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Honestly, I just thought it was great. People - editors and readers - have prejudices. If authors choose pen names and personas they'll think more favourably of, so be it. Male romance writers are forced to use female pen names to sell to the romance market. Female writers are often forced to go gender neutral, or use just the initials (JK Rowling, PD James) to attain credibility and male readers. So this guy had a "race change" to get published. Good for him. Ultimately this is about his poem, not about him, and if it was good enough to get published then his persona/pen name is irrelevant.