R. B. Lemberg

R.B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Ukraine to the US. R.B. is an author of five books of speculative fiction and poetry, a translator from Ukrainian and Russian, and an academic. R.B.’s books of fantasy have been shortlisted for the Nebula, Locus, Ignyte, World Fantasy Award, the Le Guin Award for Fiction, and other awards. Many of R.B.’s stories and poems are set in Birdverse, an LGBTQIA+-focused secondary world. Their Birdverse books are The Four Profound Weaves (2020), The Unbalancing (2022), Geometries of Belonging (2022), and the forthcoming novella Yoke of Stars (2024). In their academic life, R.B. is a sociolinguist working on immigrant discourse, identity, and gender. You can find R.B. on Instagram at @rblemberg, on Patreon at http://patreon.com/rblemberg, and at their website rblemberg.net