Fj bergmann biography
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Since publishing her first poem as a teenager called “The Unicorns of Mars”, F.J. Bergmann has been a leading poet in the field of speculative poetry. In 2024, she has been named a Grandmaster by SFPA and winner of the President’s Service Award. While still recent, I wanted to take the chance to interview her and get her thoughts on winning the award, her writing, and other topics in the realm of science fiction and fantasy.
The SFPA Grand Master Award recognizes the contributions in poetry that a person has made in their lifetime. Their superior skill and a body of work are testaments to talent and a resource for inspiring other poets and furthering knowledge of the genre.
The President’s Lifetime Service Award is given to an individual who has furthered the knowledge, appreciation, and acceptance of the speculative poetry genre, and who has served the SFPA in a significant volunteer capacity.
Interview
How did it feel to be voted a Grandmaster and win the President’s Service Award? That was really a surprise. I think Debbie Kolodji, who won the President’s Service Award last year and really deserved it, should’ve received the Grandmaster award this year, but that’s the membership vote.
But, I felt really honored. I’ve been with SFPA for quite a
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BIOGRAPHY:
F. J. Bergmann is presently and originally from Wisconsin and has lived in France, England, New Jersey and Maryland. In a previous life she spent all her time working with horses. Fred is her still-present and original husband, since 1978, and she is the Space Lord Mother of three more recent offspring. She claims to have an MFA from the School of the Americas, and is to blame for everything on this website, as well as madpoetry.org and other iniquities. Her poems have been published in numerous print and online journals, including (under the nom de plume Easter Cathay) on asininepoetry.com. Her hobbies include narcolepsy, retrophrenology, and Fainting in Coils. Her hairstyle is deceptive. One of her pseudopodia can reach all the way from the bedroom to the refrigerator.
AWARDS:
In 2011, “Flash” won the Heartland Review Joy Bale Booneprize; Blood Loyalty was a finalist in the Romance Junkies 10-page contest; Fall of Snow received an honorable mention from the Speculative Literature Foundation Older Writers Grant; “The Further Suns” received an honorable mention from the Tapestry of Bronze Apollo contest; and “A New Life” received a Pushcart nomination from Niteblade.
In 2010, Travels in the Antipathies was a
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