My poetry memoir, EVERYTHING THAWS, is now available from Ben Yehuda Press! This book has been a long time coming, and it contains some of the most personal work I have ever written. It has migrations, and permafrost, and many Gulag stories, and an ice dragon. It’s a very Jewish book.

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I signed the contract and can finally announce that my poetry memoir EVERYTHING THAWS, about Soviet Jews and permafrost and climate change and stories of the Vorkuta GULAG will be forthcoming from Ben Yehuda Press in 2022. This book has been in development for a few years, after my father passed away - a painful thing to write. It’s about ( Read more... )

I am very happy to share that “To Balance the Weight of Khalem,” my novelette about a magical onion and migration, will be reprinted in We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 edited by C.L. Clark and Charles Payseur, forthcoming from Neon Hemlock. The table of contents is FANTASTIC, and is reproduced in full below. I am so thrilled ( Read more... )

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Great news - my Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves is a finalist for the Nebula. The book is in astounding company - this is the strongest novella ballot I’ve ever seen - and it is a great honor to be a finalist. I am so happy. You can watch yesterday’s The 56th Annual Nebula Awards Launch on Youtube: this wonderful event included ( Read more... )

Today, the long-awaited poetry anthology I co-edited with Lisa M. Bradley is out from Aqueduct Press: Climbing Lightly through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin. It contains the work of many amazing poets, and you can take a look at the full table of contents in this post. You can also read a 17-page sample of the book on our ( Read more... )

Climbing Lightly through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by Lisa M. Bradley and myself, is launching on February 1st, 2021! Here is a link to the book on our publisher’s website , and you can also read a sample of the book there. We are so proud of this book, and of the wonderful poets who contributed work to it.

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I am going to be discussing The Four Profound Weaves at the wonderful ARGO Bookshop tomorrow, December 10, 2020, at 7pm Eastern - more details at this link! There is also a Facebook event page. Hope to see some of you there!

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We are thrilled to have author R.B. Lemberg joining us for a discussion of their wonderful debut novella, The ( Read more... )

Dear readers - I have not done an Award Eligibility post for a few years, but I am doing it this year. This has been an incredibly rough year, but an amazing one for speculative fiction. I hope that you will find some of my own works worthy for award consideration. Here are the highlights:

Novella: The Four Profound Weaves (Tachyon, September ( Read more... )