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Native name | Р. Б. Лемберґ |
Born | Rouz Lemberg September 27, 1976 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
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Education | University of California, Berkeley |
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Spouse | Bogi Takács |
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R. B. Lemberg [a] (born Rose Lemberg, [b] September 27, 1976) is a queer, bigender, and autistic [1] author, poet, and editor of speculative fiction. [2] [3] Their [n.b. 1] work has been distributed in publications such as Lightspeed, Strange Horizons , Beneath Ceaseless Skies , and Uncanny Magazine , and stories have been featured in anthologies such as Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology and Transcendent 3: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2017 . [3] [4] [5] [6]
Many of Lemberg's stories and poems are situated in Birdverse, an LGBTQIA+-focused secondary world. [7] Their debut Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves was published by Tachyon in 2020 and was a finalist for the 2021 World Fantasy, Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte awards for Best Novella and was on the Honor List for the Otherwise Award. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] Their first Birdverse novel, The Unbalancing was published by Tachyon in 2022, is a finalist for the Locus Award. [14] Lemberg's work has also been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, and other awards. [15] Their Birdverse short fiction collection Geometries of Belonging: Stories & Poems From the Birdverse was published by Fairwood Press in late 2022, and include a previously unpublished story, "Where Your Quince Trees Grow". [16]
Lemberg was born in L'viv, Ukraine on September 27, 1976. [2] [4] [17] [1] They lived in Russia and Israel before emigrating to the United States for graduate school at University of California, Berkeley. [18]
In their academic life, Lemberg is a professor of sociolinguistics working on immigrant discourse, identity, and gender. [19]
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. [18]
Lemberg is the founding editor of Stone Telling, a magazine of speculative poetry that debuted in 2010 and was named for the main characters in Ursula K. Le Guin's novel Always Coming Home . [20] In 2012, they collected and edited Here, We Cross (An Anthology of Queer and Genderfluid Poetry from Stone Telling 1–7) from the works published in the early issues of Stone Telling, and edited The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry. [21] [22] [23] In 2016, they edited the short fiction anthology An Alphabet of Embers: An Anthology of Unclassifiables, which focused on short fiction works that defied classification by genre. [24] In 2021, as a tribute following the passing of Ursula K. Le Guin in 2018, Lemberg, and co-editor Lisa Bradley, edited Climbing Lightly Through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin. [25]
Lemberg's poetry has been published in Strange Horizons , Goblin Fruit, Uncanny Magazine , Fireside Magazine, Apex Magazine and many others. [3] [4] [5] [6] Their poetry has won the Strange Horizons Readers' Poll multiple times: "In the Third Cycle" in 2011, "Between the Mountain and the Moon" in 2012, and "Ranra's Unbalancing" in 2015. [26] [27] [28] Their poem, "I will show you a single treasure from the treasures of Shah Niya", came in third place for the 2014 Rhysling Award in the Long Poem category. [29] [30] Their debut poetry collection, Marginalia to Stone Bird was shortlisted for the 2017 Crawford Award and was a finalist for the 2017 and 2018 Elgin Awards. [31] [32] [33] [34] Their poetry memoir, Everything Thaws, which recalls Lemberg's early life in the Soviet Union and their migrations to Israel and the United States, was published in 2023 by Ben Yehuda Press. [35] [36]
Lemberg was awarded the 2020 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, sponsored by the University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections and University Archives, which gave them access to many of Le Guin's archives. [37] [38] On Lemberg's website, they revealed that their project for the Fellowship, for which the archival research was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, was primarily focused on Le Guin's poetry, which they previously discussed in their essay “The Poetry of Ursula K. Le Guin: A Retrospective” and appeared in Climbing Lightly Through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin. [39]
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lemberg translated works by Ukrainian poets for Chytomo, Springhouse Journal, and National Translation Month's Ukrainian Poetry in Translation Special Feature - Part II. [40] [41] [42]
Lemberg's short fiction has been published in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons , Beneath Ceaseless Skies , Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, Uncanny Magazine , Daily Science Fiction , Transcendent 3: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2017, and others. [3] [4] [5] [6] Many of these stories are situated in their LGBTQIA+-focused secondary world, Birdverse. [7] Their Birdverse novelette, "Grandmother-nai-Laylit's Cloth of Winds", was a finalist for the 2015 Nebula Award Finalist for Best Novelette and on the long list for the 2015 Tiptree Award. [43] [44] In 2020, their Birdverse novella, The Four Profound Weaves , was published by Tachyon to critical and reader acclaim, including a starred review and selection as a weekly pick by Publishers Weekly and a starred review from Library Journal . [45] [46] [47] The Four Profound Weaves was a finalist for the 2021 World Fantasy Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and Ignyte Award for Best Novella, and was on the Honor List for the Otherwise Award. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
Lemberg's debut Birdverse novel, The Unbalancing , an expansion of the story of their poem "Ranra's Unbalancing", was published by Tachyon in 2022 with positive reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly . [14] [48] [49] Their Birdverse collection, Geometries of Belonging: Stories & Poems from the Birdverse, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly ahead of its release from Fairwood Press in late 2022, and notes the inclusion of a new story in the collection, "Where Your Quince Trees Grow", which follows descendants of the main characters from The Unbalancing . [16]
Year | Work | Award | Category | Result | Ref |
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2011 | "In the Third Cycle" | Strange Horizons Readers' Poll | — | Won | [26] |
2012 | "Between the Mountain and the Moon" | Strange Horizons Readers' Poll | — | Won | [27] |
2013 | "I Will Show You a Single Treasure from the Treasures of Shah Niya" | Rhysling Award | Long Poem | 3rd place | [29] [30] |
"Ranra's Unbalancing" | Strange Horizons Readers' Poll | — | Won | [28] | |
2015 | "Grandmother-nai-Laylit's Cloth of Winds" | Nebula Award | Novelette | Shortlisted | [43] |
2016 | Marginalia to Stone Bird | Crawford Award | — | Shortlisted | [32] |
2017 | Elgin Awards | — | Shortlisted | [31] | |
2018 | Elgin Awards | — | Shortlisted | [50] | |
2020 | The Four Profound Weaves | Nebula Award | Novella | Shortlisted | [9] |
2021 | Ignyte Award | Novella | Shortlisted | [10] | |
Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | [11] | ||
Otherwise Award | — | Honor List | [13] | ||
World Fantasy Award | Novella | Shortlisted | [12] | ||
The Unbalancing | Locus Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
2022 | Geometries of Belonging | Ursula K. Le Guin Prize | — | Shortlisted | [51] |
Year | Title | Length | First published |
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2011 | "Held Close in Syllables of Light" | Novelette | Beneath Ceaseless Skies #80 |
2015 | "Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds" | Novelette | Beneath Ceaseless Skies #175 [52] |
2015 | "Geometries of Belonging" | Novelette | Beneath Ceaseless Skies #183 [53] |
2016 | "The Desert Glassmaker and the Jeweler of Berevyar" | Short story | Uncanny Magazine #8 [54] |
2016 | "The Book of How to Live" | Novelette | Beneath Ceaseless Skies #209 [55] |
2017 | "A Splendid Goat Adventure" | Short story | R. B. Lemberg's Patreon |
2017 | A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power | Novella | Beneath Ceaseless Skies , issues 229 and 230 (in two parts) |
2018 | "The Book of Seed and the Abyss" | Short story | R. B. Lemberg's Patreon |
2020 | The Four Profound Weaves | Novella | Tachyon [8] |
2022 | "Where Your Quince Trees Grow" | unknown | Geometries of Belonging: Stories & Poems from the Birdverse, Fairwood Press |
Title | Year | Length | First published |
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"To Balance the Weight of Khalem" | 2020 | Novelette | Beneath Ceaseless Skies #300 |
"Luriberg-That-Was" | 2019 | Short story | Nowhereville: Weird Is Other People, ed. C. Dombrowski and Scott Gable, Broken Eye Books |
"These Are the Attributes by Which You Shall Know God" | 2018 | Short story | GlitterShip, summer 2018 |
"Retrying" | 2017 | Short story | Daily Science Fiction |
"The Shapes of Us, Translucent to Your Eye" | 2015 | Short story | The Journal of Unlikely Academia |
"How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War" | 2015 | Short story | Lightspeed #61 |
"Stalemate" | 2014 | Short story | Lackington's #4 |
"No Longer Lacking an Onion" | 2014 | Short story | Goldfish Grimm's Spicy Fiction Sushi, #19 |
"A City on Its Tentacles" | 2014 | Short story | Lackington's #1 |
"Theories of Pain" | 2013 | Short story | Daily Science Fiction |
"Teffeu: A Book From the Library at Taarona" | 2013 | Short story | Strange Horizons [56] |
"Seven Losses of Na Re" | 2012 | Short story | Daily Science Fiction |
"Giant" | 2011 | unknown | Not One of Us |
"Kifli" | 2010 | Short story | Strange Horizons [57] |
"Geddarien" | 2008 | Short story | Fantasy Magazine, December 2008 |
"To Find Home Again" | 2008 | unknown | Warrior Wisewoman, ed. Roby James, Norilana Books |
Title | Year | First published |
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"Mirrored Mappings" | 2016 | Through the Gate |
"Ranra's Unbalancing" | 2015 | Strange Horizons |
"Three Principles of Strong Building" | 2015 | Strange Horizons |
"I will show you a single treasure from the treasures of Shah Niyaz" | 2013 | Goblin Fruit, summer 2013 |
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