HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VI

Michael Bailey is a recipient and ten-time nominee of the Bram Stoker Award, a five-time Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and a three-time recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award. He is the author of the composite novels Hangtown, Psychotropic Dragon, Phoenix Rose, and Palindrome Hannah, fiction and poetry collections such as The Impossible Weight of Life, Oversight, Inkblots and Blood Spots, Scales and Petals, as well as Forever Velveteen, a sequel to The Velveteen Rabbit. His edited anthologies include The Library of the Dead, Prisms, Adam's Ladder, Pellucid Lunacy, Miscreations, Long Division, and the Chiral Mad, Qualia Nous, and You, Human series, most of which are illustrated. He is also a producer and screenwriter for various film projects and lives in the Southern Caribbean.

Saba Syed Razvi is the author of the poetry collection In the Crocodile Gardens (Agape Editions), as well as the poetry chapbooks Limerence & Lux (Chax Press), Of the Divining and the Dead (Finishing Line Press), and Beside the Muezzin's Call & Beyond the Harem's Veil (Finishing Line Press). She is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Houston in Victoria, TX.