AJ Odasso explained

AJ Odasso
Birth Place:United States
Alma Mater:Boston University
Genre:Science fiction
Period:2005–present

AJ Odasso is an 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. An English Faculty member at San Juan 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 while an undergraduate at Wellesley College,[1] since then producing poetry, nonfiction, and short stories for magazines and anthologies.[2] 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,[3] originally shortlisted for the 2017 Sexton Prize as Things Being What They Are.[4] They have also published a historical fiction novel, The Pursued and the Pursuing (DartFrog Blue), a continuation of The Great Gatsby.[5]

Odasso is also Senior Poetry Editor for Strange Horizons, a weekly speculative fiction and non-fiction magazine, where they have worked since 2012.[2] [6] [7]

Personal life

Currently living in New Mexico, Odasso holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Boston University.[3] They are a full-time English Faculty member at San Juan College and a Doctor of Philosophy candidate in Rhetoric & Writing at the University of New Mexico.[2] They are intersex, identifying as pansexual[8] and non-binary.[5] They are also Jewish[9] and on the autism spectrum.[10]

Bibliography

Awards and recognition

Solo works

Strange Horizons Senior Poetry Editor

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Retelling and Happy Endings. Winter 2022 . Wellesley Magazine. 25 December 2022.
  2. Web site: AJ Odasso. 31 December 2012 . 26 July 2022. Strange Horizons.
  3. Web site: A. J. Odasso. Simon and Schuster. 26 July 2022.
  4. Web site: Two Poems by A.J. Odasso. Indolent Books. 25 October 2018 . 26 July 2022.
  5. Web site: Readers and writers: Poet gives Jay Gatsby a new gay life with Nick Carraway in debut novel. 30 October 2021 . Twin Cities. 26 July 2022.
  6. Web site: About. 17 October 2016 . 26 July 2022. Strange Horizons.
  7. Web site: The Staff of Strange Horizons. 22 October 2016 . Strange Horizons. 26 July 2022.
  8. Web site: Our Queer Roundtable. 25 July 2016 . Strange Horizons. 26 July 2022.
  9. Web site: Yudelson . Larry . Celebrating Jewish trans poetry day! . Ben Yehuda Press . 16 June 2022 . 27 July 2022.
  10. Web site: Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism . Autistic Self Advocacy Network . 15 October 2018 . 27 July 2022.
  11. Web site: THE PURSUED AND THE PURSUING | Kirkus Reviews. www.kirkusreviews.com.
  12. Web site: London New Poetry Award 2010. Coffee House Poetry. 26 July 2022.
  13. Web site: Winners 2010/2011. 21 November 2017 . The People's Book Prize. 26 July 2022.
  14. Web site: 2019 Winners New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. New Mexico Books. 26 July 2022.
  15. Web site: Reads Rainbow Awards 2021: The Results. 8 December 2021 . 26 July 2022.
  16. Multiple sources:
    • Web site: 2013 Hugo Awards . 22 December 2012 . World Science Fiction Society . 2013-04-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150906045317/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2013-hugo-awards/ . 2015-09-06 . live.
    • Web site: 2014 Hugo Awards . 18 April 2014 . World Science Fiction Society . 2014-04-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150906071016/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2014-hugo-awards/ . 2015-09-06 . live.
    • Web site: 2016 Hugo Awards . 29 December 2015 . World Science Fiction Society . 2016-04-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170816091759/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2016-hugo-awards/ . 2017-08-16 . live .
    • Web site: 2018 Hugo Awards . 15 March 2018 . World Science Fiction Society . 2018-04-02.
    • Web site: 2020 Hugo Awards . 7 April 2020 . World Science Fiction Society . 2020-04-08.
    • Web site: 2022 Hugo Award Finalists Announced . 7 April 2022 . ChiCon 8 . 2022-08-09.

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