Bogi Takács


Bogi Takács is a Hungarian poet, writer, psycholinguist, editor, and translator. Takács is an intersex, agender, trans, Jewish writer who has written Torah-inspired Jewish-themed work, and uses e/''em/eir/emself or they/them'' pronouns.
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Career

Takács, who is disabled, has worked with a number of other writers on projects such as Disabled People Destroy. They have been published in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Publishers Weekly and Apex. 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. They completed their Ph.D. at the University of Kansas in 2022.

Personal life

Takács currently resides in the United States. They are autistic, and so is their 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 2016 and was most recently updated in May 2024.

Awards and nominations

Selected bibliography

Editor

Rosalind's Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders Transcendent 4: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2018 Transcendent 3: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2017 Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2016 Inkscrawl Stone Telling Magazine with R. B. Lemberg and Shweta Narayan

Novellas

Power to Yield - Clarkesworld Magazine, July 2020

Novelettes

  • "The 1st Interspecies Solidarity Fair and Parade"
  • "Empathic Mirroring"
  • "Defend Hearth Position"
  • "The Souls of Those Gone Astray from the Path"
  • "Standing on the Floodbanks"
  • "Three Partitions"

Short stories

  • "Construction Sacrifice"
  • "Cyclic Amplification, Meaning Family"
  • "Four Glass Cubes "
  • "Folded into Tendril and Leaf"
  • "The Hidden Knowledge Society"
  • "A Technical Term, Like Privilege"
  • "Veruska and the Lúdvérc"

Short story collection

The Trans Space Octopus Congregation
  • ''Power to Yield and Other Stories''

Poetry collection

  • ''Algorithmic Shapeshifting''