A Conversation with Mike Allen
Mike Allen is probably best known within the science fiction/fantasy/horror field for his energetic promotion of SF poetry, both as a writer and an an editor/publisher. He is currently the president of The Science Fiction Poetry Association and the founding publisher and editor of Mythic Delirium . His own poetry and fiction have appeared in Asimov's , Interzone , and Strange Horizons , among many other places. He has won the SFPA's Rhysling Award , co-edited the Rhysling showcase anthology Alchemy of Stars , and also participated in the Speculative Poetry Symposium I moderated for Strange Horizons earlier this year. Mike's latest books are both published by Prime: Disturbing Muses and Strange Wisdoms of the Dead (forthcoming). He lives in Roanoke, Virginia with his wife, Anita, and works as a reporter for a Roanoke newspaper. When did you begin writing poetry? Why SF poetry? I never made a conscious choice to write sf poetry. It's what I write naturally. I d