Aigner Loren Wilson

Aigner Loren Wilson
Wilson in 2024
Occupation
  • Writer
  • editor
Period2018–present
GenreScience fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Afrofuturism, Speculative fiction
SubjectBook reviews, Game reviews, Art, Podcast reviews, Critical media analysis
Website
aignerlwilson.com

Aigner Loren Wilson is an Ignyte Award nominated writer for her speculative fiction[1] and nonfiction writing[2] and Hugo Award winning editor for her work as senior fiction editor for Strange Horizons from 2021 to 2025[3]. Her work has been called, "profoundly disturbing and ethereal."[4] She is from coastal New Jersey but currently lives in the Pacific Northwest.[5]

Writing career

Wilson began her professional speculative fiction writing career in 2018 with a published flash fiction in the literary speculative fiction podcast Nightlight: A Black Horror Podcast. After several subsequent poetry sales, Wilson made first professional SF prose sale in 2022 to Lightspeed (magazine),[6] a magazine for which she went on to write monthly speculative fiction book reviews focusing on diverse books and authors.[7] Other professional outlets in which her fiction has appeared include The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone (magazine), and FIYAH Literary Magazine. Her writing frequently incorporates humor even in works that are dark and serious in subject.[8]

Wilson's speculative fiction editing career began in 2015 when she joined Strange Horizons and Nightlight: A Black Horror Podcast as a first reader and associate editor. She began her senior fiction editing in 2021 with guest editing positions for Apparition Literary Magazine[8] and Fireside Fiction. Wilson served as senior fiction editor for Strange Horizons[7] from 2021 to 2025. In 2024, she self-published a serialized novella, Twilight Children, through her newsletter, Writing Skins.

Along with her speculative fiction and poetry writing, Wilson publishes nonfiction in prominent outlets such as Wired (magazine), The Washington Post, and Reactor (magazine) (formerly TOR).[9] She began writing nonfiction in 2019 for local publications in her area, Thurstontalk[10] and Olyarts[11], covering topics related to arts, literature, and community events. From 2020 to 2022, Wilson wrote podcast reviews and interviews with podcasters for Discover Pods[12], including her monthly review roundup series Radio at the End of the World. Combining her work as a prolific editor and writer, Wilson began writing craft articles in 2021 for Writer's Digest, The Writer Magazine, and other publications. She also wrote for the Tor Nightfire blog doing reviews of horror short fiction and poetry in 2022.

Personal life

Wilson enjoys hiking, books, games, and bread bakes. She lives with an unspecified number of partners and pets.[7] She is a fan of vampires,[13] but identifies more strongly with werewolves.[8]

Selected Works

Fiction

  • It Came Gently (Lightspeed Magazine)[14]
  • Whatever Takes Us (Nightmare Magazine)[15]
  • Building Blocks (Interzone Magazine)[16]
  • You Who Does Not Exist (Baffling Magazine)[17]
  • To Carve Home in Your Bones (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)[18]

Poetry

  • Christine (The Five-2)[19]
  • Phantom (Arsenika)[20]
  • Demon at My Window (FIYAH)[21]
  • Come to Me (Anathema Spec from the Margins)[22]

Books

  • Twilight Children (Substack)[23]
  • to be haunted (Haus of Three Crows)[24]
  • Plagued Company (Haus of Three Crows)[25]

Games

  • The Nightmare House (Itch.Io)[26]
  • Take Me Home (Itch.Io)[27]

Stories Edited

  • My Body by J. S. Jordan
  • The Night the River Meets the Sky by Lina Rather
  • Song of the Balsa Wood Bird by Katherine Quevedo
  • Sheer in the Sun, They Pass by Hester J. Rook[28]
  • Seen Small Through Glass, by Premee Mohamed
  • Oversharing, by R. J. Theodore
  • A Message From Her Feline Self, Unborn, to Her Cousin, Whose Ancestors Were Once Wolves, by Jessica Cho
  • We Are the Thing That Lives on the Moon, by Gillian Secord
  • Give My Body to the Moths, by Riley Neither
  • The Stars Above Eos, by M. Darusha Wehm
  • Since He Came Back, by Lindsay King-Miller
  • Mother Tongue, by Atreyee Gupta
  • The Book of the Blacksmiths, by Martin Cahill
  • Not a Basking Shark, by Hesper Leveret[28]
  • Fire and Ice by Anya Markov[29]
  • The Sing-along Killing and Silent Death of Malakine, the Horse Whisperer By Abhilash Jayachandra[30]
  • Undog by Eugenia Triantafyllou[31]
  • Death Comes for the Sworn Virgins by Avra Margariti[32]
  • Here All Week by Natasha King[33]
  • City Grown from Seed by Diana Dima[34]
  • Of Heirlooms and Teeth by Kaitlin Tremblay[35]
  • Sprouting God by Ezra Pilar Rodriguez[36]
  • Up in the Hills, She Dreams of Her Daughter Deep in the Ground by Karlo Yeager Rodriguez[37]
  • Four Steps to Hunt a God by Athar Fikry[38]
  • Colors of the Sea by Katherine Nabity[39]
  • Of Flesh, Of Bone By Tania Chen[40]
  • Grey Hands, Green Sky by Charlie Valenti[41]
  • Speak No Evil by Edidiong Uzoma Essien[42]
  • Maladaptive Camouflage by Ann LeBlanc[43]
  • Time is an Ocean by Angela Liu[44]
  • A Cure for Solastalgia by E.M. Linden[45]
  • Frogskin by M. L. Krishnan[46]
  • Rembrandt, graffiti, and the strange disappearance of ducks by C.H. Irons[47]
  • Feeder Fish by Anne Mai Yee Jansen[48]
  • Cicadas, and Their Skins by Avra Margariti[49]
  • The Wilding Year by Jamie M. Boyd[50]
  • The Problem With Feelin’ Flo-Jo’s Glory Pose by Aurelius Raines II[51]
  • Whale Fall by J.L. Akagi[52]
  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackened Husk of a Planet by Adeline Wong[53]
  • The Lord of Mice’s Arrows by Nadia Radovich[54]
  • Exit Interview by K.W. Onley[55]
  • Bullet Time at the Kink Party by miriam[56]
  • View Window by A. T. Greenblatt[57]
  • How to Dispose of a Dead Albatross by Octavia Cade[58]
  • Everything We Lost in the Apocalypse by Mar Vincent[59]
  • Pandora's Formula by Hannah Yang[60]
  • The Last Time Gladys Howled At the Moon by Jennifer Hudak[61]
  • The Luring Lantern by Laura Cranehill[62]

Nonfiction & Reviews

Awards

Year Title Award Category Result
2019 n/a Otherwise Award (formerly Tiptree Award)[74] Honors list
2023 n/a Ignyte Award[1] Critics Award Finalist
"To Carve Home in Your Bones" Ignyte Award[1] Outstanding Novelette Finalist
2024 n/a Ignyte Award[2] Critics Award Finalist
Senior Fiction Editor Hugo Award[3] Best Semiprozine Winner

References

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  4. ^ Weston, Andrew (2022-10-10). "Review: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Nov/Dec 2022". Amazing Stories. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
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  14. ^ Wilson, Aigner (2022-05-19). "It Came Gently". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  15. ^ Wilson, Aigner (2023-11-29). "Whatever Takes Us". Nightmare Magazine. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  16. ^ "INTERZONE #295". Interzone. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  17. ^ Wilson, Aigner. "You Who Does Not Exist". Baffling Magazine. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  18. ^ "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2022". Weightless Books. 2022-11-01. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  19. ^ So, Gerald (2013-04-22). "The Five-Two: Aig'ner Wilson". The Five-Two. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
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  21. ^ "FIYAH #18". FIYAH. 2021-04-01. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  22. ^ Wilson, Aigner. "Poetry: Come to Me". Anathema: Spec from the Margins. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
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  30. ^ Jayachandra, Abhilash (2023-03-13). "The Sing-along Killing and Silent Death of Malakine, the Horse Whisperer". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  31. ^ Triantafyllou, Eugenia (2023-05-15). "Undog". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  32. ^ Margariti, Avra (2023-05-01). "Death Comes for the Sworn Virgins". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  33. ^ King, Natasha (2023-04-03). "Here All Week". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  34. ^ Dima, Diana (2023-08-08). "City Grown From Seed". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  35. ^ Tremblay, Kaitlin (2023-07-31). "Of Heirlooms And Teeth". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  36. ^ Rodriguez, Ezra Pilar (2023-07-31). "Sprouting God". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  37. ^ Rodriguez, Karlo Yeager (2023-07-31). "Up In the Hills, She Dreams of Her Daughter Deep In the Ground". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  38. ^ Fikry, Athar (2023-06-12). "Four Steps to Hunt a God". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  39. ^ Nabity, Katherine (2023-06-05). "Colors of the Sea". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  40. ^ Chen, Tania (2023-08-21). "Of Flesh, Of Bone". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  41. ^ Valenti, Charlie (2023-10-16). "Grey Hands, Green Sky". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  42. ^ Uzoma Essien, Edidiong (2023-12-18). "Speak No Evil". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  43. ^ LeBlanc, Ann (2023-12-04). "Maladaptive Camouflage". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  44. ^ Liu, Angela (2023-11-06). "Time is an Ocean". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  45. ^ Linden, E. M. (2024-01-01). "A Cure for Solastalgia". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  46. ^ Krishnan, M. L. (2024-01-09). "Frogskin". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  47. ^ Irons, C. H. (2024-02-12). "Rembrandt, graffiti, and the strange disappearance of ducks". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  48. ^ Yee Jansen, Anne Mai (2024-03-18). "Feeder Fish". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  49. ^ Margariti, Avra (2024-07-29). "Cicadas, and Their Skins". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  50. ^ Boyd, Jamie M. (2024-08-05). "The Wilding Year". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  51. ^ Raines II, Aurelius (2024-08-12). "The Problem With Feelin' Flo-Jo's Glory Pose". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  52. ^ Akagi, J. L. (2024-09-17). "Whale Fall". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  53. ^ Wong, Adeline (2024-10-28). "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackened Husk of a Planet". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  54. ^ Radovich, Nadia (2024-11-11). "The Lord of Mice's Arrows". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  55. ^ Onley, K. W. (2024-12-16). "Exit Interview". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  56. ^ "Bullet Time at the Kink Party". Strange Horizons. 2025-10-20. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  57. ^ Greenblatt, A. T. (2025-06-02). "View Window". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  58. ^ Cade, Octavia (2025-05-26). "How to Dispose of a Dead Albatross". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  59. ^ Vincent, Mar (2025-05-05). "Everything We Lost in the Apocalypse". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  60. ^ Yang, Hannah (2025-04-14). "Pandora's Formula". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  61. ^ Hudak, Jennifer (2025-03-31). "The Last Time Gladys Howled At the Moon". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  62. ^ Cranehill, Laura (2025-03-03). "The Luring Lantern". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
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  67. ^ Wilson, Aigner (2023-05-18). "Book Review: Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  68. ^ Wilson, Aigner (2023-07-20). "Book Review: He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  69. ^ Wilson, Aigner (2023-08-17). "Book Review: The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  70. ^ Wilson, Aigner (2023-10-12). "Book Review: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  71. ^ Wilson, Aigner (2023-01-12). "Book Review: Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  72. ^ Wilson, Aigner (2023-03-30). "Book Review: The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  73. ^ Wilson, Aigner (2023-11-16). "Book Review: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
  74. ^ "2019 Fellowship Recipients Announced « Otherwise Award". Otherwise Award. 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
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