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Judith Moffett


USA flag (b.1942)

udith Moffett was born in Louisville in 1942 and grew up in Cincinnati. She is an English professor, a poet, a Swedish translator, and the author of twelve books in six genres. These include two volumes of poetry, two of Swedish poetry in formal translation, four science-fiction novels plus a collection of stories, a volume of creative nonfiction, and a critical study of James Merrill's poetry; she has also written an unpublished memoir of her long friendship with Merrill. Her work in poetry, translation, and science fiction has earned numerous awards and award nominations, including an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry, an NEH Translation Grant, the Swedish Academy's Tolkningspris (Translation Prize), and in science fiction the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Theodore Sturgeon Award for the year's best short story. Two of her novels were New York Times Notable Books.

Moffett earned a doctorate in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania, with a thesis on Stephen Vincent Benét's narrative poetry, directed by Daniel Hoffman. She taught American literature and creative writing at several colleges and universities, including the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of Kentucky, and for fifteen years the University of Pennsylvania. She has lived for extended periods in England (Cambridge) and Sweden (Lund and Stockholm), as well as around the US, living/teaching/writing in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado, Wisconsin, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Utah. In 1983 she married Medievalist Edward B. Irving, Jr., her colleague at Penn. Widowed in 1998, Judy now divides her year between Oxford OH and her hundred-acre recovering farm near Lawrenceburg KY, sharing both homes with her standard poodles, Corbie and Lexi.
 
 
Series
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Novels
   Pennterra (1987)
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Collections
   Keeping Time (poems) (1976)
   Whinny Moor Crossing (poems) (1984)
   Two that Came True (1991)
   Tarzan in Kentucky (poems) (2015)
   The Bear's Baby and Other Stories (2017)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Tiny Tango (1989)
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Non fiction show
 
Anthologies containing stories by Judith Moffett
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Year's Best SF 17 (2012)
(Year's Best SF , book 17)
edited by
Kathryn Cramer and David G Hartwell
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Welcome to the Greenhouse (2011)
New Science Fiction on Climate Change
edited by
Gordon Van Gelder

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Awards
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1987) : Surviving
John W. Campbell Best New Author winner (1988)
John W. Campbell Best Book winner (1988) : Pennterra
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1989) : The Hob
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1990) : Tiny Tango
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1990) : Tiny Tango


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