Elissa Malcohn's novelette "Lazuli" (Asimov's, Nov. 1984) made her a 1985 John W. Campbell Award finalist for best new science fiction writer of the year. Her short story "Moments of Clarity" (Full Spectrum, Bantam, 1988) reached preliminary ballot for the 1989 Nebula Awards.  She has been published since the 1970s.

More recent appearances include "Hermit Crabs" in Hugo Award-winning magazine Electric Velocipede ("Hermit Crabs" is on the recommended reading list in The Year's Best Science Fiction, 26th Annual Collection); "Memento Mori" in Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet (Dark Scribe Press); "Arachne" in IPPY Silver Medalist anthology Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory (Scriblerus Press), "Flotsam" in multiple Hugo-winning magazine Asimov's ("Flotsam" is on the recommended reading list in The Year's Best Science Fiction, 27th Annual Collection); "Judgment at Naioth" in She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror (Dybbuk Press); "Visitations" in Jack-o'-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy (Raven Electrick Ink); and more.

"The Last Dragon Slayer" (in Mythic Delirium #24) garnered her fifth Rhysling Award nomination in 2012.  Elissa edited Star*Line, journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, from 1986-88 and guest-edited in 2011.  Her poems have also appeared in Asimov's, The Fifth Di..., Eye to the Telescope, Dreams and Nightmares, A Sea of Alone: Poems for Alfred Hitchcock (Dark Scribe Press), The Open Laboratory 2010: The Best of Science Writing on the Web, Goblin Fruit, Astropoetica, microcosms, Space and Time, Strange Horizons, WeMoon, and elsewhere.  

Member, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Science Fiction Poetry Association, Broad Universe, more. Proud participant, Operation E-Book Drop, Books For Soldiers, Shadow Forest Authors.
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