Strange Horizons is also the title of a collection of essays by sf historian Sam Moskowitz

Sam Moskowitz

Sam Moskowitz was an early fan and organizer of interest in science fiction and, later, a writer, critic, and historian of the field.-Biography:...

Strange Horizons is an online

Online magazine

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 speculative fiction

Speculative fiction

Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as...

 magazine. (This a term that its editors use as a blanket term covering science fiction

Science fiction

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, fantasy

Fantasy

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, slipstream and related genres.) It also features speculative poetry

Speculative poetry

Also variously called science fiction poetry or SF poetry or fantastic poetry, speculative poetry is to poetry roughly what speculative fiction is to fiction. Speculative poetry is often published by the same markets that publish science fiction, fantasy and horror.Speculative poetry is not...

 in every issue.

It was launched in September 2000, and publishes new material (usually some combination of fiction, articles, reviews, columns, poetry, and/or art) 51 weeks of the year. The magazine was founded by writer and editor Mary Anne Mohanraj

Mary Anne Mohanraj

Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj is an American writer, editor, and academic of Sri Lankan birth.- Background :Mohanraj was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka but moved to the United States at the age of two and grew up in New Britain, Connecticut. She attended Miss Porter's School and the University of...

. It has a staff of approximately thirty volunteers, and is unusual among professional speculative fiction magazines in being funded entirely by donations, holding twice-annual fund drives. The Fiction Editors are Susan Marie Groppi, Jed Hartman and Karen Meisner.

Susan Marie Groppi won the World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional

World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional

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in 2010 for her work as Editor-in-Chief on Strange Horizons, and the magazine itself was nominated for a Best Website Hugo Award in 2002 and 2005 .

The short story "The House Beyond Your Sky" by Benjamin Rosenbaum, published in 2006 in the magazine, was nominated for a 2007 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Other stories in Strange Horizons have also been nominated for the Nebula and other awards.

Editors-in-chief

• Mary Anne Mohanraj, 2000–2003
• Susan Marie Groppi, 2004–2010
• Niall Harrison, 2010–present