Lynne M. Thomas, Head of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University Library, has received a 2025 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine for her work as co-editor-in-chief and co-publisher of Uncanny Magazine with her husband, Michael Damian Thomas. The award includes managing editor Monte Lin; poetry editor Betsy Aoki; and podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky. Additionally, a story published in Uncanny Magazine, “Stitched to Skin like Family Is” by Nghi Vo won the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

This is Thomas’s twelfth Hugo Award; she now holds the most Hugo Award wins among women and ties Mike Glyer for the fifth-most wins among all Hugo Award winners. The Hugo Award is “the leading award for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy.” The awards were announced on August 16, 2025, at a formal ceremony at Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention. Since 1955, the Hugo Awards have been awarded annually by the World Science Fiction Society.