2023 Dwarf Stars Award

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Best Poem
1	Believe the Graves	Rasha Abdulhadi
1	In Perpetuity	Bruce Boston
2	Excerpt from a Proposal for the New City	Alyssa Lo
3	As Slow As Starlight	Kim Whysall-Hammond
3	Surviving	Sumiko Saulson
3	Trichotillomania	Warsan Shire
--- Finalists -------
*	"a corpse"	Anna Cates
*	"a derecho"	Debbie Strange
*	"a stack of turtles"	Mahaila Smith
*	"abducted by aliens now I feel needed"	Ken Slaughter
*	"absentmindedly"	Nick Hoffman
*	"ancient archives"	Helen Ogden
*	"bedtime story..."	Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
*	"charged particles"	Deborah P. Kolodji
*	"chill Halloween evening"	(xeno-unit)
*	"cocktail hour"	Greg Schwartz
*	"deep-space mission"	Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
*	"discarded pie"	Keith Evetts
*	"finally able"	Matthew Wilson
*	"Four-faced doll"	PS Cottier
*	"Frankenstein"	Eavonka Ettinger
*	"Glastonbury"	Helen Buckingham
*	"Leafy alien"	Herb Kauderer
*	"locking eyes"	Barun Saha
*	"long after..."	Roberta Beary
*	"long story short"	Richard Magahiz
*	"meteor sizzling"	Anna Cates
*	"midnight the sun moonlighting"	Tim Cremin
*	"mission to Titan"	Lisa Timpf
*	"months after his death"	Joseph P. Wechselberger
*	"morning newspaper"	Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
*	"mourning"	Colleen M. Farrelly
*	"multiverse"	A. J. Wentz
*	"mushroom cloud"	Joshua St. Claire
*	"No price is too high"	Randall Andrews
*	"parallel worlds"	Ken Slaughter
*	"planetarium"	John Hawkhead
*	"rain shadow"	C. R. Harper
*	"rereading"	Peggy Hale Bilbro
*	"sawdust protected our torsos"	Richard Magahiz
*	"show me, I said"	Lauren McBride
*	"skeleton eyes"	Greer Woodward
*	"sky memorial"	Akua Lezli Hope
*	"snakeskin tote glistens"	Gary W. Davis
*	"sometimes a wish"	Anna Cates
*	"spaceship window..."	Mark Gilbert
*	"star gazing"	John Hawkhead
*	"termination shock"	Deborah P. Kolodji
*	"the sudden chill"	Deborah P. Kolodji
*	"the universe"	Greer Woodward
*	"thinning hurt"	Akua Lezli Hope
*	"two hearts"	Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
*	"wishing this"	Petro C. K.
*	"wolf moon"	Greg Schwartz
*	A Bird in Hand	Shelly Jones
*	AI can't believe it's not human	Ken Slaughter
*	Another Day, Another Year	Ann Christine Tabaka
*	Aurum	Mariel Herbert
*	Bureaucratic	Mahaila Smith
*	Bury Me Under Fallen Stars	Victoria Nations
*	Butterfly Effect	Colleen Anderson
*	Cancer Surgery on Half a Shell	Mariel Herbert
*	Dark Secret Garden	Max Bindi
*	Date Night	Melissa Ridley Elmes
*	Dreamcaster	Angel Leal
*	Earthlings Among Us	Michael McCormick
*	Eldritch Mother	Melodie Bolt
*	Fifth Tongue	Eva Papasoulioti
*	Finest Particles' Dance	Yuliia Vereta
*	For Khione	Shelly Jones
*	Globular Cluster	F. J. Bergmann
*	golem	Marisca Pichette
*	her leafy blush	Tyler McIntosh
*	Holocene Park: AIs	Denise Dumars
*	interstellar flight	Eva Joan
*	Kyoka	Debbie Strange
*	Masquerade	Rachel Tyle
*	Maxime	Meg Smith
*	mea culpa	Eugen Bacon
*	Most highly honored	Richard Magahiz
*	My Daughter, in Her Silver Sky	Meg Smith
*	my robot boyfriend	Jenny Thompson
*	Never Was a Princess Girl	Melissa Ridley Elmes
*	Night at Ithaca	Federica Santini
*	Nor am I Out of It	Noah Berlatsky
*	Ode to Harriet	Alicia Hilton
*	Questions for the Fallen	Omodero David Oghenekaro
*	Shelter	Koji A. Dae
*	Shore Leave	James Arthur Anderson
*	Sunlight Loves a Crystaline Structure	Robert Frazier
*	Tasty	Greg Fewer
*	Tea Dragon	Herb Kauderer
*	Thanks for Nothing	Randall Andrews
*	The Changing Face of Fear	Lisa Timpf
*	The Cosmologist Dreams of Venus	Aaron Sandberg
*	The Cover-Up	Randall Andrews
*	The Curse of the Clock	Joe Haldeman
*	The Dwelling	Lorraine Schein
*	The Explorers Return	Goran Lowie
*	The Garden of Night	Andrew White
*	Time and Again	Greg Schwartz
*	Time Travel II	Akua Lezli Hope
*	Vampire Therapist	Alan Ira Gordon
*	What Fairy Godmothers Read	Mary Soon Lee
--- Honorable Mentions -------
*	"diameter pi the lake solves for moon"	Kat Lehman
*	A Vision of the Future	J. Y. T. Kennedy

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