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Rachel Lachmansingh<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Betsy Ladyzhets<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Laffey<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 36.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marc Laidlaw<\/strong>
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1978<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelli Lage<\/strong> is earning her degree in Secondary English Education and works as a substitute teacher. She is a poetry reader for Bracken Magazine<\/em>. Lage’s work has appeared in The Lumiere Review, Welter Journal, Watershed Review,<\/em> and elsewhere. Website: KelliLage.com<\/a>.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wesley Lambert<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2005

Dennis M. Lane<\/strong>
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2013
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2013, 2014
Star*Line<\/em> 35.3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geoffrey A. Landis<\/strong> is a NASA scientist and science-fiction author known for both fiction and poetry. His writing has appeared in more than twenty languages, and his poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies ranging from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction<\/em> to The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics<\/em>. He is the author of two poetry collections: Iron Angels<\/em> from VanZeno press, and The Book of Whimsy<\/em> from NightBallet, as well as the novel Mars Crossing<\/em> and the story collection Impact Parameter (& Other Quantum Realities)<\/em>. He’s won awards including the Hugo and Nebula awards for science fiction and the Science Fiction Poetry Association\u2019s Rhysling award for poetry. He lives in Berea, Ohio, with his wife, author and poet Mary Turzillo, and his tiger cats Samurai and Scaramouche.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> first place in 2009<\/strong>, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2020
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1991, 1992, first place in 2000<\/strong>, first place in 2009<\/strong>, 2010, 2011, second place in 2014<\/strong>, 2018, 2021, second place in 2022, <\/strong>first place in 2024<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 31.5, 32.4, 32.5, 33.1, 33.4, 34.1, 34.4, 35.3, 36.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Landis<\/strong> has a B.S. in Agricultural Education with a Concentration on Plant and Soil Science, Class of 2012, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2017, 2019
Star*Line<\/em> 38.2, 39.2, 40.2, 40.3, 41.2, 41.4, 42.3, 42.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David W. Landrum<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2008

Chris Langer<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 46.2, 47.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beth Langford<\/strong>
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2016
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2009

Charles Larsen<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2008

David Glen Larson<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2013
Star*Line<\/em> 35.1, 35.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weronika \u0141aszkiewicz<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 38.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

obert Laughlin<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 36.2, 36.4, 37.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Lawler<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Lawrence<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen A. Lawrence<\/strong> has had poems published in Rattle<\/em> (Poets Respond), Scryptic<\/em>, haikuniverse<\/em>, Silver Blade<\/em>, Altered Reality<\/em>, Undertow Tanka Review<\/em>, New Verse News<\/em>, Star*Line<\/em>, and Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors<\/em>, among others. Two of her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net awards and two for Rhysling Awards and one for a Pushcart Prize.
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Star*Line<\/em> 40.4, 41.1, 41.2, 41.3, 41.4, 42.1, 42.2, 42.4, 43.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Edward Lawson<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2007
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Layton<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1995
Star*Line<\/em> 32.4, 34.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RJanna Layton
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 36.4

Jenna L\u00ea <\/strong>(jennalewriting.com<\/a>) is the author of the poetry collections Six Rivers<\/em> (NYQ Books, 2011), A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora<\/em> (Indolent Books, 2018), and Manatee<\/em> Lagoon (Acre Books, 2022). She lives and works as a physician and educator in New York City.
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2016
Star*Line<\/em> 44.4, 47.1, 48.1

Ursula K. Le Guin<\/strong> (1929\u20132018) was a celebrated and beloved author of 21 novels, 11 volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, 12 children\u2019s books, six volumes of poetry and four of translation. Her work earned six Nebulas, seven Hugos, and SFWA\u2019s Grand Master, along with the PEN\/Malamud and many other awards<\/a>. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters<\/a>, and in 2016 was published by the Library of America<\/a>.
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1980, first place in 1982<\/strong>, 2007
Star*Line 3.5, 5.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rio Le Moignan<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Frederick Leach<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angel Leal <\/strong>is a Latine, trans, ace writer who has several witches in the family. Their previous work appears in Strange Horizons, Heartlines Spec, The Deadlands, Small Wonders, Radon Journal, and elsewhere. They\u2019ve been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Rhysling, Best of the Net, the Utopia Award, and are a coadmin of CALAMITOUS, a queer SFFH writing group. You can find them at angel-leal.com or floating around twitter @orbiting_angel.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2023, 2025
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2023, second place in 2024<\/strong>, third place in 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelle Leasure
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frank Leblanc<\/strong>
Star*Line<\/em> 48.1

Nicole J. LeBoeuf<\/strong> is a New Orleanian writer of short speculative fiction and poetry appearing in such venues as Cast of Wonders, The Future Fire, Dreams and Nightmares, Apex Magazine,<\/em> and the vampirism anthology Blood and Other Cravings<\/em> (Tor Books, 2011). She also posts weird flash-sized story-like objects four times monthly at patreon.com\/NicoleJLeBoeuf<\/a>. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her indie RPG-writing husband and their adorably criminal rabbit. Her not-so-secret superhero identity is that of roller derby skater Fleur de Beast, roster number #504, with Boulder County Roller Derby. She blogs at nicolejleboeuf.com<\/a> and tweets at @nicolejleboeuf.
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2023
Star*Line<\/em> 45.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B. J. Lee<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018

Hazel Ann Lee<\/strong> is a Black American author of poems, short stories, novels and nonfiction. She is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and now makes her home in Philadelphia. The themes of her writing relate to science, education and science fiction. She recently published a book of original science poems and science fiction short stories titled The Astronaut\u2019s Window: Collection of Poems and Short Stories Celebrating Nature. <\/em>She is also an award-winning songwriter. Two of her poems, \u201cColors\u201d and \u201cThe Martyr\u201d were set to music and won awards in national music composition contests.
Star*Line<\/em> 43.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Soon Lee<\/strong> was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for over twenty years. She is a SFPA Grand Master and three-time winner of both the AnLab Readers\u2019 Award and the Rhysling Award. Her latest books are from opposite shores of the poetry ocean: “How to Navigate Our Universe,” containing 128 astronomy poems, and “The Sign of the Dragon,” novel-length epic fantasy, winner of the Elgin Award. She hides her online presence with a cryptically named website (marysoonlee.com<\/a>) and an equally cryptic Twitter account (@MarySoonLee).
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2001, 2002, first place in 2014<\/strong>, 2015, 2016, third place in 2017<\/strong>, first place in 2018<\/strong>, third place in 2018<\/strong>, 2019, 2020, 2021, first place in 2022<\/strong>, 2023, first place in 2025<\/strong>
Star*Line<\/em> 25.6, 28.1, 36.4, 37.1, 37.2, 37.4, 38.1, 38.2, 38.3, 38.4, 39.2, 40.1, 40.2, 40.3, 40.4, 41.2, 41.3, 41.4, 42.1, 42.2, 42.3, 42.4, 43.1, 43.3, 44.1, 44.2, 44.4, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 47.4, 48.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yoon Ha Lee<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2006, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gerri Leen<\/strong> is a Rhysling-nominated poet from Northern Virginia. She has poetry published in: Eye to the Telescope<\/em>, Star*Line<\/em>, Dreams<\/em> & Nightmares, Songs of Eretz, Polu Texni, <\/em>NewMyths.com<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>and others. She also writes fiction in many genres (as Gerri Leen for speculative and mainstream, and Kim Strattford for romance). Visit gerrileen.com<\/a> or kimstrattford.com<\/a> to see what else she’s been up to.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2022
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2020, 2021, 2022, honorable mention in 2023, honorable mention 2024
Star*Line<\/em> 38.1, 41.4, 42.3, 42.4, 43.1, 43.3, 44.1, 44.3, 44.4, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 47.1, 47.3, 47.4

Gary Lehman<\/strong>
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2002

Kat Lehmann<\/strong> is a Co-Founding Co-Editor of whiptail: journal of the single-line poem<\/em> and a panelist for The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. Kat is a winner of The Haiku Foundation\u2019s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem and is included in the New Resonance community of haiku poets. She is the author of three books of poetry. A former research biochemist, she likes to contemplate the grandiose within the details. Read Kat\u2019s work on her website: katlehmann.weebly.com<\/a>.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2022, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Esther Leiper<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 4.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Leis<\/strong> has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nightmare, Star*Line, Weird Fiction Quarterly<\/em>, anthologies from House of Zolo and Crone Girls Press, and other publications. He works at the University of Arizona with the HiRISE team, which has had a camera in orbit around Mars since 2006. His website is richardleis.com<\/a>.
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2025
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em><\/em> 42.4, 45.4, 47.3

Sandi Leibowitz
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2014, 2015, second place in 2016<\/strong>, third place in 2017
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2015, 2017
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 36.1, 36.4

Rose Lemberg<\/strong>
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2010, 2011, 2014
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, third place in 2014<\/strong>, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022
Star*Line<\/em> 31.6, 32.1, 33.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aimee Leonard<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 38.2

Shelley Lesher<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam Lesek<\/strong> is friends with your sleep paralysis demon. She still plans her supernatural hang-outs using a flip phone that she refuses to let die until the year 2030. Thankfully, dark entities don’t mind SMS. You can find her on Twitter @SamLesek
Star*Line<\/em> 45.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muriel Leung<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg Leunig
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2012

Richard L. Levesque
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barrie Levine<\/strong>
Dwarf Stars <\/em>2024

Ellery A. Lewark
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 40.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francine P. Lewis<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ai Li<\/strong> is a Straits Chinese short-form poet from London and Singapore who writes about life, love and loss bringing healing and prayer to her poems. The creator of cherita,<\/em> editor and publisher of the cherita,<\/em> founding editor and publisher of still, moving into breath<\/em> and dew-on-line,<\/em> she is also an evidential spiritualist medium, an urban photographer, and a surrealist collage painter. Find her essence in the quiet of her inner rooms at amazon.com\/ai-li\/e\/B0080X6ROC
<\/a>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Li <\/strong>(he\/him) is a Chinese-Canadian writer of speculative fiction and poetry. As an economist and developer, he also loves spreadsheets, statistical curiosities, and brain teasers. Find his work in Orion’s Belt, Abyss & Apex<\/em>, and Worlds of Possibility<\/em>, among other venues. Learn more at ian-li.com<\/a>.
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2025
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 47.3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shiyi Li<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 42.1, 43.1

Anne Liberton<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 46.3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julia Burns Liberman<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naomi Libicki<\/strong>\u2019s fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine, Terraform,<\/em> and elsewhere.
Star*Line<\/em> 42.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tonya Liburd<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2017, 2018

Nolan Liebert<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Liesieski<\/strong>
Star*Line<\/em> 39.3, 47.2

John C. Light
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2014

Alan P. Lightman
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> first place in 1983<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Ligotti
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Lilly <\/strong>has published several collections of haiku and short poetry with Red Moon Press, as well as a recent collection of prose poems, Creatures Among Us<\/em> (Broadstone Books, 2019). With degrees from Cornell (MFA, poetry) and Princeton (PhD, philosophy) universities, Rebecca works as a writer and researcher.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan L. Lin
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2024

Sandra J. Lindow<\/strong> has had 30 Rhysling nominations and 6 Dwarf Star nominations.\u00a0 Her poetry and reviews have appeared in\u00a0Star*Line\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Dreams\u00a0and\u00a0Nightmares.\u00a0<\/em>She is a past SFPA Vice President and President. She has edited the\u00a0October 2017\u00a0Eye to the Telescope<\/em>\u00a0and the February 2025 Valentine’s Day page. Presently, she serves as co-editor of the\u00a0SpecPo Review blog.<\/em>\u00a0Her most recent collection is\u00a0Mother Hubble’s Cupboard and Other\u00a0Poems about Inner and Outer Space,\u00a0<\/em>2025.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0She lives on a hilltop in Menomonie, Wisconsin where her front door is painted like a Tardis.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> third place in 2007<\/strong>, 2015, 2016, 2019
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1988, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2002, third place in 2004<\/strong>, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, third place in 2016<\/strong>, 2019, third place in 2020<\/strong>, 2021<\/strong>, 2022, 2023
Star*Line<\/em> 32.1, 34.4, 35.4, 36.1, 36.3, 36.4, 37.1, 37.4, 38.2, 38.3, 38.4, 39.1, 39.3, 40.1, 40.2, 40.4, 41.1, 41.2, 41.4, 42.3, 42.4, 43.3, 44.2, 44.4, 45.2, 45.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Lindsay<\/strong>
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darrell Lindsey<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2007
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2014
Star*Line<\/em> 33.2, 33.3, 35.2, 41.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marissa Lingen<\/strong> lives in the Minneapolis suburbs on some of the oldest bedrock on the North American continent. She writes science fiction, fantasy, essays, and now poetry, which came as a bit of a surprise but here we are.
Star*Line<\/em> 43.3, 44.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Lipscomb<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 3.2

Shira Lipkin<\/strong>\u2019s poetry and short fiction have been published in Apex Magazine, Stone Telling, Chizine, Interfictions 2, Mythic Delirium,<\/em> and other wonderful magazines and anthologies. She lives in Boston with her family and the requisite cats, most of whom also write. She also fights crime with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, does six impossible things before breakfast, and would like a nap now.
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2010, first place in 2012<\/strong>, 2013, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darren Lipman<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katarzyna Lisi\u0144ska<\/strong> lives in Poland. Her poems previously appeared in Space and Time, Illumen, Star*Line<\/em> and Scifaikuest.<\/em>
<\/em>Star*Line<\/em> 38.3, 40.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steve Littlejohn<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1996<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Liu<\/strong> is a Nebula-, Ignyte-, and Rhysling-nominated writer\/poet from NYC who writes about intergenerational trauma and weird things. She formerly researched mixed reality storytelling at Keio University in Japan. Her stories and poetry are published in Strange Horizons<\/em>, Clarkesworld<\/em>, Uncanny<\/em>, The Dark<\/em>, Interzone Digital<\/em>, Small Wonders<\/em>, Lightspeed<\/em>, kh\u014dr\u00e9\u014d<\/em>, and Logic(s)<\/em>, among others. Check out more of her work at liu-angela.com or find her on Twitter\/Instagram @liu_angela and on Bluesky @angelaliu.bsky.social.
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> third place 2024<\/strong>, honorable mention in 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chen-ou Liu<\/strong>
Dwarf Stars <\/em>2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trevor Livingston<\/strong>
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alyssa Lo<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2023

A. J. Locke<\/strong>
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2018

Frank Belknap Long<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1978<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gregory Longenecker<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campos Ricardo Burgos L\u00f3pez<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 37.4, 39.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aurelio Rico Lopez III<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2012
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 30.2, 31.1

Lori R. Lopez<\/strong> writes Speculative Verse and Prose along with other genres. She also enjoys illustrating her odd books for young and old and in-between. Lori and two talented sons formed a creative company named Fairy Fly Entertainment, and a Folk Band called The Fairyflies to record original songs. Her collection Darkverse: The Shadow Hours<\/em> received a 2018 Elgin Nomination. Poems have been honored with Rhysling Nominations, and various titles won Book Awards for Fiction and Poetry. A Hat-Wearer, Animal-Lover, Activist, Vegan, Tree-Hugger and all-around Eccentric, Lori\u2019s poetry and stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines including California Screamin\u2019<\/em> (the Foreword Poem), The Sirens Call<\/em>, The Horror Zine<\/em>, Weirdbook<\/em>, Spectral Realms<\/em>, Space & Time<\/em>, Illumen<\/em>, Altered Realities<\/em>, Bewildering Stories<\/em>, Oddball Magazine<\/em>, Impspired<\/em>, Rhysling Anthologies,<\/em> and HWA Poetry Showcases.<\/em>
<\/em>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2020, 2021, 2022

Christina Loraine<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Loring<\/strong>\u2019s short fiction has been published in Tales from the Lake, Nightscript IV, Dim Shores Presents,<\/em> and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthologies Not All Monsters<\/em> and Arterial Bloom.<\/em> She holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction with a concentration in horror fiction and is currently working toward a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies\u2013Humanities & Culture, studying the ecoGothic and the monstrous-feminine in horror video games. She is also a member of the American Folklore Society and National Women\u2019s Studies Association. Jenn lives in Philadelphia, PA, where she and her husband are owned by a turtle and two basset hounds.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LindaAnn LoSchiavo<\/strong>, native New Yorker and award-winner, is a member of British Fantasy Society, HWA, SFPA, and The Dramatists Guild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titles published in 2024:  “Always Haunted: Hallowe\u2019en Poems” [Wild Ink], “Apprenticed to the Night” [UniVerse Press], and “Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide” [Ukiyoto].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Released in November 2025: “Cancer Courts My Mother” [Prolific Pulse Press] and “Vampire Verses” [Twisted Dreams Press].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Accolades earned: Elgin Award (3rd place) for “A Route Obscure and Lonely”; Chrysalis BREW Project\u2019s Award for Excellence and The World\u2019s Best Magazine\u2019s Book of Excellence Award  for “Always Haunted: Hallowe\u2019en Poems”; the Spotlyts Story Award from Spotlyts Magazine  for “Apprenticed to the Night”;  the Chrysalis BREW Project\u2019s Seal of Excellence and the Voyages in Verses Book Award for  “Cancer Courts My Mother”; and the Excellence in Literature Award and The Bookish Reader’s Pick Award for “Vampire Verses: Poems.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her nominations include: a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Rhysling Award, Dwarf Stars, Eric Hoffer Award, and CLMP\u2019s Firecracker Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her craft essays have appeared in Writer\u2019s Digest, Authors Publish Magazine, Behind the Pages, Beyond Craft, Roi Faineant, SPARREW Newsletter, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blue Sky:   @ghostlyverse.bsky.social     – – –    X: @Mae_Westside<\/p>\n\n\n\n

URL:   linktr.ee\/LindaAnn.LoSchiavo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Substack:   https:\/\/substack.com\/@greenwichvillagepoet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YouTube:   LindaAnn Literary: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@lindaannliterary8035<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2025
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2021, 2022
Star*Line<\/em> 44.4, 45.4, 46.4

April Lott
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2004<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. Z. Louise<\/strong> is a civil engineer-turned-writer of speculative things, whose conure keeps them company during the writing process. When not reading or writing, they can be found playing folk instruments, knitting, or weaving. Their work has been published in Strange Horizons, Fiyah,<\/em> and Abyss & Apex.<\/em>
<\/em>Star*Line<\/em> 43.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monica Louzon<\/strong> (she\/her) is a queer writer, translator, and editor. Her speculative poetry has been nominated for a Dwarf Stars Award and published by Haven Speculative Magazine, NewMyths, Octavos, Quatrain.Fish<\/em>, among others. Visit linktr.ee\/molowrites<\/a> to learn more about Monica and her work.
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2021
Star*Line<\/em> 47.3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bobbie Lee Lovell<\/strong> has a background in visual art, graphic design and print production. She lives in Wisconsin with her two favorite young people. bobbie-lovell.com
<\/a>Star*Line<\/em> 38.2, 40.3

Bronwyn Lovell<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2016, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phoebe Low<\/strong> has work published or forthcoming on Tor.com<\/a>, If There’s Anyone Left, Not One of Us, TERSE., <\/em>and Mithila Review<\/em>. She is a proud graduate of Viable Paradise, and can be found at phoebe-low.com<\/a> or on Twitter @_lowpH.
Star*Line<\/em> 43.3

P. H. Low<\/strong> is a Malaysian American writer and poet with work published in Strange Horizons, <\/em>Tor.com<\/em><\/a>, Fantasy Magazine,<\/em> and Abyss & Apex,<\/em> among others. P. H. attended Viable Paradise in 2019, is a member of the Pitch Wars class of 2021, and currently serves as a first reader for kh\u014dr\u00e9\u014d<\/em>, a speculative fiction magazine featuring immigrant and diaspora writers and stories.
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2022, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. E. Lowery<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2008

Goran Lowie<\/strong> is an award-winning poet from rural Belgium. He writes poetry in his second language and is a high school teacher in his day job. He has work published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Kaleidotrope, Penumbric Magazine<\/em> and others. You can find him on Twitter @goranlowie.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2023
Star*Line<\/em> 45.3, 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 47.1, 47.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S. Qiouyi Lu<\/strong> writes, translates, and edits between two coasts of the Pacific. Their fiction and poetry have appeared in Asimov\u2019s, F&SF,<\/em> and Strange Horizons,<\/em> and their translations have appeared in Clarkesworld.<\/em> They edit the flash fiction and poetry magazine Arsenika.<\/em> You can find out more about S. at their website, s.qiouyi.lu<\/a>.
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2017, 2021
Star*Line<\/em> 43.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lessica Lucci<\/strong>
Dwarf Stars <\/em>2024

Kurt Luchs<\/strong> has poems published or forthcoming in Into the Void, Antiphon, The American Journal of Poetry <\/em>and The Sun Magazine<\/em>. He placed second for the 2019 Fischer Poetry Prize, and won the 2019 Atlanta Review<\/em> International Poetry Contest. He has written humor for the New Yorker<\/em>, the Onion<\/em> and McSweeney\u2019s Internet Tendency<\/em>, as well as writing comedy for television and radio. His books include a humor collection, It\u2019s Funny Until Someone Loses an Eye (Then It\u2019s <\/em>Really Funny)<\/em> (2017 Sagging Meniscus Press), and a poetry chapbook, One of These Things Is Not Like the Other<\/em> (2019 Finishing Line Press). More of his work, both poetry and humor, is at kurtluchs.com<\/a>.
Star*Line<\/em> 43.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob Lucky<\/strong>, an editor at Contemporary Haibun Online,<\/em> is the author of Ethiopian Time<\/em> (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014) and Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks<\/em> (SurVision Books, 2018), and a winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize in 2018. He currently splits his time between Saudi Arabia, where he teaches and plays in a ukulele band, and Portugal, where he is working his way through all the regional cheeses and wines.
Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2019

Dante Luiz<\/strong> (@dntlz) is an Ignyte-winning writer and comic artist from Brazil. He is a Clarion West alumnus, and his work has been published before by Nightmare<\/em> and Future SF Digest<\/em>, among others. Find his work on danteluiz.com
<\/em><\/a>Star*Line<\/em> 47.1, 47.3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suzanne Lummis<\/strong>
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1985

David Lunde<\/strong> (b. 1941) was born in Berkeley and raised in Saudi Arabia, where his father was an engineer with the Arabian American Oil Co. He graduated from Knox College in 1963 and attended the Iowa Writer\u2019s Workshop in 1967. After graduation, he taught English literature and creative writing, and directed the creative writing program at SUNY Fredonia. While there, he and Theodore Burtt Jr. founded The Basilisk Press. He was also managing editor of Drama and Theater <\/em>magazine, poetry editor of The Riverside Quarterly<\/em>, and contributing editor of Escarpments<\/em>. Upon retiring in 2001, he moved to North Bend, Oregon, with his wife, fantasy novelist Patricia A. McKillip. Approximately 1,000 of Lunde\u2019s poems, stories, articles, and translations have appeared internationally in more than 250 periodicals and 40 anthologies. He has published 10 books of poems and, in collaboration with Mary M.Y. Fung, The Carving of Insects<\/em>, a translation of the collected poems of the 20th-century Chinese poet Bian Zhilin. Another collection of Lunde\u2019s Chinese translations, Breaking the Willow<\/em>, was published in fall 2008, and in 2011 he and two fellow translators, Geoffrey Waters and Michael Farman, published a new translation of the classic Chinese anthology 300 Tang Poems<\/em>. Lunde\u2019s books include Ironic Holidays <\/em>(Sariya Press, 1965, chapbook, hand-printed by author), Les Papillons <\/em>(Lupo Press, 1965, Sludge Gulper1 <\/em>(The Basilisk Press, 1971), Instead <\/em>(Mayapple Press, 2007), Breaking the Willow:Poems of Parting, Exile, Separation & Reunion <\/em>(White Pine Press, 2008, translated by David Lunde), The Grandson of Heinrich Schliemann & Other Truths and Fictions <\/em>(Mayapple Press, 2014), and A Full Load of Moonlight: Chinese Chan Buddhist Poems <\/em>(Musical Stone Culture, 2014, translated by Mary M.Y. Fung and David Lunde).
Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, first place in 1992<\/strong>, 1993, first place in 1995<\/strong>, third place in 2000<\/strong>, 2004, 2006
Star*Line<\/em> 4.6, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 34.1, 34.4, 35.1

Roddy Lumsden<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dwarf Stars<\/em> 2008

Richard Lung<\/strong>
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 33.3, 34.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roman Lyakhovetsky<\/strong> is originally from Russia, but now lives in Israel. He has a Ph.D. in Cell Biology and does his best to combine science and poetry in his life. His haiku and tanka have appeared in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Heron\u2019s Nest, Scifaikuest<\/em> and A Hundred Gourds,<\/em> among other journals.
Star*Line<\/em> 38.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karl Lykken<\/strong> writes stories and software (plus the occasional poem) in Texas. You can read more of his work in Daily Science Fiction<\/em>, The Big Jewel<\/em>, and Theme of Absence<\/em>.
Star*Line<\/em> 42.3, 44.3, 44.4, 45.2, 47.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Lynch
<\/strong>Star*Line<\/em> 35.4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hillary Lyon
<\/strong>Rhysling Anthology<\/em> 2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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