Ruth Berman
Ruth Amelia Berman  is a science fiction and fantasy author, who wrote the short story "Visit to a Weird Planet, Revisited" and co-wrote the story "The Face on the Barroom Floor" for the  anthology, The New Voyages. She started out as a Star Trek fan writer, publishing in numerous fanzines during the 1960s and 1970s.

A noticeable fan publication she contributed to as publisher and editor, was , a by Gene Roddenberry officially endorsed fanzine, which was published during the production of the Original Series, and for which Berman conducted several interviews with behind-the-scenes production staffers and actors, including:
Beaming up: William Shatner – issue 1, July 1968, pp. 10-12
Behind the camera: Fred Phillips – issue 2, August 1968, pp. 3-7
Beaming up: DeForest Kelley – issue 3, September 1968, pp. 4-7
Beaming Up: James Doohan – issue 5, November 1968, pp. 3-5
Beaming Up: Leonard Nimoy – issue 6, December 1968, pp. 3-4
Beaming Up: George Takei – issue 8, February 1969, pp. 3-7
When Inside Star Trek folded in June 1969, Berman immediately started a new Star Trek fanzine, T-Negative, that ran for 35 issues from 1969 until 1979. 

Berman received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer in 1973.

External links 
 
 Ruth Berman at Fanlore.org
Berman, Ruth