Claim: Michaela Roessner, whose first novel, Walkabout Woman, was a 1989 nominee for the Mythopoeic Award, given by the Mythopoeic Society to authors of outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas, won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1989.
Evidence: Her first novel, Walkabout Woman, was a 1989 nominee for the Mythopoeic Award, and won the Crawford Award. The Mythopoeic Awards for literature and literary studies are given by the Mythopoeic Society to authors of outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas. In 1989, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.