| BRUCE BOSTON Speculative Fiction & Poetry |
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Biographical Note
My poetry and fiction have appeared in hundreds of
publications, including Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories,
Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, The
Pedestal Magazine, The Twilight Zone Magazine, Year's
Best Fantasy & Horror, and the Nebula Awards Showcase.
I've won the Bram Stoker Award for poetry, the Asimov's
Readers' Award for poetry, the Rhysling Award of the
Science Fiction Poetry Association, and the Balticon Poetry
Award, each a record number of times. I've also received a
Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the Grandmaster Award of
the SFPA. I hold the distinctions of having appeared in
more issues of Asimov's SF than any other author, and of
coining the word "cybertext."
My writing stretches from humor to surrealism, with
many stops along the way for science fiction, fantasy,
horror, and noir. I've published fifty books and chapbooks,
including the novels The Guardener's Tale and Stained
Glass Rain. My best stories are collected in Masque of
Dreams, my best poetry in Sensuous Debris, Pitchblende,
and Dark Matters.
I was born of Catholic and Jewish heritage in Chicago in
1943, and grew up in Southern California in an era of rock
and roll, the Cold War, and the Space Race. From
1961-2001, I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, attending
and graduating from the University of California,
Berkeley, while active in the psychedelia and political
protests of the 1960s.
I've worked in a variety of occupations, including
computer programmer, college professor, technical writer,
book designer, movie projectionist, gardener, and furniture
mover. I now live in Ocala, Florida, once known as The
City of Trees, with my wife, writer-artist Marge Simon
and the ghosts of two cats.
For my thoughts on speculative poetry and writing, see
John Amen's interview with me at The Pedestal Magazine
and JoSelle Vanderhooft's interview with me at Strange
Horizons. For a retrospective essay on my poetry, see Gary
William Crawford's essay "Songs of the Stars, Songs of the
Dark."
My poetry and fiction have appeared in hundreds of
publications, including Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories,
Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, The
Pedestal Magazine, The Twilight Zone Magazine, Year's
Best Fantasy & Horror, and the Nebula Awards Showcase.
I've won the Bram Stoker Award for poetry, the Asimov's
Readers' Award for poetry, the Rhysling Award of the
Science Fiction Poetry Association, and the Balticon Poetry
Award, each a record number of times. I've also received a
Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the Grandmaster Award of
the SFPA. I hold the distinctions of having appeared in
more issues of Asimov's SF than any other author, and of
coining the word "cybertext."
My writing stretches from humor to surrealism, with
many stops along the way for science fiction, fantasy,
horror, and noir. I've published fifty books and chapbooks,
including the novels The Guardener's Tale and Stained
Glass Rain. My best stories are collected in Masque of
Dreams, my best poetry in Sensuous Debris, Pitchblende,
and Dark Matters.
I was born of Catholic and Jewish heritage in Chicago in
1943, and grew up in Southern California in an era of rock
and roll, the Cold War, and the Space Race. From
1961-2001, I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, attending
and graduating from the University of California,
Berkeley, while active in the psychedelia and political
protests of the 1960s.
I've worked in a variety of occupations, including
computer programmer, college professor, technical writer,
book designer, movie projectionist, gardener, and furniture
mover. I now live in Ocala, Florida, once known as The
City of Trees, with my wife, writer-artist Marge Simon
and the ghosts of two cats.
For my thoughts on speculative poetry and writing, see
John Amen's interview with me at The Pedestal Magazine
and JoSelle Vanderhooft's interview with me at Strange
Horizons. For a retrospective essay on my poetry, see Gary
William Crawford's essay "Songs of the Stars, Songs of the
Dark."
| New & Recent Part II of Diane Severson Mori's interview with me is up at the Amazing Stories site. Diane Severson Mori interviews me and reads four of my poems at the new Amazing Stories site. My collaborative poetry collection with Gary William Crawford, Notes from the Shadow City, and my short story "Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest" from Daily Science Fiction, have both been selected for the Bram Stoker Award® Final Ballot of the Horror Writers Association. Notes from the Shadow City selected for the Tomb Top Ten Best Books of 2012, by J. L. Comeau at Creature Feature The longest poem I've yet written, at over 500 lines, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at and through Hashish," is out in the Australian anthology, Avatars of Wizardry (P'rea Press) Notes from the Shadow City collaborative collection of poems, prose, and images with Gary William Crawford from Dark Regions Press Free PDF file for HWA Members for Bram Stoker Award consideration. Limited number of print copies free to Active HWA Members. Email: bruboston@aol.com "In the Arena" poem at The Fifth Dimension "Running for the Ship" poem at New Myths 21 "A Cautionary Note from the Time Thief" poem at Silver Blade 16 "Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest" sf horror story at Daily Science Fiction I'm pleased to announce that I will be the Poet Guest of Honor at the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards® and World Horror Con, June 13-16, New Orleans, LA |
