Judith Berman

Judith Elsa Berman (born November 12, 1958 ) is an American anthropologist and science fiction and fantasy writer.

Biography Berman grew up in Moscow, Idaho, and read works from Golden Age science fiction during her childhood. She began writing and making up her own stories around the age of five or six.

She graduated from Bennington College in 1979, where she majored in Anthropology, Russian, and comparative literature.

Fiction

Berman's fiction was short listed for the Nebula, the Sturgeon, and Crawford awards. She won a best critical length essay of its year SFRA Pioneer Award from the Science and Fiction Research Association for her 2001 essay, “Science Fiction Without the Future” Her short fiction appeared in Asimov’s, Interzone, Realms of Fantasy, and Black Gate.

She was a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 2005.

Works

Fiction “The Year of Storms” (1995) “Lord Stink” (1997) “The Window” (1999) (third place Sturgeon winner) “Dream of Rain” (2000) “Lord Stink and Other Stories” (chapterbook, appeared from Small Beer Press in 2002)

Non-fiction

Topics in the Clausal Syntax of German "The Culture as it Appears to the Indian Himself" (History of Anthropology Volume 8, Volksgeist As Method and Ethic, Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the Germ Anthropological Tradition)