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My name is Adam Callaway. I firmly deny that I am merely an AI. AIs are not "merely" anything. I'm new to the speculative poetry circuit, but it looks like a lot of fun so I think I might stay a while. Hope you enjoy.
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LeRoy Gorman lives in Napanee , Ontario and teaches in Kingston . His poetry, much of it visual, mostly minimalist and haiku or haiku in intent, has appeared in print since 1976 in various presentations worldwide. Over the years, he has also assumed and written under at least 50 pseudonyms Since 1996, he has been editor of Haiku Canada Publications (Haiku Canada Newsletter 1996 - 2006, Haiku Canada Review beginning in 2007, annual anthologies, broadsides). In 1998, he began to publish poetry leaflets and postcards under his pawEpress imprint. He is a member of the Writers' Union of Canada, Haiku Society of America, and life member of Haiku Canada.
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Julie Bloss Kelsey: When she is not chasing after her three children, Julie Bloss Kelsey enjoys writing scifaiku and Fibonacci sequence poetry. You can reach her online at her family-friendly science blog, _Mama Joules_ (http://www.mamajoules.blogspot.com).
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Lauren McBride draws inspiration for her poetry from faith, nature, years as a research assistant in molecular biology and membership in SFPA. She shares a love of laughter, science and the ocean with her husband and two children. While her work has appeared in various places of late, she also wishes to see her YA novel completed and in print - someday.
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David S. Pointer lives in Murfreesboro, TN with his two daughters. He will mave a music themed chapbook published by "New Polish Beat" in Poland.
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semi aka Terrie Leigh Relf
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WC Roberts lives in a mobile home up on Bixby Hill, on land that was once the county dump. The only window looks out on a ragged scarecrow standing in a field of straw and dressed in WC's own discarded clothes. WC dreams of the desert, of finally getting his first television set, and of ravens. Above all, he writes.
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albert schlaht: Albert resides in the Rocky Mountains where he enjoys a cool mountain breeze blowing down a Bitteroot stream enticing his imagination to flow freely.
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Valeria Simonova-Cecon has been writing haiku and tanka since 2004.
She is Russian but now lives in Italy, married to an italian haijin. Her poems were published in the "Ribbons" (American Tanka Society magazine), "The Heron's Nest", "Ulitka" (haiku and tanka on-line magazine) and other journals and magazines.
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Daniel C. Smith: I have published over seventy poems, stories, and articles in publications such as Bare Bone, AlienSkin, Tales of the Talisman, The Leading Edge, Star*Line, and Space and Time.
Most recently I won an honorable mention in the 18th Annual Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror for poetry.
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Tanner Wiens: I am a self-declared polymath-a student of multiple fields of knowledge (particularly Japanese literature, linguistics, and biochemistry), a science fiction reader and poet, among many other things. I author a wide range of sci-fi/speculative and non-speculative poetry, and being completely obsessed with conceptual metaphor theory and symbolism, attempt to cultivate rich metaphorical meaning through the imagery of the poetic medium.
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Neal Wilgus has no computer but keeps three clipboards next to his bed and writes almost everything on a typewriter as old as he is. He still uses carbon paper.
He is the author of RHYMED AND DANGEROUS (2005), LAST TRAIN TO NEW ZEALAND (2007), and PUMP PRIME (2008), and his poem “Disneyesque” was nominated for the 2007 Rhysling Award. He has a rudimentary knowledge of Southwest American Indian culture, having been married to the late educator/artist/poet Ramona Puhuyesva for close to thirty years. His son, Warren Asa Wilgus, and his wife Courtney are active in drama and musical theatre in Albuquerque and elsewhere.
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