Bogi Takács

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Bogi Takács (born 25 December 1983){{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Summary Bibliography: Bogi Takács|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?158990|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729013258/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?158990 |archive-date=29 July 2018 |access-date=2018-07-28|website=Internet Speculative Fiction Database|language=en-us}} is a Hungarian poet, writer, psycholinguist, editor, and translator. Takács is an intersex,{{Cite web|title=Why "women + nonbinary" is not a good idea | website = Bogi Reads the World| date = 2 September 2018|url=http://www.bogireadstheworld.com/why-women-nonbinary-is-not-a-good-idea/|access-date=2021-01-26|language=en-US}} agender, trans, Jewish writer who has written Torah-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.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/destroy-science-fiction-disability_us_59949b80e4b0d0d2cc83cec3|title=A Sci-Fi Magazine Created Entirely By Writers And Editors With Disabilities|date=23 August 2017}} They have been published in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Publishers Weekly and Apex.{{cite web|url=http://strangehorizons.com/author/bogi-takacs/|title=Bogi Takács|date=28 April 2014}}{{cite book|author1=Adrian Tchaikovsky|author2=Caren Gussoff Sumption|author3=Bogi Takács|author4=Milena Benini|author5= Emil Minchev|title=Dracula: Rise of the Beast|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1oJHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT11|date=13 March 2018|publisher=Abaddon Books|isbn=978-1-78618-101-5|pages=11–}}{{cite book|title=Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qcs2DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA168|date=7 March 2017|publisher=Uncanny Magazine|pages=168–}}{{cite book|author=Steven J. Dick|title=The Impact of Discovering Life beyond Earth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_RrQCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT392|date=26 October 2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-42530-5|pages=392–}} They 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. They moved to the United States to complete further post-graduate work at the University of Iowa.{{cite web|url=http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-bogi-takacs/|title=Author Spotlight|date=8 February 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://bogi.perelmutter.net/ |title=Bogi Perelmutter |newspaper=Bogi.perelmutter.net |date= |author= |access-date= July 24, 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://clas.stage.drupal.uiowa.edu/comsci/research/word-learning-lab/student-biographies-0 |title=Student Biographies |newspaper=University of Iowa |date= |author= |access-date=July 24, 2018 |archive-date=20 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211220141039/https://clas.stage.drupal.uiowa.edu/comsci/research/word-learning-lab/student-biographies-0 |url-status=dead }} They completed their Ph.D. at the University of Kansas in 2022.

Personal life

Takács currently resides in the United States.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Bogi Takács|url=https://uncannymagazine.com/authors/bogi-takacs/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708172230/http://uncannymagazine.com/authors/bogi-takacs/ |archive-date=8 July 2017 |access-date=2020-12-28|website=Uncanny Magazine|language=en-US}} They are autistic,{{cite tweet |last=Takács |first=Bogi |user=bogiperson |number=1326367640399572992 |date=November 11, 2020 |title=Now, I have a stake in this as an autistic person... I am sure *I* annoyed my sibling at times :) but surely this is not my *defining feature*, or HIS defining feature either! |language=en |access-date=May 24, 2021}} and so is their child.{{cite tweet |last=Takács |first=Bogi |user=bogiperson |number=1326367918670684163 |date=November 11, 2020 |title=At this point, this is so bad that I CANNOT give my likewise autistic kid a book with an autistic protagonist just like that. Because chances are good that it will be about how the autistic kid is annoying, and difficult to have as a sibling / family member. & Ownvoices is rare |language=en |access-date=May 24, 2021}}

Projects

Takács writes a blog titled "Bogi Reads the World" dedicated to reviewing speculative fiction by marginalized authors. The site was launched in October 2016 and was most recently updated in January 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 for Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction{{cite web |title=The 2018 Locus Awards Highlight The Broad Range Of Science Fiction And Fantasy |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2018/06/26/the-2018-locus-awards-showcase-a-superior-collection-of-science-fiction-and-fantasy/|website=Forbes |access-date=23 July 2018}}{{Cite web |last=locusmag |date=2018-04-30 |title=2018 Locus Awards Finalists |url=https://locusmag.com/2018/04/2018-locus-awards-finalists/ |access-date=2022-06-13 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}
Finalist for the 2018 and 2019 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer{{cite web |title=Press release: Worldcon 76 announces 2018 Hugo Award finalists |url=https://www.worldcon76.org/entry/press-release-worldcon-76-announces-2018-hugo-award-finalists |website=Worldcon 76 |access-date=23 July 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/2019/04/2019-hugo-award-1944-retro-hugo-award-finalists/|title=2019 Hugo Award & 1944 Retro Hugo Award Finalists|last=Cheryl|date=2019-04-02|website=The Hugo Awards|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-23}}
Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/2020/08/2020-hugo-awards-announced/|title=2020 Hugo Awards Announced|date=2020-07-31|website=The Hugo Awards|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-31}}
Nominee for the 2020 and 2021 Elgin Awards for Algorithmic Shapeshifting{{Cite web |title=Award Category: 2020 Book (Elgin Award) |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/award_category_year.cgi?714+2020 |access-date=2022-06-13 |website=www.isfdb.org}}{{Cite web |last=Glyer |first=Mike |date=2021-06-29 |title=2021 Elgin Award Finalists |url=https://file770.com/2021-elgin-award-finalists/ |access-date=2022-06-13 |website=File 770 |language=en-US}}
Finalist for the 2023 Ignyte Awards Critics Award{{cite web |last=locusmag| date=2023-05-24 |title=2023 Ignyte Awards Finalists |url=https://locusmag.com/2023/05/2023-ignyte-awards-finalists/ |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}{{cite web |last=Lewis |first=LeKesha |date=2023-05-24 |title=Announcing the 2023 Ignyte Awards Shortlist |url=https://ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2023/05/24/announcing-the-2023-ignyte-awards-shortlist/ |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=Ignyte Awards - FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction |language=en-US}}
Shortlisted for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Anthology for Rosalind's Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders{{cite web |url=https://locusmag.com/2024/03/36th-annual-lambda-awards-finalists/ |title=36th Annual Lambda Awards Finalists |work=Locus |date=March 27, 2024 |access-date=April 6, 2024 }}

Selected bibliography

=Editor=

Rosalind's Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders (Atthis Arts, 2023)
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 R. B. Lemberg and Shweta Narayan

= 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, 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 Stories=

"Construction Sacrifice" (first published in Lightspeed Magazine edited by John Joseph Adams, published by Adamant Press, 2023)
"Cyclic Amplification, Meaning Family" (first published in Life Beyond Us edited by Susan Forest, Lucas K Law, and Julia Novakova, published by Laska Media Groups Inc, 2023)
"Four Glass Cubes (Item Description)" (first published in Baffling Magazine edited by Craig L Gidney and dave ring, published by Neon Hemlock Press, 2022)
"Folded into Tendril and Leaf" (first published in Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth edited by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin, published by Speculatively Queer, 2022)
"The Hidden Knowledge Society" (first published in Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K Law, published by Laksa Media, 2021)
"A Technical Term, Like Privilege" (first published in Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird edited by C. Dombrowski and Scott Gable, published by Broken Eye Books, 2021)
"Veruska and the Lúdvérc" (first published in Eurasian Monsters edited by Margrét Helgadóttir, published by Fox Spirit Books, 2020)

=Short story collection=

{{ill|The Trans Space Octopus Congregation|es}} (Lethe Press, 2019) {{Isbn|9781590216934}}
Power to Yield and Other Stories (Broken Eye Books, 2024) {{ISBN|9781940372662}}