Marge Simon

Marge Simon (born 1942) is an American artist and a writer of speculative poetry and fiction. Her poems, short fiction, and illustrations have appeared in hundreds of publications, including Amazing Stories, Nebula Awards 32, Strange Horizons, The Pedestal Magazine, Chizine, Niteblade, Vestal Review, and Dark Wisdom. She currently lives in Ocala, Florida, with her husband, writer Bruce Boston, with whom she sometimes collaborates.

She won the Rhysling Award's Best Long Poem for speculative poetry in 1996, and the Bram Stoker Award for her collaborative poetry collection with Charlee Jacob, Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet in 2008. She has also received the 2003 James Award from Sam's Dot Publishing for her art.

A former president of the Small Press Writers and Artists Organization and the Science Fiction Poetry Association, she now serves as editor of Star*Line, the bimonthly journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and edits the column "Blood and Spades: Poets of the Dark Side" for the monthly newsletter of the Horror Writers Association, of which she is a Trustee.

Bibliography

Poetry

• Poets of the Fantastic (co-ed. with Steve Eng). AE Press, 1993
• Eonian Variations. Dark Regions, 1995
• Night Smoke with Bruce Boston, ebook. Miniature Sun/Quixsilver, 2003 (Bram Stoker Award finalist)
• Artist of Antithesis, ebook. Miniature Sun, 2004 (Bram Stoker Award finalist)
• Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet with Charlee Jacob. Dark Regions, 2007 (Bram Stoker Award winner)
• Night Smoke with Bruce Boston, expanded print edition of the 2003 ebook. Kelp Queen Press, 2007
• Uneathly Delights. Sam's Dot Publishing, forthcoming 2010

Poetry and Fiction

• Dragon Soup with Mary Turzillo. vanZeno Press, 2008
• Legends of the Fallen Sky with Malcolm Deeley. Sam's Dot Publishing, 2008

Fiction

• Like Birds in the Rain. Sam's Dot Publishing, 2007
• Christina's World. Sam's Dot Publishing, 2008
• The Dragon's Dictionary with Mary Turzillo. Sam's Dot Publishing, 2010

Art

• Gallery of color art at Strange Horizons. [1]
• Soho Galleries, black and white art. [2]

External links

• Marge Simon's website
• Interview at Dacef Central
• Interview at Fear and Trembling
• Marge Simon at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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