Bogi Takács

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

Takács is an agender trans Jewish writer, now resident in the United States, who has written Torah-inspired Jewish-themed work. E uses e/em/eir/emself or singular they pronouns. Takács is also disabled and has worked with a number of other writers on projects such as Disabled People Destroy. Takács has been published in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Publishers Weekly and Apex. Takács completed an undergraduate degree in Hungary and two master's degrees, an MSc in Psychology (Experimental and Cognitive Psychology) and MA in Theoretical Linguistics, both from ELTE University of Budapest but moved to the US to complete further post-graduate work in the University of Iowa.

E is married to R.B. Lemberg who is bigender.

Awards and nominations

 * Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction forTranscendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction
 * Nominated for the Locus Award for Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction
 * Finalist for the 2018 and 2019 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

Editor

 * Transcendent 3: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2017 (Lethe Press)
 * Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2016 (Lethe Press)

Novelettes

 * "Three Partitions" (first published in GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Ann Leckie, 2014)
 * "Standing on the Floodbanks" (first published in GigaNotoSaurus edited by Rashida J. Smith, 2016)
 * "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 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 Dracula: Rise of the Beast edited by David Thomas Moore, published by Abbadon Books, 2018)

Other work

 * "To Rebalance the Body" - in Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic, 2020