Mike Allen (born 1969) is an American news reporter and columnist, as well as an editor and writer of speculative fiction and poetry.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has described Allen as being "[a]mong the better-known practitioners of speculative poetry"[2] and said his poems "work best when his bizarre lyricism is put in the service of a scary and taut narrative.
[3][4] Published biannually, the journal has included poems by authors such as Suzette Haden Elgin, Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Darrell Schweitzer, Sonya Taaffe, Catherynne M. Valente, Ian Watson, and Jane Yolen.
In 2013, Allen used the crowdfunding website Kickstarter to convert Mythic Delirium into a quarterly digital journal that publishes fiction and poetry.
[5][8][9] Strange Horizons called the first crowdfunded volume, Clockwork Phoenix 4, a look into "the future of publishing, in which a crowd-sourced publication from a very small press can produce, and can present professionally and beautifully, work which is at the height of what is being written in genre.