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Phyllis Sterling Smith
A science fiction writer, poet, and translator, she moved easily between imaginative storytelling and literary work shaped by a wide curiosity about the world. Her writing includes early speculative fiction as well as later poetry and translations from Portuguese.
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What is POSAT?
by Phyllis Sterling Smith
About the author
Born in Berkeley, California, on August 27, 1921, Phyllis Sterling Smith was an American writer whose work ranged across science fiction, poetry, articles, and translation. Reliable catalog and author records identify her as the author of the science fiction piece What is POSAT? and note that she died on November 2, 2016.
Available author and book records also describe her as a longtime Berkeley resident. In addition to her fiction, she was credited with prize-winning poetry and with translating Portuguese poetry, showing a body of work that stretched beyond one genre.
That mix of speculative fiction and literary translation gives her writing a distinctive profile: imaginative, wide-ranging, and shaped by interests that went well beyond the borders of pulp-era science fiction.