Katlina Sommerberg

Surrealist & Speculative Fiction Writer

Katlina Sommerberg writes speculative fiction at the edge of the surreal, where human minds melt into ecosystems, falling feathers carry heavy messages, and animals remember what weโ€™ve forgotten. Xyr stories weave around biopunk, cyber-surrealism, and mythological fantasy, but always circle back to grief, identity, and the strange ecologies of the world. Xe writes with the conviction that art is a window to the soulโ€”sometimes grotesque, sometimes mythic, always alive.

ยฉ Cayce Pollard. All rights reserved.

Flash and Short Fiction

2025 Publications
The Humming Refrigerator is Almost Purring ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿ’”, published in the anthology Costs of Living
Tiny Pawprints on Frosty Glass, published in BFS Horizons, Issue #19
2024 Publications
The Day Our Swarm Almost Collapsed, published in the anthology Divergent Realms
Death Rides a White Motorcycle, published in HyphenPunk
2023 Publications
The Pest in Golden Gate Park๐Ÿ•ท๐ŸŒฒ๐Ÿค–, published in Zooscape
Bubble, Double, and Trouble Steal Pizza from a Delivery Robot ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿค–, published in Twenty Two Twenty Eight
Employee Termination Protocol, published in HyphenPunk
2022 Publications
Death is the Referee ๐Ÿ€๐Ÿ๐Ÿ†, published in Zooscape
We Are Robot, published in the anthology Decoded Pride
Xe was also a Dream Foundry Contest Finalist
Finding a Lost Inventor, published in Voice of Dog
2021 Publications
Be Productive Like Cha-Cha ๐Ÿฅœ๐Ÿฅœ๐Ÿฅœ, published in Zooscape
Go Fix Yourself, published in hyphenpunk

About

Katlina Sommerberg is a speculative fiction writer whose work explores surreal ecologies, trans embodiment, and the haunted machinery of empire. Xyr stories draw on influences from cyberpunk, eco-criticism, and mythic fantasy, often written from the perspectives of animals, fractured collectives, or post-humans. All of these elements combine into ecological surrealism, Sommerberg's signature style.Xe lives in Brazil, where xe is at work on a series of projects blending ecological surrealism with themes of grief, ecology, and transformation.

Will work for Dopamine

In progress! Follow Sommerberg's twitter for updates.