Elissa Malcohn

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Elissa Malcohn is a SF writer, poet, and activist. She was a 1985 John W. Campbell Award finalist for her novelette, "Lazuli" (Asimov's, Nov. 1984). From 1986-1988 she edited Star*Line, journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association ([1]).

More recently, her work has appeared in Hugo Award-winner Electric Velocipede, Bram Stoker Award-winner Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet, and IPPY Silver Medalist Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory. Her stories "Hermit Crabs" (Electric Velocipede #14, 2008) and "Flotsam" (Asimov's, Oct./Nov. 2009) received honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction, 26th and 27th annual collections, respectively. In 2010 her song "This Is Our Gulf" won first prize in the Woodview Coffee House song-writing contest.

Over the years she has been involved with the Women's Pentagon Action, Women's Peace Education Fund (a.k.a. Women Strike for Peace), Feminist Writers Guild, Boston Bisexual Women's Network, and is currently on the Motherboard of Broad Universe. She is also a member of SFWA, SFPA ([2]), Florida State Poets Association ([3])/National Federation of State Poetry Societies ([4]), and is listed with Poets and Writers, Inc. ([5]).

Partial Bibliography (not all SF)

Novels:

  • Deviations: Second Covenant (series conclusion), released as a free e-book, accessible from the Deviations website and Smashwords.com, June 2011.
  • Deviations: TelZodo, released as a free e-book, accessible from the Deviations website, Manybooks.net, and Smashwords.com, December 2010.
  • Deviations: Bloodlines, released as a free e-book, accessible from the Deviations website, Manybooks.net, and Smashwords.com, May 2010.
  • Deviations: Destiny, released as a free e-book, accessible from the Deviations website, Manybooks.net, and Smashwords.com, December 2009.
  • Deviations: Appetite, released as a free e-book, accessible from the Deviations website, Manybooks.net, and Smashwords.com, May 2009.
  • Deviations: Covenant, Aisling Press, September 2007. Re-released in March 2009 as a free e-book, accessible from the Deviations website ([6]) and from Manybooks.net ([7]) and Smashwords ([8])

Chapbooks:

  • Poetic Variables: Science Poems for January 2011, Malcohn Enterprises, 2011 ([9])
  • Divinations: Writing by the throw of the dice, Malcohn Enterprises, 2010 ([10])
  • 30 Science Sonnets for April 2010, Malcohn Enterprises, 2010 ([11])

Short fiction & creative nonfiction

Forthcoming
  • "Visitations," Jack-o'-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy, Karen Romanko, Ed., Raven Electrick Ink ([12]), 2011.
Published
  • "Judgment at Naioth," She Nailed A Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror, Tim Lieder, Ed., Dybbuk Press ([13]), October 2010.
  • "Heisenberg's Metamorphosis," PicFic ([14]), Sept. 6, 2010
  • "Bittersweet," PicFic ([15]), Sept. 6, 2010.
  • "Fierce Harvest," PicFic ([16]), Sept. 6, 2010.
  • "Icarus Redux," Niteblade ([17]), June 2010.
  • "Empty Nest," PicFic ([18]), May 18, 2010.
  • micro-fiction in Thaumatrope ([19]), Feb. 12, 2010.
  • "Flotsam," Asimov's, Oct./Nov. 2009.
  • in "Short Takes," New Plains Review ([20]) "Service" issue, Spring 2009.
  • "Memento Mori," Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet, Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder, Eds., Dark Scribe Press ([21]), Dec. 2008.
  • "Prometheus Rebound," Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly ([22]), October 2008. Accessible as a .pdf file from Elissa's website ([23]).
  • "Arachne," reprinted in Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory ([24]), Sean Miller and Shveta Verma, Eds., Scriblerus Press, June 2008.
  • "Hermit Crabs," Electric Velocipede ([25]), Issue Fourteen, Spring 2008.
  • "Identity Theft," The Drabbler #10: Haunted Spaceports, Sam's Dot Publishing ([26]), February 2008.
  • "January 1985: A Day in Lawrence, Massachusetts," Reed ([27]), Issue 60, 2007.
  • "Moments of Clarity," Full Spectrum, Bantam Books, 1988.
  • "Arachne," Aboriginal Science Fiction, November-December 1988.
  • "Cog," Tales of the Unanticipated ([28]) No. 4, Fall/Winter 1988.
  • "Another Place," Amazing Stories 63(1), May 1988.
  • "Why They're Called Wisdom Teeth," Z Miscellaneous 1(5), November 1987.
  • "The S.O.B. Show," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine ([29]) 10(12), December 1986.
  • "Choreographer," The River Reader, 1985.
  • "Variations for Four Hands," Yellow Silk Issue Fourteen, Spring 1985.
  • "Lazuli," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 8(11), November 1984.
  • "The Evolution of Cmdr. DeVeia," Yellow Silk, Issue Five, Fall 1982.
  • "The Trial of Dodi," Black Maria 4(2), 1981 (as Elissa L.A. Hamilton).
  • "Black Magic," Karmic Runes 2nd Annual Journey Into Fantasy, December 1977 (as Elissa Alkoff).

Poetry

Poetry has appeared (with more forthcoming, where indicated) in these and other publications:

A Sea of Alone: Poetry for Alfred Hitchcock (Dark Scribe Press, forthcoming) ([30]); Aboriginal Science Fiction; Alpha Gallery (Small Press Writers & Artists Organization); Amazing Stories; various Florida State Poets Association anthologies; Aoife's Kiss ([31]); Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine; Astropoetica ([32]); Aurora; Beacon Review; Black Maria; Burning With a Vision: Poetry of Science and the Fantastic (R. Frazier, Ed., Owlswick Press); The Celibate Woman; Dreams & Nightmares ([33]); Earth's Daughters ([34]); Encore: Prize Poems of the NFSPS 2004 (National Federation of State Poetry Societies); Goblin Fruit ([35]); Harp Strings Poetry Journal; Harvard Business Review (reprinted in Professor John K. Shank's case "Jones Ironworks, Inc."); Hoboken Terminal; I Name Myself Daughter, And It Is Good (M. Honton, Ed., Sophia Books); Ice River; The Magazine of Speculative Poetry ([36]); microcosms ([37]); Mythic Delirium (forthcoming) ([38]); The Official Newsletter of the Horror Writers Association ([39]); Open Laboratory 2010 ([40]); The Planetarian (International Planetarium Society, [41]); Poetry Night at the Null Hypothesis (Science Fiction Poetry Association cassette tape); Poets For Living Waters ([42]); Poets' Forum Magazine; Portland Review ([43]); Rhysling Anthologies 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986 (Science Fiction Poetry Association); The River Reader; The Round Table; Sage Woman ([44]); Samisdat; San Fernando Poetry Journal; The 2nd Annual SFPA Poetry Contest 2007: Sonnets (W.G. Stewart, M.L. Tentchoff, & S. Virtes, Eds., Spec House of Poetry with the Science Fiction Poetry Association); Space and Time ([45]); Stage V: A Journal Through Illness (S. Wainwright, Acacia Books); Star*Line; STEM Newsletter (The Wolfson Centre for Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering and Modelling, University of Nottingham, UK); Strange Horizons ([46]); unFold ([47]); Uranus; Vampyr Verse (Popcorn Press, 2009) ([48]); Velocities; We'Moon ([49]); We're Working On It! (Seven Poets Anthology Collective, Feminist Writers Guild); Win Magazine ([50]); Z Miscellaneous.

Further reading

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