About R.B.  Lemberg

I am a queer, bigender immigrant from Ukraine, Russia, and Israel to the US. I began writing  in my early thirties, when I finally chose the language for my poetry and prose: English, which is either my third, fourth, or fifth (quasi)native tongue. The struggle for language, for voice, and the often uneasy melding of cultures and viewpoints inform my life and my writing.

My pronouns are they/them/theirs. 

I was born in Ukraine, and lived in subarctic Russia and Israel before coming to the US for graduate school at UC Berkeley. I am a sociolinguist, and I work as an associate professor at a Midwestern university.  My spouse is Bogi Takács, a fellow queer, trans, and Eastern European Jewish person. 

My full bibliography, and more information is available on my personal website, rblemberg.net

Contact

If you’d like to get in touch, please email rose dot lemberg at gmail, or message me on Twitter (@rb_lemberg). 

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Author Bio

50-word Bio

R.B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant and the Nebula and Crawford-nominated author of Birdverse stories and other works. Their Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves (Tachyon, 2020) is available now. You can find R.B. on Twitter at @rb_lemberg, and on Patreon at http://patreon.com/rblemberg. For more information about the Birdverse, please visit  http://birdverse.net

100-word Bio

R.B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Ukraine, Russia, and Israel to the US. Their stories and poems have appeared in Lightspeed‘s Queers Destroy Science FictionBeneath Ceaseless SkiesUncanny MagazineSisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, and more. R.B.’s work has been a finalist for the Nebula, the Crawford, and other awards. Many of R.B.’s stories and poems are set in Birdverse, an LGBTQIA+-focused secondary world. Their Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves (Tachyon, 2020) is available now. You can find R.B. on Twitter at @rb_lemberg, and on Patreon at http://patreon.com/rblemberg. For more information about the Birdverse, please visit  http://birdverse.net

170-word Bio

R.B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Ukraine, Russia, and Israel to the US. Their stories and poems have appeared in Lightspeed‘s Queers Destroy Science FictionBeneath Ceaseless SkiesStrange HorizonsUncanny MagazineSisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy, and more. R.B.’s work has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, and other awards. Many of R.B.’s stories are situated in Birdverse, an LGBTQIA+-focused secondary world. Their Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves (Tachyon, 2020) is available now. 

In their academic life, R.B. is a sociolinguist working on immigrant discourse, identity, and gender. R.B. lives in Lawrence, KS with their spouse Bogi Takács, child Mati, and an odd but cheerful community of books. You can find R.B. on Twitter at @rb_lemberg, and on Patreon at http://patreon.com/rblemberg. For more information about the Birdverse, please visit  http://birdverse.net

Author  Photo

The bios and author photo in this press kit are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>. Bios are @ R.B. Lemberg, 2019; Photo is @ Bogi Takács, 2019.