Full-Length Book Award Winners:

Christina M. Rau is the author of the sci-fi fem poetry collection Liberating The Astronauts (Aqueduct Press, 2017) and the chapbooks WakeBreatheMove (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and For The Girls, I (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). Her poetry has also appeared on gallery walls in The Ekphrastic Poster Show, on car magnets for The Living Poetry Project, and in various literary journals both online and in print. A life-long resident of Long Island, she is the founder of the Long Island reading circuit, Poets In Nassau, and has read and run workshops for various community groups across the U.S. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College where she also serves as Poetry Editor for The Nassau Review. In her non-writing life, she teaches yoga occasionally and line dances on other occasions. Find her links on christinamrau.com

Marge Simon lives in Ocala, FL. She edits a column for the HWA Newsletter, "Blood & Spades: Poets of the Dark Side," and serves on its Board of Trustees.  She is the second woman to be acknowledged by the SFPA with a Grand Master Award. She has Rhysling Awards for Best Long and Best Short Poem, the Elgin, Dwarf Stars and Strange Horizons Readers’ Award. Marge’s poems and stories have appeared in Asimov’s SF, Silver Blade, Bete Noire, New Myths, Urban Fantasist, Daily Science Fiction, to name a few. She attends the ICFA annually as a guest poet/writer and is on the board of the Speculative Literary Foundation.. margesimon.com

Mary Turzillo’s poetry collection Lovers & Killers won the 2013 Elgin Award. Her 1999 Nebula winner "Mars Is No Place for Children" is read on the International Space Station. She has been a finalist on the British Science Fiction Association, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars and Rhysling ballots. Sweet Poison, her collaboration with Marge Simon, was a Stoker finalist and won the 2015 Elgin Award. Her novel Mars Girls came out in 2017 from Apex. Satan’s Sweethearts, a 2016 collaboration with Simon, excoriates evil women throughout history. Her current project is A Mars Cat and His Boy. She lives in Ohio with her scientist-writer husband, Geoffrey Landis; they both fence internationally. She and Marge believe that dark-hearted women can be as evil as men, but aren't caught as often because they are more covert.

Margaret Rhee is a poet, new media artist, and scholar. She is the author of chapbooks Yellow (Tinfish Press, 2011) and Radio Heart; or, How Robots Fall Out of Love (Finishing Line Press, 2015), awarded a 2018 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her first full-length poetry collection Love, Robot (The Operating System, 2017) was named a Best Poetry Book of 2017 by Entropy Magazine. Her literary fellowships include Kundiman, Hedgebrook, and the Kathy Acker Fellowship. Her new media project The Kimchi Poetry Machine was selected for the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 3. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley in ethnic and new media studies. Currently, she is a College Fellow in Digital Media Practice in the English Department at Harvard University, and an Assistant Professor at SUNY Buffalo in the Department of Media Study (starting 2019).

Chapbook Award Winners:

F. J. Bergmann won the first Elgin chapbook award in 2013 for Out of the Black Forest, a collection of fairy-tale poems. This one's for a science-fiction collection. She has also won 2 Rhysling Awards, for both long and short poems. The past editor of Star*Line, she edits and designs books for both literary and horror presses.

Christina Sng is the author of An Assortment of Sky Things (Allegra Press, 2016), Astropoetry (Alban Lake Publishing, 2017), and 2017 Bram Stoker Award winner, A Collection of Nightmares (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2017). Her poetry, fiction, and art have appeared in numerous venues worldwide and garnered over 70 awards and nominations, including Honorable Mentions in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and the Best Horror of the Year. christinasng.com

Dan Hoy is the author of The Deathbed Editions (Octopus Books, 2016) and several poetry chapbooks, including The Terraformers (Third Man Books, 2017), The Tree (Solar Luxuriance, 2016), Omegachurch (Solar Luxuriance, 2010) and Glory Hole (Mal-O-Mar Editions, 2009). His work has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Triple Canopy, Novembre, Elderly and other magazines and anthologies. He was a contributor to the collective blog Montevidayo (2010–2015), and was co-founder of the literary arts journal Soft Targets (2006–2007). He lives in Nashville.