Gay Haldeman
(October 11, 1945 – )
Mary Gay Potter Haldeman has been going to SF conventions since 1963 and was a very active member of WSFA. She frequently appears on neofan’s panels at cons. She helped to found the Science Fiction League of Iowa Students at the University of Iowa in 1975. She is a member of the First Fandom club.
She earned Master's degree in Spanish Literature from the University of Maryland and another in Linguistics, from the University of Iowa. She has taught in the Writing Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), specializing in English as a second language.
She and her husband, Joe Haldeman, reside in Gainesville, Florida, where she manages Joe's career. She's been married to Joe since 1965.
- “ Wonderful Things I’ve Seen in Science Fiction Fandom” by Gay Haldeman, Uncanny Magazine 47, July 5, 2022.
- Bibliography at ISFDB.
- Photo at St. Louiscon, 1969.
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 1977 -- ICON 3
- 1980 -- Unicon 6
- 1981 -- Toastmaster at Nine Billion Names of ConFusion
- 1983 -- Con*Tretemps 2
- 1984 -- Spacecon 6
- 1988 -- Anaconism the 3rd
- 1991 -- DemiCon 2
- 1992 -- Toastmaster at Hardwired ConFusion, Haldecon named after her
- 1994 -- Eurocon 1994
- 1996 -- Skylark Award
- 2001 -- Crescent City Con 16, Context XIV
- 2002 -- Convergence 2002, Con With the Wind
- 2004 -- ICON 29
- 2007 -- Finncon 2007
- 2008 -- ArmadilloCon 30
- 2011 -- Con*Stellation XXX, Big Heart Award
- 2012 -- Foolscap 12
- 2013 -- ICON 38, Marcon 48
- 2015 -- ICON 40
- 2017 -- ICON 42
- 2018 -- ICON 43
- 2021 -- ICON 46
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