Ruth Berman

Ruth Berman
Ruth Berman
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Genres	Science fiction; speculative poetry;
Notable awards	Rhysling Award (2003); Dwarf Stars Award (2006)

Ruth Berman is an American writer of weird science fiction and speculative poetry.

Recognition

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]

Bag Person Press Collective, ed. (2012). Lady poetesses from Hell. Bag Person Press.

Title	Year	First published
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.

↑ "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)