Rhysling Awards Winners By Name
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Ackerson, Duane
(2 nominations; 2 wins)
1979:
“Fatalities” — short poem — winner (tie)
1978:
“The Starman” — short poem — winner (tie)
Addison, Linda
(3 nominations; 2 wins)
2021:
“Summer Time(lessness)” — short poem — winner
2020:
grand master — winner
Allen, Mike
(8 nominations; 3 wins)
2007:
“The Journey to Kailash” — long poem — winner
2006:
“The Strip Search” — short poem — winner
2003:
“Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy” (by Charles Saplak & MA) — long poem — winner (tie)
Arkenberg, Megan
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2012:
“The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages” — long poem — winner
Bergmann, F. J.
(6 nominations; 2 wins)
2015:
“100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien” — long poem — winner
2008:
“Eating Light” — short poem — winner
Berman, Ruth
(3 nominations; 2 wins)
2016:
“Time Travel Vocabulary Problems” — short poem — winner
2003:
“Potherb Gardening” — short poem — winner
Blackford, Jenny
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2021:
“Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London” — long poem — winner
Boston, Bruce
(13 nominations; 8 wins)
2001:
“My Wife Returns As She Would Have It” — short poem — winner
1999:
grand master poet — winner
1999:
“Confessions of a Body Thief” — short poem — winner
1996:
“Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation” — short poem — winner
1994:
“Spacer's Compass” — short poem — winner (tie)
1989:
“In the Darkened Hours” — long poem — winner (tie)
1988:
“The Nightmare Collector” — short poem — winner (tie)
1985:
“For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets” — short poem — winner
Cato, Beth
(5 nominations; 2 wins)
2022:
“The Bookstore” — long poem — winner
2019:
“After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls” — short poem — winner
Crow, Jennifer
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2023:
“Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon” — short poem — winner (tie)
El-Mohtar, Amal
(4 nominations; 3 wins)
2014:
“Turning the Leaves” — short poem — winner
2011:
“Peach-Creamed Honey” — short poem — winner
2009:
“Song for an Ancient City” — short poem — winner
Evans, Kendall
(5 nominations; 2 wins)
2010:
“In the Astronaut Asylum” (by KE & Samantha Henderson) — long poem — winner
2006:
“The Tin Men” (by KE & David C. Kopaska-Merkel) — long poem — winner
Ford, John M.
(1 nomination; 1 win)
1989:
“Winter Solstice, Camelot Station” — long poem — winner (tie)
Frazier, Robert
(6 nominations; 4 wins)
2005:
grand master poet — winner
1994:
“Basement Flats” (by W. Gregory Stewart & RF) — long poem — winner
1989:
“Salinity” — short poem — winner
1980:
“Encased in the Amber of Eternity” — short poem — winner (tie)
Garey, Terry A.
(2 nominations; 2 wins)
2013:
“The Cat Star” — long poem — winner
1997:
“Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes” — long poem — winner
Goss, Theodora
(4 nominations; 2 wins)
2017:
“Rose Child” — long poem — winner
2004:
“Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks” — long poem — winner
Grey, John
(1 nomination; 1 win)
1998:
“Explaining Frankenstein To His Mother” — short poem — winner
Haldeman, Joe
(5 nominations; 3 wins)
2001:
“January Fires” — long poem — winner
1991:
“Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh” — short poem — winner
1984:
“Saul's Death” — long poem — winner
Henderson, Samantha
(4 nominations; 1 win)
2010:
“In the Astronaut Asylum” (by Kendall Evans & SH) — long poem — winner
Joron, Andrew
(3 nominations; 3 wins)
1986:
“Shipwrecked on Destiny Five” — long poem — winner
1980:
“The Sonic Waterfall of Primes” — long poem — winner
1978:
“Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night” — short poem — winner (tie)
Kopaska-Merkel, David C.
(7 nominations; 2 wins)
2017:
grand master — winner
2006:
“The Tin Men” (by Kendall Evans & DCK) — long poem — winner
Landis, Geoffrey A.
(5 nominations; 3 wins)
2024:
“No One Now Remembers” — short poem — winner
2009:
“Search” — long poem — winner
2000:
“Christmas (after we all got time machines)” — long poem — winner
Lee, Mary Soon
(6 nominations; 4 wins)
2022:
grand master — winner
2022:
“Confessions of a Spaceport AI” — short poem — winner
2018:
“Advice to a Six-Year-Old” — short poem — winner
2014:
“Interregnum” — long poem — winner
Lunde, David
(2 nominations; 2 wins)
1995:
“Pilot, Pilot” — long poem — winner
1992:
“Song of the Martian Cricket” — short poem — winner
Memmott, David
(1 nomination; 1 win)
1991:
“The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire” — long poem — winner
Phounsiri, Krysada Panusith
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2016:
“It Begins with a Haunting” — long poem — winner (tie)
Pierre, Terese Mason
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2023:
“In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White” — short poem — winner (tie)
Rezmerski, John Calvin
(1 nomination; 1 win)
1987:
“A Dream of Heredity” — short poem — winner (tie)
Saplak, Charles M.
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2003:
“Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy” (by CMS & Mike Allen) — long poem — winner (tie)
Schwader, Ann K.
(6 nominations; 3 wins)
2018:
grand master — winner
2016:
“Keziah” — long poem — winner (tie)
2010:
“To Theia” — short poem — winner
Simon, Marge
(7 nominations; 4 wins)
2017:
“George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts” — short poem — winner
2015:
grand master poet — winner
2015:
“Shutdown” — short poem — winner
1996:
“Variants of the Obsolete” — long poem — winner
Stewart, W. Gregory
(4 nominations; 4 wins)
1997:
“Day Omega” — short poem — winner
1994:
“Basement Flats” (by WGS & Robert Frazier) — long poem — winner
1992:
“The button, and what you know” — long poem — winner
1987:
“Daedalus” — long poem — winner
Valente, Catherynne M.
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2008:
“The Seven Devils of Central California” — long poem — winner
VanderMeer, Jeff
(1 nomination; 1 win)
1994:
“Flight Is For Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over” — short poem — winner (tie)
Winter, Laurel
(2 nominations; 2 wins)
1999:
“egg horror poem” — long poem — winner
1998:
“why goldfish shouldn't use power tools” — long poem — winner
Wolfe, Gene
(1 nomination; 1 win)
1978:
“The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps” — long poem — winner
Yolen, Jane
(2 nominations; 2 wins)
2010:
grand master poet — winner
1993:
“Will” — short poem — winner
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