as I drift, carried formless on chill currents
oceanic lanes vibrate with primitive hungers
alluring tendrils entangle the careless swimmer
I camouflage, distinguish shadows from caves

Colleen Anderson, “Whale Song”

Colleen Anderson is a multiple-nominated and award-winning author with published works in seven countries. Her writing has appeared in Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, and Fantasy Magazine. Among her achievements, Rhysling Award-winning poem “Machine (r)Evolution” can be found in Tenebrous Press’s Brave New Weird. Colleen’s literary talents have twice won her the SFPA’s Dwarf Poetry Contest. Her poetry collections—The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams, I Dreamed a World, and Weird Worlds—are available online, as well as, her fiction collections, A Body of Work and Embers Amongst the Fallen. Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins will be published in 2025 by Raw Dog Screaming.


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