Judith Moffett

Judith Moffett
Author Photo by Mark Kidd Studios, 2008
Born	1942 Kentucky, United States
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Subjects	Poetry, Science fiction, Literary criticism
www.judithmoffett.com

Judith Moffett (born 1942) is an American author and academic. She has published poetry, nonfiction, science fiction, and translations of Swedish literature. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and presented a paper on the translation of poetry at a 1998 Nobel Symposium.

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.[1] 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.[2] 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.

Bibliography

Novels

• Pennterra (Congdon & Weed, 1987; reprint edition, Fantastic Books, 2009; eBook edition, Weightless Books, 2010)
• The Ragged World (Holy Ground Trilogy, Book 1, St. Martin's Press, 1991)
• Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream (Holy Ground Trilogy, Book 2, St. Martin's Press, 1992)
• The Bird Shaman (Holy Ground Trilogy, Book 3, Bascom Hill Publishing Group, 2008; eBook edition, Weightless Books, 2010)

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)

Short 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)
• "The Middle of Somewhere" (Welcome to the Greenhouse, Gordon Van Gelder, ed, OR Books, 2011)

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

• Author's Official Site
• Author's Blog
• 1994 Author Interview conducted by academic and critic Farah Mendlesohn
• Beth Fish Reads blog Spotlight on... Pennsylvania Authors: February 15, 2010 -- Judith Moffett
• Judith Moffett Literary Correspondence Collection
• Judith Moffett at Fantastic Fiction
• Judith Moffett at FiledBy
• Judith Moffett at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database