I’m behind on pretty much everything, including my publishing news - some of which are rapidly becoming “olds!” Sorry about that. But - better late than never.

My SF short story “How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War” (originally published in Lightspeed’s Queers Destroy Science Fiction) will be reprinted in the Sunspot Jungle anthology ( Read more... )

ICFA concluded today. I was not there, but hope to be next year. I heard it was a great con, and I heard that my poetry book Marginalia to Stone Bird was mentioned, as a Crawford finalist. Still really honored by this.

I do not know if the timing was accidental or not, but Ada Hoffmann featured a lengthy review of Marginalia to Stone Bird at her ( Read more... )

Uncanny Magazine made this beautiful story tile for my Birdverse short story from the January/February 2016 issue, “The Desert Glassmaker and the Jeweler of Berevyar“. I just love this.

This story is eligible for Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy in the short story category.


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My Birdverse novelette “The Book of How to Live” has been getting attention from readers and reviewers, for which I am very grateful.

“Book…” is on the Tangent Recommended Reading list - two stars.

Fran Wilde posted “Things to Read While Rebooting: An awards Post of Sorts” in which she recommends “The Book of How to Live” in the Novelette category.
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I have mentioned before that I have been very fortunate to work with Renne Chon of Science Fiction World, to get my Nebula-nominated novelette “Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” translated into Chinese. I have posted some translation Q & A with Renne Chon on my Patreon as a rare public entry.


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My Birdverse novelette “The Book of How to Live” made The Monthly Round at Nerds of a Feather:

Bracing. Spicy. Lightly bitter. It’s how I would profile a Session IPA, a drink that speaks to me of autumn and the smell of burning leaves. It’s also how I imagine “The Book of How to Live” by Rose Lemberg would taste, with an eye toward resistance and ( Read more... )

Friends, this has been a difficult week. Devastating for many of us. I have spoken at length on twitter about my feelings about this election, and will continue to do so there: @roselemberg.

I posted on Twitter last night that I am reluctant to announce the sale of my novella - it feels weird to have good news at such a difficult time. Many people  ( Read more... )

My new Birdverse novelette “The Book of How to Live” has received some positive reviews.

The first from Tangent, by reviewer Michelle Ristuccia:

Rose Lemberg brings us another moving LGBTQIA fantasy piece set in the Birdverse, the novelette “The Book of How to Live.” Lemberg’s love story follows two strangers who struggle to be accepted in a world ( Read more... )

Last year I found myself a recipient of a new fan award, The Sippy, bestowed by none other than Charles Payseur, reviewer extraordinaire. My Birdverse novelette “Geometries of Belonging” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies received The Big Sip for excellent relationships in short SFF!

This year, in preparation for 2016 Sippys, Charles redesigned the award ( Read more... )

My new Birdverse novelette, “The Book of How to Live,” is live in Beneath Ceaseless Skies’ 8th Anniversary double issue.

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I first became a fan of Mikhail Lomonosov as an eight year old living in Vorkuta, when I read his “Ode to Glass.” I memorized some of his astronomical and other scientific poems, and read ( Read more... )