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, Sisters 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 is forthcoming from Tachyon Press in 2020. You can find R.B. on Twitter at @rb_lemberg and at rblemberg.net.
- “To Balance the Weight of Khalem” — Issue #300, Special Double-Issue, April 2, 2020
- “A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power, Pt. II” — Issue #230, July 20, 2017
- “A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power, Pt. I” — Issue #229, July 6, 2017
- “The Book of How to Live” — Issue #209, Eighth Anniversary Double-Issue, October 6, 2016
- “Geometries of Belonging” — Issue #183, Seventh Anniversary Double-Issue, October 2, 2015
- “Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” — Issue #175, June 11, 2015
- “Held Close in Syllables of Light” — Issue #80, October 20, 2011
Finalist for the 2015 Nebula Award, Novelette
"A rich and rewarding work... This story is an accomplished work of rare insight." —Tangent Online
One of nine highest-rated novelettes of the year on the 2015 Tangent Online Recommended Reading List
- BCS 200: A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power, narrated by C.S.E. Cooney — Issue #229, July 6, 2017