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Elissa Malcohn has been published in Amazing Stories, Asimov's, 2009 Hugo Award nominee Electric Velocipede, 2008 Hugo nominee Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly (click here to read a .pdf file of her story), Tales of the Unanticipated, and elsewhere. She was a 1985 John W. Campbell Award finalist for best new science fiction writer of the year.

Her story "Moments of Clarity" (Full Spectrum, Bantam, 1988) reached preliminary ballot for a Nebula Award. Commenting on "Moments of Clarity" in his review of Full Spectrum in the November, 1988, Out of This World Tribune, Bruce D. Arthurs wrote, "This one story is worth the price of the entire book."

Two anthologies in which Elissa's work has appeared have won awards in 2009. Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory (Scriblerus Press) is an IPPY Silver Medalist. Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet (Dark Scribe Press) won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology.

Covenant, the first volume of Elissa's Deviations series, was released by Aisling Press in 2007. In September 2008, Aisling's parent company, Oculus Media, was administratively dissolved by the Florida Department of State. Elissa re-released Covenant as a free e-book download in March 2009. Volume 2, Appetite, was to be published by Aisling Press in 2008 and was released as a free e-book download in May 2009. Downloads (in various formats) and updates may be found at the Deviations webpage. Additional formats are available at Manybooks.net.

"If you are looking for something different with a great story line, I would suggest reading these books. They are very well written and draw the reader into the story, possibly against their will."
-- Rachel Baker, Old Musty Books

(See Elissa's website for more reviews.)

Elissa is a four-time Rhysling Award nominee for best speculative poetry of the year. From 1986-88 she edited Star*Line, the journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Recent poetry appearances include Aoife's Kiss, Harp-Strings Poetry Journal, Poets' Forum Magazine, Space and Time, Strange Horizons, We'Moon, and elsewhere. In 2008 she was keynote speaker at the Florida State Poets Association's annual conference.

Her bibliography also includes articles and creative nonfiction. Her photography has appeared in the Environment News Service, Gardening in South Africa, the online magazine This Old House, and elsewhere. She has taught creative writing at the Cambridge and Dorchester Centers for Adult Education (Massachusetts) and the Art Center of Citrus County (Florida) and was on the 2008 faculty of the Florida Writers Association conference. Her mixed-media art has been exhibited at the Mass. College of Art, A Strong Cup of Coffee, and the Zeitgeist Gallery (Massachusetts) and at the Art Center of Citrus County. She provides communications services through her business, Malcohn Enterprises.

Watch for forthcoming work in the Oct./Nov. 2009 Asimov's, the Dybbuk Press anthology She Nailed A Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror (expected Spring 2010), and elsewhere. See the Malcohn's World website for more details, including links to social networking and other sites where she hangs out.

When not otherwise occupied, Elissa enjoys singing a cappella improv and performing spoken word at open mics. Free-dance is her favorite form of exercise. In 1995, her "bicycling year," she did the first Boston-New York AIDS Ride, cycling 261 miles in three days and tripping the light fantastic afterwards.

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