MARGE SIMON‘s poems, short fiction, and illustrations have appeared in hundreds of publications, including Amazing Stories, ChiZine, Daily Science Fiction, Dream & Nightmares, Niteblade, The Pedestal Magazine, Strange Horizons, Vestal Review, and many, many more. Her impact on the field is substantial, and her work has expanded the margins of horror in an inclusive and genre-reshaping fashion. Her work bringing horror and speculative fiction from a lesbian feminist perspective is found not only in her own writing, but in her activism, her teaching, her lectures, and her mentoring. She has also worked as a critic for The Village Voice. Gomez calls herself “the possible foremother of Afrofuturism.” Her poems and short stories appear in over one hundred anthologies. Her work centers on women’s stories, in particular women of color, and LGBTQ+ rights and culture. She also authored the stage adaptation of that novel under the title Bones and Ash: A Gilda Story, which began touring in 1996 and was performed in thirteen American cities by the Urban Bush Women company. She is the author of seven books including the double Lambda Literary Award-winning vampire novel The Gilda Stories, currently celebrating its 30th year in print. JEWELLE GOMEZ is a writer, novelist, playwright, activist, critic, poet, and television writer, among many other identities and activities. The volume reissued as a “Princeton Classic” in 2015 and her influence in the genre can be seen in such recent horror narratives as Final Girl, The Final Girls, Scream Queens, and every rebooted slasher film of the last twenty years. Clover coined the term “final girl,” and articulated a structural and gendered approach to understanding films such as Friday the 13th, Halloween, and similar horror cinema that has exhibited a profound effect not only on how scholars understand the genre, but also has entered the popular vocabulary and understanding of how to read these films. Clover argued against film critics who saw the films as victimizing women, instead focusing on the victim/hero – the young woman who defeats the killer. While much of her scholarship has concerned medieval Icelandic culture, her 1992 book Men, Women and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film was a seminal work in the serious study of contemporary horror cinema and especially “slasher” films. CLOVER is a Professor Emerita of Medieval Studies (Early Northern Europe) and American Film at the University of California, Berkeley.
HWA’s Lifetime Achievement Award Committee has chosen three extraordinary recipients for 2020:ĬAROL J.
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