Elaine Midcoh (a pen name) is a short story writer and an award-winning author of science fiction. Her story, “Man on the Moon,” won the 2022 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award. She’s also a winner of “The Writers of the Future” contest. Her stories have appeared in the anthologies, “Writers of the Future, Volume 37” (Galaxy Press, Nov. 2021), “Compelling Science Fiction Short Stories” (Flame Tree Press, Oct. 2022) and “Writers of the Future, Volume 39” (Galaxy Press, May 2023). She’s also been published in the magazines/literary journals Galaxy’s Edge, Daily Science Fiction, Jewish Fiction .net, Flash Fiction Magazine and The Sunlight Press. Before jumping into writing, she worked as an attorney and college professor where she taught criminal justice and law courses – a background that inspired the story, “Man on the Moon.” She lives in South Florida.