Meet David C. Kopaska-Merkel

David C. Kopaska-Merkel (@DavidKM on Twitter) has been writing SF and fantasy since the 70s. He edited Star*line [journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Ass’n (SFPA)] in the late ‘90s, and later served as SFPA President.

Many of his poems have received Rhysling nominations, and he won the Rhysling award for best long poem in 2006 for “The Tin Men,” a collaboration with Kendall Evans. Two chapbooks took 2nd Place Elgin awards: “SETI Hits Paydirt,” 2015, https://sfpoetry.com/el/15elgin.html, and “The Edible Zoo,” 2014, https://sfpoetry.com/el/14elgin.html. His 29^th book, a speculative-poetry collection entitled Metastable Systems, has been nominated for the Elgin award of the SFPA.

He was voted SFPA Grand Master in 2017. His poetry has been published in scores of venues, including Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and Night Cry. 

Kopaska-Merkel edits and publishes Dreams and Nightmares, a genre print poetry zine that features a daily poem on its blog, now in its 34th year of publication.

He lives in a centuried farmhouse that has been engulfed, but not digested, by a city.

Read David’s work in Altered Reality Magazine

Adonis	Dragon’s Teeth	The Third Planet
I Am He…	Wicked Child!	Death and Life on Enceladus
In Wicked Hollows	Princess P	Giant Robot Loot the Oort!
Relic Query	Robo-Cat	Robot/Worker
Corrected Maps	The Station Master	Recursion
Beyond the Mad	Orbital Mirrors	Bring Me Moa
Swallowing it Whole	Land Sharks	Voyage to the Moon
Third Planet from Nowhere	Runaway Greenhouse Effect	My Summer Vaction in the Wavestate

	The Ambassador Takes One For The Team – A wonderful collection of speculative poetry by David C. Kopaska-Merkel, sprinkled with fantastic artwork by Allen Koszowski Print version – 7.00
	Entanglement – A collection of mind bending poems by David C. Kopaska-Merkle and Kendall Evans. Print version – 8.99
	Metastable Systems – science, and twisted science poetry from master poet, David C. Kopaska-merkel ebook format – 2.99 Print version – 9.99
	Footprints in Stone
	The Egg Show, speakeasy press, 2005, ISBN 0-9762962-0-9 (poetry) ($40, entirely handmade including the paper)
	Luminous Worlds, Dark Regions Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-937128-92-0 (poetry). Also available on amazon.com
	SETI Hits Paydirt, Popcorn Press, 2014, (poetry)
	Gods and Monsters (flash fiction), Popcorn Press, 2015