Tremendous news, Space Unicorns!!

Uncanny Magazine is thrilled to announce that Betsy Aoki will be the new Uncanny Magazine Poetry Editor!!! The position was previously held by Chimedum Ohaegbu, who stepped down after Uncanny Magazine Issue 49 to focus on other career opportunities.

Betsy Aoki is a poet, game producer and graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. A Rhysling Award nominee, she won the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Honoring Jake Adam York, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown. Her debut poetry collection, Breakpoint, was a National Poetry Series Finalist and winner of the Patricia Bibby First Book Award. Aoki’s speculative fiction and poetry have appeared in: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Translunar Travelers Lounge, The Deadlands, 580 Split, Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, and anthologized in Climbing Lightly Through Forests (a Ursula K. Le Guin tribute poetry anthology). Learn more at betsyaoki.com .

Betsy is a fabulous writer and editor. We’re certain that she will continue Uncanny’s tradition of publishing gorgeous, passionate poetry that you will love. BETSY WILL BE PHENOMENAL, Space Unicorns!!