Jen Valencia
Rhysling Anthology 2009
Shirley Valencia
Star*Line 32.3, 35.2
Catherynne M. Valente
Rhysling Anthology 2005, second place in 2007, first place in 2008, third place in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2022
A.J. Van Belle
Rhysling Anthology 2025
Joseph VanBuren is a multimedia storyteller who creates dark tales about broken pasts, uncertain futures, and the present struggle of love and light. He is also the scrambled brains behind Sykophunk Productions. His work has been published in the magazines The Sirens Call and Horror Trash Sleaze as well as the anthologies Untimely Frost (Lycan Valley Press) and Haunted are These Houses (Unnerving).
Star*Line 43.3
Cor van den Heuvel
Dwarf Stars 2008
Jerome Van Epps is a practicing xenoöenologist from Madison, Wisconsin. He lives in a purple house.
Star*Line 39.1, 44.1
Wendy Van Camp writes science fiction, historical regency, and non-fiction essays, along with poetry. Her work has appeared in Indie Author Magazine, Star*Line, Planetside, and Worlds of IF among others. She was editor for Eccentric Orbits, an annual speculative poetry anthology, a guest editor of Eye to the Telescope, and the inaugural editor of Anaheim Poetry Review. Wendy was named Anaheim Poet Laureate during (2022-2024) where she served as a community organizer, mentor, and public speaker for the Anaheim poetry community. Currently, she is the owner of Indigoskye Press, an editorial and writing coach business. Find her at wendyvancamp.com.
Dwarf Stars 2022, 2024
Star*Line 46.3, 46.4
Gene Van Troyer
Rhysling Anthology 1981, 1982, 1983, third place in 2001
Star*Line 1.10, 1.11, 2.2, 2.8, 3.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.6, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1, 31.1, 32.4
Deanie Vallone is a writer and theater-maker residing in Wisconsin. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction can be found in The Wisconsin Review, Sundog Lit, Jumeirah Magazine, Booth, and other publications. In her free time, she trains birds of prey with a local nature center. You can follow her writing adventures on Instagram: @seedeanwrite.
Star*Line 44.2
Marcus Vance is a full-time father, part-time writer, and weapons consultant for TV. You can connect with him on Twitter (@MarcusCVance) where he discusses the writing craft, swords, and bad jokes at length.
Dwarf Stars 2022
Star*Line 41.4, 42.1, 42.3, 42.4, 43.1, 44.1, 44.2
Ralph E. Vaughan
Star*Line 4.5
K H van Berkum
Rhysling Anthology 2017
JoSelle Vanderhooft
Dwarf Stars 2008
Rhysling Anthology 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012
Star*Line 33.3
Jeff VanderMeer
Rhysling Anthology 1990, first place in 1994
Burlee Vang
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Peter Venable
Rhysling Anthology 2015
Morgan L. Ventura is a speculative fiction writer, poet, and anthropologist based in Ireland. Ventura's poetry and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Crow and Cross Keys, Augur, and Eye to the Telescope, while their fiction and essays appear in Lackington's, Geist, and Best Canadian Essays 2021.
Rhysling Anthology 2021, 2022, 2024
Karen Verba
Rhysling Anthology 1996
Yuliia Vereta (she/her) is a Polish writer of Ukrainian origin currently living her third life in Katowice. Her speculative poetry and fiction have appeared, among others, in Asimov's Science Fiction, Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, NewMyths, Solarpunk, and Utopia Science Fiction. Her work was selected for The Heartbeat of the Universe, an anthology of the best SF from Asimov's SF and Analog SF&F between 2012 and 2022. She is a 2022 Best of the Net nominee and a multiple Dwarf Stars finalist. Her debut chapbook, God, I Wish I Were That Trout — where humor, absurdity, and SF collide — was published by The Island of Wak-Wak in 2026. By day she works as a translator and a court interpreter. She holds an M.A. in Translation Studies and is an ATA-certified translator. When she isn't working or writing, she enjoys travelling, cooking, and making ambitious plans she occasionally follows through on.
Dwarf Stars 2023, 2025
Star*Line 45.1, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 47.4, 48.1
Rachel Verkade is a Canadian woman currently living in England. Her stories have been published in Under the Bed, 69 Flavors of Paranoia, See the Elephant, Pseudopod, and The New Accelerator, as well as the anthologies Lost Worlds, Tales of Blood and Squalor, and Enter the Apocalypse. She is also a reviewer for The Future Fire, her poetry has been featured in Liminality, and she has been a contributer to The Escapist. Her story “Blood and Ivory” was nominated for the 2011 Million Writers award and named one of the notable stories of the year. When she's not writing, she is using her background in wildlife biology to keep her cats and parrot from eating her husband.
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Emily Ruth Verona
Rhysling Anthology 2024
Steve Vernon
Rhysling Anthology 2011
William J. Vernon
Star*Line 5.1, 5.2
Marie Vibbert’s poetry has appeared in Analog, Asimov’s, and a variety of poetry venues such as Dreams and Nightmares and Liminality. She once sold a rhyming poem to a magazine that had "no rhyming poetry" in their guidelines, which remains her highest poetic achievement. She also writes prose, her debut novel Galactic Hellcats came out in 2021, and by day she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dwarf Stars 2024
Rhysling Anthology 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023
Star*Line 45.2
M. Ray Vidrine
Star*Line 47.4, 48.1
Peter Viereck
Rhysling Anthology 1986
Elaine Vilar Madruga, born in Havana, Cuba in 1989, is a poet, fiction writer, and playwright, whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies around the globe. She has authored more than thirty books, including Culto de acoplamiento (2015), Sakura (2016), Fragmentos de la tierra rota (2017), El Hambre y la Bestia (2018), and Los años del silencio (2019). Translations of her short fiction and poetry have appeared in The Bitter Oleander, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Mithila Review, among others.
Star*Line 43.2
Veda Villiers
Star*Line 48.1
Marc Vincenz has published fourteen books of poetry, including, more recently, The Syndicate of Water & Light (Station Hill Press, 2018), and Here Comes the Nightdust (Salmon Poetry, 2019).
Star*Line 37.1, 39.3, 44.2
Joan M. Vinge is known for her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen and its sequels, her series about the telepath named Cat, and her Heaven's Chronicles books.
Star*Line 4.2
S. C. Virtes
Star*Line 42.1
Scott Virtes has had over 450 stories & poems published since 1986. His works have appeared in Nature, Analog, Space & Time, Ideomancer, Star*Line, Scifaikuest, Illumen, and many more. He was in the Royal Navy in 1804 (almost, it was “Master and Commander”), and has been seen performing classic rock tunes around the San Diego area.
Star*Line 47.3
Aaron Vlek
Rhysling Anthology 2017
Dawn Vogel has written for children, teens, and adults, spanning genres, places, and time periods. More than 100 of her stories and poems have been published by small and large presses. Her specialties include young protagonists, siblings who bicker but love each other in the end, and things in the water that want you dead. She is a member of Broad Universe, SFWA, and Codex Writers. She lives in Seattle with her awesome husband (and fellow author), Jeremy Zimmerman, and their herd of cats. Visit her at historythatneverwas.com or on Twitter @historyneverwas.
Star*Line 42.4, 43.1, 44.3, 45.1, 45.4, 46.1, 46.4, 47.4
Krystal Volney is known for her children’s series, ‘Dr. Zazzy,’ that started in 2013, as well as poetry. She is also known for her quotes, computing interviews for Win One IQ Magazine (World Intelligence Network) as a tech writer and part-time editor.
Rhysling Anthology 2018, 2019
Chuck Von Nordheim
Rhysling Anthology 2019
Star*Line 39.4