R. B. Lemberg

Dr. R. B. Lemberg (born Rose Lemberg; born 27 September 1976)[1] is an Ukrainian-American[2] author, poet, and editor of speculative fiction. Their[n.b. 1] work has appeared in publications such as Lightspeed,[3] Strange Horizons,[4][5] Beneath Ceaseless Skies,[6][7][8] Sisters of the Revolution[9] and Uncanny Magazine.[10]

R. B. Lemberg

Many of Lemberg's stories are situated in Birdverse,[11] an LGBTQIA+-focused secondary world. Their debut Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves[12] was published by Tachyon Publications in 2020 and is a finalist for the 2021 World Fantasy, Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte awards for Best Novella. Lemberg has also been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, and other awards. They are bigender and queer.[13]

Life

Lemberg was born in Ukraine on September 27, 1976. They lived in Russia and Israel before emigrating to the United States for graduate school at University of California, Berkeley.[14] In their academic life, Lemberg is a professor of sociolinguistics[15] working on immigrant discourse, identity, and gender.

Lemberg lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with their spouse, Bogi Takács (who is also queer, trans, and an Eastern European Jewish person) and their child Mati.[16]

Awards and nominations

Selected bibliography

Author
  • Geometries of Belonging and Other Stories - Fairwood Press, 2022
  • The Unbalancing - Tachyon, 2022
  • The Four Profound Weaves – Tachyon, 2020

Editor
  • Climbing Lightly Through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. LeGuin (with Lisa Bradley) - Aqueduct Press, 2021.
  • An Alphabet of Embers – Stone Bird Press, 2016
  • Here, We Cross (An Anthology of Queer and Genderfluid Poetry from Stone Telling 1–7) – Stone Bird Press, 2012.

Poetry
  • Everything Thaws - Ben Yehuda Press, 2022
  • Marginalia to Stone Bird – Aqueduct Press, 2016

Notes
  1. Dr. Lemberg's preferred pronoun is singular they, which this article uses.

References
  1. "Summary Bibliography: Rose Lemberg". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  2. Shvartsman, Alex (2022-02-27). "A List of Ukrainian-born SF/F Authors Whose Fiction is Available in English". Future Science Fiction Digest. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  3. "Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-June 2015". Locus Online. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  4. "Kifli". Strange Horizons. 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  5. "Teffeu: a Book from the Library at Taarona". Strange Horizons. 2013-09-16. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  6. Lemberg, Rose. "Beneath Ceaseless Skies – The Book of How to Live by Rose Lemberg". Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  7. Lemberg, Rose. "Beneath Ceaseless Skies – Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds by Rose Lemberg". Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  8. Lemberg, Rose. "Beneath Ceaseless Skies – Geometries of Belonging by Rose Lemberg". Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  9. "R.B. Lemberg". Uncanny (A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy). Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  10. "The Desert Glassmaker and the Jeweler of Berevyar – Uncanny Magazine". Uncanny Magazine. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  11. "Birdverse – R.B. Lemberg".
  12. "Four Profound Weaves, The". Tachyon Publications. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  13. "Rose Lemberg – Uncanny Magazine". Uncanny Magazine. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  14. "About". R.B. Lemberg. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  15. "Noticing Language: An Interview with Rose Lemberg". Strange Horizons. 2013-04-22. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  16. "R.B. Lemberg » About". rblemberg.net. Retrieved 2021-04-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. Liptak, Andrew. "An Amazing Collection Of Stories Make Up The 2015 Nebula Award Nominees". io9. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  18. Lemberg, Rose (2016). "Marginalia to a Stone Bird". Aqueduct Press. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  19. "Fiction Book Review: Marginalia to Stone Bird by Rose Lemberg. Aqueduct (SPD, dist.), $12 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-61976-099-8". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
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