Matt S
Dwarf Stars 2011
Sara Saab
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Christiaan Sabatelli
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Star*Line 38.4, 39.3
Marina Lee Sable
Star*Line 34.3, 34.4
Tom Sacramona
Dwarf Stars 2018, 2020
Abu Bakr Sadiq is a Nigerian poet. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Uncanny Magazine, Augur Magazine, FIYAH, Mizna, Zone 3 Press Magazine, The Lit Quarterly, Rockvale Review, and elsewhere. He writes from Minna. Find him on twitter @bakronline.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Deborah W. Sage is a native of Kentucky, USA. A confirmed Anglophile, she merged her talent and Sherlockian interest in her first book of poetry, Doggerel In The Night-Time, (Gasogene Press, 1991). Since then, her recent writings have been published in Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine and Eternal Haunted Summer as well as private commissions. She was award winner for “How To Bring Peace” in Louisville Eccentric Observer (LEO)’s 2021 literary competition. As a former business executive, after years of being committed to the bottom line, she is gaining equilibrium in her psyche through her endeavors in folklore and faerie.
Dwarf Stars 2022
Barun Saha is a senior researcher located in Bangalore, India. He has a PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering. His poems are published in several places, such as Sky Island Journal, Star*Line, and the cherita. Visit barunsaha.me for more information about Barun and twitter.com/1barun for some of his poems.
Dwarf Stars 2022, 2023, 2024
Star*Line 44.2, 44.3, 44.4, 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.4
oino sakai
Dwarf Stars 2006
Miriam Sagan
Star*Line 5.5, 5.6
Oino Saki
Star*Line 31.5
Wayne Allen Sallee
Rhysling Anthology 1989
Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Rhysling Anthology 1989
Peter Adam Salomon (–2021) His debut novel, Henry Franks, was published by Flux in 2012. His second novel, All Those Broken Angels (Flux, 2014), was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in Young Adult fiction. Both novels were named a “Book All Young Georgians Should Read” by The Georgia Center for The Book. He founded both National Dark Poetry Day (Oct. 7) and the annual international HWA Poetry Showcase. His poem “Electricity and Language and Me” appeared on BBC Radio 6, performed by The Radiophonic Workshop. Eldritch Press published his first collection of poetry, PseudoPsalms: Prophets (nominated for the Elgin Award), and his second and third poetry collections, PseudoPsalms: Saints v. Sinners and PseudoPsalms: Sodom (nominated for the Elgin Award), were published by Bizarro Pulp Press. In addition, he was the editor for the HWA Poetry Showcase Volumes I and II. He is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Horror Writers Association, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, SFPA, the International Thriller Writers, and The Authors Guild.
Dwarf Stars 2019
John Salonia
Rhysling Anthology 2001
Sofia Samatar
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
Srinivasa Rao Sambangi works for a pharma company at Hyderabad in India. He writes Japanese short forms of poetry, especially haiku as a hobby. His haiku is published in various international and national journals of repute including Frogpond, Heron's Nest, Modern Haiku, Canada Haiku Review, Akitsu, Failed Haiku, World Haiku Review, Taj Mahal Review, etc.
Dwarf Stars 2019
Nnadi Samuel (he/him/his) holds a B.A in English & literature from the University of Benin. Author of “Nature knows a little about Slave Trade” selected by Tate N. Oquendo (Sundress Publication, 2023). His works have been previously published/forthcoming in FIYAH, Fantasy Magazine, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, Timber Ghost Press, Haven Spec, Liquid Imagination, Silver Blade, Utopia, Penumbric, and elsewhere. A 3x Best of the Net and Pushcart Nominee. He tweets @Samuelsamba10.
Star*Line 44.2, 45.4
Rhysling Anthology 2024
Aaron Sandberg has appeared or is forthcoming in Lost Balloon, Flash Frog, Phantom Kangaroo, Qu, Asimov’s, No Contact, Alien Magazine, The Shore, The Offing, Sporklet, Crow & Cross Keys, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. A multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, you can see him—and his writing—on Instagram @aarondsandberg.
Dwarf Stars 2023
William Sanders
Rhysling Anthology 2007
Katherine Sanger
Star*Line 30.2
Sylvia Santiago is an American-born, Canadian-raised writer whose mild-mannered exterior belies the emotional hubbub within. Her writing has appeared in From the Depths, frogpond, A Hundred Gourds and elsewhere.
Star*Line 42.2
Federica Santini is a Professor of Italian and Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University, where she serves as Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures. She holds a PhD in Italian literature from UCLA and an MA in Modern Literatures (Laurea cum laude in Lettere Moderne) from the University of Siena, Italy. Her scholarly work and literary translations have been published in numerous journals and volumes in the U.S. and Italy. Her own poetry and short fiction have appeared internationally in over 50 journals and anthologies. She has authored or co-edited six volumes, among which her monograph, Io era una bella figura una volta: Viaggio nella poesia di ricerca del secondo Novecento (2013), and the English language, annotated edition of I Novissimi. Poetry for the Sixties, with Luigi Ballerini (2017), as well as a poetry chapbook, Unearthed (2021).
Dwarf Stars 2023
Star*Line 44.3
teri santitoro edits the minimal genre poetry magazine Scifaikuest. She inhabits a crazy world where horses of a different color exist for real, cats bring nasty gifts to the door, and little grey dogs can change the world. As an illustrator (aka 7ARS), author and editor, she composes and/or illustrates strange tales about everything from aliens to vampires. She plays ukulele, guitar and bass, uses her computer to enhance her artwork and sprays stories into her laptop in the hopes of sharing them with the world. As a poet, she is known as sakyu.
Dwarf Stars 2008, 2022, 2023
Charles M. Sapiak
Rhysling Anthology 2002, first place in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
Star*Line 33.1
Ruby Sara
Rhysling Anthology 2013
R. Paul Sardanas
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2012
Lynne Sargent is a writer, philosopher, and aerialist, from Ontario, Canada. You can find more of her work in publications like Visions, Polar Borealis, and Wild Musette. She was a 2018 Rhysling Award Nominee and a 2018 Aurora Award Nominee. Feel free to reach out to her on Twitter @SamLynneS.
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Star*Line 42.1, 43.2, 44.1, 44.2, 44.4, 46.1, 46.3, 46.4, 47.1, 47.4
Fungisayi Sasa
Rhysling Anthology 2020
R. V. Saunders
Star*Line 31.1
Sumiko Saulson (ze/hir or they/them) is the author of The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry (Dooky Zines), nominated for the 2022 Bram Stoker in Poetry and the Elgin Award, of the Ladies in Horror Fiction Readers Choice Award-Winning Within Me Without Me: A Book of Dark Prose and Poetry (Dooky Zines), the poetry chapbooks Untitled (1988) and The Coffee Files (1986). Their poetry has appeared in the anthologies and periodicals Black Women in Horror Magazine (February 2023), Of Horror and Hope: Mental Health Reflections by Members (2022), Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase VIII (2021), Hope: Poems of Hope and Resilience from the Pandemic (2021), Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase VII (2020), Sirens Call Magazine(Summer 2020), Horror Bites’ Next Great Horror Writer's Contest (2019), and the Tenderloin Times (1988).
Dwarf Stars 2023
Gwen Sayers
Rhysling Anthology 2025
Michelle Scalise
Rhysling Anthology 2000, 2016
Amy Schaefer
Rhysling Anthology 1990
Lauren Scharhag (she/her) is an award-winning author of fiction and poetry, and a senior editor at Gleam. Her 2023 releases include Midnight Glossolalia (with Scott Ferry and Lillian Necakov; Meat for Tea Press), Morels (Voice Lux Press), and Moonlight and Monsters (forthcoming, Gnashing Teeth Press). She lives in Kansas City, MO. linktr.ee/laurenscharhag.
Rhysling Anthology 2022, 2023, first place 2024
G. A. Scheinoa
Star*Line 40.1
Lorraine Schein is a New York writer and poet. Her work has appeared in VICE Terraform, Strange Horizons, Scientific American, NewMyths and Michigan Quarterly, and in the anthologies Wild Women and Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath. The Futurist’s Mistress, her poetry book, is available from Mayapple Press. Her latest book, The Lady Anarchist Cafe, is out now from Autonomedia.
Dwarf Stars 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Star*Line 4.1, 6.2, 41.4, 42.1, 42.2, 43.2, 43.3, 44.3, 44.4, 45.2, 46.4, 47.1
Ruth Lisa Schechter
Rhysling Anthology 1984
Richard E. Schell
Star*Line 47.4, 48.1
Rich Schilling
Dwarf Stars 2024
Lawrence Schimel (New York, 1971) writes in both Spanish and English and has published over 100 books as author or anthologist, in many different genres. He has won the Lambda Literary Award (twice), the Spectrum Award, the Independent Publisher Book Award, the Rhysling Award, and other honors. He is also the publisher of A Midsummer Night's Press. He lives in Madrid, Spain, where he works as a Spanish-to-English translator.
Dwarf Stars 2012, first place in 2019
Rhysling Anthology 1993, 1995, first place in 2002, third place in 2007, 2007, 2012
Star*Line 36.1, 37.1, 42.3, 43.3
Albert Schlaht resides in the Rockies where in his spare time he pens haiku and other short verse, sometimes of a fairy blue nature, at times dark as the midnite sky. His verse has appeared in numerous publications, such as Copperfield Review, Scifaikuest, Cold Moon Journal, Seashores, and Starlight Scifaiku Review among others.
Dwarf Stars 2012
Star*Line 47.3
Andrea Schlecht lives in Ottawa, Canada. She is a retired archivist and spends her retirement with family, outdoor photography, walks in the woods, writing, reading and fires in the fireplace. Her poems and stories have appeared mainly in genre publications, including Tesseracts, Polar Borealis, Polar Starlight and Scifaikuest.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Lucy Cohen Schmeidler
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2004
Benjamin Schmitt
Star*Line 38.1, 41.1
E. F. Schraeder is the author of Liar: Memoir of a Haunting (Omnium Gatherum, 2021), a story collection, and two poetry chapbooks. Recent work has appeared in Lost Contact, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, NonBinary Review, Lavender Review, and other journals and anthologies. Schraeder’s nonfiction has appeared in Vastarien: A Literary Journal; Radical Teacher; the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom blog, and elsewhere.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Mirta Ana Schultz
Rhysling Anthology 2007
Lyn Schumaker
Star*Line 5.5
Jennifer Schwabach
Dwarf Stars 2010
Ann K. Schwader’s most recent collection, Unquiet Stars, appeared in 2021 from Weird House Press. Her poems have recently appeared in Spectral Realms, Dreams & Nightmares, Star*Line, Abyss & Apex, and HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. VII. She is a two-time Bram Stoker Award Finalist for poetry collection, and won a 3rd place Elgin Award for Unquiet Stars. She was also the SFPA Grand Master for 2018. Ann lives, writes, & hopes to get back to her branch library volunteering soon in suburban Colorado.
Dwarf Stars 2006, third place in 2008, 2009, 2010, third place in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025
Rhysling Anthology 1991, 1993, 1994 1995, 1999, second place in 2000, second place in 2001, 2002, third place in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, first place in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, first place in 2016, 2019, 2022, 2024
Star*Line 31.1, 31.5, 31.6, 32.1, 32.3, 32.4, 32.5, 33.1, 33.3, 33.4, 33.5, 34.1, 34.3, 34.4, 35.1, 35.4, 36.2, 36.4, 37.2, 37.3, 38.2, 39.4, 40.3, 40.4, 41.1, 41.4, 42.3, 44.1, 44.2, 45.4, 46.4, 47.2, 47.4
Greg Schwartz works in a cubicle (when there's no pandemic). He's been lucky enough to win a Dwarf Stars Award and have a chapbook of horror poems published. Some of his poems have appeared in awesome magazines like Talebones, Star*Line, Modern Haiku, and Scifaikuest.
Dwarf Stars 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, first place in 2015, 2020, 2023, 2024
Rhysling Anthology 2008, 2009
Star*Line 32.5, 40.4, 41.1, 41.2, 41.4, 42.1, 42.3, 43.3, 44.1, 44.2, 44.3, 44.4, 45.1, 45.3, 45.4, 46.3, 46.4, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 47.4, 48.1
Jenny Schwartz
Dwarf Stars 2011
Star*Line 33.1, 33.3
Darrell Schweitzer
Rhysling Anthology 2002, 2006, 2020
Julie Schwerin, author of What Was Here (Folded Word Press), recently moved from Ohio to Wisconsin. She served for five years as Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America. Now, she is an associate editor at The Heron’s Nest and member of the Red Moon Anthology editorial team. She was one of seventeen poets featured in A New Resonance 9 (Red Moon Press) and has co-edited, along with Jim Kacian, Echoes 2, A New Resonance 11, and A New Resonance 12, all of Red Moon Press. In addition, Schwerin was instrumental in establishing several haiku installations in the Midwest including The Forest Haiku Walk at the Holmes County Open Air Art Museum in Millersburg, Ohio, the Seasons of Haiku Trail at The Holden Arboretum in Kirtland, Ohio, and Words in Bloom: A Year of Haiku at the Chicago Botanic Garden, to feature the work of other poets and bring further awareness to haiku.
Dwarf Stars 2022, 2024, 2025
Ridley Scott
Star*Line 34.3
Ron Scully
Dwarf Stars 2024
Baishampayan Seal is based in Kolkata, India, where they are currently pursuing an MSc in Statistics. When not testing hypotheses or beating the keyboard for C++ or R coding, they enjoy writing short poems and flash stories. Their work has previously appeared in Aphelion Webzine, 365 Tomorrows and Bewildering Stories, and is forthcoming in Utopia Science Fiction, Scifaikuest, among others. They can be found on twitter @BaishampayanSe1.
Star*Line 43.3
Tobias Seamon
Rhysling Anthology 2004, 2006
Peter Sears
Rhysling Anthology 2009
E. Sedia
Rhysling Anthology 2006
Alexandra Seidel spent many a night stargazing when she was a child. These days, she writes stories and poems, something the stargazing helped with. Alexa's writing has appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and elsewhere. You can follow her on Twitter @Alexa_Seidel, like her Facebook page (facebook.com/AlexaSeidelWrites/), and find out what she’s up to at alexandraseidel.com
Dwarf Stars 2012
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019
Star*Line 34.1, 34.2, 34.3, 34.4, 35.2, 35.4
Nita Sembrowich
Dwarf Stars 2014
semi
Star*Line 34.3, 37.2
Debarati Sen
Dwarf Stars 2024
Abhisha Sengupta
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Claudia Serea
Dwarf Stars 2015
M. Sereno
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017
Craig Sernotti
Rhysling Anthology 2002
Diane Severson (Mori) is living in England.
Rhysling Anthology 2014
Star*Line 37.4, 38.2, 39.1, 39.2, 39.3, 39.4, 40.1, 40.2, 40.3, 42.1
Julia Sevin
Rhysling Anthology 2007
John W. Sexton is an Irish poet.
Dwarf Stars 2012
Rhysling Anthology 2012, 2017, 2018, 2020
Star*Line 36.2, 36.4, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4, 38.2, 39.2, 39.3, 40.1, 40.2, 40.3, 40.4, 41.2
Grace Seybold
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Star*Line 36.1, 36.4
Heather Shaw
Rhysling Anthology 2002, 2005
William Shaw is a poet from Sheffield, England. One day he might catch an idea of his own. You can find him on Twitter @Will_S_7
Dwarf Stars 2018, 2020, 2021
Rhysling Anthology 2018
Star*Line 40.4, 43.2, 44.4, 45.3
Tiffany Shaw-Diaz is an award-winning artist and poet living in Centerville, Ohio. You can learn more about her via tiffanyshawdiaz.com.
Dwarf Stars 2018, 2019
Salik Shah lives in India. He is the editor of Mithila Review.
Star*Line 39.3, 40.2, 41.1, 45.2
Daniel M. Shapiro
Star*Line 32.2
Joseph M. Shea
Rhysling Anthology 1993
Marilyn Shea
Rhysling Anthology 1988
Walter Shedlofsky
Rhysling Anthology 1978
Mary Sheffield
Rhysling Anthology 2005
Annie Sheng writes, translates and researches—and enjoys alliteration in her baking (i.e., matcha macapuno muffins).
Dwarf Stars 2019
Nancy Sheng
Rhysling Anthology 2012
Lucius Shepard
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1988
Tejendra Sherchan
Dwarf Stars 2025
John Shirley
Star*Line 4.1
Sarah Shirley
Star*Line 37.1, 39.3, 40.3
Warsan Shire
Dwarf Stars 2023
Robert Shmigelsky
Star*Line 40.4
Michael Shorb
Rhysling Anthology 2012
David F. Shultz writes speculative poetry and short fiction from Toronto, ON, where he is lead editor at tdotSpec, producing anthologies such as Strange Economics, Imps & Minions, and Speculative North magazine. His 70+ works are featured through publishers such as Augur, Diabolical Plots, and Third Flatiron. Author webpage: davidfshultz.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2019, 2021
Star*Line 41.1, 42.4, 43.1
Serhiy Shpychenko began to write Haiku in 2009 and has publications in specialized online journals, such as Ёrshik: journal of senryu and kyoka. He has won many international competitions in Russian-language Haiku. He was born in Kiev, Ukraine and lives there with his wife; they have two sons.
Dwarf Stars 2019
Justin Short
Star*Line 41.4
Crystal Sidell, a Tampa Bay native, grew up playing with toads in the rain and indulging in speculative fiction. She holds a master of arts in both English and library & information science, moderates two creative writing groups, and has reviewed books for the Florida Library Youth Program. Her work appears in Apparition Lit, F&SF, Frozen Wavelets, Haven Spec, Orchid’s Lantern, and elsewhere. You can find her online at crystalsidell.wixsite.com/mysite.
Dwarf Stars 2024, 2025
Rhysling Anthology 2023
J.H. Siegal
Rhysling Anthology 2025
Avi Silver
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Jennifer Silvey lives in the St. Louis area with her husband, their two cats, and their dog. She studied digital film for her bachelor’s and creative writing for her master’s. Both degrees were earned at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO. Her poetry book Midnight Galleries is slated to be published through LCk Publishing.
Star*Line 44.3
Alan Ray Simmons lives in Alameda, California. He has been quoted on the front page of The New York Times. Poet-In-Residence, City of Chicago, 1979–80. Nominated for a SFPA 2020 Rhysling Award. His work has recently appeared in Genre: Urban Arts, Thin Air, Red Coyote, 42 Word Story Anthology, Heron Clan VII, Kanstellation, Illumen, Abyss & Apex, and American Writers Review, Art In The Time of Covid-19, San Fedele Press, The Martian Wave, Hiraeth Press, and Clarendon Books Poetica #2, Inner Circle Writer’s Poetry Anthology 2020. See more at simmonsink@blogspot.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Thomas E. Simmons is a law professor and sometimes poet of the fantastic. He lives in South Dakota.
Star*Line 44.2
Meliors Simms
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Jamie Simpher
Rhysling Anthology 2024
John Oliver Simon
Star*Line 4.2
Marge Simon lives in Ocala, Florida, and serves on the HWA Board of Trustees. She has three Bram Stoker Awards, Rhysling Awards for Best Long and Best Short Fiction, the Elgin, Dwarf Stars and Strange Horizons Readers’ Award. Marge’s poems and stories have appeared in Clannad, Pedestal Magazine, Asimov’s, Silver Blade Polu Texni, Bete Noire, New Myths, Daily Science Fiction, et al. Her stories also appear in anthologies such as Tales of the Lake 5, Chiral Mad 4, You, Human and The Beauty of Death, to name a few. She attends the ICFA annually as a guest poet/writer. Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/-/e/B006G29PL6
Dwarf Stars 2010, first place in 2012
Rhysling Anthology 1991, 1992, first place in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, third place in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, second place in 2013, 2014, first place in 2015, 2016, first place in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Star*Line 32.6, 35.3, 35.4, 36.1, 36.3, 37.1, 37.4, 38.4, 40.3, 40.4, 41.1, 41.3, 41.4, 42.1, 42.2, 42.3, 42.4, 43.1, 43.3, 44.2, 44.3, 44.4, 45.1, 47.3, 48.1
Richard Simonds is an imaginative writer and poet living in New York City with his loving wife Ji. In addition to Star*Line, his poetry has been published in Exquisite Death, The Galway Review and Overtly Lit and the dark poetry anthology Beautiful Tragedies 4 (HellBound Books). His short stories have been published in numerous places including Freedom Fiction and Bewildering Stories. His Instagram is @richardspoet.
Star*Line 48.4
Hamant Singh
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Vandana Singh
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2004
Bobbi Sinha-Morey's poetry has appeared in a wide variety of places such as Plainsongs, Pirene's Fountain, The Wayfarer, Helix Magazine, Miller's Pond, The Tau, Vita Brevis, Cascadia Rising Review, Old Red Kimono, and Woods Reader. Her books of poetry are available at Amazon.com and her work has been nominated for Best of the Net 2015 and 2018. bobbisinhamorey.wordpress.com.
Rhysling Anthology 1997, 2001
Caroline Skanne is a poet, writer, multimedia artist, editor & publisher. She is obsessed with robins, wildflowers & small poems. Born in Sweden she moved to the UK as a teenager & spent 15 years in London’s East End before relocating to Kent, where she lives by the River Medway with her family, cats & dog. Educated in London, she has an MA in Anthropology & Cultural Politics from Goldsmiths’s University. Her thesis explored the link between gender stereotypes & identity in children’s literature, with particular reference to the female hero. She grew up on Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking, or rather, she never grew up! Her trio of poetry books paper wings (haiku, senryu & haiga), wild blossom (tanka & tanka art) & driftwood (small poems & artwork) were released in 2018. She’s the editor of Hedgerow: a journal of small poems.
Dwarf Stars 2019
Jacob Skillings
Star*Line 41.4
Brian Skinner
Rhysling Anthology 1993
David Sklar
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Kaya Skovdatter
Rhysling Anthology 2025
Tabor Skreslet is a physician, scientist, teacher, and writer. She grew up in Egypt and now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her poetry has appeared in Cordella, Oracle, and Intima.
Star*Line 47.3
David M. Skov
Rhysling Anthology 1987
Ken Slaughter won the Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest in 2015 and placed 2nd in 2012. He has published tanka, kyoka and senyru in a variety of online and print journals He is currently editor of the Tanka Hangout section in Ribbons, which is the Tanka Society of America's tri-annual print journal.
Dwarf Stars 2023
Justin T. O’Conor Sloane’s work has appeared in various publications, including The Flying Saucer Poetry Review, The Starlight SciFaiku Review, Southern Cross Review, Sandstorm, The Guardian, The Internet TESL Journal and the Global Ideas Book. In 2002, he was the first winner of the Macmillan Education Onestopenglish poetry contest. Justin is the editor at Starship Sloane Publishing where he has the distinct honor of working with some of the most talented writers and artists in this universe or any other.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Noel Sloboda earned his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, with a concentration in literary modernism and secondary expertise in Shakespeare studies. His dissertation on Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein became a book: The Making of Americans in Paris (2008). Between 2006 and 2016, he sat on the board of directors for the Gamut Theatre Group, in Harrisburg PA, while serving as dramaturg for its nationally-recognized Shakespeare company. His writing on Shakespeare has appeared in journals such as Studies in the Humanities, Shakespeare Bulletin, The Journal of the Wooden O, The Shakespeare Newsletter, and in the anthology In/Fidelity: Essays on Film Adaptation. During the past decade, Sloboda has also published two collections of poetry along with hundreds of poems in journals and magazines. Sloboda is currently an Associate Professor at Penn State York.
Dwarf Stars 2010, 2021
Rhysling Anthology 2001, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Star*Line 34.4, 36.1, 37.1, 42.1, 43.3, 44.3
Imogen L. Smiley (she/her) is a twenty-four-year-old writer from Essex, UK. She has anxiety, depression, and an endless love of dogs. @Imogen_L_Smiley.
Dwarf Stars 2022
Cislyn Smith
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2020
Star*Line 39.2
Dan Smith
Dwarf Stars 2010, 2011, 2013
Rhysling Anthology 2013
Star*Line 41.1, 42.3
Daniel C. Smith has published dozens of stories, articles, reviews and poems in the genres of science fiction and horror. His speculative poetry has received an honorable mention the year’s Best of Fantasy and Horror and has also been included in several anthologies, including Changes, Wondrous Web Worlds, and Dwarf Stars. His first two short story collections, Nano-Bytes and 3 of a Perfekt Pear, are available in print and electronic form from Nomadic Delirium Press (nomadicdeliriumpress.com).
Dwarf Stars 2006
Star*Line 40.1, 40.3, 42.2
Emily Smith is a speculative fiction writer and a New Yorker by way of the Southwestern deserts. She writes about apocalypses both dreamed and realized, lost cities, and creatures that live beyond the edges of the world. Find her on Twitter as @memilies
Rhysling Anthology 2021
H. Russell Smith, electrical engineer, Ham Radio enthusiast, and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is author of the not-so-best-selling Time Machines, Annoying Minotaurs, and Other Childish Pursuits (2016), and Windmills (2019). His work can also be unearthed in Trouvaille Review, The Whisky Blot, CQ Magazine, and as a runner-up in the May 2022 Poetry.com monthly contest. Rusty is currently on tour in a very unreliable homebrew time machine. He often lives near Joplin, MO, depending on the century.
Star*Line 45.3, 46.4
Julie A. Smith
Star*Line 6.2
Krystal A. Smith is a Black lesbian writer of poetry and speculative fiction. Her poetry can be read at Entropy Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, and Serendipity. Her debut collection Two Moons: Stories was released from BLF Press (2018) and was a 2019 Lambda Literary Award Finalist.
Star*Line 43.4
Loretta M. Smith
Star*Line 6.1, 6.2
Mahaila Smith (any pronouns) is a young femme writer, living and working on the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg in Ottawa, Ontario. They are one of the co-editors for The Sprawl Mag (thesprawlmag.ca). They like learning theory and writing spec poetry. Their debut chapbook, Claw Machine, was published by Anstruther Press in 2020. Their second chapbook, Water-Kin, was published by Metatron Press in 2024. Their novelette in verse, Seed Beetle, is forthcoming with Stelliform Press. You can find more of their work on their website: mahailasmith.ca.
Dwarf Stars 2023, 2024
Star*Line 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 47.1
Rhysling Anthology 2024
Meg Smith is a writer, journalist, dancer, and events producer living in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. In addition to previously appearing in Dwarf Stars anthologies and Star*Line, her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Cafe Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Lowell Review, The Horror Zine, Aphelion, Raven Cage, and many more. She is author of five poetry books and a short fiction collection, The Plague Confessor. She welcomes visits to megsmithwriter.com.
Dwarf Stars 2007, 2010, 2012, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024
Star*Line 41.3, 44.1, 44.4, 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 47.4
Oliver Smith is inspired by Tristan Tzara, J. G. Ballard, and Max Ernst; by frenzied rocks towering above the silent swamp, by the strange poetry of machines; by unlikely collisions between place and myth and memory. His poetry has been published in Abyss & Apex, Alchemy Spoon, Ink, Sweat, and Tears, Strange Horizons and Sylvia Magazine and has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His prose has been included in anthologies from, among others, Flame Tree Publishing, Ex-Occidente Press, and Broken Eye Books. He has had two collections of short fiction published: Basilisk Soup & Other Fantasies and Stars Beneath the Ships. Oliver holds a PhD in Literary and Critical Studies from the University of Gloucestershire. For more information see his website:
oliversimonsmithwriter.wordpress.com
Star*Line 41.4, 43.3, 44.3, 45.4
Paige Elizabeth Smith is a writer from La Quinta, California. She spent four years as a TEFL teacher in Poland before earning a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Her work has recently been published in Shoreline of Infinity, From Arthur's Seat, Dodging the Rain, Gravel, The Future Fire, and The Passage Between.
Star*Line 42.2
Simon Smith
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Tom Smith
Star*Line 34.2
Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States 2017–2019. She has published four collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars. In April 2018, she was nominated for a second term as United States Poet Laureate. poetryfoundation.org/poets/tracy-k-smith
Dwarf Stars 2019
Gabriel Smithwilson writes poetry, hunts Bigfoot, watches romantic comedies, and loves blackberries, from his home in the most obscure city within the San Francisco Bay Area.
Dwarf Stars 2024
Star*Line 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 47.4
Angela Yuriko Smith
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Gloundan Smorpian emigrated from a red state before that was a thing and has never looked back. Raised on pulp-era SF from the dumpster behind a small-town library, Smorpian was infected at an early age. As a young man, he held jobs such as short-order cook and llama herder, before landing a plush gig as poet-in-residence at a gas station in rural Washington state. There he supplements his meager income as a pumpjockey with generous payments from fine publishers everywhere.
Dwarf Stars 2019, 2020, 2024
Steve Sneyd (1941–2018) was a Grand Master of SFPA and an important speculative poet and stalwart proponent, chronicler and historian of SF poetry, publishing SF poetry since the late 1970s (at least). His poetry appeared in Star*Line, Dreams & Nightmares, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry and Hadrosaur Tales, as well as many SF and poetry journals, fanzines, and small-press anthologies. His collections include Gestaltmacher, Gestaltmacher, Make Me a Gestalt: Ninety-Nine Poems from the Nineties (The Four Quarters, 2000) and Mistaking the Nature of the Posthuman (Hilltop Press, 2008). His handwritten SF poetry newsletter, DataDump, in print since 1992, published more than 200 issues.
Dwarf Stars 2007
Rhysling Anthology 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2004
Star*Line 1.11, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4/5, 2.12, 3.1, 3.4, 4.2, 4.5, 4.6, 5.5, 6.1, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3, 32.5, 33.1, 33.2, 33.3, 33.4, 33.5, 34.1, 34.2
Christina Sng is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in numerous venues worldwide and received nominations in the Rhysling, Dwarf Stars and Elgin Awards, as well as honourable mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and the Best Horror of the Year. Visit her at christinasng.com and connect on social media @christinasng.
Dwarf Stars 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Star*Line 38.4, 39.1, 39.2, 39.3, 39.4, 40.1, 40.2, 40.3, 40.4, 41.1, 41.3, 41.4, 42.1, 42.2, 42.3, 42.4, 43.1, 43.3, 44.1, 44.3, 44.4, 45.1, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 46.4, 46.4, 47.4
Lucy A. Snyder
Star*Line 39.3
Maryanne K. Snyder
Rhysling Anthology 1990, 1993
Cynthia So
Rhysling Anthology 2020
Gail Sosinsky
Star*Line 43.3
A. C. Spahn’s poetry has been published by Outposts of Beyond and nominated for the Rhysling Award.
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Star*Line 41.2
Lucien E. G. Spelman
Rhysling Anthology 2010
Star*Line 33.4
William Browning Spencer
Rhysling Anthology 2009
D.A. Xiaolin Spires steps into portals and reappears in sites such as Hawai’i, NY, various parts of Asia and elsewhere, with her keyboard appendage attached. Her work appears or is forthcoming in publications such as Clarkesworld, Analog, Strange Horizons, Nature, Terraform, Uncanny, Grievous Angel, Fireside, Galaxy’s Edge, StarShipSofa, Andromeda Spaceways (Year’s Best Issue), Diabolical Plots, Factor Four. Select stories can be read in German, Vietnamese, Estonian and French translation. She can be found on Twitter: @spireswriter and on her website: daxiaolinspires.wordpress.com.
Dwarf Stars 2019, 2020, 2024
Rhysling Anthology 2019, 2020
Star*Line 40.4, 41.3, 41.4, 42.1, 43.1, 44.3, 45.2, 46.1, 46.2, 46.4, 47.2, 47.3, 48.1
Robin Spriggs
Rhysling Anthology 2011, 2012, 2015
Michael Spring
Rhysling Anthology 2016
Nancy Springer
Rhysling Anthology 1983
Star*Line 4.5, 5.6
Joshua St. Claire works as a an accounting director for a large non-profit in Pennsylvania, USA. He enjoys writing on coffee breaks and after putting his kids to bed. His speculative poetry has appeared in Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Scifaikuest, and in the publications of Starship Sloane. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the Rhysling Award. His work in short forms has appeared in the Dwarf Stars Anthology and was long-listed for a Touchstone Award.
Dwarf Stars 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Rhysling Anthology 2024
Star*Line 44.4, 45.1, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 47.4, 48.1
Stephanie Staab is an American poet living in the Black Forest. Her second chapbook, Letterlocking, is forthcoming from Alternating Current Press.
Dwarf Stars 2022
Ján Stacho
Star*Line 38.3
Dana Stamps II
Star*Line 31.5
J. E. Stanley
Star*Line 34.3, 34.4, 35.1, 36.1
Anna Magdalena Staple
Star*Line 40.2
H. Starr
Star*Line 5.1
Jan Steckel
Star*Line 41.1
Melody Steiner
Star*Line 41.4
J. J. Steinfeld, Canadian poet, fiction writer, and playwright, lives on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published 20 books, including Identity Dreams and Memory Sounds (Poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2014), Madhouses in Heaven, Castles in Hell (Stories, Ekstasis Editions, 2015), An Unauthorized Biography of Being (Stories, Ekstasis Editions, 2016), Absurdity, Woe Is Me, Glory Be (Poetry, Guernica Editions, 2017), A Visit to the Kafka Café (Poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2018), and Gregor Samsa Was Never in The Beatles (Stories, Ekstasis Editions, 2019). His short stories and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals internationally, and over 50 of his one-act plays and a handful of full-length plays have been performed in Canada and the United States.
Star*Line 35.2, 36.3, 38.2, 39.3, 39.4, 40.3, 41.3, 43.1, 44.1
Alison Stone
Star*Line 34.4
Hayley Stone is an award-winning writer, editor, and poet from California. Her work has appeared in Apex Magazine, Fireside Fiction, Flash Fiction Online, Liminality, Wild Musette, Star*Line, and more. She is also the author of the weird western Make Me No Grave, a finalist for the Laramie Book Awards, and the Last Resistance sci-fi series. Find a complete list of her stories and poetry at hayleystone.com or connect with her on Twitter @hayley_stone.
Star*Line 41.3, 44.1, 44.4
Melanie Stormm is the SFPA PR goddess and the editor of Star*Line issue 43.4.
Star*Line 41.1, 42.2
B. R. Strahan
Star*Line 38.1, 40.4
Robert E. Stutts
Star*Line 34.3
John Stevenson
Dwarf Stars 2006
W. Gregory Stewart
Dwarf Stars 2006
Maria Steyn
Dwarf Stars 2009
Cheryl Stiles
Dwarf Stars 2012
Debbie Strange is an internationally published short-form poet, haiga artist, and photographer whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. She enjoys exploring the wilds with her husband in their lime green 1978 VW campervan. Debbie maintains a publications and awards archive at debbiemstrange.blogspot.com.
Dwarf Stars 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Jay Sturner is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and naturalist from the Chicago suburbs. He is the author of several books of poetry and a collection of short stories. His writing has appeared in such publications as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Space & Time, Spectral Realms, and Star*Line, among others. He mainly writes fantasy, horror, and science fiction, but occasionally writes in other genres. Sturner is also a professional birdwalk leader and former botanist.
Dwarf Stars 2024
Star*Line 36.2, 45.4, 46.1
Mary Rudbeck Stanko
Rhysling Anthology 2001
J. E. Stanley
Dwarf Stars 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
Rhysling Anthology 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Anthony Starke
Rhysling Anthology 1993
Heidy Steidelmayer
Rhysling Anthology 2012
J. J. Steinfeld
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Richard Stevenson is a retired college English and Creative Writing instructor. He taught for thirty years at Lethbridge College in southern Alberta and recently moved to Nanaimo, B.C. He has the usual pedigree: MFA in Creative Writing, thirty-six books and a CD to his credit, including five forthcoming volumes in his cryptid critter series: Cryptid Shindig (a trilogy including the volumes If a Dolphin Had Digits, Nightcrawlers, and Radioactive Frogs) and two stand-alone collections, An Abominable Swamp Slob Named Bob and Hairy Hullabaloo.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Star*Line 41.3, 42.3, 42.4, 43.1, 45.3
J. P. V. Stewart
Rhysling Anthology 1999
W. Gregory Stewart
Rhysling Anthology first place in 1987, 1989, 1990, first place in 1992, first place in 1994, runner-up in 1995, first place in 1997, third place in 2000, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015
Mary Stone
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Alfonsina Storni
Rhysling Anthology 2023
Lynn Strongin
Dwarf Stars 2007
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Blaize Kelly Strothers is a writer, freelance editor, and artist from NYC. She lives in PA with her husband, sons, and beloved lap cat, Ozzy. She can be found at blaizestrothers.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Star*Line 45.2
Romie Stott is the administrative editor and a poetry editor of Strange Horizons. Her poems have appeared in inkscrawl, Dreams&Nightmares, Polu Texni, On Spec, The Deadlands, and Liminality, but she is better known for her essays in The Toast and Atlas Obscura, and a microfiction project called postorbital. As a filmmaker, she has been a guest artist of the National Gallery (London), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), and the Dallas Museum of Art. You can find her fairly complete bibliography here.
Rhysling Anthology 2022
Jason Sturner
Rhysling Anthology 2014, 2015
Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta is passionate about what haikai poetic forms allow a writer to do. Basho's haiku inspire him to look closely at nature. Issa's inspire him to appreciate all life with sensitivity. To one day write like these great Japanese masters is a life-long goal that he intends to pursue. He is the founding editor of Haiku Seed Journal. His haikai works featured in digital & print journals like haikuKATHA, tsuri-dōrō, Under the Bashō, Akitsu Quarterly, Haiku Dialogue and a few others. His photo-haiku won the 'Award for Excellence' in the 12th Setouchi-Matsuyama International Photo-Haiku Contest in 2023.
Dwarf Stars 2023
Alan Summers currently hails from Chippenham (England) via London, then Bristol (think pirates and Treasure Island). Alan is founder of Call of the Page.
Dwarf Stars 2018, 2022
Alena Indigo Anne Sullivan was born to witches and raised in a neopagan community in the North Georgia mountains. She now resides in Bear River, Nova Scotia, with her wonderful husband Bruce and their many animal companions. Alena is a fiction writer, poet, and visual artist who focuses on the relationship between narrative and identity. She holds a BA in Anthropology and an MFA from the Stonecoast MFA Program for Creative Writing. Alena's short fiction and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, Rich Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, Goblin Fruit, Illumen, Urban Fantasy, Star*Line, Expanded Horizons, Luna Station Quarterly, the Wormwood Press, and elsewhere. Alena also runs Sealskin Studios on Etsy, where she offers embroidered spells and prayer images, otherworldly jewelry, and various other magical objects as she creates them. You can find her at alenasullivan.com.
Rhysling Anthology 2021
Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan
Rhysling Anthology 2023, 2025
Nike Sulway
Rhysling Anthology second place in 2021
Alena Sullivan
Star*Line 40.3, 42.2
Audrey Sullivan
Star*Line 47.3
David R. Sullivan
Star*Line 31.1
David Lee Summers
Dwarf Stars 2017
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2016
Naru Dames Sundar
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2017
Sujith Surendranathan enjoys writing poems, short stories and novels. His works deal with alternate perspectives, mysticism, emotions, relations between people and nature, and the unexpected. To unwind, he spends time in the hiking trails and forests, and wherever there is harmony with nature.
Star*Line 47.2
David Hunter Sutherland
Rhysling Anthology 1992
Andrew Robert Sutton was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University where he studied both telecommunications and the written word. His heart has been torn between his love of cutting-edge technologies and traditional art forms ever since. His articles on the history of technology and its impact on business have appeared in over forty publications, including newspapers, magazines, and numerous blogs. "Into Flight" is his first foray into poetry.
Rhysling Anthology first place in 2013
Fedor Svarovsky (1971–) received refugee status in Denmark in 1990. He returned to Moscow in 1997 and continues to work there as a journalist. Author of three books, his poems have appeared in Novyi Mir and, in English translation, in Jacket Magazine, Two Lines, and World Literature Today. In 2011, Svarovsky participated in PEN’s New Voices reading series in NYC through CEC ArtsLink.
Star*Line 37.2
Alberto Sveum
Star*Line 41.2
Suzanne (Anna) Sykora
Star*Line 33.2, 33.4, 34.2, 35.2, 36.1, 36.2, 36.4, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 38.3, 39.2
Lesley Anne Swanson loves orange cats, baseball, soft ice cream, and the scent of roses. And words, especially the sounds and rhythms of minimalist poems. She grew up in Northern California, but has also lived in the Southwest, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest. Those varied landscapes pervade her poems, often with a cosmic twist.
Dwarf Stars 2024, 2025
George Swede
Dwarf Stars 2009, 2012
Patrick Sweeney
Dwarf Stars 2024
Rachel Swirsky
Rhysling Anthology third place in 2008
Anna Sykora
Dwarf Stars 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Rhysling Anthology 2010, 2012, 2014
Paul Szlosek
Star*Line 43.3, 44.1
Benjamin Szumskyj
Star*Line 30.2