Mark Rich

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(1958 –)

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Mark Rich was the third of four children of Charles M. and Kikue Rich, who raised him there and in Aurora, Colorado.

He was a founding editor of the poetry zines The Silent Planet (1973) and Treaders of Starlight (1974–76), and was main instigator in both cases. The first was part of the circle of publications around Wyrd, a Small Press fantasy magazine. For the second, Rich coined the term speculative poetry, now in wide use. He published such writers as Jessica Salmonson, Ron Nance, H. Warner Munn, and L. Sprague de Camp.

In 1984, Rich co-founded with Roger Dutcher The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, and co-edited it until after his move to Stevens Point, Wisconsin, in the early 1990s.

He also edited the C. M. Kornbluth-focused fanzine Kornblume: Kornbluthiana 1994–96.



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