Judith Merril

Judith Merril was among the first women to become widely influential in science fiction, publishing 26 short stories and editing a similar number of anthologies over four decades in the genre. Writing under the joint pseudonym Cyril Judd with collaborator C. M. Kornbluth, she produced three novels; born Judith Grossman, she later became a Canadian citizen and continued shaping the genre as an editor and political activist.