Francis Alexander writes early in the morning, works part time at Cedar Point Amusement Park in the daytime, and roams the Internet at night.
*
Guy Belleranti lives in Tucson, Arizona and works in a library when he's not drreaming up things to write. His work has appeared in many publications including Woman’s World, Mouth Full of Bullets, Down in the Cellar, Beyond Centauri and Astropoetica. Guy’s homepage on the web is http://www.authorsden.com/guybelleranti
*
Shawn Bowman continues to ku from the reaches of time and space. He is occasionally seen in Cleveland, Ohio.
*
Shelly Bryant: Shelly sometimes teaches literature at a private university in Singapore, and sometimes studies in Shanghai, China. She reads, writes, cycles, and travels. Her favorite poets are John Donne, W. H. Auden, and Edwin Morgan.
*
*
Margarita Engle is a botanist and the Cuban-American author of four books about the island, most recently The Surrender Tree, forthcoming from Henry Holt & Co. in April, 2008. The Poet Slave of Cuba (Henry Holt & Co., 2006) received many honors, including the Americas Award, presented at the Library of Congress. Short works appear in a wide variety of journals, and have received a Pushcart nomination, a Best of the Net nomination, and a Dwarf Stars nomination.
*
Joshua Gage stomps around Cleveland in a purple bathrobe. He is the author of Deep Cleveland Lenten Blues, a forty-part poem which was published as a chapbook by Deep Cleveland Press. He is a recent graduate of Naropa University's Low-Residency Program in Creative Writing. His favorite color is plaid.
*
Ed Higgins: I live on a small farm in Yamhill, Or where we raise a menagerie of chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, pigs, Jersey cows, Nubian goats, a miniature donkey, and an emu named To & Fro. Some of my poems have appeared in Paper Wasp, Contemporary Haibun Online, and Roadrunner Haiku Journal among others.
*
-Deborah P Kolodji is the president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and a member of the Haiku Society of America. Her work has appeared in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, bottle rockets, Simply Haiku, Scifaikuest, and Strange Horizons, among other places.
*
*
my name is william landis jr. im a high school senior from nc.
*
Kurt MacPhearson lives in western Wisconsin with his wife and son where he modifies diesel engines into eco-friendly vegetable oil consumers while converting murky thoughts into something palatable. The former smells of french fries; verdict’s still out on the latter.
*
Robin Mayhall is a public relations professional with 17 years of experience in business and feature writing. She lives in Louisiana, writing speculative fiction and poetry in her "spare time" with occasional help from her four cats. Mayhall's poetry has appeared in print and online publications such as Scifaikuest, Astropetica, Strange Horizons and The Shantytown Anomaly. She is a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and has seen two poems nominated for the Rhysling Award.
*
Michael Nickels-Wisdom: I’ve been writing haiku and related forms for 17 years, after discovering them while working in a public library. A collector of literary ghost stories, I try to stay open to the eerie moments that sometimes present themselves as I wander the glacial farmland just beyond the Chicago metropolitan area.
*
Susan Palmer: Though I have been a Sci-fi fan for over 52 years, I did not start writing until I was 56 yrs old.
*
Kimo Pokini, ARTIST, is a visual artist and musician who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. His modern, minimalist work explores the juxtaposition of structure and improvisation. His work can be found in both public and private collections.
*
Greg Schwartz fixes copiers by day and writes horror by night. He is the staff cartoonist for SP Quill Magazine and a reviewer for Whispers of Wickedness. His chapbook of horror poems, "Bits & Pieces," is available from Spec House of Poetry and The Genre Mall. Visit him online at http://greg-schwartz.blogspot.com.
*
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff is an Aurora award winning poet/writer from the west coast of Canada, where she lives surrounded by green trees and dense bush, with a view of both mountains and ocean. She has been writing far too long, and her work has appeared in such magazines as On Spec, Weird Tales, Dreams and Nightmares and Aoife's Kiss.
*
s.c.virtes "scott virtes": I've had works in Analog (July/Aug 2007), Not One of Us,
Hungur and Helix SF recently; with pieces coming soon from Tales of the Talisman and Postcards from Hell. Plus the usual off-off-broadway zines. ;-)
*
Michael Dylan Welch is editor of Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem and of Press Here haiku and tanka books. He co-founded the Haiku North America conference in 1991 and the American Haiku Archives in 1996. In 2000, he founded the Tanka Society of America, serving as its president through 2004. Michael has also been vice president of the Haiku Society of America, and he's currently a board member of the Washington Poets Association. His poetry has been published in hundreds of journals and anthologies in more than a dozen languages. He lives with his wife and two slightly alien children in Sammamish, Washington.
Scifaikuest is also available as a print zine (which differs from the on-line zine.) To order a copy, or better yet, to order a subscription, go to www.genremall.com/zinesr.htm#scifaikuest
{editorial} {scifaiku} {tanka and one breath} {haibun} {horrorku} {senryu} {bios} {Purchase Center}