R.B. Lemberg YOKE OF STARS WON THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD!!!!!!
@rblemberg.bsky.social
RB (they/them). Immigrant, SFF writer + academic. Neurodivergent. World Fantasy Award winner. Le Guin Prize Shortlist, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus and Crawford finalist. Views always my own. <3 דאָיִקייט
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Welcome, new followers! I am RB Lemberg (they/them), an author of a number fantasy books, and an academic. I was born in L'viv, Ukraine, I'm Jewish, queer, and nonbinary (bigender), and I speak and have studied many languages.
My awesome spouse is @bogiperson.bsky.social. We have one child, Mati.
My awesome spouse is @bogiperson.bsky.social. We have one child, Mati.
Grading with a concussion while watching the government issue warnings on my literal underwear is surreal. Not in a good way
It's not just TomboyX, by the way! Trump's FDA has sent these warning letters to 11 companies that sell Binders.
- TransGuy Supply
- ShapeShifter Apparel
- GenderBender
- gc2b
- TomboyX
- FLAVNT Streetwear
- Early to Bed
- TOMSCOUT
- For Them
- Fluxion
- UNTAG
www.fda.gov/inspections-...
- TransGuy Supply
- ShapeShifter Apparel
- GenderBender
- gc2b
- TomboyX
- FLAVNT Streetwear
- Early to Bed
- TOMSCOUT
- For Them
- Fluxion
- UNTAG
www.fda.gov/inspections-...
December 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Grading with a concussion while watching the government issue warnings on my literal underwear is surreal. Not in a good way
Reposted by R.B. Lemberg YOKE OF STARS WON THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD!!!!!!
My anti-GenAI prose poem, "The Ghosts of me are in your machine," is up at @strangehorizons.bsky.social
Thanks to @cafenowhere.bsky.social for editing, and @bogiperson.bsky.social for being the first reader for this.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Thanks to @cafenowhere.bsky.social for editing, and @bogiperson.bsky.social for being the first reader for this.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
The ghosts of me are in your machine
My obsidian shadows knifed the moon, drank moonblood until my wandering mouth filled to bursting
strangehorizons.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My anti-GenAI prose poem, "The Ghosts of me are in your machine," is up at @strangehorizons.bsky.social
Thanks to @cafenowhere.bsky.social for editing, and @bogiperson.bsky.social for being the first reader for this.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Thanks to @cafenowhere.bsky.social for editing, and @bogiperson.bsky.social for being the first reader for this.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
My anti-GenAI prose poem, "The Ghosts of me are in your machine," is up at @strangehorizons.bsky.social
Thanks to @cafenowhere.bsky.social for editing, and @bogiperson.bsky.social for being the first reader for this.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Thanks to @cafenowhere.bsky.social for editing, and @bogiperson.bsky.social for being the first reader for this.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
The ghosts of me are in your machine
My obsidian shadows knifed the moon, drank moonblood until my wandering mouth filled to bursting
strangehorizons.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My anti-GenAI prose poem, "The Ghosts of me are in your machine," is up at @strangehorizons.bsky.social
Thanks to @cafenowhere.bsky.social for editing, and @bogiperson.bsky.social for being the first reader for this.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Thanks to @cafenowhere.bsky.social for editing, and @bogiperson.bsky.social for being the first reader for this.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Got sudden urge to quote Hugh Primas of Orléans, which shall not be further explicated on bsky.
December 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Got sudden urge to quote Hugh Primas of Orléans, which shall not be further explicated on bsky.
The fungus is not the enemy. Please. Linguistics is involved
Also yes that's pretty epic hehe
Also yes that's pretty epic hehe
Am delighted that Song of Spores by @bogiperson.bsky.social is one of Scientific American’s Best Fiction of 2025!
Full list here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
Full list here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
December 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The fungus is not the enemy. Please. Linguistics is involved
Also yes that's pretty epic hehe
Also yes that's pretty epic hehe
It's out! It's out!!
In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
It's out! It's out!!
Here's one of mine! Linocut/letterpress from some years ago for my wonderful Patreon patrons!
I’ll post some amazing art then, and distract the randos . . .
December 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Here's one of mine! Linocut/letterpress from some years ago for my wonderful Patreon patrons!
tf where I know that posting about amazing art will bring out randos who will inform me that art appreciation is now somehow unethical
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
tf where I know that posting about amazing art will bring out randos who will inform me that art appreciation is now somehow unethical
Added my WFA win to an academic bio I just updated for an upcoming publication in SFFTV. My academic bios tend to be pretty laconic, but it felt nice to add this.
Otoh suddenly writing something really dark tonight so we'll see
(hopeful ending is still going to be there, don't worry folks)
Otoh suddenly writing something really dark tonight so we'll see
(hopeful ending is still going to be there, don't worry folks)
December 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Added my WFA win to an academic bio I just updated for an upcoming publication in SFFTV. My academic bios tend to be pretty laconic, but it felt nice to add this.
Otoh suddenly writing something really dark tonight so we'll see
(hopeful ending is still going to be there, don't worry folks)
Otoh suddenly writing something really dark tonight so we'll see
(hopeful ending is still going to be there, don't worry folks)
Reposted by R.B. Lemberg YOKE OF STARS WON THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD!!!!!!
loving this so much, and I never get tired of listening to @rblemberg.bsky.social discuss their @tachyonpub.bsky.social novella YOKE OF STARS, which, ICYMI, won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella 😎 thanks @darthj.uno for steering such an excellent conversation!
NEW PODCAST ALERT!
Episode 17 of the Strange Horizons @ 25 podcast is live now featuring R.B. Lemberg @rblemberg.bsky.social interviewed by Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno.
Listen and read at the link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Episode 17 of the Strange Horizons @ 25 podcast is live now featuring R.B. Lemberg @rblemberg.bsky.social interviewed by Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno.
Listen and read at the link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Writing the Diaspora Experience with R.B. Lemberg (SH@25 Episode 17)
In this episode of Strange Horizons at 25, Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti sits down with long-time Strange Horizons contributor RB Lemberg to talk about everything from using poetry as a tool to refin…
strangehorizons.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
loving this so much, and I never get tired of listening to @rblemberg.bsky.social discuss their @tachyonpub.bsky.social novella YOKE OF STARS, which, ICYMI, won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella 😎 thanks @darthj.uno for steering such an excellent conversation!
We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
On my Patreon, a post about the
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
podcast, my
@thedeadlands.com
poem, and queer(ing) Soviet Yiddish theatre
www.patreon.com/posts/144219...
Also, I published a poem for my patrons yesterday.
You can access all that for $1 a month
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
podcast, my
@thedeadlands.com
poem, and queer(ing) Soviet Yiddish theatre
www.patreon.com/posts/144219...
Also, I published a poem for my patrons yesterday.
You can access all that for $1 a month
Diaspora podcast, Old Marketplace, and Queering History | R.B. Lemberg
Get more from R.B. Lemberg on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
On my Patreon, a post about the
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
podcast, my
@thedeadlands.com
poem, and queer(ing) Soviet Yiddish theatre
www.patreon.com/posts/144219...
Also, I published a poem for my patrons yesterday.
You can access all that for $1 a month
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
podcast, my
@thedeadlands.com
poem, and queer(ing) Soviet Yiddish theatre
www.patreon.com/posts/144219...
Also, I published a poem for my patrons yesterday.
You can access all that for $1 a month
This was such a great experience for me - Kat Kourbeti is fantastic!! And of course I love @strangehorizons.bsky.social
One of my favourite episodes to date! @rblemberg.bsky.social and I got deep into their writing process - come learn all about poem outlines and how they can work for you! Plus a lovely chat about the themes in RB's work - languages and diaspora and queerness and home - you won't want to miss. ⬇️
NEW PODCAST ALERT!
Episode 17 of the Strange Horizons @ 25 podcast is live now featuring R.B. Lemberg @rblemberg.bsky.social interviewed by Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno.
Listen and read at the link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Episode 17 of the Strange Horizons @ 25 podcast is live now featuring R.B. Lemberg @rblemberg.bsky.social interviewed by Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno.
Listen and read at the link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This was such a great experience for me - Kat Kourbeti is fantastic!! And of course I love @strangehorizons.bsky.social
The Deadlands is one of my favorite magazines at this point in time. I hope you support them. We just did.
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The Deadlands is one of my favorite magazines at this point in time. I hope you support them. We just did.
sometimes I have publications come out and I don't even know and nobody tells me. I don't know how to feel about this but I'll post tomorrow.
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
sometimes I have publications come out and I don't even know and nobody tells me. I don't know how to feel about this but I'll post tomorrow.
Hi folks! Odd timing, but what is time. I wanted to say a few words about @bogiperson.bsky.social 's new book, Song of Spores. The launch was somewhat swallowed by the News Cycle, alas...
Usual disclaimer: the author is my spouse, I love them, etc.
This book is awesome!
Usual disclaimer: the author is my spouse, I love them, etc.
This book is awesome!
My brand new book Song of Spores is just $4.99 on the Kindle!
A fun space opera adventure that's also very trans, queer and intersex (like me). So um, *now* might be a good time to pick it up!
Spread the word! Costs less than an iced matcha latte 😆
amzn.to/47ES674 (Associate link)
A fun space opera adventure that's also very trans, queer and intersex (like me). So um, *now* might be a good time to pick it up!
Spread the word! Costs less than an iced matcha latte 😆
amzn.to/47ES674 (Associate link)
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Hi folks! Odd timing, but what is time. I wanted to say a few words about @bogiperson.bsky.social 's new book, Song of Spores. The launch was somewhat swallowed by the News Cycle, alas...
Usual disclaimer: the author is my spouse, I love them, etc.
This book is awesome!
Usual disclaimer: the author is my spouse, I love them, etc.
This book is awesome!
Today at @thedeadlands.com one of the favorite poems I've written lately, and 2025 has been a good year for my poetry. This poem is about a Yiddish play that haunts me, Night in the Old Marketplace, which was never performed as written. Some critics say it is not a play at all.
“This is a story: there’s a marketplace
at midnight. Your voice
calls the dead to awaken.”
today’s new poetry, beloveds! 🖤💀
Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal by @rblemberg.bsky.social
read it here:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
at midnight. Your voice
calls the dead to awaken.”
today’s new poetry, beloveds! 🖤💀
Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal by @rblemberg.bsky.social
read it here:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This is a story: there’s a marketplace at midnight. Your voice calls the dead to awaken.
psychopomp.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Today at @thedeadlands.com one of the favorite poems I've written lately, and 2025 has been a good year for my poetry. This poem is about a Yiddish play that haunts me, Night in the Old Marketplace, which was never performed as written. Some critics say it is not a play at all.
I have all kinds of thoughts about Ghost of Yōtei as a GOTY nominee, and in general - not sure if folks are interested. In any case, Best Score and Music - absolutely yes for Ghost of Yōtei. Best Narrative, for me, no. This game, again for me, falls short exactly in the narrative aspect.
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I have all kinds of thoughts about Ghost of Yōtei as a GOTY nominee, and in general - not sure if folks are interested. In any case, Best Score and Music - absolutely yes for Ghost of Yōtei. Best Narrative, for me, no. This game, again for me, falls short exactly in the narrative aspect.
Reposted by R.B. Lemberg YOKE OF STARS WON THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD!!!!!!
Just signed some copies of my recent books for @ravenbookstore.bsky.social! Spouseperson @rblemberg.bsky.social also did the same! Support independent bookstores and buy a copy!
Individual links threaded below -
Individual links threaded below -
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Just signed some copies of my recent books for @ravenbookstore.bsky.social! Spouseperson @rblemberg.bsky.social also did the same! Support independent bookstores and buy a copy!
Individual links threaded below -
Individual links threaded below -
Popping in to Bluesky on this fine morning to say that "fountain pen drama" that so many people are referencing relates to Ferris Wheel Press (FWP). Countless people asked for comments on their JKR collab, founder ignored all questions wrt the LGBTQIA+ community.
(mini-thread)
(mini-thread)
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Popping in to Bluesky on this fine morning to say that "fountain pen drama" that so many people are referencing relates to Ferris Wheel Press (FWP). Countless people asked for comments on their JKR collab, founder ignored all questions wrt the LGBTQIA+ community.
(mini-thread)
(mini-thread)
drafted but unsent emails in which I read certain people the riot act: towards an anatomy of a genre
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
drafted but unsent emails in which I read certain people the riot act: towards an anatomy of a genre
nothing like the joy of making soup from scratch to your exact liking during soup season
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
nothing like the joy of making soup from scratch to your exact liking during soup season
The contract is signed; my poem "After Messiaen: A Quartet for the End of Time" will appear in @thedeadlands.com next year.
I've loved working with The Deadlands - the magazine is wonderful. Thank you @nicasio.bsky.social for the poetry editing 😍
I've loved working with The Deadlands - the magazine is wonderful. Thank you @nicasio.bsky.social for the poetry editing 😍
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The contract is signed; my poem "After Messiaen: A Quartet for the End of Time" will appear in @thedeadlands.com next year.
I've loved working with The Deadlands - the magazine is wonderful. Thank you @nicasio.bsky.social for the poetry editing 😍
I've loved working with The Deadlands - the magazine is wonderful. Thank you @nicasio.bsky.social for the poetry editing 😍
The visceral relief I feel right now is indescribable
We got married shortly after Obergefell, and are coming up on our ten year anniversary. @bogiperson.bsky.social
We got married shortly after Obergefell, and are coming up on our ten year anniversary. @bogiperson.bsky.social
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The visceral relief I feel right now is indescribable
We got married shortly after Obergefell, and are coming up on our ten year anniversary. @bogiperson.bsky.social
We got married shortly after Obergefell, and are coming up on our ten year anniversary. @bogiperson.bsky.social
Reposted by R.B. Lemberg YOKE OF STARS WON THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD!!!!!!
You might, uh, commemorate this event by ordering the Rosalind Franklin memorial anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories for your local library.
www.atthisarts.com/product/rosa...
www.atthisarts.com/product/rosa...
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
You might, uh, commemorate this event by ordering the Rosalind Franklin memorial anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories for your local library.
www.atthisarts.com/product/rosa...
www.atthisarts.com/product/rosa...