Sumiko Saulson joins us today with a reading of their poem, “On Darkest Night of Faerie Bright” as a Poetry Showcase Alumni.

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Sumiko Saulson is an award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror whose latest novel Happiness and Other Diseases is available on Mocha Memoirs Press.

Winner of the HWA Scholarship from Hell (2016) BCC Voice “Reframing the Other” contest (2017), Mixy Award (2017), Afrosurrealist Writer …

Ai Jang joins us today with a reading of her poem, “A Barrening Mother” from Poetry Showcase IX.

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Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer and an immigrant from Fujian. She is a member of HWA, SFWA, and Codex. Her work can be found in F&SF, The Dark, Uncanny, The Puritan, Prairie Fire, The Masters Review. Her debut novella Linghun (April 2023) is forthcoming with Dark Matter INK. Find her on Twitter …

Leigh Hennig joins us today with a reading of his poem, “The Interview” from Poetry Showcase IX.

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R. Leigh Hennig is a writer, editor, and horror enthusiast living with his beautiful wife and three awesome kids in coastal New England. Previously he taught a series of classes on horror in literature with the King County Library System in Seattle, has written numerous essays on disability in speculative fiction (along with the …

Denise Dumars joins us today with a reading of her poem, “Cusp of Conjure” from Poetry Showcase IX.

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Denise Dumars is a widely published, award-winning poet, short fiction, and nonfiction writer. Her poetry collection Paranormal Romance: Poems Romancing the Paranormal, was nominated for the Elgin Award. Each October she participates in a vampire poetry performance troupe called Casketeria, with appearances in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Her column “Stealth SF: …

Hillary Dodge joins us today with a reading of her poem, “Something to Know About the Wind At the Cliff House” from Poetry Showcase IX.

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Hillary Dodge is an award-winning editor and author of several speculative short fictions as well as three nonfiction books. She spends a good deal of time traveling, going places that are forbidden, and eating. She once had tea with a Roma in a cave in the …

Jamal Hodge joins us today with a reading of his poem, “The Silence of God” as a Poetry Showcase Alumni.

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JAMAL HODGE is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and writer from Queens NYC who has won over 70 awards with screenings at Tribecca Film Festival, Sundance, and the Cannes Short Film Corner. He has directed the first season of Investigation Discovery Channel’s Primal Instinct’ and has come on as a …

Monica S. Kuebler joins us today with a reading of her poem, “Blowtorch” from Poetry Showcase IX.

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Monica S. Kuebler is co-coordinator of the Ontario Chapter of the Horror Writers Association and has spent the last two decades wearing a variety of editorial hats at Rue Morgue magazine, for whom she penned Rue Morgue Library #3: Weird Stats and Morbid Facts. She also writes poetry and monster stories; her young …

Stephanie Ellis joins us today with a reading of her poem, “Revenant – The Ministrations of Lilith (an extract)” from Poetry Showcase IX.

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Stephanie Ellis writes dark speculative prose and poetry and has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. Her longer work includes the novel, The Five Turns of the Wheel and the novellas, Bottled and Paused. Her novels, Reborn and The Woodcutter, are due for …

Dan B. Fierce joins us today with a reading of his poem, “Strike A Match” from Poetry Showcase IX.

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Dan B. Fierce loves humor and horror alike, and many things in between. A long-time fan of authors like Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Edgar Alan Poe, he lets his darker side come out in the macabre “Revenge” demonstrates the tension caused by the corona virus with “Mistaken” and gives the reader …

Timothy P. Flynn joins us today with a reading of his poem, “A Darker Dawn” from Poetry Showcase IX.

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Timothy P. Flynn is a dark poet from Massachusetts. His previous poetry resides in Space and Time magazine, Anthocon’s book collections: Anthology Years 1-3, Wicked Tales, Wicked Creatures, Scifaikuest, haikuniverse, Haiku Journal and the HWA Poetry Showcase Vol 5 & Vol 6 His most recent work will appear in …

Victoria Nations joins us today with a reading of her poem, “Reasons Why You Can’t Go Out to Play Alone” from Poetry Showcase IX.

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Victoria Nations writes horror stories and poetry about creatures with emotional baggage. Her most recent work appears in IN SOMNIO: A Collection of Modern Gothic Horror, A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales, the Magpie Messenger literary magazine, and the upcoming Mother: Tales of Love and …

Dianthe West joins us today with a reading of her poem, “Arachne” from Poetry Showcase IX.

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Dianthe West is an art historian turned poet and fiction author, which was always the prize. Their work is inspired by the sublime and the quirky, from Gothic landscapes to urban fantasy to Carrollian fairy tale satire. They live with their family, plants, four-legged familiars, and hundreds of grazing bunnies in Guelph, Ontario.

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