R. B. Lemberg

Hello! I’m R. B. Lemberg. I am a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe to the US. My pronouns are they/them/theirs. 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.

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. 

If you’d like to get in touch, please email rose dot lemberg at gmail dot com. If you’d like to follow my work, you can subscribe to my newsletter, follow me on Twitter (@rb_lemberg), and/or support me on the Birdverse Patreon, where I post a lot of material not available elsewhere.

Some of my favorite things

Cooking elaborate meals for friends. Etymologies (don’t ask me about etymologies unless you want to hear about etymologies). Birds.  Architecture.  Modernism. Krychyonykh. Poetry, in as many languages as possible. Piyyutim (don’t ask me about piyyutim unless you what to hear about piyyutim). Embroidery and weaving. Crocodiles in Russian kidlit – it is a thing! Quince.

Press Kit

50-word Bio

R.B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant and the Nebula, Locus, Ignyte, and Crawford-nominated author of Birdverse stories and other works. Their Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves is forthcoming from Tachyon Press in 2020. You can find R.B. on Twitter at @rb_lemberg, on Patreon at http://patreon.com/rblemberg, and at rblemberg.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 Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Uncanny Magazine, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, and more. R.B.’s work has been a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, Ignyte, 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 is forthcoming from Tachyon Press in 2020. You can find R.B. on Twitter at @rb_lemberg, on Patreon at http://patreon.com/rblemberg, and at rblemberg.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 Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Sisters 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, Locus, Ignyte, 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 is forthcoming from Tachyon Press in 2020.

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. online on Twitter at @rb_lemberg, on Patreon at http://patreon.com/rblemberg, and at rblemberg.net

Author Photos

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The bios and author photo in this press kit are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Bios are @ R.B. Lemberg, 2019; Photo is @ Bogi Takács, 2019.