Judith Moffett
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Judith Moffett 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
.http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/158 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.http://www.adherents.com/lit/sf_quaker.html 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.
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
and the National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
and presented a paper on the translation of poetry at a 1998 Nobel
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
Symposium.
She first wrote poetry and works about poets, like her 1984 book about James Merrill
James Merrill
James Ingram Merrill was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies...
. She still writes for organizations like the Academy of American Poets
Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is a non-profit organization dedicated to the art of poetry. The Academy was incorporated as a "membership corporation" in New York State in 1934...
.http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/158 She did not write science fiction until 1986, but gained almost immediate attention by winning the first Theodore Sturgeon Award
Theodore Sturgeon Award
The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award is given each year for the best science fiction short story of the year and is the short fiction counterpart of the Campbell award , published in English....
in 1987. Her first novel, Pennterra
Pennterra
Pennterra is a science fiction novel written by Judith Moffett, first published in 1987. It received the praise of many writers of the genre, including Jane Yolen, James Tiptree, Jr., Orson Scott Card, Michael Bishop, and Isaac Asimov, who wrote an introduction for the book and published it under...
in 1987, further enhanced her reputation. It is noted both for its treatment of alien sexuality and as an example of Quakers
Religious Society of Friends
The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences...
in science fiction.http://www.adherents.com/lit/sf_quaker.html 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.
Novels
- PennterraPennterraPennterra is a science fiction novel written by Judith Moffett, first published in 1987. It received the praise of many writers of the genre, including Jane Yolen, James Tiptree, Jr., Orson Scott Card, Michael Bishop, and Isaac Asimov, who wrote an introduction for the book and published it under...
(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 GullbergHjalmar GullbergHjalmar Gullberg was a Swedish writer, poet and translator of Greek drama into Swedish.Gullberg was born in Malmö, Skåne. As a student at Lund University, he was the editor of the student magazine Lundagård. He was the manager of the Swedish Radio Theatre 1936-1950...
(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 FellowshipFulbright ProgramThe Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of competitive, merit-based grants for international educational exchange for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists and artists, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946. Under the...
to the University of Lund, Sweden - 1971 First prize, Graduate Division, in the Academy of American Poets ContestAcademy of American PoetsThe Academy of American Poets is a non-profit organization dedicated to the art of poetry. The Academy was incorporated as a "membership corporation" in New York State in 1934...
at the University of Pennsylvania - 1973 Fulbright Travel Grant to Sweden
- 1973 Eunice Tietjens PrizeEunice TietjensEunice Tietjens was an American poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor.Born as Eunice Strong Hammond in Chicago on July 29, 1884, she was educated in Europe and travelled heavily....
from PoetryPoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
magazine - 1976 First Ingram Merrill FoundationJames MerrillJames Ingram Merrill was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies...
Grant in poetry - 1976 Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine
- 1978 Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
Translation Center Award - 1980 Second Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
- 1981 Poem "Scatsquall in Spring" included in PushcartPushcart PressPushcart Press is a publishing house established in 1972 by Bill Henderson and is perhaps most famous for its Pushcart Prize and for the anthology of prize winners it publishes annually. The press has been honored by Publishers Weekly as one of the USA's "most influential publishers" with the 1979...
IV: Best of the Small Presses annual collection - 1982 Annual Translation Prize of the Swedish AcademySwedish AcademyThe Swedish Academy , founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.-History:The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786 by King Gustav III. Modelled after the Académie française, it has 18 members. The motto of the Academy is "Talent and Taste"...
- 1983 National Endowment for the HumanitiesNational Endowment for the HumanitiesThe National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
Translation Grant - 1984 National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
Creative Writing Fellowship Grant - 1987 "Surviving": won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial AwardTheodore Sturgeon AwardThe Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award is given each year for the best science fiction short story of the year and is the short fiction counterpart of the Campbell award , published in English....
for the best science fiction story of the year; also a finalist for a 1986 Nebula AwardNebula AwardThe Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...
in the novelette category - 1988 Received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the World Science Fiction ConventionWorldconWorldcon, or more formally The World Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention held each year since 1939 . It is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society...
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 AwardHugo AwardThe Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...
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 AcademySwedish AcademyThe Swedish Academy , founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.-History:The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786 by King Gustav III. Modelled after the Académie française, it has 18 members. The motto of the Academy is "Talent and Taste"...
- 1998 Presenter at the NobelNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
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 MendlesohnFarah MendlesohnFarah Mendlesohn is a Hugo Award-winning British academic and writer on science fiction. In 2005 she won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book for The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, which she edited with Edward James....
- 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