Ruth Berman is an American writer of weird science fiction and

speculative poetry Speculative poetry is a genre of poetry that focusses on fantastic, science fictional and mythological themes. It is also known as science fiction poetry or fantastic poetry. It is distinguished from other poetic genres by being categorized by it ...

. In 2003, she won the Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem. She was also the winner of the 2006

Dwarf Stars Award The Dwarf Stars Award is an annual award presented by the Science Fiction Poetry Association to the author of the best horror, fantasy, or science fiction poem of ten lines or fewer published in the previous year. The award was established in 20 ...

for her poem ''Knowledge Of''. In 1973, she was a finalist for the first

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer The ''Astounding'' Award for Best New Writer (formerly the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer) is given annually to the best new writer whose first professional work of science fiction or fantasy was published within the two previous ...

.History of the John W. Campbell Awards
at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved August 18, 2019 Her short fiction has appeared in ''

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'', '' New Worlds'', '' Star Trek: The New Voyages'', '' Shadows 2'', '' Tales of the Unanticipated'', and ''

Asimov's Science Fiction ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy named after science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It is currently published by Penny Publications. From January 2017, the publicatio ...

''. Berman is a staff member of the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

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Poetry

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List of poems

Fiction

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Ruth Berman Page
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