Meet the 2020 Award Judges!

As usual, here's our annual post announcing the Leo Literary Award Judges for 2020!

Furry Judges:

Thiger is a furry editor, writer and artist who has been published in The Electric Sewer, Dogpile, Sensory De-Tails, and Howloween 2.

Linnea Capps is an award-winning poet and author who has worked in writing spaces for over ten years. She has edited everything from anthologies to board game rulebooks and currently in the President of the Furry Writers' Guild. She also writes reviews for the Furry Book Review.

Coming from the distant lands Down Under, J.F.R. Coates is a speculative fiction author and former publisher. He has five novels published across the fantasy, science-fiction, and furry genres. He has also been the editor for anthologies such as Furry Trash.

Normie Judges:

Aaron J. Muller is a transgender author from Kingston, NY, where he lives with his husband and their two cats. He has been published in Taco Bell Quarterly, Inverted Syntax, and Owl Canyon Press. He is currently pursuing his MFA in fiction at Bennington College.

Scott Hughes is a Georgia author whose fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in such publications as Crazyhorse, One Sentence Poems, Deep Magic, Redheaded Stepchild, Entropy, and Strange Horizons. He is the Division Head of English at Central Georgia Technical College. His short story collection, The Last Book You’ll Ever Read, is available from Sinister Stoat Press/Weasel Press, and his poetry collection, The Universe You Swallowed Whole, is available from Finishing Line Press. His latest story collection, Horrors & Wonders, is available now.