Adam Dalton-West interviewed myself, F. J. Bergmann, Beth Cato, Linda D.
Addison and David C. Kopaska-Merkel about speculative poetry. This article first appeared on the SFPA blog in May 2026.
A Time-traveller’s Guide to Speculative Poetry: Part Four, Contemporary
On 5/19/2025, I joined C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez for an episode of their Fiction: Impossible Twitch series. Our conversation began with a reading/interview from The Sign of the Dragon, followed by book and board game recommendations.
Here is a link to the recording. N.B. The main portion begins at 12 and a 1/2 minutes. [Before that there’s a section with chatter but no video.] I’m not certain how long this link will stay active.
Many thanks to Claire and Carlos, who are awesome!
Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate for the upcoming Seattle Worldcon, chatted with me about speculative poetry, for his Con-Verse blog for Worldcon.
You can read the interview here.
Penumbric interview, April 2024
Jeff Georgeson of Penumbric kindly interviewed me, posing questions about cultural influences, The Sign of the Dragon, How to Navigate Our Universe, Zoom, and more.
Space Cowboy Books reading/interview, February 2024
Space Cowboy Books hosted an event where I first read from How to Navigate Our Universe and then Jean-Paul Garnier interviewed me.
You can watch the video version or listen to the audio only (for the audio option, scroll to find the relevant interview).
An interview with Sahtu Press, December 2023
Bryan Thao Worra asks about how I became a writer, my literary inspirations, finding a writing community, and more.
An interview with Radon Journal, November 2023
The interview covers my new book, How to Navigate Our Universe, and much else besides — from Pittsburgh, to Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, to Picard.
An interview with Jessica Rydill at Speculative Fiction Showcase, November 2023
A wide-ranging interview, beginning with How to Navigate Our Universe, and moving onto writing and poetry more generally.
An interview with Andrea Blythe as part of the New Books in Poetry podcast, 1/2022.
In the podcast, I talk primarily about The Sign of the Dragon, but also my writing more generally.
An interview with Jeremy Bai in the Asian Fantasy Fiction podcast, 5/13/2021
In the podcast, I talk about The Sign of the Dragon, writing, my accent, and other topics.
I’m delighted to report that my poem Reaper is a finalist for the Rhysling Award 🙂 🙂 The poem first appeared in Strange Horizons in April 2025.
I’m very happy to report that my poem “What Li Bai Read” is in the new issue of Uppagus 🙂
I am pleased, twice over, that two of my poems are in SpecPoVerse, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2026, both part of a dragon sequence that I am working on. Their titles are “River Dragon” and “Samurai Dragon.”
I’m delighted to report a poetry acceptance from Space and Time 🙂
I’m doubly happy to report two poetry acceptances from SpecPoVerse 🙂 🙂 Both poems are part of a dragon sequence that I’m working on.
