Thanks for visiting my page! I’m R. B. Lemberg. I am a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe to the US. My pronouns are they/them/theirs. I began writing  in my early thirties, when I finally chose the language for my poetry and prose: English, which is either my third, fourth, or fifth (quasi)native tongue. The struggle for language, for voice, and the often uneasy melding of cultures and viewpoints inform my life and my writing.

I was born in Ukraine, and lived in subarctic Russia and Israel before coming to the US for graduate school at UC Berkeley. I am a sociolinguist, and I’m a professor at the University of Kansas.  My spouse is Bogi Takács, a fellow queer, trans, and Eastern European Jewish person. 

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