A.J. Odasso
AJ Odasso is an award-winning American queer, intersex, nonbinary author and poet with a published career dating back to 2005. They are also a five-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[edit]
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[edit]
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.[8] They are also Jewish[9] and on the Autism Spectrum.[10]
Awards[edit]
Solo works[edit]
- Lost Books: 2010 London New Poetry Award nominee[11]; 2010/2011 The People's Book Prize winner, Fiction Category, Winter 2010[12]
- 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[13]
- The Pursued and the Pursuing: 2021 Reads Rainbow Award, 2nd Place, Historical Fiction category[14]
Strange Horizons Senior Poetry Editor[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "AJ Odasso". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "A. J. Odasso". Simon and Schuster. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ "Two Poems by A.J. Odasso". Indolent Books. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ "The Pursued and the Pursuing". Goodreads. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ "About". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ "The Staff of Strange Horizons". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ "Our Queer Roundtable". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ "Readers and writers: Poet gives Jay Gatsby a new gay life with Nick Carraway in debut novel". Twin Cities. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ Yudelson, Larry. "Celebrating Jewish trans poetry day!". Ben Yehuda Press. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ↑ "Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism". Autistic Self Advocacy Network. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ↑ "London New Poetry Award 2010". Coffee House Poetry. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ "Winners 2010/2011". The People's Book Prize. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ "2019 Winners New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards" (PDF). New Mexico Books. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ "Reads Rainbow Awards 2021: The Results". Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ "2013 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2013-04-03. Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "2016 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2016-04-27. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "2018 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
- ↑ "2020 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
