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AJ Odasso

AJ Odasso (born 1981) is an award-winning American queer, intersex, nonbinary author and poet with a published career dating back to 2005. They are also a six-time Hugo nominee in the Semi-Prozine category in their capacity as Senior Poetry Editor for the speculative fiction magazine, Strange Horizons. A teacher at the University of New Mexico and Central New Mexico Community College, Odasso holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Boston University, and they are currently enrolled in the Rhetoric & Writing doctoral program at the University of New Mexico.

Writing career

Odasso began their published career in 2005, since then producing poetry, nonfiction, and short stories for magazines and anthologies.[1] Their poetry has been published in Sybil's Garage, Mythic Delirium, Midnight Echo, Not One of Us, Dreams & Nightmares, Strange Horizons, Liminality, Stone Telling, Farrago’s Wainscot, Battersea Review, Barking Sycamores, Goblin Fruit and New England Review of Books. Solo collections include: Lost Books (Flipped Eye Publishing), published 2010, The Dishonesty of Dreams (Flipped Eye Publishing), published 2014, and The Sting of It (Tolsun Books), published 2019,[2] originally shortlisted for the 2017 Sexton Prize as Things Being What They Are.[3] They have also published a historical fiction novel, The Pursued and the Pursuing (DartFrog Blue), a continuation of the novel, The Great Gatsby. [4]

Odasso is also Senior Poetry Editor for Strange Horizons, a weekly speculative fiction and non-fiction magazine, where they have worked since 2012.[1][5][6]

Personal life

Currently living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Odasso holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Boston University.[2] They teach at Central New Mexico Community College and the University of New Mexico, where they are currently a Doctor of Philosophy candidate in Rhetoric & Writing.[1] They are intersex, identifying as pansexual[7] and non-binary.[4] They are also Jewish[8] and on the autism spectrum.[9]

Awards

Solo works

  • Lost Books: 2010 London New Poetry Award nominee;[10] 2010/2011 The People's Book Prize winner, Fiction Category, Winter 2010[11]
  • Things Being What They Are: 2017 Sexton Prize shortlist[2]
  • The Sting of It: 2019 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award winner, Gay/Lesbian (GLBT) category[12]
  • The Pursued and the Pursuing: 2021 Reads Rainbow Award, 2nd Place, Historical Fiction category[13]

Strange Horizons Senior Poetry Editor

References

  1. ^ a b c "AJ Odasso". Strange Horizons. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "A. J. Odasso". Simon and Schuster. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Two Poems by A.J. Odasso". Indolent Books. 25 October 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Readers and writers: Poet gives Jay Gatsby a new gay life with Nick Carraway in debut novel". Twin Cities. 30 October 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  5. ^ "About". Strange Horizons. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  6. ^ "The Staff of Strange Horizons". Strange Horizons. 22 October 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  7. ^ "Our Queer Roundtable". Strange Horizons. 25 July 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  8. ^ Yudelson, Larry (16 June 2022). "Celebrating Jewish trans poetry day!". Ben Yehuda Press. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  9. ^ "Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism". Autistic Self Advocacy Network. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  10. ^ "London New Poetry Award 2010". Coffee House Poetry. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  11. ^ "Winners 2010/2011". The People's Book Prize. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  12. ^ "2019 Winners New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards" (PDF). New Mexico Books. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  13. ^ "Reads Rainbow Awards 2021: The Results". Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  14. ^ "2013 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 22 December 2012. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2013-04-03.
  15. ^ "2014 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 18 April 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2014-04-20.
  16. ^ "2016 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 29 December 2015. Archived from the original on 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
  17. ^ "2018 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
  18. ^ "2020 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 7 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  19. ^ "2022 Hugo Award Finalists Announced". ChiCon 8. 7 April 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-09.
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