AJ Odasso is an American queer, intersex, nonbinary author and poet with a published career dating back to 2005.

They are also a six-time Hugo nominee in the Semi-Prozine category in their capacity as Senior Poetry Editor for the speculative fiction magazine, Strange Horizons.

Odasso began their published career in 2005 while an undergraduate at Wellesley College,[1] since then producing poetry, nonfiction, and short stories for magazines and anthologies.

[5] Odasso is also Senior Poetry Editor for Strange Horizons, a weekly speculative fiction and non-fiction magazine, where they have worked since 2012.

[3] They are a full-time English Faculty member at San Juan College and a Doctor of Philosophy candidate in Rhetoric & Writing at the University of New Mexico.