Ruth Berman

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|awards=Rhysling Award (2003)
Dwarf Stars Award (2006)

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Ruth Berman is an American writer of weird science fiction and speculative poetry. In 2003, she won the Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem. She was also the winner of 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.[http://www.thehugoawards.org/campbell-history/ History of the John W. Campbell Awards], at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved August 18, 2019

Her short fiction has appeared in Analog, New Worlds, Star Trek: The New Voyages, Shadows 2, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Asimov's Science Fiction. Berman is a staff member of the University of Minnesota.{{cite news|url=http://www.tc.umn.edu/~d-lena/RuthBermanBibliography.html|title=A Ruth Berman Bibliography|work=University of Minnesota|access-date=2014-09-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233125/http://www.tc.umn.edu/~d-lena/RuthBermanBibliography.html#|archive-date=2016-03-03|url-status=dead}}

Bibliography

=Poetry=

==Anthologies==

{{cite book |title=Lady poetesses from Hell |editor=Bag Person Press Collective |publisher=Bag Person Press |year=2012}}

== List of poems ==

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width=25%\|Title !\|Year !\|First published !\|Reprinted/collected
data-sort-value="fates rebel"\|The Fates rebel \|2015 \|{{cite journal \|author=Berman, Ruth \|date=March 2015 \|title=The Fates rebel \|journal=Asimov's Science Fiction \|volume=39 \|issue=3 \|pages=45}} \|
Gold ring \|2014 \|{{cite journal \|author=Berman, Ruth \|date=February 2014 \|title=Gold ring \|journal=Asimov's Science Fiction \|volume=38 \|issue=2 \|pages=79}} \|
How many \|2013 \|{{cite journal \|author=Berman, Ruth \|date=February 2013 \|title=How many \|journal=Asimov's Science Fiction \|volume=37 \|issue=2 \|pages=69}} \|
Immigrant to Desert-World \|1977 \|{{cite journal \|author=Berman, Ruth \|date=Fall 2013 \|title=Immigrant to Desert-World \|journal=Asimov's Choice Astronauts & Androids \|volume=1 \|issue=1 \|pages=43}} 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) \|
Knowledge of \|2005 \|{{cite journal \|author=Berman, Ruth \|date=Autumn 2005 \|title=Knowledge of \|journal=Kerem \|volume=10 \|pages=104 \|url=http://kerem.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Berman-vol-10-RSU.pdf }} \|

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width=25%|Title

!|Year

!|First published

!|Reprinted/collected

data-sort-value="fates rebel"|The Fates rebel

|2015

|{{cite journal |author=Berman, Ruth |date=March 2015 |title=The Fates rebel |journal=Asimov's Science Fiction |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=45}}

Gold ring

|2014

|{{cite journal |author=Berman, Ruth |date=February 2014 |title=Gold ring |journal=Asimov's Science Fiction |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=79}}

How many

|2013

|{{cite journal |author=Berman, Ruth |date=February 2013 |title=How many |journal=Asimov's Science Fiction |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=69}}

Immigrant to Desert-World

|1977

|{{cite journal |author=Berman, Ruth |date=Fall 2013 |title=Immigrant to Desert-World |journal=Asimov's Choice Astronauts & Androids |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=43}} 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)

Knowledge of

|2005

|{{cite journal |author=Berman, Ruth |date=Autumn 2005 |title=Knowledge of |journal=Kerem |volume=10 |pages=104 |url=http://kerem.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Berman-vol-10-RSU.pdf }}