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To The Last Ion

A poetry collection by Colleen Anderson

Publication October 2026

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"If Dr. Frankenstein created an angel from the future darks and present wounds of humanity’s deepest soul, we would get some semblance of the powerful vision that is Colleen Anderson’s To the Last Ion. Here, science change, climate change, human change, and visionary first encounters are presented through rhythmic poetic truths that invigorate the heart with second chances." 

--Jamal Hodge, Bram Stoker Award for Everything Endless.

“TO THE LAST ION is simply brilliant! Colleen Anderson takes us on journeys through a complex universe and informs, entertains, and enchants! Highly recommended!”

--Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of Bewilderness and Ghosts of the Void.

"Utilizing history, horror, and science fiction, Colleen Anderson has woven a tapestry of monsters, dinosaurs, aliens, and robots in a collection that seeks to explore our world and the human condition. To The Last Ion is a profound and intelligent work of poetry that reads like nothing that's come before. You'll want to read this many times over."

--Pedro Iniguez, Bram Stoker and Elgin Award-winning writer of Mexicans on the Moon

"Colleen Anderson’s To the Last Ion is smart, sharp, darkly funny, and wonderfully unsettling. These poems look straight into all the strange little ways humanity keeps inventing new problems for itself. Anderson can make me laugh at a cyberpumpkin one minute and then quietly devastate me with a poem about survival, exploitation, or the end of the world in the next. This is speculative poetry with a wicked sense of humor and beneath all the darkness, a hidden moral compass asking us to wake up, pay attention, and maybe do better before we run out of ions."

 ~Angela Yuriko Smith, Two-time Bram Stoker Winner and Publisher of Space & Time magazine

"Ready or not, time marches on. Or does it? Colleen Anderson provides thought-provoking images with words. Creating tales. Horror is all around us. You don’t have to look far. Concerns for climate. Survival. Have we all but destroyed the chance for generations that may come? Or not… The dance of sex. Impregnation. Castration. Dissolving chemists. The living dead. Poison. Grief. Innocence shattered. Hope remains, as does love. Anderson’s visions paint an unforgettable picture in this science fiction/horror poetry collection."

 --Cindy O’Quinn, Bram Stoker Award winning author

"In the stunning poetry collection To the Last Ion, Anderson deftly traces her finger along the pulsing vein between where we have been and where we are going... and asks, does anyone care? From passionate introspection of the human condition to our future termination and replacement at the hands of aliens, this one hits deep, dark, and hard—yet there are gems of humor and pop culture intermixed. Dive in!"

 --Carol Gyzander, Bram Stoker Award recipient, World Fantasy Award and Rhysling Award finalist