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Aigner Loren Wilson (she/her) is an Ignyte Award nominated writer and Hugo Award winning editor of literary speculative fiction, criticism, and nonfiction. She is a coastal body and has lived on occupied Coast Salish, Cowlitz, Nisqually, and Lenni-Lenape land. Besides writing, Aigner is an avid reader, baker, terrarium builder, and hiker.

Currently, she is writing and editing for herself and others while pursuing her MFA at the Bennington Writing Seminars. For fans, readers, and supporters, subscribe to this website for updates and check out her author newsletter, Writing Skins, for an intimate look at her work and career.

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Writing and Editing Work

Aigner is a senior fiction editor for Strange Horizons and a former associate editor for the Black horror podcast NIGHTLIGHT. Along with her work with Strange Horizons and NIGHTLIGHT, she’s served as guest editor for Apparition Literary’s Contamination issue and Fireside Magazine’s 2022 winter issues. She’s also been a judge for NYC Midnight’s short story contests.

Aigner has written monthly reviews for Tor Nightfire and Lightspeed Magazine. Her fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, Vice, and more. Her poetry has been published in FIYAH, Anathema, and more. Her nonfiction can be found in WIRED, Writer’s Digest, The Washington Post, and many more. Her work has been called evocative, noteworthy, and imaginative and has earned her an honorable mention for the 2019 Otherwise Fellowship Award, been nominated for the Ignyte Award for best novelette and best critic, and she won a Hugo Award in 2024 for her work with Strange Horizons.

Books and Games

Aigner is the author of the science fiction and fantasy short story collection Plagued Company & Other Stories and the horror poetry collection to be haunted. She’s also the writer and designer of the games the Nightmare House, an interactive haunted house novella and the science fiction puzzle game Take Me Home. Her most recent novella, Twilight Children, about caregiving and loss that was originally serialized through Substack is also now available as a book through her newsletter.

All of her fiction, poems, and games straddle the barrier between literary and speculative fiction. More than anything, Aigner wants to entertain and engage her readers through exciting and original storylines loaded with themes of friendship, home, and self that the reader can carry away from the page.

Where to Find Aigner

You can find Aigner active in the writing group she founded and runs called the South Whulge Speculative Fiction Writers’ Group for local writers living in the occupied Washington South Whulge/Sound (Thurston, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pierce counties). To leave her a note or get in contact with her, use the contact form on this site. The blog section is for both fans and writers. Subscribe to stay up to date! You can also follow her author newsletter, Writing Skins, for intimate looks at the craft and career of being an author.