Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) President Deborah P. Kolodji writes: “I’m pleased to announce that Jaime Lee Moyer is going to be the 2010 Rhysling Editor. Jaime has been the poetry editor for Ideomancer Speculative Fiction for the last five years. She has published more than eighty of her own poems in both literary and speculative venues, including Strange Horizons, Mythic Delirium, Dreams and Nightmares, and Goblin Fruit. Jaime was awarded the 2009 Columbus Literary Award for fiction for her novel, Delia’s Shadow by the Columbus Arts Council and Thurber House. Her novels are represented by Tamar Rydzinski of the Laura Dail Literary Agency in New York. Jaime lives on the banks of a river in Ohio with the two cats who own her.”
The Rhyslings are the SFPA’s annual awards, and are divided into two categories: short poem (fewer than 50 lines) and long poem (50 lines and longer). Each year, the organization publishes a Rhysling Anthology, collecting the winners and nominees in book form. Members of the SFPA may nominate up to one poem in each category, between 1 January and 15 February 2010. Poems must have been first published in 2009, and members may not nominate their own works.