Brújulabeja: The Poem of Compass Bee

by Tucker Lieberman

Brújulabeja: The Poem of Compass Bee is about moving through the competing forces underlying identity and change. The poem includes color illustrations by the author.

20 pages, Paperback

Published February 27, 2018

About the author

Tucker Lieberman is the author of the novel Most Famous Short Film of All Time (tRaum Books, 2022).

He also wrote Ten Past Noon: Focus and Fate at Forty (2020), Painting Dragons: What Storytellers Need to Know About Writing Eunuch Villains (2018), and Bad Fire: A Memoir of Disruption (3rd ed., 2024). His bilingual poetry book, Enkidu is Dead and Not Dead / Enkidu está muerto y no lo está (2021), inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh, was a finalist in the 2020 Grayson Books poetry contest and nominated for a 2022 SFPA Elgin Award.

His essays and stories are in anthologies including Instant Classic (That No One Will Read) (2023), It Came From the Closet (2022), the 2021 Lambda finalist Trans-Galactic Bike Ride, the 2012 Lambda finalist Letters for my Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect, and the 2011 Lambda winner Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community.

He and his husband, the science fiction writer Arturo Serrano, live in Bogotá, Colombia.