The Mary Kay Bray Award is given for the best essay, interview, or extended review to appear in the SFRA Review in a given year.

2002  Karen Hellekson, "Transforming the Subject: Humanity, The Body, and Posthumanism" (#251, March/April 2001)

2003  Farah Mendlesohn, review of Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt (#257, March/April 2002)

2004  Bruce A. Beatie, Review of L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz by Katharine M. Rogers (#268, April/May/June 2004)

2006  Thomas J. Morrissey, Review of The Shores of Women by Pamela Sargent (#271, January/February/March 2005)

2007  Ed Carmien, review of The Space Opera Renaissance by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (#277, July/August/September 2006)

2008  Jason Ellis, reviews of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers (#280, April/May/June 2007) and of Ian McDonald's Brasyl (#281, July/August/September 2007)

2009  Sandor Klapcsik

2010  Ritch Calvin, "Mundane SF 101"

2011  Alfredo Suppia, "Southern Portable Panic: Frederico Álvarez's Ataque de Pánico!"

2012 T.S. Miller, "Review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

2013 Chris Pak, "Terraforming 101" SFRA Review 302