second place in 2017
Star*Line 32.1, 32.5, 33.1, 33.4, 33.5, 36.2, 38.2, 40.2
Bill Ratner is a Poets & Writers Readings and Workshops Grant recipient, he is a 9-time winner of The Moth Story Slam, his spoken-word performances are featured on National Public Radio’s Good Food, The Business, and KCRW’s Strangers. His poems, essays, and stories are published in The Chiron Review, The Baltimore Review, Rattle Magazine’s Rattlecast, Pleiades, KYSO Flash, South Florida Poetry Journal, Willawaw Journal, Missouri Review Audio, Rat’s Ass Review, and other journals. Bill is the voice of “Flint” in the G.I. Joe TV cartoon and “Donnell Udina” in Mass Effect 1, 2 & 3. More info at billratner.com/author • @billratner
Star*Line 44.1
Christina M. Rau is the author of the Elgin Award-winning sci-fi fem poetry collection, Liberating The Astronauts (Aqueduct Press) and the poetry chapbooks WakeBreatheMove (Finishing Line Press) and For The Girls, I (dancing girl press). Her poetry has appeared on gallery walls in The Ekphrastic Poster Show, on car magnets for The Living Poetry Project, and in various literary journals. Her prose has appeared on Book Riot and in Reader’s Digest. She was named 2020 Poet of the Year by Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and Poet In Residence for Oceanside Library NY 2020-1, and she won the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Creative Endeavors. In her non-writing life, when she’s not teaching yoga or offering reiki, she’s watching the Game Show Network. Find her links on christinamrau.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2021
Bonnie Rauscher
Star*Line 2.4/5
Melanie Rawls is a long-time member of the SF&F Poetry Association, and has had several poems published in Star*Line, including her Rhysling Award nominated poem “Beauty’s Beast.” Other SF&F publications include “The Feminine Principle in Tolkien,” included in the essay collection Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien, “Witches, Wives and Dragons: The Evolution of the Women in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Series,” and “The Verse of J.R.R. Tolkien,” both published in Mythlore, “and a short story published in Amazing Stories w-a-a-y back in the ’80s, “The Journey Witch.”
Rhysling Anthology 1989
Star*Line 9.5, 10.6,11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 13.2, 45.3, 46.3
Don Raymond lives in the tiny, cow-haunted hamlet of Alturas, CA, where he works as an accountant, because people pay no attention to a man with a spreadsheet. You can read more of his poetry in Mythic Delirium, Eye to the Telescope, and Star*Line.
Star*Line 40.2, 41.1, 42.4, 43.3, 45.1
Jonathan Raz
Star*Line 2.1, 4.2, 4.5, 5.6, 6.1, 6.2
Saba Sayed Razvi
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2018
Sultana Raza is of Indian origin. Her poems/fiction/CNF have appeared in 100+ journals andantholgies, with SFF work in Entropy, Columbia Journal, Star*line, Bewildering Stories, Focus & Vector (BSFA), Unlikely Stories Mark V, Galaxy#2 #4, #5, Antipodean SF, and File770. Her fiction received an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train Review. She’s presented her fiction/poems in Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, England, Ireland, the USA, WorldCon 2018, CoNZealand 2019, and Chicon8. Her CNF will/has appeared in Literary Ladies Guide, Literary Yard, Litro, impspired, Dream Pop Journal (in 2023), etc. An independent scholar, Sultana has presented papers on Romanticism (Keats) and Fantasy (Tolkien) in international conferences.
Star*Line 38.3, 46.1
Dave Read is a Canadian poet living in Calgary. He primarily writes short poems with an emphasis on the Japanese genres of haiku, senryu, tanka, and haibun. He was a recipient of the 2016 Touchstone Individual Poem Award for haiku as granted by The Haiku Foundation. His work has been published in many journals, including Haiku Canada Review, Presence, Modern Haiku and Acorn, and anthologies, including old song: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, 2017.
Dwarf Stars 2019
Symantha Reagor spent elementary-school recess reading or writing in journals, creating poems and short stories. She never dreamed she could make a career from the dreams and random thoughts in her head. She became the first in her family to attend college and graduated from Grand Canyon University with an English Literature Degree and went on to earn a Masters Degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, and a Certificate in Copyediting from the University of California, Los Angeles Extension. She now works as a writer in the video game industry.
Star*Line 42.1
Caroline Reddy is a versatile writer whose accepted and published works include poems in the online publications of Bethlehem Writers Roundtable, Clinch, Cacti-Fur, Braided Way, Active Muse.org, and Soul Lit, as well as several short stories in the online publication of Breadcrumbs Magazine. In the fall of 2021, her poem “A Sacred Dance” was nominated for Best of The Net by Active Muse. Caroline has also written a book review for a volume of poetry by award-winning poet Claudine Nash.
Star*Line 45.2
Peter Redgrove
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Gabby Reed
Rhysling Anthology 2015, 2016
Kayla Refiel
Star*Line 46.1
James Reinebold
Star*Line 38.3, 41.2, 42.2
John Reinhart is an arsonist and jungle gym. He writes in the timeslices between presents, twisting bloody words onto dead trees. He feels sorry about the trees. Check out more of his work and consider committing your soul in monthly installments to support his work at patreon.com/johnreinhart
Dwarf Stars 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2024
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
Star*Line 37.3, 37.4, 38.1, 38.2, 38.3, 38.4, 39.1, 39.2, 39.3, 39.4, 40.1, 40.2, 40.4, 41.3, 41.4, 42.4, 43.3, 44.2, 44.4, 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 47.2, 47.3, 47.4, 48.1
Lucien Reinhart is the son of an arsonist.
Star*Line 45.2
Suzanne Reinschild
Rhysling Anthology 1996
Geoffrey Reiter is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Literature at Lancaster Bible College and Associate Editor at the website Christ and Pop Culture. His poetry or fiction has previously appeared in The Mythic Circle, Spectral Realms, and Penumbra.
Star*Line 45.1
Terrie Leigh Relf (AKA semi) is a lifetime member of the SFPA and an active member of the HWA. She is the poetry editor for Tales from the Moonlit Path and the contest judge and editor for Alban Lake Publishing's "somewhat quarterly" Drabble contest. In addition to being a poet and fiction writer, Relf is also a professional content provider, editor, writing and life coach. You can learn more about her by visiting the following websites: tlrelf.wordpress.com, terrieleighrelf.com, and tlrelfreikipractitioner.wordpress.com.
Dwarf Stars 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
Star*Line 30.2, 31.6, 32.2, 34.4, 35.1, 36.2, 36.4, 37.3, 39.2, 40.1, 41.3, 44.4
Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Anna Remennik is a chemical engineer working in Silicon Valley and enjoys writing poems about automatic titrators, technical supply chain processes, and occasionally even more fantastical things. She can be found online at annaremennik.wordpress.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Alexis Renata is a writer of speculative fiction and poetry. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Kaleidotrope, and Strange Horizons. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in San Diego.
Star*Line 46.2
Samantha Renda-Dollman
Star*Line 38.2
Harold Renisch
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Thomas D. Reynolds
Rhysling Anthology 2005
John Calvin Rezmerski (1942–2016) was one of Minnesota’s best-known poets and storytellers and a longtime professor at Gustavus Adolphus College. He was the recipient of the Devins Award for Poetry, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and other writing awards, winning attention for his poetry, journalism, fiction, and dramatic work. He published more than twenty books, chapbooks, anthologies, and plays, and his work appeared in well over a hundred journals and anthologies. He was a member of the Lady Poetesses from Hell.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1987, 1988, 1999
Margaret Rhee
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Sofía Rhei writes fantasy and science fiction for adults and children. Her books for kids include the series El joven Moriarty, award-winning and translated to 3 languages, and La calle Andersen, written with Marian Womack. She has published nine experimental poetry titles, winning the national prize “Javier Egea,” as well as three genre short fiction collections: Las ciudades reversibles, partially translated to English as Reversible Cities (Talisman); El bosque profundo, dark microfiction about tarot and woods, and the meta-literary Everything is made of letters (Aqueduct Press). Her novels for adults are Róndola, Celsius award-winning humorous fantasy fairytale retelling, and Espérame en la última página, a ghost story about books (rights sold to Italian, Serbian, French and Chinese markets).
Dwarf Stars 2012, first place in 2019
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Star*Line 34.4, 36.1, 37.1
Kris Rhodes
Star*Line 38.3, 38.4
Todd Earl Rhodes
Rhysling Anthology 1997
Silvatiicus Riddle is a Dark Fantasy Writer and forest-punk living on the borderlands of New York City with a menagerie of cats, a hoard of books, and all of his imaginary friends. He has recently been published by Abyss & Apex, Enchanted Living magazine, and The Quarter(ly). You can find him folding paper airplanes and sending them sailing off into the void on Twitter @blackthornriddle.
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Star*Line 47.2
Clélie Rich
Rhysling Anthology 1998
Mark Rich
Rhysling Anthology 1986, 1988, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2015
Colin Richard
Star*Line 32.2
Matthew Richards
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Star*Line 34.4, 46.1
Silvatiicus Riddle
Rhysling Anthology honorable mention in 2025
Ron Riekki wrote My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland’s Apprentice House Press), U.P.: a novel (Ghost Road Press), and Posttraumatic: A Memoir (Small Press Distribution). He edited Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice (Michigan State University Press), And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, 1917–2017 (MSU Press), Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (MSU Press, Independent Publisher Book Award), The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works (Wayne State University Press, Michigan Notable Book), and The Many Lives of The Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise (McFarland). Riekki acts in the film Short Straw (directed by Steve Balderson, starring Joe Pantoliano) and is the title role in the horror film Flesher (directed by John Johnson, starring Erica Mary Gillheeney).
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Star*Line 42.2
Andrew Rihn
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Tom Riley
Rhysling Anthology 1988
Alina Rios
Star*Line 37.3
Rich Ristow was born in Bittburg, Germany. His parents were, at the time, educators for the Department of Defense Dependant Schools. From there, he's lived in England, Bermuda, Belgium, The Netherlands, China, West Virginia, North Carolina and New Jersey. He holds degrees from West Virginia University, and in 2004, he earned a MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He was the 2015 Rhysling chair.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 2007
Uncle River
Rhysling Anthology 1994, 1996, 2006
Alix Roake
Star*Line 36.1
Peter Roberts is a mathematically educated poet who sometimes writes fiction. He has been contributing to various magazines and journals, online & off, for more than 45 years. A complete list of his published poems can be found at god-and-country.info/poems.html. Some may also find the rest of the website interesting.
Rhysling Anthology 2025
Star*Line 16.4, 16.6-7, 17.3, 18.3, 18.4, 20.2, 21.4, 22.4, 26.2, 28.4, 42.1, 42.3
Chad Lee Robinson
Dwarf Stars 2024
Erin Robinson graduated from Lycoming College in Pennsylvania where she studied history and creative writing. She currently resides in Connecticut where she pet-sits, among other odd jobs. Her poetry has been published in Timeless Tales Magazine, NonBinary Review and Liminality, and a short story appeared in Pantheon Magazine.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Warner Robinson
Star*Line 44.4
Teresa Noelle Roberts
Rhysling Anthology 2006
W. C. Roberts
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2018, 2019, 2020
Star*Line 33.3, 33.4, 34.1, 34.3, 34.4, 35.2, 35.4, 41.2, 41.3, 42.2, 45.3
S. Brackett Robertson
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Dwarf Stars 2012
Daniel R. Robichaud
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Margo Roby
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Griffin Rockwell
Griffin Rockwell is a queer poet who writes about gender, science, space, and unusual connections. Xe is the author of the Otherwise Award-nominated chapbook listen— (Interstellar Flight Press) and the Elgin Award-nominated chapbooks body in motion (perhappened press) and Lexicon of Future Selves (VA Press); their work has also appeared in AGNI, Cotton Xenomorph, Whale Road Review, HAD, and elsewhere. Find xer website and socials at https://linktr.ee/griffinrockwell.
Marsheila Rockwell, multiple Scribe and Rhysling Award nominee, is the author of twelve books to date. Her work includes 7 SYKOS, a near future SF/H thriller co-written with writing partner/husband Jeff Mariotte; The Shard Axe series, the only official novels that tie into the popular fantasy MMORPG, Dungeons & Dragons Online; two collections; dozens of short stories and poems; multiple articles on writing and the writing process; and a handful of comic book scripts. She is also a disabled pediatric cancer and mental health awareness advocate, and a reconnecting Chippewa/Métis. She resides in the Valley of the Sun, where she writes dark fiction and poetry in a home she and her family have dubbed ‘Redwall.’ Find out more here: marsheilarockwell.com, or follow her on Twitter at @MarcyRockwell.
Dwarf Stars 2012, 2018, 2022, 2024
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2020, 2021, second place in 2022, 2023, 2025
Star*Line 32.4, 33.3, 34.3, 35.1, 40.3, 41.2, 44.1, 44.3, 46.4
Iliana Rocha
Dwarf Stars 2016
Lana M. 'Rochel
Dwarf Stars 2021
Robert J. Rodda
Rhysling Anthology 1995
Rachel Rodman
Star*Line 47.1
J. C. Rodriguez is a writer and educator from Westbury, NY. His poetry has appeared in Voicemail Poems, FreezeRay, Meow Meow Pow Pow, Taco Bell Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is a poetry manuscript reader at Interstellar Flight Press and a recipient of a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Valeria Rodriguez Mar
Star*Line 38.1
M. M. Roessner-Herman
Star*Line 4.5
David Rogers’ poems, stories, and articles have appeared in various print and electronic publications, including The Comstock Review, Atlanta Review, Sky and Telescope, and Astronomy magazine. His latest work is Roots of the Dark Tower: The Long Quest and Many Lives of Roland, available from Amazon. More about David and his work can be found at Davidrogersbooks.wordpress.com.
Star*Line 43.3
Stephen D. Rogers
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Steven Rogers
Rhysling Anthology 1999
Jane Røken lives in Denmark, on the interface between hedgerows and barley fields. She is fond of old tractors, garden sheds, scarecrows and other stuff that, in the due course of time, will ripen into something else. Her writings have been sighted in many different places, mostly online.
Star*Line 37.1, 37.2, 37.4, 38.3
Jonathan Roman has a penchant for doing things he is not particularly good at (writing poetry & fiction, playing basketball, living, etc.). He is delighted when words conspire to make him feel things. His poem, “ghetto garden”, was longlisted by The Haiku Foundation for the 2021 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems. He co-authored a book, After Amen: A Memoir in Two Voices, which received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Touchstone Distinguished Books Awards & placed third in the 2021 Merit Book Awards. Say obscene things to him on Twitter: @deft_notes
Star*Line 45.3, 45.4
Jean-Marie Romana is an accursed poet from California.
Dwarf Stars 2024
Star*Line 45.3, 46.1, 46.4, 47.2, 47.3
Karen A. Romanko has seen over 100 of her poems and short stories published in venues such as Strange Horizons, Aberrant Dreams, Ideomancer, and Lone Star Stories. When she switches literary hats, she edits and publishes speculative fiction and poetry anthologies under the Raven Electrick Ink imprint, such as Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia (2010) and Jack-o'-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy (2011).
Dwarf Stars 2007, 2008, 2009
Rhysling Anthology 2005, 2008, 2009, second place in 2011
Star*Line 31.1, 32.4, 32.6, 33.1
Hester J. Rook is an Australian Shadows Award-winning and Rhysling Award-shortlisted poet, fiction writer and co-editor of Twisted Moon Magazine. They are often found salt-scrunched on beaches, reading arcane tales and losing the moon in mugs of tea. Find Hester on Twitter @hesterjrook and read more poems and fiction at hesterjrook.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2017, 2022
Susan Rooke
Dwarf Stars 2016
Camille Rosas
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Anton Rose
Star*Line 39.4
Rhea Rose
Rhysling Anthology 1998
Wendy Rose
Star*Line 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Louis B. Rosenberg is the author of three sci-fi graphic novels (Eons, Upgrade, and Monkey Room) and an award-winning web series (Lab Rats) from Frostbite Pictures. His short fiction and poetry has appeared in Abyss & Apex, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Sci-Fi Lampoon, Dark Matter Magazine, Dark Lane Anthology 10, and the Tales to Terrify podcast. Rosenberg is also a well-known AI researcher, so his cautionary tales about artificial intelligence are based on real issues faced by the scientific community.
Rhysling Anthology 2021, 2022
Star*Line 44.3
Tracey S. Rosenberg
Rhysling Anthology 1999
Brian Rosenberger lives in a cellar in Marietta, GA and writes by the light of captured fireflies. He is the author of As the Worm Turns and three poetry collections: Poems That Go Splat, And For My Next Trick…, and Scream for Me. facebook.com/BrianWhoSuffers, instagram.com/brianwhosuffers.
Dwarf Stars 2013, 2022, 2025
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Star*Line 32.5, 33.1, 36.1, 46.3
John B. Rosenman
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Dorothy M. Ross
Star*Line 5.4
Shana Ross
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Star*Line 47.4
Jenny Rossi
Dwarf Stars 2012
Ruth Roston
Rhysling Anthology 1989
Irving Rothchild
Rhysling Anthology 2006
J. Zachary Rothstein
Star*Line 39.3, 40.1
Yann Rousselot
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Shelagh Rowan-Legg
Rhysling Anthology 2015
James Frederick William Rowe
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Matthew Roy (he/him) lives in the American Midwest. He recently moved from a small town to a big city, from a rambling farmhouse to a small apartment, and from a major corporation to an up-and-comer. He's writing more. He's making changes. His speculative poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Eternal Haunted Summer, Haven Spec, Illumen Magazine, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, The Quarter(ly) Journal, and The Sprawl Mag. Find him at on X (formerly Twitter) @mattroywriter.
Star*Line 47.2
Sankar Roy
Rhysling Anthology 2008
Allan Rozinski is a writer of speculative poetry and fiction. His poetry and fiction has most recently been accepted or published in Spectral Realms, Weirdbook, Star*Line, The Literary Hatchet, and the 2020 Rhysling Anthology, which contains his 2020 Rhysling-nominated poems “The Solace of the Father Moon” (short category) and “Cannibal Rex” (long category). He can be found on Twitter and Facebook.
Dwarf Stars 2020
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2020, 2021
Star*Line 41.4, 42.1, 42.2, 42.3
Mark Rudolph
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2002, 2004
RK Rugg is a non-Native native of the American West—a proud Jewish cowboy—who currently teaches middle-school writing in New England. His work has appeared in Utopia, Illumen, Apex & Abyss, Asimov’s and elsewhere. RaymondKRugg.com.
Dwarf Stars 2022
Star*Line 47.2, 48.1
Alison Rumfitt
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Star*Line 40.4
J. C. Runolfson
Rhysling Anthology 2007, 2009, 2010
Star*Line 33.3
Ty Russell
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Albert Russo
Star*Line 5.1
Ryfkah
Rhysling Anthology 2023