Risk Assessment

DAVID C. KOPASKA-MERKEL won the 2006 Rhysling award for best long poem (for a collaboration with Kendall Evans), and edits Dreams & Nightmares magazine (since 1986). He has edited Star*line, an issue of Eye To The Telescope, and several Rhysling anthologies, co-edited the 2023 Dwarf Stars anthology, has served as Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) president, and is an SFPA Grandmaster. His poems and short stories have been published in Analog, Asimov's, Strange Horizons, and many other venues. Some Disassembly Required, a collection of dark speculative poetry, won the 2023 Elgin award.