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 was released by Tachyon Press in 2020, and their Birdverse novel The Unbalancing is forthcoming from Tachyon Press in September 2022. 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
- BCS Audio Vault 038: A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power — Issue #364, September 8, 2022