F.J. Bergmann
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F.J. Bergmann lives in Madison, Wisconsin (for at least the fifth time), and imagines tragedies on or near exoplanets. She is the poetry editor for Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, the managing editor of MadHat Press, and poetry editor for Weird House Press; she previously was the editor of Star*Line, the flagship quarterly of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. She freelances as a copy editor and book designer.
Her writing awards include SFPA Rhysling Awards for both long and short poems and SFPA Elgin Awards for two chapbooks: Out of the Black Forest (Centennial Press, 2012), a collection of conflated fairy tales, and A Catalogue of the Further Suns, précis of first-contact reports from interstellar expeditions, winner of the 2017 Gold Line Press manuscript competition. She was a 2019 quarter-winner for Writers of the Future. Venues where her poems have appeared include Asimov's SF, Missouri Review, Polu Texni, Spectral Realms and Vastarien; her speculative fiction has been published in Abyss & Apex, Little Blue Marble (Canada), Pulp Literature (Canada), Soft Cartel, WriteAhead/The Future Looms (UK), and elsewhere.
She has competed at National Poetry Slam with the Madison Urban Spoken Word slam team. She has no academic literary qualifications but is kind to those so encumbered. In a past life, she worked with horses. She thinks imagination can compensate for anything.
Website: https://fjbergmann.com/
Winning Entry: Happy Childhoods
Contest Won: Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2019, Honorable Mention, Tom Howard
Winning Entry: afterimage
Contest Won: Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2023, Honorable Mention
