Ruth Berman
Ruth Berman | |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
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| Notable awards | Rhysling Award (2003) Dwarf Stars Award (2006) |
Ruth Berman is an American writer of weird science fiction and speculative poetry.
Her short fiction has appeared in Analog, New Worlds, Star Trek: The New Voyages, Shadows 2, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Asimov's Science Fiction. Berman was a staff member of the University of Minnesota.[1]
Recognition
[edit]Berman won the 2003 Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem, and the 2006 Dwarf Stars Award for her poem Knowledge Of. In 1973, she was a finalist for the first John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.[2]
In 2026, the Science_Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association named her a Grand Master.[3]
Bibliography
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Poetry
[edit]Anthologies
[edit]- Bag Person Press Collective, ed. (2012). Lady poetesses from Hell. Bag Person Press.
List of poems
[edit]| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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| The Fates rebel | 2015 | Berman, Ruth (March 2015). "The Fates rebel". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (3): 45. | |
| Gold ring | 2014 | Berman, Ruth (February 2014). "Gold ring". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (2): 79. | |
| How many | 2013 | Berman, Ruth (February 2013). "How many". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (2): 69. | |
| Immigrant to Desert-World | 1977 | Berman, Ruth (Fall 2013). "Immigrant to Desert-World". Asimov's Choice Astronauts & Androids. 1 (1): 43. [4] | |
| Knowledge of | 2005 | Berman, Ruth (Autumn 2005). "Knowledge of" (PDF). Kerem. 10: 104. | |
Fiction
[edit]- Berman, Ruth (2011). Bradamant's quest. FTL Publications.
References
[edit]- ↑ "A Ruth Berman Bibliography". University of Minnesota. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-09-17.
- ↑ History of the John W. Campbell Awards, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved August 18, 2019
- ↑ Ruth Berman Named SFPA Grand Master; in Locus; published April 3, 2026; retrieved April 4, 2026
- ↑ Berman wrote: "I got a pleasant surprise in the mail recently...I told you, didn't I, that a poem of mine (originally about Vulcan, although in the process of rewriting it got away from the specific place), "Immigrant to Desert-World," was published in Isaac Asimov's SF Fall issue? Well, I got another check from them, and a note saying that they're reprinting it in an anthology to come out in a couple of months." -- from a letter by Berman in "Despatch" #32 (October 1977)
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