Author, Poet, Fantasist
You can buy it from Tachyon https://tachyonpublications.com/product/the-unbalancing/ or other retailers. “In this first full-length novel from the acclaimed Birdverse, new love blossoms between an impatient starkeeper and a reclusive poet as they try together to save their island home. The Unbalancing is a gorgeous tale of the inevitable transformations of communities andRead More
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I signed the contract and can finally announce that my poetry memoir EVERYTHING THAWS, about Soviet Jews and permafrost and climate change and stories of the Vorkuta GULAG will be forthcoming from Ben Yehuda Press in 2022. This book has been in development for a few years, after my fatherRead More
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I am very happy to share that “To Balance the Weight of Khalem,” my novelette about a magical onion and migration, will be reprinted in We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 edited by C.L. Clark and Charles Payseur, forthcoming from Neon Hemlock. The table of contents is FANTASTIC,Read More
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Great news – my Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves is a finalist for the Nebula. The book is in astounding company – this is the strongest novella ballot I’ve ever seen – and it is a great honor tobe a finalist. I am so happy. You can watch yesterday’sRead More
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Great news – my Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves is a finalist for the Nebula. The book is in astounding company – this is the strongest novella ballot I’ve ever seen – and it is a great honor to be a finalist. I am so happy. You can watchRead More
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Today, the long-awaited poetry anthology I co-edited with Lisa M. Bradley is out from Aqueduct Press: Climbing Lightly through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin. It contains the work of many amazing poets, and you can take a look at the full table of contents in this post.Read More
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Climbing Lightly through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by Lisa M. Bradley and myself, is launching on February 1st, 2021! Here is a link to the book on our publisher’s website , and you can also read a sample of the book there. We areRead More
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I am going to be discussing The Four Profound Weaves at the wonderful ARGO Bookshop tomorrow, December 10, 2020, at 7pm Eastern – more details at this link! There is also a Facebook event page. Hope to see some of you there! *** We are thrilled to have author R.B.Read More
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Dear readers – I have not done an Award Eligibility post for a few years, but I am doing it this year. This has been an incredibly rough year, but an amazing one for speculative fiction. I hope that you will find some of my own works worthy for awardRead More
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Dear Birdverse readers: I am very happy to announce that a new Birdverse book, The Unbalancing, is headed your way in Winter 2022, again from the fine people at Tachyon! This is a short novel about a group of friends attempting to save their islands from ruin. This book isRead More
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