This page lists all Dwarf Stars award winners and chairs/editors by year, with the most recent first. To see full information for each year's award, including all winners and chair/editor/winner biographies, please click the link beneath each anthology cover.
2025 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
Perish and Live Forever • Pedro Iniguez • Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future (Space Cowboy Books)
Editor
Miguel O. Mitchell
2024 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
关于树的无数可能/"the infinite possibilities of trees" • Xiao Xi, translated from the Chinese by Yilin Wang from 《风不止》 (The Ceaseless Wind) • Prism International 61:3
Chair
Brittany Hause
2023 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poems (tie)
“Believe the Graves” • Rasha Abdulhadi • The Deadlands 16
“In Perpetuity” • Bruce Boston • Analog, July/August
Chairs
David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Miguel O. Mitchell, PhD
2022 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poems (tie)
Poem with Lines from my Son • Jen Stewart Fueston • Bracken VIII
What Trees Read • Mary Soon Lee • Uppagus 48
Chairs
Adele Gardner and Greer Woodward
2021 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
“Yes, Antimatter Is Real” • Holly Lyn Walrath • Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September/October 2020
Chair
Charles Christian
2020 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
“Standing Up” • John C. Mannone • Nadwah: Poetry in Translation, December 2019.
Editor
Robin Mayhall
2019 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
“embalsamados” (“embalmed”) • Sofía Rhei (translated by Lawrence Schimel) • Multiverse: An International Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry, eds. Rachel Plummer & Russell Jones (Shoreline of Infinity, 2018).
Editor
John C. Mannone
2018 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
"The Green" • Kath Abela Wilson • Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace, eds. Diane Frank, Lois P. Jones, Ami Kaye, Rustin Larson, Gloria Mindock & Melissa Studdard (Glass Lyre Press, 2017)
Editor
Deborah P Kolodji
2017 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
“aster than the speed of lightf” • LeRoy Gorman • Scifaikuest, November 2016
Editor
Robin Mayhall
2016 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
"We Begin This Way" • Stacey Balkun • Gingerbread House 16
Editors
Jeannine Hall Gailey & Lesley Wheeler
2015 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
“abandoned nursing home” • Greg Schwartz • Tales of the Talisman 9:3
Editor
John Amen
2014 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
Mat Joiner • "And Deeper than Did Ever Plummet Sound"
Editor
Sandra J. Lindow
2013 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
Basho After Cinderella (iii) • Deborah P Kolodji • Rattle 38
Editors
Stephen M. Wilson & Linda D. Addison
2012 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
“Blue Rose Buddha” • Marge Simon • The Mad Hattery (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2011)
Editors
Geoffrey A. Landis & Joshua Gage
2011 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
“Comet” • Julie Bloss Kelsey • microcosms
Editor
Joshua Gage
2010 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
Bumbershoot • Howard V. Hendrix
Editor
Joshua Gage
2009 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
"Fireflies" by Geoffrey A. Landis
Editors
Deborah P Kolodji and Stephen M. Wilson
2008 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
"Place Mat by Moebius" by Greg Beatty
Editors
Deborah P Kolodji and Stephen M. Wilson
2007 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
"Last Unicorn" by Jane Yolen
Editors
Deborah P Kolodji and Stephen M. Wilson
2006 Dwarf Stars Award
Winning Poem
"Knowledge Of" by Ruth Berman
Editor
Deborah P Kolodji
