| BRUCE BOSTON Speculative Fiction & Poetry |
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Autobiographical Note
I was born of Catholic and Jewish heritage in Chicago in 1943. I 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, with my wife,
writer-artist Marge Simon. In addition to our solo work, Marge and I
have collaborated on poetry and short fiction.
My work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including Asimov's
SF, Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Weird
Tales, The Pedestal Magazine, Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, and the
Nebula Awards Showcase, and received a number of awards, most
notably the Pushcart Prize, the Asimov's Readers' Award, the Bram
Stoker Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Grandmaster Award of the
Science Fiction Poetry Association. I hold the distinctions of having
appeared in more issues of Asimov's SF, and Strange Horizons, than
any other author, and of coining the word "cybertext."
My work stretches from broad humor to literary surrealism, with many
stops along the way for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and noir. I've
published more than forty 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 Shades Fantastic.
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. Also, my article "The Failure of
Genre Poetry" at The Fortean Bureau.
For a retrospective essay on my poetry, see Gary William Crawford's
"Songs of the Stars: The Poetry of Bruce Boston" in Calenture.
For detailed biographical information through 1998, see my essay
"Fifteen Explanations in Search of a Life" in Contemporary Authors
Autobiography Series, Volume 30, Gale Research, available at many
libraries.
I was born of Catholic and Jewish heritage in Chicago in 1943. I 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, with my wife,
writer-artist Marge Simon. In addition to our solo work, Marge and I
have collaborated on poetry and short fiction.
My work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including Asimov's
SF, Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Weird
Tales, The Pedestal Magazine, Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, and the
Nebula Awards Showcase, and received a number of awards, most
notably the Pushcart Prize, the Asimov's Readers' Award, the Bram
Stoker Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Grandmaster Award of the
Science Fiction Poetry Association. I hold the distinctions of having
appeared in more issues of Asimov's SF, and Strange Horizons, than
any other author, and of coining the word "cybertext."
My work stretches from broad humor to literary surrealism, with many
stops along the way for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and noir. I've
published more than forty 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 Shades Fantastic.
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. Also, my article "The Failure of
Genre Poetry" at The Fortean Bureau.
For a retrospective essay on my poetry, see Gary William Crawford's
"Songs of the Stars: The Poetry of Bruce Boston" in Calenture.
For detailed biographical information through 1998, see my essay
"Fifteen Explanations in Search of a Life" in Contemporary Authors
Autobiography Series, Volume 30, Gale Research, available at many
libraries.
| New & Recent The Nightmare Collection has received the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association. "One-Trick Dog" SF flash fiction podcast at Escape Pod "Curse of the Alien's Wife" dark SF story podcast at Drabblecast "Calipash Stew" humor at Dog Oil "Star War Report" poem at The Fifth Dimension Double Visions collection of collaborative poetry forthcoming from Dark Regions Press "Wind People" poem at Strange Horizons "The Eyes of the Crowd" gothic horror story podcast at Pseudopod "Wasp Light" collaborative story with surrealist poet Lee Balleintine at Farrago's Wainscot "In the Garden of the State" poem at Membra Disjecta Spanish edition of The Guardener's Tale now in print from La Factoria de Ideas as El Guardian de Almas Recent Books The Nightmare Collection Poetry Dark, Satiric, Surreal Sample Poems and Illustrations Selected by J. L. Comeau Top Ten Books of 2008 at Creature Feature Novel The Guardener's Tale, from Sam's Dot Publishing Bram Stoker Award Finalist Prometheus Award Nominee Poetry Collection: Shades Fantastic from Gromagon Press Read the review at Strange Horizons Flash Fiction Collection: Flashing the Dark from Sam's Dot Publishing Read the review at The Pedestal Magazine |
