{"id":8850,"date":"2025-07-25T17:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/?page_id=8850"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:28:59","slug":"poet-biographies-f","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/resources\/poet-database\/poet-biographies-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Biographies: F"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Joshua Fagan<\/strong> is a writer and critic currently residing in New York City. His creative work has previously been published in venues including Daily Science Fiction<\/em>, The Fantastic Other<\/em>, and Columbia Quarto<\/em>. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the literary speculative-fiction publication Orion\u2019s Belt.<\/em> His YouTube channel has received over 1.9 million views.
Star*Line<\/em> 45.4

Roy P. Fairfield<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1993, 1995

Kevin Fagen<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1991<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Falk<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1990<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alice Fanchiang<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2016, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Fantina<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura Fargas<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1984<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donna Farley<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2002<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colleen M. Farrelly<\/strong> is a Miami poet and mathematician. She enjoys exploring the possibilities of life through science fiction, and she can usually be found swimming. Her first book, The Shape of Data<\/em>, is scheduled for a July 2023 release.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angel Favazza<\/strong> works as a Michigan-based high-school English teacher. She is an avid fan of all things sci-fi. Her other interests include: writing, nature photography and most recently, learning to watercolor.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2013, 2014, 2015
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Star*Line<\/em> 32.2, 33.1, 34.3, 35.1, 37.3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karolina Fedyk<\/strong> writes speculative fiction and poetry in two languages, and occasionally tweets as @karigrafia.
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2017
Star*Line<\/em> 39.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin J. Fellows<\/strong> is a writer of fantasy and the speculative currently residing in the desert southwest. He writes short stories, poetry, and is working on a novella series. He is also working on a collection of fantasy and speculative poetry.
Star*Line<\/em> 43.3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debby Feo<\/strong> has been writing poems and short stories since high school. Her first poem was published in 2007 and her first short story in 2008, both by Sam’s Dot Publishing, in Beyond Centauri.<\/em> She has been published in multiple magazines\/anthologies, and has ten published books, and four self-published poetry books.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2022
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2020
Star*Line<\/em> 42.3, 43.2, 45.2, 46.1, 46.4, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 47.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joel Ferdon<\/strong>\u2019s chapbook, Elegy for My Father\u2019s Bones,<\/em> was published by Louisiana Literature Press in 2016, and his poems have appeared, or will soon, in Verse Daily, Asheville Poetry Review, Flyway, The Southern Quarterly, Cold Mountain Review, storySouth, Louisiana Literature,<\/em> and elsewhere. Joel is the recipient of an Artist Support Grant through the North Carolina Arts Council and the Arts and Science Council of Charlotte, has been a contributor at the Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He serves as the Director of Library Services at Stanly Community College in Albemarle, North Carolina, and lives with his wife, son, and three black labs in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Star*Line<\/em> 44.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beatriz F. Fernandez<\/strong> is the author of The Ocean Between Us<\/em> (Backbone Press, 2017) and Shining from a Different Firmament<\/em> (Finishing Line Press, 2015) which she presented at the Miami Book Fair International. She has read her poetry on WLRN, South Florida\u2019s NPR station and is a former grand prize winner of the Writer\u2019s Digest<\/em> Annual Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Falling Star Magazine<\/em> (2014 Pushcart nom.), Strange Horizons, Thirty West Publishing House<\/em> (2017 Pushcart nom.), Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist <\/em>Poetry (2020 Pushcart nom.).
Star*Line<\/em> 44.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Ferrier<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg Fewer<\/strong> originally hails from Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada. His speculative flash fiction and short form poetry have appeared in (among other places) Cuento Magazine<\/em>, Lovecraftiana<\/em>, Monsters: A Dark Drabbles Anthology<\/em>, Page & Spine<\/em>, Polar Borealis<\/em>, Polar Starlight<\/em>, Scifaikuest<\/em>, Star*Line<\/em>, The Nafallen University Course Catalog<\/em>, The Sirens Call<\/em>, Utopia Science Fiction<\/em>, and Worth 1,000 Words: 101 Flash Fiction Stories by 101 Authors<\/em>. He is a long-time fan of tabletop role-playing games and video games.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2021, 2023
Star*Line<\/em> 43.1, 44.4, 46.2, 46.3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amelia Fielden<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> <\/strong>2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clarabelle Fields<\/strong> is a writer, web developer, and editor native to the Rocky Mountains. She holds a BA in classical languages (2018, summa cum laude) and studied in the UK as a Fulbright Summer Institute participant. Her poetry, prose, and photography have appeared in print and online over 100 times. Find out more at clarabellefields.com<\/a>.
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gemma Files<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2009, 2013, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Finley<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B. Bucley Finnegan<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Livia Finucci<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack Fisher<\/strong>
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2002<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Fisher <\/strong>is learning Leonard Cohen songs on the ukulele, in search of the blazing word. \u201cLady Midnight\u201d is his sacrament.
Star*Line<\/em> 39.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark A. Fisher<\/strong> is a writer, poet, and playwright living in Tehachapi, CA. His poetry has appeared in Angel City Review, Spectrum, Altadena Poetry Review, Penumbra, Lummox,<\/em> and many other places. His first chapbook, drifter,<\/em> is available from Amazon. His second, hour of lead,<\/em> won the 2017 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> second place in 2020<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 39.3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel G. Fitch<\/strong> has a dog named Greg.
Star*Line<\/em> 44.1, 44.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Fletcher<\/strong>
Star*Line<\/em> 48.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kari A. Flickinger<\/strong> was a finalist in the IHLR 2018 PhotoFinish. Her poetry has been published in Written Here: The Community of Writers Poetry Review<\/em>, Riddled with Arrows<\/em>, Burning House Press, Door-Is-A-Jar<\/em>, Ghost City Review<\/em>, and Rhythm & Bones<\/em>, among others. She is an alumna of UC\u2013Berkeley. When not writing, she plays guitar to her unreasonably large Highlander cat. Find her: @kariflickinger
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Flowers<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 32.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geneve Flynn<\/strong> is an award-winning fiction editor and author. Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> which she co-edited with Lee Murray, won the 2020 Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards and shortlisted for the British Fantasy, Aurealis, and Australian Shadows awards. Geneve\u2019s short stories have been published in various markets, including Flame Tree Publishing, PseudoPod,<\/em> Crystal Lake Publishing & Black Spot Books, and Things in the Well.<\/em> Her poetry appears in Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> a Bram Stoker Award-nominated collaboration with Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, and Lee Murray, and she has been nominated for both the Rhysling and Pushcart awards. Geneve loves tales that unsettle, all things writerly, and B-grade action movies. If that sounds like you, check out her website at geneveflynn.com.au<\/a>.
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2022, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael F. Flynn<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1990, 1996<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam Ford<\/strong> lives in Australia, in a teeny little town called Chewton. He is the author of the poetry collections The Third Fruit is a Bird<\/em> and Not Quite the Man for the Job.<\/em> In 2019 his geohistorical spoken word walking tour, Dance to the Anticlinal Fold, was featured as part of the Castlemaine State Festival. Adam\u2019s website, featuring free ebooks and links to recently published poetry, is theotheradamford.wordpress.com<\/a>.
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2022
Star*Line<\/em> 40.2, 43.2, 44.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John M. Ford<\/strong> (1957\u20132006) was a prolific science-fiction and fantasy writer, whose books are now being reprinted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rhysling Anthology<\/em> first place in 1989<\/strong>, 1990, 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorin Ford<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke Forney<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 41.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francesca Forrest <\/strong>has lived in the United States, England, and Japan and used to boast about having given birth to children on three continents. If she\u2019d started earlier, she might have tried for births on the rest. Currently she works as a copy editor, spending as much of her free time writing as possible. She\u2019s had short stories and poems published both online and in print, along with one novel, Pen Pal.<\/em> She also volunteers as a tutor in a medium-security jail and has helped with a program to make children\u2019s books available in the various mother tongues spoken in Timor-Leste. She loves knowing which plants in a landscape are edible and the folk names of wildflowers.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2009
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2009, 2010, 2013, third place in 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryn Fortey<\/strong>
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2007
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornelius Fortune<\/strong> is the senior editor of BLAC Detroit<\/em> magazine. Stands for Black Life, Arts & Culture.
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2009
Star*Line<\/em> 37.4, 38.1, 42.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Fosburg<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2011, 2013
Star*Line<\/em> 32.6, 33.1, 33.5, 34.2, 34.4, 35.2

Milo James Fowler<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 36.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Fox<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugh Fox<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2011

Janet Fox<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1981
Star*Line<\/em> 3.4, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 5.4

J D Fox<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2016

Tim Fox<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 3.3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Francis<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 45.1

Robert Frazier <\/strong>has seen his work in such publications as Asimov\u2019s Science Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, Amazing, Weird Tales, Tales of the Unanticipated, Dreams & Nightmares,<\/em> and The Magazine of Speculative Poetry.<\/em> His work has also appeared in almost every significant anthology containing science fiction poetry. He received an Asimov\u2019s<\/em> Readers\u2019 Poll Award in 1991. Frazier\u2019s original collections include Peregrine<\/em> (1978), Co-Orbital Moons<\/em> (1988) and The Daily Chernobyl<\/em> (2000, winner of the Anamnesis Press Poetry Chapbook Award). He collaborated with Bruce Boston on Chronicles of the Mutant Rainforest<\/em> (1992). He was a longtime editor of Star*Line<\/em> and was the editor of Speculative Poetry Review<\/em> and of the seminal anthology Burning with a Vision. <\/em>He was elected an SFPA Grand Master in 2005.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2006, 2023
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1979, first place in 1980<\/strong>, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, first place in 1989<\/strong>, 1991, 1993, first place in 1994<\/strong>, 1995, 1999, third place in 2002<\/strong>, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, third place in 2011<\/strong>, 2014, 2017
Star*Line<\/em> 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 2.1, 2.6, 2.8, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, 4.1, 4.3, 4.6, 5.1, 5.2, 5.5, 6.1, 32.4, 33.1, 33.2, 33.5, 34.4, 36.2, 36.3, 36.4, 37.2 (with Phoebe Frazier<\/strong>), 38.2, 38.4, 39.1, 39.4, 40.1, 41.3, 44.1, 45.1, 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 47.2, 47.3, 47.4, 48.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Fredericks<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 1.11

Melissa Frederick<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2013
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2011
Star*Line<\/em> 34.4, 35.3

Janis Freegard<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2012

Todd Fredson<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Fried<\/strong> lives in Henrico, VA. He had a collection of poetry, All Aboard the Timesphere<\/em>, published in Summer 2013. He has contributed articles to Listverse<\/em>, Knowledgenuts<\/em>, TopTenz<\/em>, and NewRetroWave<\/em> on occasion. He’s currently serving as an advisor on the upcoming documentary In Search of Tomorrow<\/em>.
Star*Line<\/em> 43.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jay Friedenberg<\/strong> is the president of the Haiku Society of America.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2024
Star*Line<\/em> 43.3, 47.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Friel<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 3.3, 3.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Friend<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The poetry of M. Frost<\/strong> appears in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Dreams & Nightmares, and many others\u2014with chapbooks\u00a0Cow Poetry<\/em>\u00a0(Finishing Line Press) and\u00a0The Women of Myth<\/em>\u00a0(Island of Wak-Wak), as well as a collaboration with artist-brother (Constellation<\/em>). Read (and hear) more at\u00a0mfrostwords.com<\/a>.\u00a0
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2008, 2013
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 30.2, 31.5, 32.5, 35.1, 48.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jen Stewart Fueston<\/strong> is the author of Madonna, Complex<\/em> (Cascade Books, 2020), Latch<\/em> (River Glass Books, 2019) and Visitations<\/em> (Finishing Line Press, 2015). Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in AGNI, Thrush, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Iron Horse Review, Sugar House Review,<\/em> and elsewhere. A native of Colorado, she has taught writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder, as well as internationally.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2022

TS S. Fulk<\/strong> lives in Sweden as an English teacher and textbook author. He is also an active musician playing the bass trombone, the Appalachian mountain dulcimer and the Swedish bumblebee dulcimer (hummel<\/em>). His works have been published in numerous anthologies and journals.
Star*Line<\/em> 45.4, 46.3

J. Bruce Fuller<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2008
Star*Line<\/em> 30.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Beth Furst<\/strong> is a Touchstone Award-nominated poet and author. She writes Japanese short-form poetry and especially enjoys writing haibun. She has authored two children\u2019s picture books, including Electric Pink: A Christmas Haibun.<\/em> Susan has published two haiku collections; souvenir shop: memories of the highland park zoo,<\/em> and midwinter moon: a collection of Christmas haiku.<\/em> Susan lives in Woodbridge, Virginia, with her husband, Herb. You can find her on Instagram @sueshaikus & @susanbethfurst.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2019

Serena Fusek
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2008, 2013, 2015
Star*Line<\/em> 35.3, 37.3, 37.4, 40.2

James D. Fuson
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2017
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 36.4, 37.1, 37.3, 37.4, 38.1, 38.2, 38.3, 38.4, 39.3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Futter<\/strong> began writing surreal stories and poems in his childhood as an escape from a world in which he felt increasingly isolated. His recent decision to share these poems has led to his work appearing in numerous publications. To date he has had poems published in all 10 volumes of S.T. Joshi’s Spectral Realms<\/em> anthologies, Jason Brock’s Bram Stoker-nominated anthology, The Darke Phantastique,<\/em> and 2 editions of Centipede Press’s Weird Fiction Review<\/em> of the year. He continues to write in a richly metaphorical style, which he hopes will help readers make sense of their lives, and which S.T. Joshi recognised when he described Ian’s work as \u201cno mere shudder-coining.\u201d
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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