Bogi Takács (born 25 December 1983) is a Hungarian poet, writer, psycholinguist, editor, and translator. Takács is an

intersex Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical bina ...

, agender

trans Trans- is a Latin prefix meaning "across", "beyond", or "on the other side of". Used alone, trans may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Trans (festival), a former festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom * ''Trans'' (film ...

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writer who has written

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-inspired Jewish-themed work, and uses ''e''/''em''/''eir''/''emself'' or ''they''/''them'' pronouns.

Career

Takács, who is disabled, has worked with a number of other writers on projects such as ''Disabled People Destroy''. E has been published in '' Strange Horizons'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Clarkesworld'', ''

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'' and '' Apex''. E completed an undergraduate degree, two master's degrees, an MSc in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and an MA in Theoretical Linguistics, all from ELTE University of Budapest. E moved to the United States to complete further post-graduate work at the

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. E completed eir Ph.D at the

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in 2022.

Personal life

Takács currently resides in the United States. E is

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, and so is eir child.

Projects

Takács writes a blog titled "Bogi Reads the World" dedicated to reviewing speculative fiction by marginalized authors. The site was launched in October of 2016 and was most recently updated in January of 2022.

Awards and nominations

*Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction for ''Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction'' *Finalist for the

Locus Award The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine ''Locus'', a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California. The awards are presented at an annual banquet. In addition to the pl ...

for ''Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction'' *Finalist for the 2018 and 2019

Hugo Award The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier a ...

for Best Fan Writer *Winner of the 2020

for Best Fan Writer *Nominee for the 2020 and 2021 Elgin Awards for ''Algorithmic Shapeshifting''

Selected bibliography

Editor

* ''Transcendent 4: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2018'' ( Lethe Press, 2019) * ''Transcendent 3: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2017'' ( Lethe Press, 2018) * ''Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2016'' ( Lethe Press, 2017) * ''Inkscrawl'' (2015-2016) * ''Stone Telling Magazine'' (2015) with

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and

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Novellas

* ''Power to Yield'' - Clarkesworld Magazine , July 2020

Novelettes

* "The 1st Interspecies Solidarity Fair and Parade" (first published in ''Rebuilding Tomorrow'' edited by Tsana Dolichva, published by

Twelfth Planet Press Twelfth can mean: *The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution *The Twelfth, a Protestant celebration originating in Ireland In mathematics: * 12th, an ordinal number; as in the item in an order twelve places from the beginning, follo ...

, 2020) * "Empathic Mirroring" (part 1 of ''The Song of Spores'' serial, first published in ''Eyedolon'' edited by Scott Gable, published by Broken Eye Books, 2018) * "Defend Hearth Position" (part 2 of ''The Song of Spores'' serial, first published in ''Eyedolon'' #2, edited by Scott Gable, published by Broken Eye Books, 2018) * "The Souls of Those Gone Astray from the Path" (first published in ''Dracula: Rise of the Beast'' edited by David Thomas Moore, published by Abaddon Books, 2018) * "Standing on the Floodbanks" (first published in ''GigaNotoSaurus'' edited by Rashida J. Smith, 2016) * "Three Partitions" (first published in ''GigaNotoSaurus'', edited by Ann Leckie, 2014)

Short story collection

* ''The Trans Space Octopus Congregation'' ( Lethe Press, 2019)

Poetry collection

* ''Algorithmic Shapeshifting'' (

Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press is a publisher based in Seattle, Washington, United States that publishes material featuring a feminist viewpoint. History Aqueduct Press was founded in 2004 by L. Timmel Duchamp. The company has focused on publishing speculati ...

, 2019)

References

External links

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Bogi Reads the World
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