Aimee Ogden
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Aimee Ogden | |
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| Born | Michigan |
| Occupation | Author, editor, poet |
| Language | English |
| Period | 2014–present |
| Genre | Speculative fiction |
| Notable awards | 2016 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award |
| Website | |
| aimeeogdenwrites | |
Aimee Ogden is an American author of speculative fiction, editor, and poet.[1] active in the field since 2014. She writes as Aimee Ogden, except in two instances when she was erroneously bylined as Aimee Odgen.[2]
Aimee Ogden was born Aimee Beth Sutherland in June 1983 in a suburb north of Detroit, Michican, where she was also raised. She attended Michigan State University, earning a BS in zoology, and later enrolled in a PhD program in cell biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which she left before completing. Afterwards she worked as a high school science teacher in rural Wisconsin.[3] She married Andrew Graham Ogden in 2006. She left the workforce after giving birth to twins.[3] She co-founded and co-publishes, and formerly co-edited the semiprofessional speculative fiction magazine Translunar Travelers Lounge,[1] which she edited with Bennett North from 2019-2024.[2] Just prior to the COVID epidemic she also worked briefly as a trainer at the YMCA. She also worked at various times as a software tester and a laboratory assistant.[3]
In the early 2020s Ogden's family moved to the Netherlands for her spouse's work; as of 2023 they resided near Randstad.[1][3] Ogden's hobbies include cross-stitching, cooking, baking, weight lifting, running,[4] and ultimate frisbee.[3]
Writing career
Ogden read some work by Neil Gaiman and Ray Bradbury early in life, but only took a serious interest in speculative fiction when she participated in the MSU chapter of the Genre Evolution Project, studying trends in SFF short fiction. It exposed her to the works of Connie Willis, Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ted Chiang, among other authors.[3] Current authors whose work Ogden finds intriguing or inspirational include Amal Singh, B. Pladek, Ben Hatke,[5] Nghi Vo,[5][4] Yoon Ha Lee, Louis Evans, Vanessa Fogg, Kelly Barnhill, and C. L. Polk.[4]
She attributes her ability to write and publish as much as she has to her spouse providing most of her family's financial support, as well as a stubborn persistence in submitting her work to publishers.[3] She has published a large body of short fiction and verse in numerous publications, including the periodicals Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Apex Magazine, Apparition Literary Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, Augur, Baffling Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Cast of Wonders, Clarkesworld, The Colored Lens, Cossmass Infinities, Daily Science Fiction, The Dark, Deep Magic, Diabolical Plots, The Dread Machine, Escape Pod, Factor Four Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Fantasy Podcast, Fireside Quarterly, Fireside Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, The Future Fire, Futures, Giganotosaurus, GlitterShip, Helios Quarterly, Kaleidotrope, Lightspeed, Luna Station Quarterly, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, Orion's Belt, PodCastle, Psychopomp, Shimmer, Syntax & Salt, Small Wonders, The Sockdolager, Star*Line, StarShipSofa, Strange Horizons, Toasted Cake, Translunar Travelers Lounge, Trollbreath Magazine, Weird Horror, and Zooscape, and the anthologies Baen Books: Free Stories 2016, Behind the Mask: An Anthology of Heroic Proportions, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022, The Best of Deep Magic: Anthology One, Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up to No Good, Climbing Lightly Through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin, Deep Magic: Volume I, Diabolical Plots: Year Three, Diabolical Plots: Year Four, Epic Fantasy Short Stories, Event Horizon 2017, Event Horizon 2018, Fell Beasts and Fair, Frozen Fairy Tales, GlitterShip Year Two, Hidden Menagerie: A Cryptid Anthology: Vol. 2, Hidden Realms Short Stories, If There's Anyone Left: Volume 1, If There's Anyone Left: Volume 2, If This Goes On, The Internet Is Where the Robots Live Now, It Gets Even Better: Stories of Queer Possibility, The Jim Baen Memorial Award: The First Decade, The Long List Anthology: Volume 6, The Long List Anthology: Volume 8, Nebula Awards Showcase 60, Orion's Belt Year-End Anthology 2023, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Pioneers & Pathfinders, The Reinvented Heart, Shimmer 2017: The Collected Stories, Stories for the Thoughtful Young, The 2015 Rhysling Anthology, 2021 Debut Sampler, 2024 Hugo Voter Packet, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 1, and Zooscape: Volume 4: Issues 11-13.[2]
Awards
Ogden's works have won or been considered for a number of literary awards. "Morning Sickness" was a preliminary nominee for the 2015 Rhysling Award for Short Poem.[2] "Dear Ammi" won the 2016 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award. "Blood, Bone, Seed, Spark" was a nominee for the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and "The Cold Calculations" was a nominee for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. "Never a Butterfly, Nor a Moth with Moon-Painted Wings" placed 36th for the 2021 Locus Award for Best Short Story, and "Nothing of Value" placed 30th for the 2025 Locus Award in the same category. "A Flower Cannot Love the Hand" was nominated for the 2022 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction. Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters was nominated for the 2022 Nebula Award for Best Novella,[2] and "What Any Dead Thing Wants" was nominated for the 2024 Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
