Phyllis Fay Gotlieb (née Bloom; May 25, 1926 July 14, 2009) was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet.

Biography

Born of Jewish heritage in Toronto, Gotlieb graduated from the

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with degrees in literature in 1948 (BA) and 1950 (MA). In 1961,

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's Hawkshead Press published Gotlieb's first collection of poems, the pamphlet ''Who Knows One'' Her first novel, the science-fiction tale ''Sunburst'', was published in 1964. Gotlieb won the Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel ''A Judgement of Dragons''. The

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is named for her first novel.The Sunburst Award
/ref> Her husband was Calvin Gotlieb (1921–2016), a computer-science professor who lived in

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, Ontario.

Bibliography

Science fiction novels

*''Sunburst''. New York: Fawcett, 1964. *''Birthstones''. Toronto: Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2007.

Dahlgren

*''O Master Caliban!'' New York: Harper and Row, 1976. *''Heart of Red Iron''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Starcats

*''A Judgment of Dragons''. New York: Berkley Publishers, 1980. *''Emperor, Swords, Pentacles''. New York: Ace, 1982. *''The Kingdom of the Cats''. New York: Ace, 1985.

Flesh and Gold

*''Flesh and Gold''. New York: Tor, 1998. *''Violent Stars''. New York: Tor, 1999. *''Mindworld''. New York: Tor, 2002.Selected Poetry of Phyllis Gotlieb
," Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, April 27, 2001.

Science fiction collections

*''Son of the Morning and Other Stories''. New York: Ace, 1983. *''Blue Apes''. Edmonton: Tesseract Books, 1995.

Science fiction anthology

*''Tesseracts 2'' with Douglas Barbour (1987)

Novel

*''Why Should I Have All the Grief?'' Toronto: Macmillan, 1969.

Poetry collections

*''Who Knows One?'' Toronto: Hawkshead Press, 1961. *''Within the Zodiac''. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964. *''Ordinary Moving''. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1969. *''Doctor Umlaut's Earthly Kingdom''. London, ON: Calliope Press, 1974. *''The Works''. London, ON: Calliope Press, 1978. *''Red Blood Black Ink White Paper: New and Selected Poems 1961–2001''. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2002. – 2002 *''Phyllis Loves Kelly''. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2014.

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External links

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*
Selected poetry of Phyllis Gotlieb
– Biography & 15 poems (Aquarius, as I was walking down the street, A Catful of Buttermilk, Death's Head, A Discourse, A Double Vision, First Person Demonstrative, Hospitality, Latitude, Ordinary, Moving, Red Black White, Seventh Seal, So Long It's Been, Thirty-Six Ways of Looking at Toronto Ontario, What I Know (Making Free with Villon's Smalltalk)) * Archives of Phyllis Gotlie
(Phyllis Fay Gotlieb fonds, R4738)
are held at

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