F. J. Bergmann

In 2020, Bergmann's story “A Prize in Every Box” won a Writers of the Future award.

Bergmann's Out of the Black Forest won the 2013 Elgin Award in the Chapbook category. Her collection A Catalogue of the Further Suns won the 2018 Elgin in the same category and also placed first in the 2016 Gold Line Press manuscript competition.

Bergmann freelances as an editor and book designer and has served as editor for several literary presses and journals. She is currently the poetry and art editor for Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, poetry editor for Weird House Press, and managing editor for MadHat Press. She was twice editor of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA)'s speculative poetry journal Star*Line, first from 2012-2017 and then again from 2020-2021. She has also guest-edited an issue of the SFPA's online speculative poetry journal Eye to the Telescope, a publication for which she serves as webmaster.

Bergmann's poetry has been the recipient of several other awards and honors, including Heartland Review's 2011 Joy Bale Boone Prize, the 2010 Wis. Fellowship of Poets Triad Prize, the 2010 Atlanta Review International Publication Prize, the 2004 Pauline Ellis Prose Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Mary Roberts Rinehart National Poetry Award.

Bergmann's poem "Eating Light" won the 2008 Rhysling Award for speculative poetry in the Short category and was collected in the Nebula Awards Showcase 2010. Her poem “100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien” won the 2015 Rhysling in the Long category.

F. J. Bergmann (born 1954) is the pen name of Jeannie Bergmann, an American editor and writer of speculative poetry and prose fiction.