Rose Lemberg


Dr. R. B. Lemberg is a bigender, queer author, poet, and editor of speculative fiction. Their work has appeared in publications such as Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies,,Sisters of the Revolution and Uncanny Magazine..
R. B. 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 debut Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves is forthcoming from Tachyon Publications in 2020.

Life

R. B. Lemberg was born in the 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.. In their academic life, R.B. is a professor of sociolinguistics working on immigrant discourse, identity, and gender.
R.B. lives in Lawrence, KS, with their spouse, Bogi Takács, who is also queer, trans, and an Eastern European Jewish individual; their 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

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