Betsy Aoki (she/her)

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Game producer, writer, poet. Clarion West grad and currently poetry editor at Uncanny Magazine. See Betsyaoki.com for more.

Book Cover of dark and light blue falling lines on white background with the title “ these are the waterfalls in my head poems by JeFF Stumpo
Text on blue background: Uk'otoa and the Wildmother clash in "Fight for the Soul" as told by Betsy Aoki. Pullquote on green background: "As his dying soul screamed for recourse into the sea's cold depths, Fjord didn't realize there was a bargain to be made. But Uk'otoa did. And Uk'otoa made it for him" The Mighty Nein | Stories Untold. Foreword by Taliesin Jaffe.
Bright pink square tote and paper coffee cup on stone sidewalk— this is the backdrop for the Grief Eater print novella, which has a green skinned woman zombie with black hair dripping blood and screaming red flames into the night. Grief Eater is a debut work by Emma Osborne, an Australian author.
Ordinary Guy at War: a Ukrainian’s journey. Cover has Dimko Zhluktenko in traditional Ukrainian vyshyvanka embroidered shirt, facing camera head on.
_Audition for the Fox _ by Martin Cahill cover shows a smiling red fox, tongue out, with black forelegs . At top: “ Stunning imagination “—NK Jemisin blurb
White book cover with black ink drawings of guns and clasped arms/hands. “ Everyone Knows I am a Haunting” by Shivanee Ramlochan
Chicken figurine covered with mirror mosaic —similar to disco ball —with red comb and beak.
Hugo award wearing Betsy’s teal hat.
Necklace of silver swords and red beads. Alchemical symbol of arsenic in enamel pin on the teal Worldcon badge lanyard.
Antique brass necklace with alchemical symbol for arsenic “ the healing poison” as Cae Hawksmoor would say.
Silver metallic sword/knife blades dangle from a silver chain necklace in a widening spiral
Shiv Ramdas in dark purple shirt reads into a microphone at the center of a wide table with multiple microphones.
Book cover: Bearded ( line drawing) figure holding lion in fireman’s carry across night landscape. Title: Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell.
Yellow sun, orange fading to purple sky, spaceships fighting and/or emerging from a radial shape.
Hardback copy. Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell. Cover has dark etching of man in toga with lion on his shoulders against blue night sky and purple mountains in distance.
A brown blue and green cover with four partitions showing spiky thin trees in a field. Title reads: Ghost Forest: New and Selected by Kimiko Hahn.
Spiral design made with necklace of silver knives and bracelet of knives.Bracelet of blood petals to upper left.
Parchment style letter with cursive script listing the very-bladed necklace and bracelet, laser cut pendant in crow form by The Peculiarity Shop staff: Sara Eileen, Hillary, Becky who “ swelled in power making all these gothy goodies.”
Andrew with loose papers reads an excerpt about symbiotic ships
Andrew Romine waves his new book The Mosquito Fleet in front of the bar
Betsy Aoki, woman with glasses and red sweater models the red and maroon/brown cover of The Mosquito Fleet by Andy Romine.
Wooden skull in profile with wildflowers, including single blue one, inside clear resin cavity.
Two tabby cats laying down on an armchair: ( Grace) female golden striped with arm paw around more silver tiger striped ( Spencer).
Black and white image: Three shadowy women dance on a hillside next to a gnarled tree trunk as silhouettes of birds fly across a cloudy sky. Text reads: Asimov's Science Fiction. Sept/Oct 2024. Highlighted authors: Stephanie Feldman, Naomi Kritizker, Susan Shwartz, Robert Reed, Nick Wolven, Ray Nayler, James Patrick Kelly.