Judith Moffett

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name = Judith Moffett

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Judith Moffett (born 1942) is an American science fiction writer. She is also a poet and an academic.

She first wrote poetry and works about poets, like her 1984 book about James Merrill. She still writes for organizations like the Academy of American Poets. [http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/158] She did not write science fiction until 1986, but gained almost immediate attention by winning the first Theodore Sturgeon Award in 1987. Her first novel, "Pennterra" in 1987, further enhanced her reputation. It is noted both for its treatment of alien sexuality and as an example of Quakers in science fiction. [http://www.adherents.com/lit/sf_quaker.html] In the following year, 1988, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. In 1989 her novella "Tiny Tango" also received award nominations.

References

*The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, page 814

Bibliography

Novels

*"Pennterra" (Congdon & Weed, 1987)
*"The Ragged World" (St. Martin's Press, 1991, Holy Ground Trilogy, Book 1)
*"Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream" (St. Martin's Press, 1992, Holy Ground Trilogy, Book 2)
*"The Bird Shaman" (Bascom Hill Publishing Group, 2008, Holy Ground Trilogy, Book 3)

Collections

*"Keeping Time: Poems" (LSU Press, 1976, poems)
*"Whinny Moor Crossing" (Princeton University Press, 1984, poems)
*"Two that Came True" (Pulphouse Press, 1991, science-fiction stories)

Translations from the Swedish

*"Gentleman, Single, Refined and Selected Poems, 1937-1959 by Hjalmar Gullberg" (LSU Press, 1979)
*"The North! To The North! Five Swedish Poets of the Nineteenth Century" (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001)

hort stories

* "After Three Wordsworths" ("Shenandoah", March 1980)
* "Surviving" ("F&SF", June 1986)
* "The Hob" ("Asimov's", May 1988)
* "Tiny Tango" ("Asimov's", February 1989)
* "Not Without Honor" ("Asimov's", May 1989)
* "Remembrance of Things Future" ("Asimov's", December 1989)
* "I, Said the Cow" ("F&SF", January 1990)
* "Final Tomte" ("F&SF", June 1990)
* "The Ragged Rock" ("Asimov's", December 1990)
* "Chickasaw Slave" ("Asimov's", September 1991)
* "The Realms of Glory" ("Heaven Sent", Peter Crowther and Martin H. Greenberg, eds, DAW Books, 1995)
* "The Bradshaw" ("F&SF", October 1998)
* "The Bear’s Baby" ("F&SF", October/November 2003)
* "The Bird Shaman’s Girl" ("F&SF", October/November 2007)

Non-fiction

*"James Merrill: An Introduction to the Poetry" (Columbia University Press, 1984)
*"Homestead Year: Back to the Land in Suburbia" (Lyons & Burford, 1995)

Awards, Honors, and Recognitions

* 1967 Fulbright Teaching Fellowship to the University of Lund, Sweden
* 1971 First prize, Graduate Division, in the Academy of American Poets Contest at the University of Pennsylvania
* 1973 Fulbright Travel Grant to Sweden
* 1973 Eunice Tietjens Prize from "Poetry" magazine
* 1976 First Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant in poetry
* 1976 Levinson Prize from "Poetry" magazine
* 1978 Columbia University Translation Center Award
* 1980 Second Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
* 1981 Poem "Scatsquall in Spring" included in "Pushcart IV: Best of the Small Presses" annual collection
* 1982 Annual Translation Prize of the Swedish Academy
* 1983 National Endowment for the Humanities Translation Grant
* 1984 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship Grant
* 1987 "Surviving": won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best science fiction story of the year; also a finalist for a 1986 Nebula Award in the novelette category
* 1988 Received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the World Science Fiction Convention in New Orleans
* 1989 "The Hob": a finalist for the 1988 Nebula Award in the novelette category
* 1990 "Tiny Tango": a finalist for the 1989 Nebula Award and the 1990 Hugo Award in the novella category
* 1991 Third Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant for poetry and translation
* 1991 "The Ragged World": a "New York Times" Notable Book
* 1992 "Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream": a "New York Times" Notable Book and shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award
* 1994 Translation grant from the Swedish Academy
* 1998 Presenter at the Nobel Symposium on Translation of Poetry and Poetic Prose
* 1999 One-year stipend from the Swedish Authors' Fund

External links

* [http://www.judithmoffett.com/ Author's Official Site]
* [http://hefngafr.livejournal.com/ Author's Blog]
* [http://hefngafr.livejournal.com/3369.html#cutid1/ 1994 Author Interview] conducted by academic and critic Farah Mendlesohn
* [http://www.wmich.edu/~ulib/special/collections/moffett.php Judith Moffett Literary Correspondence Collection]
*Judith Moffett at [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/judith-moffett/ Fantastic Fiction]
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