Joshua "Josh" Viola (born July 23, 1983) is a
science fiction/
fantasy/
horror writer, artist and film producer best known for Denver Moon, The Bane of Yoto and his publishing company
Hex Publishers.[1] He is a 2021 Splatterpunk Award nominee (Psi-Wars: Classified Cases of Psychic Phenomena)[2] and a 2022
Colorado Book Awards winner (Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas).[3]
Viola is owner of publishing house
Hex Publishers.[7][8] He edited their
Denver Post number one best selling[9] horror anthology, Nightmares Unhinged,[10] featuring Bram Stoker, Hugo and Nebula Award winners such as Jason Heller,
Steve Rasnic Tem,
Edward Bryant and
Stephen Graham Jones.[11] He co-edited Cyber World, a
cyberpunk anthology, with Jason Heller for Hex Publishers in 2016, which was a 2017
Colorado Book Award finalist[12][13] and named one of the best anthologies of 2016 by
Barnes & Noble.[14] Blood Business, a paranormal crime anthology co-edited by Mario Acevedo, was a 2018 Colorado Book Award finalist.[15] In 2019, his comic book collection, Denver Moon: Metamorphosis, was included on the 2018
Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel.[16] He was nominated for his fourth Colorado Book Award in April 2020 for his Denver Moon sequel, The Saint of Mars,[17] a year after the first book, The Minds of Mars, was nominated for the 2019 award.[18] In 2021, he edited the StokerCon™ souvenir anthology for the
Horror Writers Association's first online convention (due to the
COVID-19 pandemic), which included the 2020
Bram Stoker Awards.[19] His 2020 anthology, Psi-Wars, was nominated for a 2021 Splatterpunk Award (award founded by Wrath James White and
Brian Keene).[20] He won the 2022 Colorado Book Award in the Anthology category for Shadow Atlas, co-edited by Carina Bissett and Hillary Dodge.
Joshua "Josh" Viola (born July 23, 1983) is a
science fiction/
fantasy/
horror writer, artist and film producer best known for Denver Moon, The Bane of Yoto and his publishing company
Hex Publishers.[1] He is a 2021 Splatterpunk Award nominee (Psi-Wars: Classified Cases of Psychic Phenomena)[2] and a 2022
Colorado Book Awards winner (Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas).[3]
Viola is owner of publishing house
Hex Publishers.[7][8] He edited their
Denver Post number one best selling[9] horror anthology, Nightmares Unhinged,[10] featuring Bram Stoker, Hugo and Nebula Award winners such as Jason Heller,
Steve Rasnic Tem,
Edward Bryant and
Stephen Graham Jones.[11] He co-edited Cyber World, a
cyberpunk anthology, with Jason Heller for Hex Publishers in 2016, which was a 2017
Colorado Book Award finalist[12][13] and named one of the best anthologies of 2016 by
Barnes & Noble.[14] Blood Business, a paranormal crime anthology co-edited by Mario Acevedo, was a 2018 Colorado Book Award finalist.[15] In 2019, his comic book collection, Denver Moon: Metamorphosis, was included on the 2018
Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel.[16] He was nominated for his fourth Colorado Book Award in April 2020 for his Denver Moon sequel, The Saint of Mars,[17] a year after the first book, The Minds of Mars, was nominated for the 2019 award.[18] In 2021, he edited the StokerCon™ souvenir anthology for the
Horror Writers Association's first online convention (due to the
COVID-19 pandemic), which included the 2020
Bram Stoker Awards.[19] His 2020 anthology, Psi-Wars, was nominated for a 2021 Splatterpunk Award (award founded by Wrath James White and
Brian Keene).[20] He won the 2022 Colorado Book Award in the Anthology category for Shadow Atlas, co-edited by Carina Bissett and Hillary Dodge.