I received good news recently that I am one of the two winners of the D Franklin Defying Doomsday award for my Strange Horizons essay “Sergeant Bothari and Disability Representation in Early Vorkosiverse.” The other winner is Ace Ratcliff.

Here is the writeup in Locus:

Twelfth Planet Press announced two winners of the 2018 D Franklin Defying ( Read more... )

I haven’t updated in a while - this semester has been really rough. Meanwhile, a few publication news:

My poems “Divinatory” and “The Fear Tree” appeared in the inaugural issue of The Sycorax Journal.

My poem “archival testimony fragments/minersong” will be reprinted in Best of Uncanny Magazine from Subterranean Press.

My poem “The little mouse ( Read more... )

To celebrate Pride Month, I am highlighting ten LGBTQIA creators of color in the field of SFF.  I ask those of you who would like to participate, to highlight your favorite LGBTQIA creators using the hashtag #pridecreators

Ten LGBTQIA creators of color (order is arbitrary!)

1. Nalo Hopkinson has just created the Lemonade Award to “to recognize five ( Read more... )

A few years ago in Kansas City, I visited the Mission Road Antique Mall. I love going to places that have old beautiful old objects, because I love art and material culture. My parents have done a lot of interior design work, and I grew up around it. Looking at old and intricate things is soothing to me, even though I cannot afford to buy them.

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I have published in a variety of speculative genres: science fiction, magic realism, surrealism, slipstream, horror, and even dubiously a bit of memoir which might or might not be speculative. But secondary world fantasy, and epic fantasy in particular, remains my favorite genre - the genre that sustains me, the genre I read, the genre I came here ( Read more... )

My essay “The Priviliege and Necessity of Writing” (this blog) will be reprinted in the 2015 edition of Speculative Fiction: The Best Online Reviews, Essays and Commentary edited by Foz Meadows and Mark Oshiro. Really happy about that.

Originally published at RoseLemberg.net. You can comment here or there.

The Strange Horizons readers’ poll results are in.

“Ranra’s Unbalancing” placed first in the poetry category.
“Long Shadow” placed second in the poetry category.
My folkloristics essay “The Uses and Limitations of the Folklorist’s Toolkit for Fiction” shares first place with “Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in SF: A Conversation” by Polenth Blake and ( Read more... )

The Strange Horizons Readers’ Poll runs traditionally for two weeks of January, this year from 4-17th. Voting is free and open to everyone. If you read Strange Horizons, you can vote. You can vote for fiction, poetry, articles, columnists, and artworks.

I blog about this poll every year because I think it’s fun and important and because, as I’ve ( Read more... )

My essay “The Uses and Limitations of the Folklorist’s Toolkit for Fiction” is up at Strange Horizons.

This essay was a part of An Alphabet of Embers non-fiction rewards, and is dedicated to Arachne Jericho. I chose the topic and made all the choices about the content of this essay. I say this, because some of you may recognize my reference to a ( Read more... )

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