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Elissa Malcohn plays the part of Commander Mal on SciFi Times TV. A long time writer and novelist, Elissa Malcohn’s award-winning short stories and poetry are far too numerous to name here! Her first novel, Deviations: Covenant, was published in 2007 through Aisling Press, and the sequel, Deviations: Appetite is soon to be released.

Elissa Malcohn began writing science fiction after Star Trek went off the air in 1969. New York's 1972 Star Trek convention saw her schlepping dozens of used books bought for a dime or a quarter apiece on the subway home to Brooklyn. That year she also received a Read Magazine Creative Writing Award, her first of various prizes. She took out her first magazine subscription, to Galaxy, which supplied her first (and exciting!) rejection slip.

Her work extends over 30+ years and across dozens of publications.

In 2007 Aisling Press published her novel Deviations: Covenant and will release the sequel, Appetite, in fall 2008.

Elissa's novelette "Lazuli" (Asimov's, Nov. 1984) made her a finalist for the 1985 John W. Campbell Award for best new science fiction writer. Her story "Moments of Clarity" (Full Spectrum, Bantam, 1988) reached preliminary ballot for a Nebula (given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) and was nominated for a Locus Award. "This one story is worth the price of the entire book," wrote Bruce D. Arthurs in the November, 1988, Out of This World Tribune.

A four-time Rhysling Award nominee for best speculative poetry of the year, Elissa edited the Science Fiction Poetry Association's journal Star*Line from 1986-1988.