Juleigh Howard-Hobson

Juleigh Howard-Hobson is most widely known for her modern poetry. Which is written in form. Working under the principle that taboos --even literary ones-- must always be challenged, she also writes fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews and articles. In various genres. From literary to horror. Mostly horror poetry these days. Still in form, always in form. The otherworld expects no less from her.

She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association, and the Science Fiction Poetry Association. She is the 2025 Elgin Award Chair for the SFPA.

Recognition for her poetry spans decades, from the1980 ANZAC Day Award (in Australia) to nominations for Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, the Rhysling Award and the Elgin Award. She was most recently longlisted for the 2024 Rhysling.

Her first chapbook, Sommer and Other Poems (RavensHalla Arts Pub. March 2007), sold out its premier edition. The illustrious Red Salon Press brought out Our Otherworld, her Elgin Award nominated collection of formal numinous poems. Her most recent book is Curses, Black Spells and Hexes: A Grimoire Sonnetica (Alien Buddha Press, July 2021).

Individual poems have appeared in scores of venues, across the globe, including The Deadlands, 34 Orchard, Amazing Stories, Midnight Echo, Capsule Stories, Faerie Magazine, Enchanted Conversation, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Polu Texni, Illumen, Riddled with Arrows, Verse Wisconsin, The Lyric, Able Muse, Mezzo Cammin, The Raintown Review, Hip Mama Magazine, Mobius, 14 by 14, The Barefoot Muse, Umbrella, Poemeleon, Mandragora (Scarlet Imprint), Caduceus: The Poets at Art Place Vol 8 (Yale University), Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions (Marion Street Press), Five Minutes at Hotel StormCove (Atthis Arts), Weaving the Terrain (Dos Gatos), Lift Every Voice (Kissing Dynamite) along with many other places.

Her fiction, though lesser known than her poetry, has appeared in such varied places as the Liars League, The New Southern Fugitives, The First Line, Her Story, Key Hole Magazine, Going Down Swinging, The Cantibrigian, History is Dead (Permuted Press), The Knitters Gift (Adams Media), and Alien Days (Castrum Press).

Her wide-faring non-fiction appears in many guises, from highly arcane journals such as Witch Way Magazine, Northern Traditions, and The Journal of Contemporary Heathen Thought all the way to venues such as The Tishman Review, Devolution Z, Chick Ink (Simon and Schuster), and Ex-Pat (Seal Press).

Born in the south of England, raised in both the US and Australia, she lives in the rainy grey US Pacific Northwest, right beside the Graveyard of the Pacific. In an old haunted Victorian with a huge upstairs library. It is perfectly dreary. There are not-deer and werewolves. She doesn't think there is a more fitting spot on earth.