You're invited to join us for a special event with queer Jewish author, R.B. Lemberg! 

R.B. Lemberg, the author of the Birdverse stories and The Four Profound Weaves, will be coming (virtually) to T'chiyah for an author talk and Q&A session over Zoom on June 13th, from 2:00-3:00 PM EDT / 11:00 AM-Noon PDT. 

As we celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, this will be a great opportunity to talk about trans joy, gender euphoria, stories of hope and healing, immigration, piyyut (Jewish liturgical music) studies, found family, or disability justice with R.B. Lemberg.

This special event is open to members of our Speculative Wisdom reading group and the public at no charge. There will be an opportunity for Speculative Wisdom attendees to submit questions in advance. The session will be recorded for the benefit of those who cannot make it.

About R.B. Lemberg

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, Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy, and more. R.B.’s work has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, and other awards. Many of R.B.’s stories are situated in Birdverse, an LGBTQIA+-focused secondary world. Their Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves is forthcoming from Tachyon Press in 2020.

In their academic life, R.B. is a sociolinguist working on immigrant discourse, identity, and gender. R.B. lives in Lawrence, KS with their spouse Bogi Takács, child Mati, and an odd but cheerful community of books. You can find R.B. online on Twitter at @rb_lemberg, on Patreon at http://patreon.com/rblemberg, and at rblemberg.net