2005 Rhysling Award—Short Poem: Greg Beatty
Winning poem: "No Ruined Lunar City"

Greg Beatty was born and raised in Ohio. He has a B.A. from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, both in English. He currently lives in Bellingham, Wash., and recently married Kathy Pitcher. Beatty also received a Rhysling nomination in the long-poem category this year, for his poem “The Other Sleeping Beauties.” He attended Clarion West, an intensive six-week workshop for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy, in 2000.

2005 Rhysling Award—Long Poem: Tim Pratt
Winning poem: "Soul Searching"

Tim Pratt is a North Carolina native now living in California, where he is associate editor for Locus magazine and co-edits the literary zine Flytrap with his fiancée, Heather Shaw. His first full-length poetry collection, If There Were Wolves, is forthcoming from Prime Books/Aegis. His poetry has appeared in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and Weird Tales, among others. Pratt is also a Nebula-nominated fiction author, and his first novel, The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, will be published in December. In addition, his story “Hart & Boot” will appear in the Michael Chabon-edited volume of Best American Short Stories.

Grand Master Award: Robert Frazier
Robert Frazier has seen his work in such publications as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, Amazing, Weird Tales, Tales of the Unanticipated, Dreams & Nightmares, and The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. His work has also appeared in almost every significant anthology containing science fiction poetry, including The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry, Songs from Unsung Worlds, POLY, Time Frames, Terminal Velocities, and 2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology. He has had some 25 poems nominated for a Rhysling Award, winning three times in 1980, 1989, and 1994. He received an Asimov’s Readers’ Poll Award in 1991.

Frazier’s original collections include Peregrine (1978), Co-Orbital Moons (1988) and The Daily Chernobyl (2000, winner of the Anamnesis Press Poetry Chapbook Award). He collaborated with Bruce Boston on Chronicles of the Mutant Rainforest (1992). He was the editor of Speculative Poetry Review and of the seminal anthology Burning with a Vision. He was a longtime editor of Star*Line, the official publication of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and of the SFPA’s Rhysling Anthology.