Category: Poetry Collection

Hodge, Jamal

Nominations:

The Dark Between the Twilight (Crystal Lake Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2024

BIO: Jamal is a Bram Stoker Award Nominated Writer and multi-award-winning filmmaker.  An active member of the HWA and SFPA, Hodge has earned Rhysling Award nominations in 2021 and 2022, 2024 with his poem “Colony” winning 2nd place at the 2022 Dwarf Stars. His book, The Dark Between the Twilight, debuted as the #1 hot new American Poetry Release in June 2024. His anthology, Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables & Dark Tales, launched as the #1 New Horror Anthology Release on Amazon from Crystal Lake Publishing. His newest poetry book, Everything Endless, is a collaboration with Grand Master Linda D. Addison, published by Raw Dog Screaming Press.

Iniguez, Pedro

Nominations:

Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future (Space Cowboy Books), Poetry Collection, 2024

BIO: Pedro Iniguez is a Bram Stoker Award-nominated Mexican-American horror and science-fiction writer from Los Angeles, California.

He is the author of MEXICANS ON THE MOON: SPECULATIVE POETRY FROM A POSSIBLE FUTURE (Space Cowboy Books), and the horror fiction collection FEVER DREAMS OF A PARASITE (Raw Dog Screaming Press). Forthcoming projects include his horror comic, CATRINA’S CARAVAN: BLOOD CYCLES (Chispa Comics), his SFF collection, ECHOES AND EMBERS: SPECULATIVE STORIES (Stars and Sabers Publishing), and his children’s picture book, THE FIB (Gloo Books), which are slated for 2025 releases.

Pichette, Marisca

Nominations:

Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair (Android Press), Poetry Collection, 2023

BIO: Marisca Pichette is a queer author based in Massachusetts, on Pocumtuck and Abenaki land. She collects bones, fossils, taxidermy, and other remnants of lost lives, turning them into art. You can find her work online in Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, PseudoPod, Clarkesworld, and The NoSleep Podcast, or in print in publications including Vastarien: A Literary Journal and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. 

Gold, Maxwell Ian

Nominations:

Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums (Hex Publishers), Poetry Collection, 2023

BIO: Maxwell I. Gold is an acclaimed Jewish-American cosmic horror poet and editor, with an extensive body of work comprising over 300 poems since 2017. His writings have earned a place alongside many literary luminaries in the speculative fiction genre. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies such as Weird Tales Magazine, Startling Stories, Space and Time Magazine, Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology, Chiral Mad 5, and many more. Maxwell’s work has been recognized with multiple nominations including the Rhysling Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Bram Stoker Awards. Find him and his work at www.thewellsoftheweird.com.

Wood, L. Marie

Nominations:

“Blacks in Film and Cultivated Bias” (No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes) (Vernon Press), Short Non-Fiction, 2024

Imitation of Life (Falstaff Books), Poetry Collection, 2024

“African American Horror Authors and Their Craft: The Evolution of Horror Fiction from African Folklore” (Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students), Short Non-Fiction, 2022

“The H Word: The Horror of Hair” (Nightmare Magazine, No. 118), Short Non-Fiction, (Adamant Press), 2022

BIO: L. Marie Wood is the recipient of the Golden Stake Award for Literature and the International Impact Book Award. She is also a MICO Award-winning screenwriter, a two-time Bookfest Award winner, a four-time Bram Stoker Award® Nominee, an Ignyte Award finalist, a Rhysling nominated poet, an accomplished essayist, and a playwright. Wood has won over 50 national and international screenplay and film awards. She has been published in groundbreaking works, including the anthologies Sycorax’s Daughters and Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire, as well as industry staples such as the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, and Nightmare Magazine.  Her nonfiction has been published in academic textbooks such as the cross-curricular, Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook. She is also part of the 2022 Bookfest Book Award-winning poetry anthology, Under Her Skin, as well as Bram Stoker Award® and Shirley Jackson Award Nominee anthologies Shakespeare Unleashed and Mooncalves.  Her papers are archived as part of University of Pittsburgh’s Horror Studies Collection. Wood is the Vice President of the Horror Writers Association, the founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English and Creative Writing professor, a horror scholar with a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and an MFA in Speculative Fiction, and a frequent contributor to the conversation around the evolution of genre fiction. Learn more about L. Marie Wood at www.lmariewood.com.