BREAKING NEWS! I am a two-time finalist at the 2026 Frank R. Paul Awards in the Best Book Cover and Best Magazine Cover categories! Congratulations to all the nominees!
Maurizio Manzieri
@manzieriart.bsky.social
Illustrator | Hugo Award Finalist as Best Professional Artist '21 '22 '25
A new anthology edited by Allan Kaster "THE YEAR'S TOP SCIENCE FICTION" is coming on October 16! It includes stories by Kate Elliott, Nnedi Okorafor, Allen M. Steele, Brenda Cooper, and many others. (Publisher: INFINIVOX SF - Cover art by Maurizio Manzieri)
Concept art for a spaceship in the Aliette de Bodard’s Xuya Universe
COVER REVEAL! An original illustration, inspired by @aliettedebodard.com's Xuya Universe, is the cover art for the brand-new anthology series "The Year's Top Science Fiction," edited by Allan Kaster (Art by Maurizio Manzieri - Publisher: @infinivoxsf.bsky.social - October, 2026).
Tomorrow a new cover will be revealed! This original piece, inspired by @aliettedebodard.com's Xuya Universe, will kick off the new anthology "The Year's Top Science Fiction," edited by Allan Kaster ( @infinivoxsf.bsky.social , October 16, 2026). Are you ready?
The countdown to a new cover illustration is on. This original piece, inspired by Aliette de Bodard's Xuya Universe, will kick off the new anthology "The Year's Top Science Fiction," edited by Allan Kaster (Infinivox SF, October 16, 2026). Are you ready?
See you in Senigallia, Italy (18-20 September)! Palazzetto Baviera - my solo Art Exhibit Piazza Simoncelli - Artist Alley hs 3:00PM - 8:00PM Piazza Roma - Panel on Friday 18, h 5:00PM
See you in Senigallia, Italy (18-20 September). Brand-new Exhibit in the Palazzetto Baviera and Panel with the Art Historian Michele Loffredo presenting my new Art Book!
2026 Hugo Nominating Ballots Statistics have been released... WOW! Read that note at the end... Maurizio Manzieri needed just 1 vote to get in the ballot once again as Best Pro Artist! Anyway, heartfelt congrats to John Picacio for the well deserved achievement! 🚀💥❤
"Maurizio Manzieri, Maestro of the Sense of Wonder" is now available on Amazon -- a new monograph devoted to my art, written by art historian Michele Loffredo. Thirty years of artistic work, featuring a wide selection of illustrations and an essay, published in a bilingual Italian–English edition.
Supernovella "Ellipses" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires has dropped! Happy Book Birthday! (Publisher: Infinivox SF, Cover Artist: Maurizio Manzieri)
Here is the final cover design for 'The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 10' featuring my illustration inspired by the Bruce Sterling & Paul Di Filippo's story "Tenth Contact”.(Art by Maurizio Manzieri | Publisher: Infinivox SciFi) Coming out on June 19, 2026.
NEW COVER! Here is my illustration for TENTH CONTACT by Bruce Sterling & Paul Di Filippo, currently a finalist for a 2025 Asimov’s Readers’ Award and commissioned as the cover art for "The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 10", edited by Allan Kaster (Publisher: Infinivox, June 2026).
BREAKING NEWS! I’m truly thrilled to share that @zanzjan.bsky.social and I are once again both finalists for the Asimov’s Readers’ Awards (third time!). My illustration was created for Suzanne’s wonderful story, THE CHRONOLITOGRAPHER'S ASSISTANT, featured in the July/August 2025 issue of Asimov’s SF
Breaking news! Starting today, I am officially a grandfather! Welcome, Leonardo! 🩵 (Picture: Studio photo of my daughter Simona taken two months ago)
COVER REVEAL!!! Here is my latest cover for ASIMOV'S SF magazine, inspired by the wonderful story FAILED ATTEMPTS AT PREDATION by @alyxdellamonica.bsky.social and commissioned for the May-June 2026 issue. (Illustration: Maurizio Manzieri / Publisher: Must Read Magazines / 1 Paragraph Inc.).
HUGO AWARDS 2026... It's the last week to vote! In the comments the link to my eligible international body of work 🚀🚀🚀
BREAKING NEWS! WOW, I'm really happy to hear that Jonathan Brazee's YA novel "Gemini Rising", which I illustrated, is a finalist for the 2025 NEBULA AWARDS! Congratulations!!! (Publisher: Semper Fi Press | Cover Art by Maurizio Manzieri)
The 13th edition of the "Infected by Art" yearbook includes my illustration "The Ghosts of Mars," commissioned by Infinivox for Dominica Phetteplace's short story of the same name. In 2025, the same illustration won the Frank R. Paul Award and the Best in the Show Award at the WorldCon in Seattle.
So thrilled to share that my illustration ELLIPSES has been judged into INFECTED BY ART (Vol. 14 )- The illustration will be published in 2026 as a cover art for an original novella by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (INFINIVOX SciFi).
My 2025 Artwork Eligible for Awards - Here is a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2025! All these artwork are eligible for the 2026 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! 😊🚀
(ITA) “Maurizio Manzieri awarded in the USA”. The main Italian daily newspaper LA STAMPA (December 27, 2025) talks about my recent achievements: the 2025 Frank R. Paul Award and the 2025 Asimov’s Readers’ Award! Thanks to Stefano Priarone for the article!
Wow, another wonderful piece of news to end 2025! I won the Asimov's SF Readers' Award for Best Cover of the Year for the fifth time (!),The award-winning illustration was inspired by Rory Harper's short story, 'Burning Grannies'. Thank you all for voting for me, and congrats to all the winners!
2025 FRANK R. PAUL AWARD - The DHL courier just knocked on my studio door to deliver the amazing trophy I just won! 🚀
(ITA) - CORRIERE DELLA SERA daily newspaper, December 8th, 2025)- Illustrator Maurizio Manzieri, winner of the Frank R. Paul Award, says: "AI is repetitive, I always look for unique ideas" (Thanks to journalist Luca Castelli for the interview!)
AetnaCon 2025, First panel with Aliette @aliettedebodard.com and Maurizio Manzieri: “the importance of ice cream in the life of us artists”
I’ve reached my hotel in Catania, Sicily, and I’m ready for AetnaCon 2025! Aliette de Bodard is going to join me and all the organization team for an unforgettable dinner together!
Aliette de Bodard and Maurizio Manzieri will be Guests at AetnaCon in Sicily, Italy, on December 6th… here is the full Program! Countdown activated… see you there! 👨🏻🎨
