Ken Poyner

Ken Poyner in the last forty+ years has appeared in more than 200 periodicals, both print and web-based, including "The Alaska Quarterly Review", "Asimov’s Science Fiction", "Analog Science Fiction and Fact", "Café Irreal", "Everyday Fiction", "The Iowa Review", "The Journal of Micro-literature", "Mobius", "Star*Line", "The Watershed Review", and too many others to list. His books include:

"Cordwood", poems, 1985

"Sciences, Social", poems, 1995

"Constant Animals", short fictions, 2013

"The Book of Robot", speculative poetry, 2016

"Victims of a Failed Civics", speculative poetry, 2016

"Avenging Cartography", short fictions, 2017

"The Revenge of the House Hurlers", short fictions, 2018

"Engaging Cattle", short fictions, 2019

"Stone the Monsters, or Dance", speculative poetry,2021

"Lessons from Lingering Houses", speculative poetry, 2021

"Winter's Last Apple", poetry/prose poetry/micro-fiction, 2023

"Science Is Nit Enough", speculative poetry", 2025

He has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes, several Best of the Web awards, the Elgin award, a Sidewise award, multiple Rhysling awards, and was awarded a Virginia Poets in the Schools teaching grant. He has given readings at Bucknell University, George Washington University, The Bethesda Writers Center, and elsewhere.

His work is a mix of the bizarre, the surreal, the magical, the unexplainable, the unbalanced and the thought-bending. What a closet monster might do while you are away at work. The tension between two races of bird that are really only one race. Deconstruction workers who hurl houses. Chickens that make a status structure out of cell phone cases.

Ken is married to Karen Poyner, one of the world’s premier power lifters, and holder or more than a dozen current world raw power lifting records. He is also the animal parent of two rescue cats and one brazenly self-satisfied fish.