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Akua Lezli Hope

Akua Lezli Hope, a Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry, is a paraplegic creator of poems, patterns, stories, music, sculpture, & adornments. In print since 1974 with over 500 poems published, her collections include Embouchure: Poems on Jazz and Other Musics (Writer's Digest Book Award) & Otherwheres: Speculative Poetry (Elgin Award). A Cave Canem fellow, her honors include NEA & NYFA fellowships; SFPA, Rhysling & IGNYTE awards; NYSCA grant for Afrofuturist, speculative, pastoral poetry & 2024 NYSCA grant for disability poetics. She created the Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading series & edited NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators, the first of its kind.

Ken Anderson

Red Ogre Review Books (L.A.) and Liquid Raven Media just released Ken Anderson's The Goose Liver Anthology (Mother Goose meets Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology). His first poetry book was The Intense Lover. Coffin Bell Journal nominated his poem Blood Quartet for 2024 Best of the Net anthology. He was finalist in the 2021 Saints and Sinners poetry contest. His novel Sea Change: An Example of the Pleasure Principle was finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award and an Independent Publisher Editor's Choice. His novel Someone Bought the House on the Island was finalist in the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

F. J. Bergmann

F. J. Bergmann lives in Wisconsin and fantasizes about tragedies on or near exoplanets. She is the poetry editor of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. Her work has appeared in Abyss & Apex, Analog, Asimov's SF, and elsewhere in the alphabet. She thinks imagination can compensate for anything.

Harris Coverley

As well as previously in Sublimation, Harris Coverley has had over two hundred poems in publications around the world, including California Quarterly, Star*Line, Dwarf Stars, Spectral Realms, Scifaikuest, The Starlight Scifaiku Review, Dreadnought SF, The Crank, Tigershark, View From Atlantis, Yellow Mama, and many others. He lives in Manchester, England.

John C. Mannone

John C. Mannone has poems in Windhover, North Dakota Quarterly, Baltimore Review, Poetry South, and others. He won the Dwarf Stars Award (2020); was awarded an HWA Scholarship (2017) and a Jean Ritchie Fellowship (2017) in Appalachian literature; and served as celebrity judge for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (2018). He has five full-length collections, the latest, Dark Wind, Dark Water, a novella-length horror fiction collection, is forthcoming from Mind's Eye Publishing. He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex and Silver Blade. He's a professor of physics teaching mathematics and creative
writing in a Tennessee magnet high school.

Kurt Netwon

Kurt Newton's poetry has appeared in Sublimation, Strange Horizons, Space and Time, Eye to the Telescope, Spectral Realms and the anthologies Love Letter to Poe Vol. III, Extrasensory
Overload, Wicked Sick, Wicked Abandoned, Felis Futura, Rattus Futura, and Giant Robot Poems. His more recent collections include Songs of the Underland, A Troubled Sleep, The Ever-Evolving Alphabet, The Body Snatchers and Other Death Rituals and animals. He lives in the northeast corner of Connecticut.

Megan Diedericks

Megan Diedericks writes poetry and fiction, everything from meek to macabre can be found in between the lines. Her debut poetry collection: the darkest of times, the darkest of thoughts is available on Amazon. Among others, her work has been published by Hell-Bound Books, fifth wheel press and her short horror story: "It's Always Saturday" was released on August 6 in Are You Watching? from Inky Bones Press'Dark Decades Anthology Collection.

Diane Funston

Diane Funston writes poetry of nature and human nature. She co-founded a women's poetry salon in San Diego, created a weekly poetry gathering in the high desert town of Tehachapi, CA and most recently has been the Yuba-Sutter Arts and Culture Poet-in-
Residence for the past two years. It is in this role, she created Poetry Square, a monthly online venue that features poets from all the world reading their work and discussing creative process. Her first chapbook, Over the Falls, was published in 2022 by Foothills Publishing. Diane is also a visual artist in mosaic, wool felting, and collage.

Annette Gagliardi

Annette Gagliardi is a poet whose work has appeared in literary journals in Canada, England, Sweden and the US, including Motherwell, St. Paul Almanac Wisconsin Review, American Diversity Report, Origami Poems Project, Amethyst Review, Door IS A Jar, Trouble Among the Stars, Sylvia Magazine, and others. Her first full-length poetry collection is titled: A Short Supply of Viability and is a tribute to caregivers everywhere. Annette's first
historical fiction, titled: Ponderosa Pines: Days of the Deadwood Forest Fire, published in 2022 has won the PenCraft award for literary excellence. Her chapbook, Caffeinated, won the Literary Titan Book Award in 2024.