Listed below are authors and poets who have been a great source of influence and entertainment to me. My children's poetry is down for copyright reasons, though they may appear at bookstores in the future!

Douglas Adams

Herbert Arntson

Peter S. Beagle

Ray Bradbury

John Brunner

Lewis Carroll

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Philip K. Dick

Lord Dunsany

Neil Gaiman

William Gibson

Robert Heinlein

Frank Herbert

Tanith Lee

Stanislaw Lem

H.P. Lovecraft

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Michael Moorcock

Larry Niven

Terry Pratchett

Rudy Rucker

Robert Shea

Dan Simmons

Neal Stephenson

Lawrence Watt-Evans

Robert Anton Wilson