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      • Bruce Boston (born 1943) was an American speculative fiction writer and poet.


      Early years


      Boston was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California. He received a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965, and an M.A. in 1967. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1961 to 2001, where he worked in a variety of occupations, including computer programmer, college professor (literature and creative writing, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, California, 1978–82), technical writer, book designer, gardener, movie projectionist, retail clerk, and furniture mover.
      According to Boston, he meant to major in math at university and write on the side, but soon found that he was more interested in writing. After being advised by a friend that he should not major in English to become a writer, he decided on economics instead.


      Writing career


      Boston has won the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry a record seven times, and the Asimov's Readers' Award for poetry a record seven times. He has also received a Pushcart Prize for fiction, 1976, a record four Bram Stoker Awards for solo poetry collections, and the first Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, 1999. His collaborative poem with Robert Frazier, "Return to the Mutant Rain Forest," received first place in the 2006 Locus Online Poetry Poll for Best All-Time Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Poem.
      Boston has also published more than a hundred short stories and the novels Stained Glass Rain and The Guardener's Tale (the latter a Bram Stoker Award Finalist and Prometheus Award Nominee). His work has appeared widely in periodicals and anthologies, including Asimov's SF Magazine, Amazing Stories Magazine, Analog Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Science Fiction Age, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and the Nebula Awards Showcase. Writing in The Washington Post, Paul Di Filippo described his collection Masque of Dreams as containing "nearly two dozen brilliant stories ranging across all emotional and narrative terrains."
      Boston has chaired the Nebula Award Novel Jury (SFWA), the Bram Stoker Award Novel Jury, and the Philip K. Dick Award Jury, and served as Secretary and Treasurer of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. He has served as fiction and/or poetry editor for a number of publications, including Occident, The Open Cell, Berkeley Poets Cooperative, City Miner, Star*Line and The Pedestal Magazine.
      He was the poet guest of honor at the World Horror Convention in 2013.


      Personal life


      Boston lives in Ocala, Florida, with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon, whom he married in 2001.


      Bibliography




      = Novels

      =
      Stained glass rain. Denver: Ocean View Books. 1993.
      Stained glass rain. Reprint. Doylestown, Pennsylvania: Wildside Press. 2003.
      The Guardener's tale. Signed, limited ed. Sam's Dot Publishing. 2007.
      The Guardener's tale. 2nd ed. Sam's Dot Publishing. 2011.
      El Guardián de Almas, Spanish-language edition of The Guardener's Tale, La Factoria de Ideas, 2009
      The Guardener's tale. ebook ed. Independent Legions. 2021.


      = Short fiction

      =
      Collections
      Jackbird. BPW&P, 1976
      She Comes When You're Leaving. BPW&P, 1982
      Skin Trades, Chris Drumm, 1988
      Hypertales & Metafictions. Chris Drumm, 1990
      All the Clocks Are Melting (single story booklet), Pulphouse Publishing, 1991
      Night Eyes. Chris Drumm, 1993
      Dark Tales & Light. Dark Regions, 1999
      Masque of Dreams, Wildside, 2001, 2009
      Bruce Boston: Short Stories, Volume 1 (ebook), Fictionwise, 2003
      Bruce Boston: Short Stories, Volume 2 (ebook), Fictionwise, 2003
      Flashing the Dark. Sam's Dot Publishing, 2006
      Gallimaufry. Plum White Press, 2021, 2nd edition, Mind's Eye Publications, 2023
      Stories


      = Poetry

      =
      Collections
      XXO. Maya Press, 1969
      Potted Poems. Maya Press, 1970
      All the Clock Are Melting. Velocities, 1984
      Alchemical Texts. Ocean View, 1985
      Nuclear Futures. Velocities, 1987
      Time. Titan, 1988
      The Nightmare Collector. 2AM Publications, 1989
      Faces of the Beast. Starmont House, 1990
      Other Voices, Other Worlds (audio tape, music by Jack Poley). Chris Drumm, 1990, (MP3 audio) Telltale Weekly, 2004
      Short Circuits (prose poems). Ocean View, 1991
      Cybertexts. Talisman, 1991
      Frazier, Robert & Bruce Boston (1992). Chronicles of the mutant rain forest. Introduction by Lucius Shepard; cover by Robert Frazier. Horror's Head Press.
      Accursed Wives. Night Visions, 1993
      Specula: Selected Uncollected Poems, 1968-1993. Talisman, 1993
      Sensuous Debris: Selected Poems, 1970-1995. Dark Regions, 1995
      Conditions of Sentient Life. Gothic Press, 1996
      Cold Tomorrows. Gothic Press, 1998
      The Complete Accursed Wives, Talisman/Dark Regions, 2000
      White Space. Dark Regions, 2001
      Quanta: Award Winning Poems. Miniature Sun, 2001
      Night Smoke (ebook, with Marge Simon), Miniature Sun & Quixsilver, 2002
      Head Full of Strange (ebook). CyberPulp, 2003
      Pitchblende. Dark Regions, 2003
      Etiquette with Your Robot Wife. Talisman, 2005
      Shades Fantastic. Gromagon Press, 2006
      Night Smoke (with Marge Simon, expanded print edition of 2002 ebook). Kelp Queen Press, 2007
      The Nightmare Collection. Dark Regions, 2008
      Double Visions (collaborative poems). Dark Regions, 2009
      North Left of Earth. Sam's Dot, 2009
      Dark Matters. Bad Moon Books, 2010
      Surrealities. Dark Regions, 2011
      Anthropomorphisms. Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2012
      Notes from the Shadow City (with Gary William Crawford). Dark Regions, 2012
      Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012. Dark Renaissance Books, 2013
      Resonance Dark & Light. Eldritch Press, 2015
      Sacrificial Nights (with Alessandro Manzetti). Kipple Officina Libraria, 2016
      Brief Encounters with My Third Eye: Selected Short Poems 1975-2016. Crystal Lake Publishing, 2016, Korean-language edition, Philyohanchaek, 2021
      Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest (with Robert Frazier), Crystal Lake Publishing, 2017
      Artifacts. Independent Legions, 2018
      Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets. Mind's Eye Publications, 2022
      Broadsides and chapbooks
      Musings. Eldritch Emu Press, 1988
      The Last Existentialist. Chris Drumm, 1993
      Confessions of a Body Thief. Talisman, 1998
      The Lesions of Genetic Sin. Miniature Sun, 2000
      Pavane for a Cyber-Princess (single poem chapbook). Miniature Sun, 2001
      In Far Pale Clarity. Quixsilver, 2002
      She Was There for Him the Last Time (single poem chapbook). Miniature Sun, 2002
      The Crow Is Dismantled in Flight (ebroadside). Miniature Sun, 2003
      List of poems

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      Notes


      Major awards and honors




      = Bram Stoker Award for Poetry Collection

      =
      2003 Pitchblende, Dark Regions Press
      2006 Shades Fantastic, Gromagon Press
      2008 The Nightmare Collection, Dark Regions Press
      2010 Dark Matters, Bad Moon Books


      = Asimov’s Readers Award for Poetry

      =
      1989 Old Robots Are the Worst
      1993 Curse of the Shapeshifter's Wife
      1997 Curse of the SF Writer's Wife
      2003 Eight Things Not to Do or Say When a Mad Scientist Moves into Your Neighborhood
      2005 Heavy Weather
      2007 The Dimensional Rush of Relative Primes
      2014 In the Quiet Hour


      = Rhysling Award for Speculative Poetry (SFPA)

      =
      1985 For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets, short
      1987 The Nightmare Collector, short
      1988 In the Darkened Hours, long
      1994 Spacer's Compass, short
      1995 Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation, short
      1999 Confessions of a Body Thief, long
      2001 My Wife Returns as She Would Have It, short


      = Others

      =
      1973 Yaddo Colony Fellow
      1976 Pushcart Prize for Fiction for “Broken Portraiture”
      1999 Grand Master Award, Science Fiction Poetry Association
      2006 Winner of Locus Poll for All-Time Favorite SF/F/H Poem, Return to the Mutant Rain Forest" with Robert Frazier
      2013 Poet Guest of Honor, World Horror/Bram Stoker Awards Convention, New Orleans
      2023 Dwarf Stars Award, Science Fiction Poetry Association for "In Perpetuity"


      References




      External links


      Bruce Boston's website (archived version Jan. 2024)
      Interview by John Amen at The Pedestal Magazine (archived version Feb. 2, 2009).
      Interview by JoSelle Vanderhooft at Strange Horizons
      [1] Bruce Boston at Smashwords
      Bruce Boston at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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