Ken Poyner is a writer of flash fiction and speculative poetry. As of December 2019, his books are “Cordwood”, poetry, 1985; “Sciences, Social”, poetry, 1995; “Constant Animals”, fictions, 2011; “The Book of Robot”, poetry, 2016; “Victims of a Failed Civics”, poetry, 2016; “Avenging Cartography”, fictions, 2017; “The Revenge of the House Hurlers”, fictions, 2018; “Engaging Cattle”, fictions, 2019. “Cordwood” and “Sciences, Social” are out of print, but all the others are available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other sites, both as paperback and e-books. Individual poems and stories have appeared in “Analog”, “Asimov’s”, “Poet Lore”, “The Alaska Quarterly Review”, “The Indiana Review”, “Café Irreal”, “Rune Bear”, “Menda City Review”, and hundreds of other places. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize many times, as well as a Sidewise Award, multiple Rhysling Awards, and sundry other awards and honors. He has read at Bucknell University, George Washington University, the Bethesda Writers Center, and other venues. His work veers toward the speculative, the surreal, sometimes science fiction, generally the ironic and the unusual.